“I’m going to get this album on the Billboard charts.” Those were the words that Tyke T, my business partner and artist (I’m his manager), blurted out when discussing the release of his then-not-quite-finished and unnamed album during the summer of 2016. I vaguely paid attention, thinking maybe the notorious Memphis heat had finally gone …
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Your songs don’t expire. Every Monday I look forward to listening to Discover Weekly, a personalized playlist updated each week by Spotify with songs they think I’ll love based on my listening habits. They’re getting good at it. Almost every week this happens: I fall in love with a song I’ve never heard before that …
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Five ways to build your brand as a musician Branding — it’s the mark you leave on someone’s imagination when they think about you, your music, your image, your story. In the “Authentic Artist Branding Bootcamp” I talked about the advantages artists have when they know their brand and how to communicate it. I just …
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