Stems vs Multitracks (What’s The Difference?)

So you’ve created your song and you’ve decided to hire a mix engineer to bring your music to the next level. The files you send are sometimes (incorrectly) referred to as “stems,” while in fact they are “multitracks.” So let’s…

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3 Reasons Every New Song Needs A Lyric Video

If you’re releasing music, you should absolutely be releasing lyric videos for each song. Not a cheezy slideshow with the lyrics, but an actually cool lyric video. Today I want to share three reasons why you need to release a…

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Why Aren’t Radio Stations Playing My Song?

I get most artists care less about radio these days, but since radio still reaches a lot of people, it’s still a big question. As someone who worked in radio programming before going full-time in music, let me clear up…

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Focus on Growing Fans, Not Your Stream Numbers

People are too obsessed with vanity metrics in the music industry. Well in regular life too – but especially in the music industry. I’m sure you’ve looked up your artist friends’ stream numbers or Instagram followers. It certainly feels good…

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