Music Industry Hacks – 750+ Music Industry Tools, Tips & Resources

Stge.io

Stge.io all-in-one platform gives you everything you need to create a page and start selling digital or physical products from your bio link site. Start selling direct from your link in bio site in minutes. The platform includes everything you need to power your online store. No web or design experience needed.

WebsiteForDJs

Setup your own professional DJ website. We offer you tools to embed Soundcloud tracks, Mixcloud, Spotify, Deezer, YouTube videos, YouTube and Twitch Livestreams, tour dates, releases, and much more with a few clicks.

ContactInBio

Offer more contact options to your Instagram followers. Connect all your links and social media profiles at one page. Convert followers into customers with a micro-landing page.

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VidIQ

A.I. growth tools for creators with free insights to grow your YouTube channel. Track and compare your performance in real time so you never miss and opportunity to get more views and make money from your videos. Discover keyword, title and description recommendations designed to get you more views and subscribers for free.

Water & Music

Water & Music is an independent newsletter and research DAO, on a mission to empower music-industry professionals with the knowledge, network and skills to do more collaborative and progressive work with technology. Water & Music is run by longtime music-tech writer and researcher Cherie Hu.

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SongbookPro

SongbookPro replaces all the hassle of carrying and organizing your chord charts, lyric sheets and songbooks with a simple app on your laptop or tablet. A fantastic tool for guitarists, bassists, vocalists or anybody using chord charts, lyrics, sheet music or heavy songbooks.

Audiomack

Music streaming and hosting service aimed at artists, podcasters, tastemakers, labels and music fans. Free creators account includes unlimited storage and advanced private links and stats to help you measure engagement and build your fanbase. Discover new artists with Audiomack’s specially curated playlists.

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1000 True Fans For Musicians

A 12 week online challenge to grow your fanbase and create a sustainable full-time career in music. 1000 true fans is a critical and proven business theory based on the belief that to be a successful creator you do not need millions of fans or thousands of followers but that in fact all you really […]

UK ISRC Registration

PPL is the appointed sole agency for ISRCs in the UK. The International Standard Recording Code (ISRC) system is the international system for the identification of recorded music and music videos. Each ISRC is a unique identifier that can be permanently encoded into a recording or music video. Encoded ISRCs automatically identify recordings for PPL […]

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Patreon For Musicians: The Ultimate Guide

In this ebook you’ll learn tactics to get more patrons. Strategies on how to market and promote your page and things you may not know about using Patreon for the first time. Advice on how to structure your membership page based on research. The best tool to help manage, track and fulfill merch on Patreon […]

Songfluencer

Songfluencer strategically matches your music to key tastemaker influencers on music-forward social media apps like TikTok, Reels, Triller and more. Songfluencer’s proprietary software pairs your music with our social media influencers who create compelling content that exposes your music to millions of followers.

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Chartmetric

Chartmetric is the all-in-one platform that provides comprehensive streaming and social data for the music industry. We collect data from the top sources and turn it into beautiful visuals and powerful insights that help music industry professionals make impactful business decisions.

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Corona Musicians – – Advice and Support from Help Musicians UK

Corona Advice For UK Musicians

This website was created following a discussion between Help Musicians, the Incorporated Society of Musicians, the Ivors Academy, the Musicians’ Union, the Music Managers Forum, the Music Producers Guild and UK Music. Our aim is to create one easy-to-use place where musicians can find all the help, advice and signposting they need to support them […]

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The F List

The F-List is the first directory of its kind to feature up-to-date information on UK-based female musicians, songwriters and composers. The F-List is not just a list it’s a growing community, supported by a not-for-profit community interest company, that’s committed to creating a future where gender equality is celebrated and properly represented throughout the music […]

Shotcut

Shotcut is a free, open source, cross-platform video editor for Windows, Mac and Linux. Major features include support for a wide range of formats; no import required meaning native timeline editing.

Radar Music Creatives

Radar connects the music industry with filmmakers, designers and photographers worldwide. New and experienced exclusive creatives, specialising in visual content and the music business.

Viryl Technologies WarmTone

The WarmTone is a fully automatic, modernised vinyl record pressing system. It is highly efficient, consistent and capable of high quality output and yield. Our equipment and training programs enable any individual, company or organization to produce high quality vinyl records year-round with 7, 10, and 12 inch pressing capability.

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Identifyy

One platform to unlock your music’s full earning potential on social video platforms including YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram. Sign up for free and upload your music. Verify your music metadata. Once approved, Identifyy do all the work to identify, claim and monetise your music in videos on YouTube, Facebook, & Instagram.

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Top 100 YouTube Music Channels

Social Blade tracks user statistics for YouTube, Twitch, Instagram, and Twitter, here are their stats for the top 100 YouTubers music channels. Includes subscriber numbers, video views, estimated monthly earnings and more.

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Music X Newsletter

The MUSIC x TECH x FUTURE weekly newsletter keeps people up to date on innovation in the music business. It covers trends and how to best apply these trends to your strategy.

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Armada University

Watch and learn from the best as our teachers unravel the secrets of music production in our in-depth courses. Drop your demo or compete in our course-driven contests. Show us what you can do, live up to your potential and become a pro. Subscribe to Armada University to get access to free content, exclusive discounts, […]

Drooble

Receive deep insights from like minded musicians on your just finished or work-in-progress piece. Order Song Reviews and receive genuine feedback for your songs. Drooble empowers artists by providing them with an environment where they can exchange services, monetise their music skills and receive genuine feedback for their songs.

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The Set Up Podcast

The Set Up Podcast navigates a new topic with the most disruptive minds in the music industry―turning their experiences working behind the scenes into actionable advice you can use in your life no matter your background.

Symphonic Starter

Symphonic Starter gives you the ability to keep 100% of royalties while accessing more tools and analytics than any other distributor. We help you grow your music, collect royalties and split payments all while you maintain the rights to your music. Get your music on 200+ service providers including Spotify, Apple, TikTok, Triller, Instagram, and […]

Good Splits

Good Splits is a free accounting tool that allows musicians and managers to quickly and easily calculate royalties from any music distributor, so they can pay their collaborators even faster.

The Music NFT Show

The first weekly news podcast dedicated to all things music in web3. Hosted by independent author J. Thorn. Each Monday, a new episode will be released, and J.Thorn along with his daughter Q, will discuss a variety of music NFT news and topics. Q will host the weekly artist spotlight and show you what’s hip […]

Vinyl Carvers

7 inch, 10 inch and 12 inch one off vinyl (black or clear vinyl options) dubplate cutting service based in Hastings, East Sussex. The discs are everlasting, unlike traditional dubplates, so will not degrade with being played. Turnaround time is 2-3 weeks.

Trapital Podcast

Level up on the business side of hip-hop. Hear behind the scenes stories from hip-hop’s top execs. Trapital founder Dan Runcie interviews hip-hop’s leaders in music, media, tech, and more. You’ll stay ahead of the latest trends and gain insights to take your career to the next level.

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The Label Machine Book

The Label Machine is the first book of its kind to give music artists practical step-by-step comprehensive instructions for setting up and running an independent music label. Featuring a detailed breakdown of how each part of the industry works, including copyright in the UK and US, record label set-up, record releases and royalty collection.

Virtual Music Conference

The world’s first online dance music conference. All sessions were recorded on June 4th 2020, your ticket will give you access to over thirteen hours of on-demand video content across 21 different panels and presentations, featuring 55 industry speakers. Organised by Label Worx and Toolroom Records.

Soundiiz

Free Smart Links for music curators. With 40+ music services and retailers supported, direct your fans to the music platforms of their choice. Put the page link of your Smartlink on socials and websites to grow your fanbase.

Tracklib

Tracklib is a subscription service where you get access to thousands of tracks from all over the world for as little as $5.99/month. This is real, original music, not loops or sample packs. To release your new song, you need a sample license. there are three price categories, and you know what the fee will […]

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Ditto Plus

Premium music distribution and marketing services from distributor Ditto. Playlists and placement services, release strategies from brainstorming, campaign planning to promotion and distribution. Music video distribution, management and monetisation across Vevo & YouTube. Whether you’re an artist or a label, you’ll keep 100% of the rights to your music.

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Apple Music For Artists

See how your music is performing across Apple Music, iTunes, and Shazam right from your iPhone. Apple Music for Artists empowers you with insights that can help you plan a tour based on your popular cities, decide where to focus your promotional efforts, learn when one of your songs is gaining popularity, and more.

New Music Business

Ari Herstand is the best-selling author of How To Make It in the New Music Business. In this podcast, he deconstructs the brightest minds in the music industry, digging deep to find the tools, tactics, and strategies that listeners can use to run successful careers of their own. Ari offers straight talk with no fluff […]

Guide to Building Your Band Website

This free seven part course sets out exactly how every artist, musician and band can build a band website with WordPress. MakeitinMusic created this course as a series of posts and videos that you can access for free at any time so that you will be able to create your own music website even if […]

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The Complete Musician’s Guide to Releasing Jazz Music

The complete musician’s guide to releasing jazz music from JazzFuel.com. Whether you’re self-releasing your next jazz album or working with a record label, here’s your complete guide to getting more press coverage and more fans.

Lead Singer Syndrome Podcast

What is it like to be the lead singer of a band? Shane Told, frontman of the critically-acclaimed rock band Silverstein, brings you candid interviews with all of your favorite singers on this podcast. Is it really all sex, drugs, and rock ‘n roll? Find out for yourself on Lead Singer Syndrome.

RightsHUB

RightsHub is an online file management platform that centralises all contractual, release, rights data and assets in one secure cloud based location. Designed for labels, artists, managers and all rights-holders across the music industry.

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VinylHub

Like @Discogs, for record shops. The mission is to document every physical record shop on the planet. VinylHub is the biggest community-built database of worldwide record stores and vinyl record fairs and events. Over 11,000 stores in the database and over 45,000 users.

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Newbilt

Newbilt is a well established German company providing state of the art vinyl record pressing production equipment to the growing global market. We offer brand new production equipment from new machines to complete factories, services and training.

Dice Live Streaming

DICE is a leading live-streaming mobile ticketing platform for music and cultural events. Eliminate the secondary market with digital ticketing.Ticket any event easily with our intelligent creator tool.

Tube Accelerator Training

Free training lessons for musicians on how to grow your YouTube fanbase 24/7 on autopilot and make a living from your music. Learn how to wiretap traffic from popular videos within your niche to generate views and learn how you can replicate proven strategies, that multiply views and subscribers.

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Currents

Currents celebrates the context around music and embraces the playlist as a collaborative, expressive and ultimately human medium. Currents is a set of open tools that encourages and enables broad, sustainable and community-driven support for artists through regular subscriptions and tips. Our mission is to directly support artists and the music community.

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Fluence

Send your music directly to curators, music bloggers and other trusted sources. Get feedback from people who want to help you promote your music. Get notified in real-time as people engage and share your music. Follow curators and trusted sources in different genres to see the latest music they like.

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Musicbed

Music licensing for video, film and advertising. Find the perfect song for your project. Discover a highly curated roster of label-quality musicians and composers hand picked for sync.

Optimize Your Streaming SEO

Understand how music discovery algorithms work and leverage this knowledge to maximise algorithmic consumption for your upcoming and existing releases. This course has been designed for independent artists and music professionals alike (from label managers to music marketers, playlist pitchers, artist managers, and so on).

Hawkr

Artists set up digital merch stands specific to each show they play or always on merch stores for longer time periods. Hawkr enables artists to create exclusive lines specific to gigs as well as standard merch lines, giving fans more choice. We handle all production and fulfilment on artists behalf. Fans can make purchases before, […]

The Aux Guide

The Aux Guide is a directory of record labels, management, recording studios and plenty of other UK based music services. The guide contains hundreds of services that could prove to be vital for independent musicians up and down the country. Alongside the launch of the physical guide we’ll be adding over 3,000 contacts to our […]

Re-Record Music Co.

Opened in June 2022, Re-Record is the world’s first climate positive vinyl record manufacturing company, based in The Netherlands. Offering 12 inch vinyl pressings in 180gsm weights and various colours. Records are 100% recyclable, and manufactured primarily using ocean plastics, gathered from dutch beaches and the North Sea.

Beatchain

An all-in-one platform to help artists grow and engage with their fanbase and distribute their music online. Free basic and paid premium accounts available, with Apple iOS and Android apps. Worldwide distribution via Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, Google Play, Tik Tok and more. Keep 90% of royalties. Social media, marketing and analytics tools, website […]

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The Independent Artist’s Handbook

Ditto Music’s complete guide to music marketing in 2023, The Independent Artist’s Handbook explains what you need to include in a successful music marketing strategy. Covering everything from getting music playlisted, smashing social media and reaching new fans, to booking live gigs, making music videos and everything in between.

Fairsound

Fairsound is a platform for artists where the financial constraints of producing a vinyl release are removed, fund your next vinyl release with no up-front costs. Pre-order sales will continue as we begin the manufacturing process. Get the exact amount of records you need based on current demand. We distribute your records direct to fan, […]

Grama Vinyl Pressing Plant

Grama Pressing is a new Portuguese vinyl pressing plant opened in 2021, based in the Porto area. Providing a complete service in the production of vinyl records (12” & 7”), from mastering to pressing, to all packaging solutions. 140g and 180g black, coloured (opaque or transparent) or splatter colours from 100 units. Worldwide delivery.

LabelGrid

LabelGrid make it easy to manage, deliver, promote and track your music and video catalogue from a central platform and scale up as you grow. With a simple content management panel, flexible delivery engine and cutting-edge marketing tools. Go the self-hosted route by using the WordPress plugin LabelGrid Tools for Record Labels and Distributors.

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The New Music Industry Podcast

Hosted by author David Andrew Wiebe, The New Music Industry Podcast features interviews with a wide range of people – not just musicians, experts and industry people, but also marketers, entrepreneurs and business owners that can bring a much-needed valuable perspective to the discussion.

Music Industry Blueprint

Since resigning as Taylor Swift’s manager in 2008, Rick Barker has made it his mission to help as many artists throughout the world build, grow and monetize a fanbase. Rick is known for his straightforward and honest approach when it comes to the music business. This weekly podcast is designed to help keep you up […]

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LabelGrid Tools WordPress Plugin

Go the self-hosted route by using the WordPress plugin LabelGrid Tools for Record Labels and Distributors and automate publishing of your own album and artist landing pages, smart link pages, pre-save pages and artist profiles which will greatly enhance your WordPress sites search engine optimization and site stickiness.

Curve

Curve is a complete royalty accounting system for record labels and music publishers. Complicated royalty deals to profit shares, rate escalations, US. mechanicals, black box revenue distribution, music publishing and masters. Curve is the only dedicated music royalty accounting software.

Artist Management School

Artist Management School is your step-by-step guide to becoming a high-demand artist manager or self-managed artist. It’s a 12-week training and mentorship program designed to take the guesswork out of signing, launching, marketing, and managing artists to success so that you can become a full-time music industry entrepreneur.

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SoundCloud for Artists

SoundCloud Next Pro, get unlimited uploads. Upload as much music as you want with your community and collaborators. Get paid. Distribute your music on SoundCloud, Spotify, YouTube and more. Unlock advanced profile controls and promote your tracks. Grow your audience. Find who and where your fans are to plan promotion, releases, and tours.

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Repost Exchange

RepostExchange is a platform that specialises in SoundCloud playlisting services. Earn credits by reposting tracks you enjoy from other artists, spend credits on getting your own music reposted by the community. Discover, network and collab with like minded artists. Get featured in exclusive podcasts, playlists and charts.

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Aux Music App

Aux is a desktop Mac (Windows Alpha) app for artists that allows you to sync your music projects in the background and manage your music projects alongside your DAW.Creators can sync files across all devices and with all collaborators using a secure, made-for-music file storage system. Get started for free with 10GB of personal storage […]

How Artists are Going Viral on TikTok in 2022

Report featuring analysis of all 20 of TikTok’s weekly Top 200 Tracks by Country charts compiled by Chartmetric from January 1 2022 to June 30 2022. The ContraBrand study specifically examined all tracks released in 2022 which went on to become respective artists’ most streamed songs in their Spotify catalog, with a minimum of one […]

FourTrack

The FourTrack multitrack audio recorder app for Apple iOS is a songwriting and practice tool for singers, guitar players, piano players and other musicians who want to capture musical ideas and record songs on their iPhone and iPod touch.

Sonaar Music

Premium music WordPress themes for musicians, bands, record labels, WordPress developers and podcasters. Access all the 25 premium Sonar themes for $99 a year. Built for Elementor page builder. Ideal for WordPress music web designers and developers.

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Bridge.Audio

Google Drive x Soundcloud x DocSend for music and audio. Bridge.Audio is built for everyone working with audio files, from creators to managers, distributors, publishers and music supervisors. Add your music catalog to a secure cloud, along with all relevant files you need for your projects (videos, pictures, PDFs, and more).

Digital Music Distributors Comparison

The most comprehensive and accurate digital music distribution review comparison piece on the web, from musician Ari Herstand. Amuse vs. AWAL vs. CDBaby vs. DistroKid vs. Ditto Music vs. FreshTunes vs. Horus Music vs. LANDR vs. OneRPM vs. RouteNote vs. Songtradr vs. Soundrop vs. Stem Music vs. Spinnup vs. Symphonic Distribution vs. TuneCore vs. United […]

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Monostereo Vinyl

12 inch record pressings using 100% recyclable injection mold vinyl. No PVC or toxic phthalates (plasticizers). At least 95% Co2 reduction compared to the traditional vinyl manufacturing process – no use of natural gas for the steam process. 12-16 week turnaround.

Unsplash

All photos published on Unsplash can be used for free for commercial and non-commercial purposes. You do not need to ask permission from or provide credit to the photographer or Unsplash, although it is appreciated when possible. Over 4500 images titled ‘Music’, brilliant resource for design inspiration.

Mandolin

50% link in bio on steroids, 50% dynamic fan gathering place, Mandolin Fan Page is the last fan engagement hub you’ll ever need to build. Customize and create eye-catching Fan Pages with the intuitive Fan Page Builder, which features rich media, survey, contact capture, Seated and Bandsintown integrations, and more.

BBC Music Introducing: Radio Shows

Every week over 30 local BBC Music Introducing shows all over the UK play music they have discovered through the Introducing Uploader. Our family of local shows across the UK are at the frontline of discovering and playing new artists from their area and it could include you.

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TikTok Guide for the Music Industry

Download the TikTok guide for the music industry and learn: how to get your music on TikTok and how you get paid, tips to help develop your TikTok strategy, how to get more followers and TikTok’s algorithm. Free guide (email req.) from digital distributor Symphonic.

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Filepass

Filepass helps recording studios, mixing engineers, mastering engineers, podcast editors and many other audio business owners keep their projects organized. Your client needs to send 100GB of session files? No problem. Want timestamped feedback from all of the band members on their newest mix? Easy.

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ToneDen

ToneDen FanLinks make it easy to drive more streams and purchases across all platforms your music is available. FanLinks make it easy to see exactly where your music is available, linking fans to the platform of their choice. ToneDen Playbooks will help you launch a targeted campaign to get your music in front of fans […]

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BeatStars

BeatStars is a music streaming and beat licensing platform designed for recording artists and songwriters to discover production music to record and write lyrics to. Artists can purchase and download high quality studio files for their next recording session and release their finished songs. Birthplace of Lil Nas X’s smash ‘Old Town Road’.

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Hype Machine

An MP3 blog index directory that lists 400+ music blogs sorted by categories, genre and countries. Hype Machine indexes hundreds of music sites and collects their latest posts for easy streaming and discovery. Also, have iOS and Android apps.

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SongRocket

Pitch and submit your song to our carefully chosen Spotify playlist curators and music influencers. We have music influencers around the globe curating Spotify playlists for EDM, Rock, Pop, Drum&Bass, Trance, Techno, Lo-Fi, Hip-Hop, R&B and many more genres.

The Lab Report

The Lab Report is an independent publication by Mega Labs founders Francis di Stasio and Justin De Marco focused on music in web3. A combination of a bi-weekly newsletter and original analysis covering innovation and the future of music and media.

Humans of Music

Former Rolling Stone editor Rod Yates sits down with some of music’s biggest stars and behind-the-scenes players and asks: How did they get where they are today? What made them who they are? How have they navigated the ups and downs of life and their career, and what have they learned along the way?

.Music Domain Names

.MUSIC provides global music community members with a global music industry standard for their music identity and their official website address: i.e. www.yourname.music. Anyone in the global music community can register their unique .MUSIC domain, including artists, creators, bands, groups, industry professionals, music companies and organizations.

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Songfluencer

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Belgian Vinyl Pressing Plant

New vinyl pressing plant based in Belgium running two Pheenix Alpha vinyl presses offering 12 inch vinyl from 200 units. Plans to expand to six Pheenix Alpha presses by year end 2022.

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Amplify

Smart links for music marketing. Brand your experience head to toe, with smart link and bio link pages built for music. Link to your music and content across all streaming platforms and elsewhere on the web. All tools are free to use for everyone, everywhere.

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New Artist Model

A whole collection of free musician resources, ebooks and webinars from Dave Kusek. Includes content marketing, business planning, merchandising, publishing, social media planning, email management, time management and music business hacks.

Gramrphone

Gramrphone (for MacOS) captures and streams high quality live music from any application or device on your computer. Stream live performances, listening parties and podcasts directly from, iTunes, Spotify, YouTube, Ableton, Logic, Pro Tools, BandLab, Beatport, SoundTrap and more.

Women In Vinyl

The Women in Vinyl podcast is meant to enhance and expand what the platform already exists to do, facilitate conversations with those working in the vinyl record industry. The hosts share interviews with record labels, pressing plants, cutting engineers and more for an inside look behind the scenes with those working in the vinyl industry. […]

AP Streaming Royalties Calculator

Streaming music services royalty calculator from the Another Producer website. With this music streaming royalties calculator, you can find out what the most common music streaming platforms are likely to pay you per stream. These figures are estimates only and should be considered merely as a guide.

M Com Musique

French vinyl record pressing plant since 2014. Specialising in small runs from 60 to 500 copies. Turn around time in five weeks. 12 inch black and coloured vinyl in 140gsm from 100 units. Packaging and lacquer cutting services.

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Trendpop TikTok Hot 100

The Viral 100 is a free tool provided by Trendpop that shows the most viral sounds, creators, and hashtags on TikTok. We provide rankings broken down by weekly, monthly, and yearly periods, spanning back until 2018. Trendpop helps you discover influencers, track marketing campaigns, and grow your brand’s reach on social video.

HypeAuditor

In-depth Instagram, YouTube, TikTok and Twitch analytics for successful influencer campaigns. Over 10M influencers in the database. 35+ metrics for influencer vetting. Best in class AI fraud detection.

Smuzi

Smuzi – collaborative music video maker app for Apple iOS, designed specifically for casual and amateur musicians. With no editing skills required, just open your phone and start recording to create a unique collage of effects. Collaborate with others to make a video that’s absolutely yours.

Business Keeps on Dancing

The Business Keeps on Dancing Podcast, the Spotlight series will shine a light on the best in the business, and give listeners a rare opportunity to hear from the people behind the world’s biggest festivals, events and music brands. We will be interviewing everyone, from DJ’s, producers, festival owners, PRs, artist managers to music marketing […]

Spotify Codes

A Spotify Code is a QR-like “scannable” tag that can be used to quickly share or access a piece of content within Spotify. Spotify Codes can be created for artist profiles, brand profiles, playlists, albums, and songs. If there is a Spotify URI, you can generate a Spotify Code.

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Sptfy.com

URL shortener service aimed at converting those unwieldy long Spotify playlist URLs into something short and user friendly eg: Sptfy.com/office-mixtape. Also generates a QR Code. Create a free account and view and manage all your short urls in one place, sort through them all easily, view your url statistics and share your urls through social […]

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Spotify Discovery & Promo

This is the place to celebrate the new and emerging artists you’ve probably never heard of. We welcome artists and creators promoting their work here. You can recommend content by sharing a link in a relevant thread, or you can start a new thread to tell us why we should check a certain track, album or […]

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Digital Music Distributors Comparison

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Artist Management ToolKit

100+ of the most important systems, plans, templates and guides you need to start and run a successfully organised artist management business. Includes starting a management company guide, music business plan template, artist management agreement, artist on-boarding checklist, a contact directory template and much more.

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The Indie Spotify Bible

From the makers of the long running publication The Indie Bible The Indie Spotify Bible ebook contains the contact info for over 5000 Spotify playlists which are categorised by genre so you can easily contact the curators. Includes all available contact information including location, contact name and email, website, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.

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Kompoz

Kompoz allows musicians from all around the world to collaborate online to create new original music. Use GarageBand, Pro Tools, Logic Pro, Studio One, Reaper or any other audio software to record your ideas, then upload them to Kompoz. Invite your friends to collaborate. Sell your finished collaborations on SoundBlend.

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Spotify Community

The official Spotify discussion forums and community blog with over six million members. Including the Rock Star programme, Rock Stars are community users who have proven themselves Spotify experts. They’ve helped countless users, posted great ideas, and shared their favourite music.

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Musicto Playlist Submission

Free playlist submission service. Submit your music to a Musicto playlist on Spotify, Deezer, Tidal and Apple Music or apply to become a Musicto playlist curator. Playlists are distributed to Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer and Tidal.

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Adobe Free Album Cover Maker

Make your album cover in Creative Cloud Express, and you’ll have a visual expression of your musical art in a matter of minutes. Get started for free. Browse through thousands of standout album cover templates or create from a blank canvas. Make your cover on-brand by uploading your logo and using fonts and colors that match […]

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Topsify

Topsify is a tool that you can use with Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer and YouTube to access the Top 40 playlists in the United States and worldwide. Owned by Warner Music.

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Replace Cover

Free web-based app to create album cover art for your Spotify playlists. This only works with the Spotify desktop player. You can also change your playlist cover art on Apple Music, Soundcloud and pretty much every other music streaming service out there. Includes integration of Unsplash and their library of free photos.

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NoiseTrade Music

NoiseTrade Music helps artists & labels meaningfully connect with fans through the exchange of free music for email addresses and postal codes. Join the NoiseTrade music community and manage your uploaded music, receive 100% of tips and get direct access to your fans through email data and blasts.

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Soundee

Buy and sell and license beats and instrumentals online. All beats uploaded to Soundee will become instantly available for sale on the social Marketplace. This is a place where artists can discover your beats and where you can connect with other producers.

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URL Genius

Paste a web URL into URLGenius to compose a new link for your marketing campaign. URLgenius opens the app on your visitor’s mobile device for iOS or Android to the destination that matches the URL. Edit link destinations by platform anytime.

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Stemit

Stemit is building a brand new audio asset, song stems, from music that already exists, unlocking a valuable and previously untapped revenue stream for the recording industry and a new resource for artists. Stems are song components such as vocal tracks, drum beats, and guitar riffs mixed and mastered for standalone use.

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British Phonographic Industry

The BPI represents UK record labels, organise the @BRITs, @Classic_BRITs & the @MercuryPrize, co-own the @officialcharts & award UK music sales through the BPI Awards. As a trade body, we champion the interests of our membership which includes more than 400 independent music companies and the UK’s major record companies.

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Linkfire Smart Links

Smart links for music marketing. Run a pre-save campaign to make a big splash on release day. Geo-customize every fan’s journey to your music—no coding required. Turn social media attention into meaningful engagement with a beautiful, highly scrollable microsite. Easily bring all of your content together, from releases to gigs to merch.

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Tunemunk

To submit your best songs to Spotify playlists, head over to one of the playlists that fit your genre the best on the Tunemunk portal. For Spotify playlist curators submitting your playlists to Tunemunk is completely free.

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MusicDigi

Get your music on Spotify, iTunes, Apple Music, TikTok, Google Play, Amazon, and more. Release unlimited music for $59.99 a year (keep 91% of royalties) on 100+ music services worldwide. Keep 100% of rights, free UPC and ISRC codes.

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3.4K

SubmitHub

SubmitHub makes it easy to contact music bloggers, Spotify playlisters, record labels and more. We give you all sorts of statistics and ways to filter who to send your music to. Editors at Spotify and Apple Music follow our bloggers and playlisters to discover the best new songs. There are currently 2000+ active blogs and […]

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Soundgizmo

Developed by the team at Synchtank, Soundgizmo is a website and catalogue management system built for small, fast-moving companies who don’t need big enterprise features or integration. Generate more revenue from your catalog with a core set of tools to help you organize, pitch and license your music.

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Haulix

Digital watermarked music promo delivery. Haulix is a monthly subscription service used by artists and publicists as a secure platform for sharing new and unreleased music. Showcase an album by creating a promo with your WAV or MP3 tracks, photos, PDF attachments, and YouTube videos. Haulix automatically generates a professional-looking web page for your promo, […]

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Soundplate Playlists

Discover and submit music to Spotify & Deezer playlists, submit your own tracks and submit your own playlists. Free service built to help artists reach hundreds of independent playlist curators. Also have a playlist analyzer to quickly find some helpful statistics and information about any Spotify playlist.

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SmartURL

SmartURL redirects users to specific destinations based on their country or device. After entering a default URL, users are able to specify to which country and device-specific URLs they want to direct their traffic. The Pivot smartURL creates a landing page where all users can choose their preferred retailer.

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Canva Album Cover Maker

Canva’s album cover maker helps you design album covers to promote your music or audio, even without any graphic design experience. A library of album cover layouts has been created by professional designers, making it as simple for you as a few clicks to create a high-quality designs.

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3.2K

Super Music Vision

SuperMusicVision (SMV) is the vehicle for the creative and professional work of Los Angeles based music supervisor, producer and DJ Thomas Golubic, along with his talented group of colleagues.

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3.2K

SoundCloud for Artists

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3.2K

Work Hard Playlist Hard

Work Hard Playlist Hard was always intended to be a resource for all artists, managers, labels and curators. Now, after the success of the the book, it has grown into a school. Everything you need is now here at the HQ: There’s live streams, courses, blog posts, and the podcast.

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3.2K

Spotify For Artists

Spotify for Artists gives you tools to develop your fanbase and reach your goals on Spotify. Built for artists and their teams, Spotify for Artists helps you to understand your audience, manage your artist profile, and celebrate new releases and milestones.

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3.1K

Leland Music

London based music supervision, strategy and consultancy. Music people helping brands, ad agencies and film companies tell their stories. You probably already know our work.

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3.1K

Streaming Music Platform Image Guide

How to claim and update your artist profile on all major music platforms. Complete image and artist profile guide, including tips and tricks for Spotify, Apple Music, SoundCloud, Deezer, Tidal, YouTube Music, Beatport and Google Play Music. Put together by digital distributor Symphonic Distribution.

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YouTube Music Artist Channel Playbook

PDF download for the ‘YouTube Music Official Artist Channel Playbook’. This guide walks you through the basics of setting up an Official Artist Channel and how to use YouTube fully to engage with fans, drive video views, and promote concerts & tours.

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3.1K

UK Music

UK Music is an industry-funded body established in October 2008 to represent the collective interests of the recorded, published and live arms of the British music industry.

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3.1K

RecordSleeve

Recordsleeve is the UK online market leader in short to medium run length printed record sleeves, producing authentic bespoke single sleeves and bespoke album sleeves from your artwork. Also print record label inserts for 7/10 and 12 inch vinyl.

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World Airplay Radio Monitor

WARM conducts real-time radio monitoring to report on what stations are playing your song. From small independent Japanese radio stations to college radios in Canada and national stations worldwide, we monitor radio airplay in 167 countries. With WARM you will always know when and where your music is being played – even on genre-specific stations.

Tunecore Fan Reviews

Paid feedback and reviews service from distributor Tunecore. Get ratings, reviews, and advice from real music fans. Find out what others think of your songwriting, song arrangement, and overall sound before you release your track. Up to 225 fan reviews & comments. Interactive reviews and data, available online or for PDF download.

UK & European Guild of Music Supervisors

Non-profit organisation dedicated to raising awareness and understanding of the role of a music supervisor within the entertainment industries. The Guild is a resource for both emerging and established professionals, as well as the wider industry, providing knowledge of the craft and the evolving media landscape.

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Amuse

Getting your music out is free and easy with Amuse. Our free distribution lets you put your music on all major streaming services, while keeping 100% of your royalties and rights. Release and distribute your music, get discovered by our record label or boost your independent career by upgrading to Pro. Upload and manage music […]

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2.9K

Open Music Initiative

We are creating an open-source protocol for the uniform identification of music rights holders and creators. The Open Music Initiative dramatically simplifies the way music creators and rights owners are identified and compensated.

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2.9K

Native Music Soho

Award-winning music supervision and production company based in London’s Soho. Native Music Supervision & Production are a creative music company made up of a combination of experienced music supervisors, producers and musicians.

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Hypeddit

An arsenal of music promotion and marketing tools. Create download gates, share downloads of your music in return for automatic likes, reposts, comments and followers. Submit your music to blogs, playlists, labels and other influencers. Grow fans on YouTube, Soundcloud & Spotify, Mixcloud, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.

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Music Marketing Checklist

Checklist for marketing a new record, single, EP or album. Put together on a Google Spreadsheet by uber music marketer Amber Horsburgh of Deep Cuts newsletter fame. The exhaustive checklist of promotional activities goes through successfully marketing a record including best in class examples from Solange, Radiohead + others.

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Qrates

Qrates is a marketplace where artists can create vinyl records and cassette tapes on demand directly for music fans. Crowdfunding on Qrates is a revolutionary way to release music on vinyl without the traditional financial commitments, backers simply pledge to crowdfunding projects by reserving your vinyl or cassette release. Starting at 100 records or 50 […]

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2.8K

DISCO

DISCO makes it easy to organize, search and share your music and other files, all in the one place. Artists, labels, managers, publishers, broadcasters and music supervisors around the world use DISCO to organize their files and collaborate with their teams and networks.

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2.7K

Pexels

Pexels provides high quality and completely free stock photos licensed under the Creative Commons Zero (CC0) license. All photos are nicely tagged, searchable and also easy to discover through our discover pages. Over 1500 images tagged music.

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Audiomack

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CD Baby

Make your music available on 150+ streaming and download services around the world, including Spotify, Apple Music, TikTok, Amazon, Pandora, YouTube, and Deezer, all for a one-time setup fee of only $29 per album and $9.95 per single. Also offer publishing admin services and sync licensing.