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{Editor’s Note: This blog was written by Thomas Sontag, A&R at Turbo Recordings and MixGenius. It was originally featured on the LANDR Blog. With LANDR’s Instant Mastering tool, you can give your recordings a more polished sound in minutes!] During my eight-year tenure at Turbo Recordings, I would guess that I’ve received over 50,000 demos, […]

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Independent labels and artists received 205 Grammy nominations for 2106 out of 405 non-producer category nominations., more than 50% of the total. In 15 of the categories, independents secured 100% of the nominations. Courtesy of A2IM Independent labels received several nominations in key categories, including Record Of The Year, Album of the Year, Song Of […]

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For independent artists, making your music available in online stores and on streaming services is relatively easy, but gaining any kind of online visibility outside of friends and family is often quite a challenge. Here we offer some advice on what steps you should take to broaden the digital reach of your music. ________________________________________ Guest Post by Mike […]

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Last month, when Apple unveiled their new watch to the world, my MailChimp mobile teammates and I immediately knew we wanted to build something for it. But we wanted to make it truly useful, not just an app for the sake of having one. New tech toys are fun, but we knew what we made […]

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Being a musician often means traveling—and lots of it. While you love being in a band and going on tour to share your music with appreciative fans, part of your heart stays at home with your spouse and kids. This is especially true for holidays and birthdays. While it is tough to be apart on […]

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As one of the newer members of MailChimp’s senior leadership team (I’ve been here 17 months), I’ve been amazed at the company’s generosity from day one. I’ve worked for much bigger companies—some like Microsoft, whose benefits and compensation are legendary. Yet none of them compared to MailChimp—in dollar value, career fulfillment, or pride of ownership […]

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4 Ways Musicians Can Make Money Online When I see this sentence my radar usually goes off. I mean if it were that simple everyone would be able to do it, right? Certainly, there are many scams out there. The good news is there are also many legit ways for musicians to make money online.

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[The following article was written by Tyler Allen and it originally appeared on The Sonicbids Blog.] I’ve harped way too often that your band is your brand, but it’s true. I’ve also said this in other posts, and I’ll say it again: Music is weird, man. It’s this art form that takes time and thought, […]

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By Eduardo Loret de Mola from Berklee’s Music Business Journal, thembj.org. Fair use has always been a contentious concept. A great number of musicians, as well as artists of other varieties, include copyrighted material in their own works through techniques such as sampling and parodying. However, many of these works do not fall under the […]

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Last year, MailChimp partnered with Facebook to support FbStart, a program that provides early-stage mobile startups with tools to grow. One of those young companies was MomentCam, a mobile photo app that lets you snap portraits and turn them into funny cartoons, called “Momies,” that are shareable with friends, family, and social media followers. All […]

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Last September, when writer and digital strategist Laura Olin started a TinyLetter called Everything Changes, she had modest expectations. “I thought my friends would subscribe and it might top out at 100 readers,” she says. “I would have been happy with that.” But since then, the newsletter—the theme of which is that its theme is […]

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Sacha Grief had a problem. “Whenever I wrote tech-oriented blog posts, I would post them to Hacker News to generate traffic and discussion,” the French designer—who currently lives in Japan—tells MailChimp. “On the other hand, the design related content didn’t really have a place on its own apart from Twitter.” Born out of his frustration […]

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I’ve always been drawn to the music of previous eras. As a kid, I loved going through my parents’ vinyl and putting on some dusty record from the stack I’d never heard before. When I was a teenager I noticed their collection of cool old records had a cutoff point. Sometime in their late-20s they’d […]

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It’s about time for another #DIYmusician Twitter chat! This month we will be getting together on Wednesday, May 6th at 11 AM PST (2 PM EST) to talk about “the place of physical music formats in a digital world.” CD Baby continues to sell and ship hundreds of CDs every day. Are you manufacturing albums? […]

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Jay-Z’s ambitions for TIDAL has triggered a lot of discussion about how streaming models can evolve. One focus has been exclusives with a number of references to TIDAL ‘doing a Netflix’ by commissioning exclusives. Netflix can attribute much of its growth over the last couple of years to its flagship ‘Netflix Originals’ such as ‘House […]

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I just pre-registered for Busker with VIP status, and you can too. Just type the code DIYMUS into the “VIP code” field on their registration page. “OK, great — but what’s Busker,” you’re probably asking. Well, it’s a new live music video platform that gives musicians around the world the opportunity to showcase their live […]

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Fifteen minutes, I mean six-seconds of fame is the new way into the music industry. Move over YouTube, Vine is the place to be. These looped six-second videos prove you don’t need a three-minute song or to be found by A&R staff. Here are a few Vine artists that paved the way. Shawn Mendes is […]

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[This article was written by Dave Kusek, founder of the New Artist Model, an online music business school for independent musicians, performers, recording artists, producers, managers, and songwriters. He is also the founder of Berklee Online, co-author of The Future of Music book, and a member of the team who brought midi to the market.] […]

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