All the key points of the Music Industry Report in two short bullet lists. If you’re a musician and haven’t read the IFPI’s Music Industry Report 2023, who can blame you. It’s 55 [...]
Why people want more humor and why music qualifies as medicine On Jan. 26, 2023, Toronto artist Dylan Hennessy (Mobius Radio) re-evidenced the power of humor in music marketing in his short video [...]
ICYMI: Time is running out. Royal City Studios February sale*—50% off recording studio time—ends February 28th. (*Engineer time extra.) Just $50/hour gets you the DAW (Pro Tools), microphones, and sound treatment. Don’t feel [...]
Planning your music promotion for 2023? Short-form video should be part of your plans. Short-form video consumption exploded across social platforms in 2022, and TikTok was the poster child of detonation. Dubbed by [...]
Is social media the new Google? The data points in that direction, suggesting artists should prioritize keywords in social posts to help improve discovery of online music releases in 2023. Here’s the breakdown. [...]
Here’s what’s unique about RCS Records, Royal City Studios’ newly launched independent music label, offering quality recording and à la carte marketing services for indie artists to equip them with the essentials to [...]
Like CDs and cassettes, digital downloads have been written off as dead. Yet the evidence clearly shows they’re not dead and provide many musicians with far better income than the relative peanuts of [...]
Truly it’s astonishing how many indie online radio stations are out there that have substantial audiences and are open to music submissions from artists. Moreover (in case you’re unaware), online radio play holds [...]
In two recent issues of RCS Music News Weekly, we examined the comeback of vinyl records and the smaller but equally steady rise of cassettes. In this issue, we examine CDs, which many [...]
Whether your band goals involve approaching more talent buyers, getting more music media reviews, or attracting potential stakeholders, an electronic press kit (EPK) is one of the most important tools a band can [...]
