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In today’s world, you mainly promote your music online, interact with fans online, and grow your music career online – so, it’s only right that purchasing beats and instrumentals for your tracks have followed the same path. Buying beats used to be a lot more complicated than it is today. You’d have to book a …
Music videos are some of the most engaging pieces of content that you can put out as an artist. Not only do they help you extend the life of a single, but they also allow you to showcase different aspects of your brand, such as lifestyle and image. Shooting music videos are a lot of …
Odds are, if you’re reading this post, you’re interested in purchasing a microphone preamp for your home music studio and looking for one in your price range. When it comes to microphone preamps, $$$ isn’t a lot of money to spend. But, if that’s all you have to spend on a microphone preamp – I’ve …
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If you’re listening to hip-hop today, you’ve probably been confused at least once about the term mixtape and album – and I completely understand why. One artist may release an album while another artist releases a mixtape and if you listen to them both, you’ll probably find it hard to tell the difference (from a music …
Pandora is one of the biggest music streaming platforms out (and also one of the first). They’re not in the media as much as Apple Music or Tidal, but they’re just as important. As of July, 21, 2016 – Pandora has over 78 million active listeners on their platform and despite competitors like Apple Music …
Here at Artist Shortcut, YouTube is a big part of our marketing strategy. It helps capture the attention of a bigger audience and allows us to repurpose our content – which is not much different than what most hip-hop artists should use YouTube for. So, instead of giving you more strategies on how to promote …
Becoming famous involves being known by a lot of people. If you’re trying to learn how to become a famous rapper, I’m going to show you how to do so. However, to keep this article from being extremely complicated, I’m going to keep everything simple. Simple to digest and simple to take action on. 1. …
Instead of giving you a 10,000-word blog post that contains all the typical music promotion tips and tricks, I’m going to quickly run through the typical stuff and then at the end I’m gonna give you what I feel is one of the biggest tips that you rarely see being discussed for promoting your music …
Getting free music promotion is very simple. Build more relationships in places that you can use to promote your music. For example, if you wanted to get your music promoted on Baller Alert, be featured on Yesjulz’s playlist, MTV, or be on the radio – all of that stems from relationships. Don’t just go asking …
Becoming A Music Manager To become a music manager, you don’t need much. There’s no college degree necessary and no specific skill set required. Now, that’s not to say that a college degree or having some applicable skills won’t help you, because they will. But, they are not necessary to start your career as a music …
If you’ve read our article on why you should have a home studio, you already know that building a home studio is one of the smartest investments you can make as an upcoming hip-hop artist. There are tons of artists that don’t have a home studio and practice their craft in a professional studio. Now, …
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Artist Management is the Act of Managing an Artist Their job is to help the artist manage their career and grow. If you look at it from a corporate organization structure, they’d be the head of operations. Although their day to day tasks may change, their main role is to keep the artist moving forward. …
One of the most important pieces of your home recording music studio is your microphone. Take a look at what we believe are 4 of the best microphones for recording rap vocals on a budget.
Going to the studio is a big part of becoming a rapper. It’s how you create your product (the music). However, upcoming hip-hop artists put so much money into studio time that they forget there’s more than just recording. Recording Your Music Can Be Expensive A lot of rappers go to the studio when they …
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Your pitch is your way of selling yourself as an artist, to an editor or owner of a hip-hop blog so they’ll post your music. The main thing I see wrong with a lot of pitches that upcoming hip-hop artists send is: – It’s Too Long You’re sending a whole page full of your life …
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