Sometimes I look around at the music landscape and think I’m the only geek on the planet who still listens to full albums anymore. Then I remember that most serious … Continue reading
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How Abel Capella Increased His Monthly Listeners from 540 to 16k in Three Months
Abel Capella used CD Baby’s Release Plan Generator to map a strategy for his single “Só Vem.” This strategy allowed Capella to: get placed on a Spotify editorial playlist gain … Continue reading
A Few Positives for Indie Music from 2020
A look back on music in a tough year Look, 2020 sucked. That shouldn’t be a controversial take at the end of a year with a seemingly endless string of … Continue reading
Strategies for releasing independent music among COVID-19
None of us could have predicted a 2020 like this Rolling Stone reported at the close of March that music streaming was down during this time of quarantine and social … Continue reading
One band. Two members. Three songs. Hundreds of thousands of monthly listeners on Spotify.
How Post Precious built a big audience with just a few singles. Alex Winston, one half of the new synth-pop duo Post Precious, played a showcase of her solo material … Continue reading