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I had this awesome call with Circa from Indepreneur a couple months ago I wanted to share to this blog in case you missed it. We talk about music marketing, of course, but in detail we talk about how you can use storytelling in Facebook ads and advertising in general to develop a fanbase.   Click here to listen on your favorite podcast platform.   Check out Indepreneur:  https://indepreneur.io/   **NOTE THAT THE FOLLOWING IS AN AUTOMATED TRANSCRIPTION FOR REFERENCE, SO IT HAS PLENTY OF ERRORS** Andrew (00:00):Hey, everyone. Welcome back to the modern music marketing podcast. I'm your host, Andrew...

 It's official, the Modern Music Marketing podcast is live! If you watch my YouTube channel you may have noticed i've been doing a lot of interviews with people in the music industry. Since I teach music marketing and music business, I bring on experts and people who make a living with their music to learn more for myself and to help educate my audience.  The podcast is a way to spread that knowledge even further, and provide other types of content that aren't as well-suited for YouTube video content.  Click here to listen on Apple, Spotify and more.  

Are you an artist wondering how to get on Spotify's Discover Weekly? Spotify's algorithmic playlists are the biggest driver of streams on the platform, and i've personally gotten nearly 80k streams using these playlists - mostly from Discover Weekly. The real problem is that very few understand how to get your music on Discover Weekly, so many artist promote their music in a way that hurts their chances.  Algorithmic Spotify Playlist Types Before I tell you how to get on these playlists, let me explain exactly what they are: Discover Weekly - a custom playlist of music the user hasn't heard...

Want to get your music on some Spotify playlists? Well, now Genera Studios is officially on SubmitHub as a Spotify playlist curator! I most often share EDM and Pop genres, but this extends to a lot of other related genres like Electropop, Synthwave, Future Bass, Indie Pop, and a whole bunch more.  You can head to SubmitHub to check out our playlists and make sure your music is a good fit, and then submit entirely for free! If you pay for a premium submission I have 48 hours to either accept your song, or provide you at least 10 words of...

While the internet has made it possible for literally anyone to release music for the world to hear, most independent artists actually struggle to get anyone to listen.  Does this sound like you? You used to believe that great music would sell itself, and if you built it they would come. So you finish mastering the best track you've ever written, release it to Spotify, Apple Music, Bandcamp and every other site online, and find that in your first week you got 11 streams (mostly from your friends and family).  The problem is that great music does not sell itself, because...