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2016 was off to a great start for us and as the year progresses we continue to highlight the careers of some of our favorite artists and labels under the Label Engine umbrella. There are so many talented artists and deserving labels that the decision to pick only 4 is a very difficult one but Progressive music heavyweight Jaytech, rising …
The Dance Music universe woke up today to the news that SFX, parent company of Dance Music digital store Beatport, filed for chapter 11 Bankruptcy as part of a Restructuring Support Agreement that will eliminate more than $300 million in debt. Naturally comments and emails started pouring in from concerned record label owners and artists trying to get some clarity …
Soundcloud has been making progress in turning its site to appeal more to the normal everyday fan, recently adding “Stations” which will allow users of the SoundCloud app for iOS and Android to create radio stations based on what they are listening to, searching for or what is in their collections. Appealing to the masses and not just industry people …
Every distributor and Beatport partner received this morning an email that looks to clarify the guidelines of what is an acceptable Promotional Campaign that encourages fans to buy tracks in exchange for something and what is considered an attempt to “game” the charts to unfairly gain a better ranking in the top 100. This has always been a controversial topic, …
Happy New Year everybody, We hope 2016 is an even better and bigger year for all of you! We start the new year with our January honorees, a group of artists and labels that continue to push the boundaries of music and have managed to create a lane of their own. Black Tiger Sex Machine, Bass Kleph, Westwood Recordings and …
2015 has been a great year for us, can you believe it is almost over? We have had the pleasure of working with some of the most talented musicians/producers and record label managers in the entire music scene and like every month we would like to share with you some of those individuals we are inspired by. In the month …
November was a busy month for us and as always we’ve been busy working on new features for the Label Engine system: – 1001Tracklists Integration We’ve partnered with 1001Tracklists.com to allow you to keep an eye on which DJs are playing your tracks. 1001Tracklists is a user generated database containing listings of every radio show and major performance by the …
Spotify has announced today the introduction of “Spotify Fan Insights”, an analytics tool that will allow Artists better understand how fans interact with their music. Best of all? the tool is available completely for free! Spotify has long been the “king” of streaming music and it has become an important platform for Artists and Labels to continue to showcase their …
Great news for those hoping to get the most our of their Beatport “Streaming” effort. Beatport announced a couple of days ago the official introduction of “Playlists”, which will allow all labels, artists and fans to create their own curated music list for listening or promotion purposes. The news are very much welcome but are of no surprise to anyone, …
We continue our “Monthly feature” tradition in November. For those unfamiliar with the project, we pick 2 artists and 2 record labels every month and they become our featured Artists/Labels for the entire month, in addition to this post we also highlight them in our blog’s side bar continuously. November’s picks Mayhem, Downlink, Big Fish Recordings and Daily Earfood are …
