While amassing fans is certainly a key part of music industry success, cultivating and sustaining relationships with your industry peers is also essential to getting ahead in a tough field.

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The majority of an artist’s revenue comes from touring, selling merchandise, licensing their music for things like television, movies, or video games, and partnerships or side businesses. Streaming is often

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Spotify is reportedly offering advances and other enticements to independent artists and their managers in an effort to have them directly license music with the streaming music service, effectively cutting

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According to Midia Research, self-releasing acts represented a 2.7% worldwide market share, with combined revenues of almost $500m. These ‘self-releasing’ artists distribute through a raft of services that offer low

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It’s easier than ever before for unsigned, independent artists to share their music, whether that’s directly on to platforms like SoundCloud and YouTube or via digital distribution services like Tunecore

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