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How to Promote Your Music: Promotion and Marketing Strategies for Emerging Artists

Here are six music marketing strategies and expert music marketing tips to consider when planning out the music promotion and music marketing timeline for your next release.

How Music Charts: A Chartmetric Podcast

Digital Disruption and Music Economics With Former Spotify Chief Economist Will Page

Will Page, Chief Economist at Spotify from 2012 to 2019, talks to Chartmetric about digital disruption and music economics on this episode of How Music Charts.

Data Bytes

The Top 10 TikTok Songs From Influencer Charli D’Amelio

TikTok famous influencer Charli D’Amelio has the most followers on TikTok, and she dances to a high-energy mix of rap and EDM. Here are the top TikTok songs from her TikTok videos.

How Music Charts: A Chartmetric Podcast

Career Strategies and the Future of Live Music With Paradigm Talent Agency's Diana Gremore

Paradigm Talent Agency's first-ever Business Intelligence Analyst, Diana Gremore, talks music industry career strategies, brand partnerships, and the future of live music after coronavirus.

Industry Resources

A List of Today's Top Independent Spotify Playlist Curators

Here are 25 of today's top independent Spotify playlist curators. While we can't tell you how to contact Spotify playlist curators, we can help you investigate for yourself.

Industry Resources

Black Lives Matter. This Is How We Will Contribute.

Donating to the NAACP, spotlighting great Black American artists, and facilitating internal awareness is just the beginning for us.

How Music Charts: A Chartmetric Podcast

From Business School to the Billboard Charts With Rapper Call Me Ace

Call Me Ace is a Columbia graduate, UC Berkeley MBA graduate, and ex-Deloitte consultant that has also worked in tech at Facebook and YouTube. All the while, he's released music, hitting the Billboard charts with his March 2019 album, Airplane Mode. Here's how he uses music data every day.

Industry Resources

Understanding Music Data Analytics: Tools of the Trade

From free music analytics to streaming and sales analytics, A&R and music discovery to market intelligence, and video analytics to radio analytics and beyond, here are the names you need to know.

Data Dives

COVID-19’s Effect on the Global Music Business, Part 3: Live Streaming Artists

Chartmetric's data-driven analysis of COVID-19’s effects on music-related consumption helps artists, songwriters, labels, agencies, distributors, and other entertainment-related entities sustain and improve their well-being during these unprecedented times.

How Music Charts: A Chartmetric Podcast

YouTube's Impact on Today's Hip-Hop With Ben Sauberman

Rap wunderkind Ben Sauberman has put together a list of 700+ regional YouTube video directors that thrust burgeoning rappers into the limelight. From type beats to drill and gangster rap, Ben schools us on why channels like Cole Bennett's Lyrical Lemonade are so important for Hip-Hop today.

Industry Resources

Understanding Music Data Analytics: Spotify for Artists

For artists and their teams, having detailed insights into streaming metrics makes Spotify for Artists an absolutely essential tool in today’s increasingly data-driven industry.

Data Dives

COVID-19’s Effect on the Global Music Business, Part 2: Geography

Chartmetric's data-driven analysis of COVID-19’s effects on music-related consumption helps artists, songwriters, labels, agencies, distributors, and other entertainment-related entities sustain and improve their well-being during these unprecedented times.

Data Dives

COVID-19’s Effect on the Global Music Business, Part 1: Genre

Chartmetric's data-driven analysis of COVID-19’s effects on music-related consumption helps artists, songwriters, labels, agencies, distributors, and other entertainment-related entities sustain and improve their well-being during these unprecedented times.

How Music Charts: A Chartmetric Podcast

Data and Digital Strategy at Republic Records With Elliott Althoff

Our conversation with Republic's Elliott Althoff touches on everything from the differences between indie and major labels to the creative ways you can use data for marketing campaigns.

Detectd Playlists

Detectd Weekly: New Age Classical

It’s safe to say that this week’s detectd will be a soothing oasis of harmony and calm.

Data Bytes

How to Plan a Tour Using Streaming Data: Part 3

If you’ve transitioned to live-streaming and multimedia performances, there’s no reason you can’t apply some of these strategies to your digital approach as well.

Detectd Playlists

Detectd Weekly: Non-English Pop

Pop may mean something different to everyone, but it will forever be defined by the combination of other sub-cultures for mainstream consumption.

Detectd Playlists

Detectd Weekly: UK Acid

This week, we’re taking it back to the birth of a genre, seeing what’s been popping in the UK since the London club scene spawned Acid Jazz in the ‘80s and ‘90s.

Detectd Playlists

Detectd Weekly: R&B Spectrum

This week is a sort of COLORS x Chartmetric collaboration — across the R&B spectrum.

How Music Charts: A Chartmetric Podcast

Expanding the Argentinian Trap Movement With Ariel Chichotky

This ain't "Despacito." Dale Play Records is at the forefront of an Argentinian Trap movement that has hit the 2020s running.

Data Bytes

How to Book a Tour Using Streaming Data: Part 2

Going on the road is absolutely out of the question right now, but you can still bone up on strategy so you know exactly what to do once it's safe for everyone out there.

Detectd Playlists

Detectd Weekly: Global House

This week's detectd playlist starts in Argentina and quickly crosses the globe ... from one House to the next.

Data Bytes

How to Route a Tour Using Streaming Data: Part 1

With a world of geo-specific streaming data at your disposal, picking the optimal tour route has never been easier.

How Music Charts: A Chartmetric Podcast

Empowering Indie Artists Through Data-Driven Management and Human-Centered Design

For Off Season Creative Founder Ross Nicol, data is invaluable, but understanding the artist mindset is unquantifiable.

Detectd Playlists

Detectd Weekly: Underground Russia

For this detectd refresh, we're heading to Russia, where noise is just as important as melody, color the corollary to darkness.

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