Blogs

  • Spotify is releasing a HI-FI streaming service later in 2021

    · By Matej Harangozo

    What's going on, guys? My name is Matej. Another day for MusicBizDaily. And I just want to tell you that the music business never stops for you. It's always going to continue to go forward every single day. So even though I'm not in my studio, as you can see, I'm traveling. I'm in a hotel. I still got to continue to give you the latest on the music business or let you know what me and my team are, you know, working on. If it's something awesome. So today's news has to do with Spotify again. But you just...

  • How Often Should You Drop Music?

    · By Matej Harangozo

    How often should you release music? There couple if different factors to consider here: Your marketing budget is one, the second is your genre. If you study the charts in hip hop, the shelf life of a song is very short. Knowing that, you need to flood the market place and constantly release. EDM is similar in that respect. With country music, this is not the case. Songs take longer to become number one and they can stay number one for months at a time, similar with gospel. Pop and soul music is somewhere in the middle. With the other...

  • Who Should You Have On Your Team As A Music Artist?

    · By Matej Harangozo

    The Independent Artist Team This is a question that we get a lot from artists on a weekly basis. This is not a simple answer, but we're going to break it down for you you this way. We're going to tell you the people that would be necessary for you to have on your team as if you were already a superstar, because we're sure that's the status you're aspiring to get to. This would apply to whether you're independent or under a label. The exception is if you're independent; you'll have to build out these positions your self overtime. Let me...

  • When should you start focusing on PR?

    · By Matej Harangozo

    Todays advice is on the topic of focusing on PR For Artists and when to do so. PR For Artists is one of those services that many inexperienced artists, producers, even labels approach at the wrong time of their career, ultimately wasting their money.   The simple answer to when you should focus on PR is when you have done something worth talking about. And we mean worth it to the people or publications you're asking to talk about you to their audiences & to the fans of those influential channels you want to be highlighted by!  Now this in itself...

  • There Are Levels To Marketing

    · By Matej Harangozo

    Today's advice is regarding marketing and the fact that there are levels to marketing, as well as what type of marketing strategies you should be using at a certain level of your career.  Let's explain it on a business model where it makes it easier to grasp this concept.  Let's say you want to open up a local restaurant that is gonna sell the best cheesesteaks and burgers. For now you have one location. You're not going to use the same types of marketing strategies that McDonald's, or TGI Friday uses. You would go out of business trying to use some...

  • Why Should Musicians Use Their Calendar?

    · By Matej Harangozo

    Why Use A Calendar? This one is so simple you would think that people that use smartphones would have figured this out.  Use a calendar and value peoples time! We have never met a successful and wealthy person that didn't use a calendar or that was constantly late. Now are there some rich jerks out there they always show up late and think that's its cool to be fashionably late. However, they probably have a staff of people taking care of their dirty work who are always on time, are punctual, and use calendars. So if you want to be a jerk,...