SoundCloud has announced a new model that aims to benefit independent artists by spreading subscribers’ payment across what they play rather than overall plays across the whole platform. The music platform is launching a new ‘fan-powered’ royalty distribution system that serves to support smaller artists and compete with megastars. According to SoundCloud’s press release, “a listener’s subscription or[…]
We still remember the theme song for Spectre by exceptional and soulful English singer Sam Smith. “Writing On The Wall” was one of the most dramatic of Bond themes and revealed the singer to be a global star. His latest album, Love Goes, is a product of 2020 and the year of COVID-19. Here we explore what there is[…]
Record Store Day has teamed up with Vans to spotlight and support Black-owned record stores with the release of a dual vinyl album titled Songs For You, Vol. 1 & 2. If you wonder what Record Store Day is, it is a bi-annual event that is usually held on one Saturday every April and every Black Friday in[…]
Karol G and J Balvin stand out from the others in the nominees list for the 2021 Latin American Music Awards. Both are nominated in nine categories, including Artist of the Year, sharing the category with Anuel AA, Bad Bunny, Christian Nodal, Eslabon Armado, Maluma, Ozuna, and Sech. The two Colombian artists have marked the year 2020 with[…]
26-year old DJ Toasty Digital has released a 20-minute mashup of classic albums from Kendrick Lamar and Kanye West albums, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy and Good Kid, M.A.A.D City titled Good Kid, Twisted Fantasy. He mixed instrumentals from one with the lyrics from the other and vice versa, while also cutting smoothly and almost indistinctive from track to[…]