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Changing music distributors can feel risky when your songs are already live. You may have thousands of Spotify streams, playlist placements, saves, followers and years of release history connected to your catalog. The last thing you want is to switch distributors and accidentally make your music disappear or start again from zero. The good news... Continue Reading →
You finish your song, prepare the artwork, upload everything to your music distributor — and then receive a message saying that your release has been rejected. For independent artists, this can be frustrating, especially when the rejection notice does not immediately make the problem clear. The good news is that a rejected release does not... Continue Reading →
By Andres Arismendy, founder of Musilock AA session player shows up, plays on a track, and gets paid what was agreed, or what they think was agreed. A songwriter finishes a song in one sitting with someone they'd just met that afternoon. An artist signs up with a distributor, skims the terms, and hits accept... Continue Reading →
By Amit DubeyMusic Business Strategist & Founder, Beat Street Music & Publishing Rebel Music Partner Insight Distribution gets music into the market, but an artist's professional journey does not end there. As a catalogue grows, questions around rights, publishing, metadata, registrations and catalogue organisation can become increasingly difficult to manage. Beat Street Music & Publishing helps... Continue Reading →
By Jeffrey Wilson / DJ 750Founder, My750 Music Network We do not have a music shortage. We have an attention problem. I've been around independent music long enough to remember when the biggest problem was simply getting the record out. You needed money, relationships, distribution, radio access, and sometimes somebody in an office deciding whether... Continue Reading →
Apple Music is preparing to make artificial intelligence much more visible to listeners. Later in 2026, Apple Music plans to display “Made With AI” labels on content where artificial intelligence was used to create a material part of the music, composition, artwork or music video. For independent artists, this does not mean that AI-assisted music... Continue Reading →
Introduction After years of toggling between 128kbps rips and 320kbps exports — ripping CDs, converting podcast archives, and prepping music for streaming — one thing became clear early on: the real difference isn't found on a spec sheet. It's heard. Think of an MP3 encoder as a ruthless editor working with a fixed budget. Every... Continue Reading →
You release a new single on Friday morning. The Spotify link arrives, you open it expecting to see the track on your artist page — and instead you're looking at somebody else's profile. Same artist name. Different person. Different music. Or maybe the opposite has happened: you open your own Spotify page and discover a... Continue Reading →
AI music generation tools like Suno have made it possible to sketch out a musical idea in seconds. Type a prompt, and you get a fully rendered piece of music back, often with a piano part buried inside a mix of other instruments and production choices you didn't necessarily ask for. The catch is that... Continue Reading →
Finishing a mix is only one part of preparing music for release. Mastering is the final stage that helps a track sound more balanced, controlled and ready for playback across streaming platforms, headphones, speakers, cars and other listening systems. For independent artists, however, professional mastering can become another expense before a song has even been... Continue Reading →
