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How Touring Artists Can Use un:hurd to Keep Fans Engaged hypebot.com/how-touring-arti… hypebot.com/how-touring-arti…
How Touring Artists Can Use un:hurd to Keep Fans Engaged

How Touring Artists Can Use un:hurd to Keep Fans Engaged

In tandem with tools like Bandsintown For Artists, use this platform to plan releases and market music to the fans you've made along the route.

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Free Streams To Count More on Billboard Charts as YouTube Returns After 1 Year Boycott hypebot.com/free-streams-cou… #YouTube #Billboard #BillboardCharts hypebot.com/free-streams-cou…
Free Streams Count More on Billboard Charts,YouTube Returns

Free Streams Count More on Billboard Charts,YouTube Returns

Billboard is giving free streams more weight and YouTube is coming back. What the new 1:1.5 ratio means for artists and the Billboard Charts.

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Leaked NewJeans Contract Offers Look At K-Pop's 'Dark Side' hypebot.com/leaked-newjeans-… hypebot.com/lambrini-girls-a…
Leaked NewJeans Contract Offers Look At K-Pop "Dark Side"

Leaked NewJeans Contract Offers Look At K-Pop "Dark Side"

A bombshell New York Times K-pop investigation and a leaked NewJeans contract has ignited a debate on basic artists rights despite HYBE denials.

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MUSIC INDUSTRY NEWS 🎵 Olivia Dean named Apple Music Artist Of Year • Billboard Chart update • Pink Sphere residency • Kanye breaks Rap concert record (again) • McCartney becomes a billionaire • More hypebot.com/music-industry-n… #musicindustry #musicbusiness #musicnews hypebot.com/music-industry-n…
Music Industry News: Searching The Web So You Don't Have To

Music Industry News: Searching The Web So You Don't Have To

The latest music industry news from across the web under the INDUSTRY NEWS tab at the top of every Hypebot page.

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Lambrini Girls Are Building a Touring Empire. And NOT Playing It Safe. hypebot.com/lambrini-girls-a… hypebot.com/lambrini-girls-a…
Lambrini Girls Are Building a Touring Empire. And NOT Playing It Safe.

Lambrini Girls Are Building a Touring Empire. And NOT Playing It Safe.

The Brighton punk trio is turning explosive performances, mosh pit community, and uncompromising identity into unrelenting momentum.

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We Need an OnlyFans for Music hypebot.com/we-need-an-onlyf…
We Need an OnlyFans for Music

We Need an OnlyFans for Music

Music streaming as we know it needs to be reinvented...

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Spotify Wrapped 2026 Deadline For Artists Extended hypebot.com/spotify-wrapped-… #SpotifyWrapped #SpotifyForArtists #musicmarketing hypebot.com/spotify-wrapped-…
Spotify Wrapped 2026 Deadline For Artists Extended

Spotify Wrapped 2026 Deadline For Artists Extended

Spotify has extended the deadline for Artists to submit short videos that will be included in Spotify Wrapped 2026.

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Your Morning Coffee Podcast: David Macias' New Book, the Comeback of CDs, UMG, More hypebot.com/your-morning-cof… hypebot.com/your-morning-cof…
Your Morning Coffee Podcast: David Macias' New Book, the Comeback of CDs, UMG, More

Your Morning Coffee Podcast: David Macias' New Book, the Comeback of CDs, UMG, More

Episode 327 of Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart’s podcast Your Morning Coffee: Weekly News for the New Music Business is available now.

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The Weeknd’s Tour Is the Highest-Grossing Solo Male Tour Ever hypebot.com/the-weeknds-tour… hypebot.com/the-weeknds-tour…
The Weeknd’s Tour Is the Highest-Grossing Solo Male Tour Ever

The Weeknd’s Tour Is the Highest-Grossing Solo Male Tour Ever

The “After Hours Til Dawn” tour closed with over $1.3 billion in ticket sales, officially making it the highest-grossing solo male tour in history.

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Live Nation Posts Record Q3 2026 Despite Ongoing Lawsuits hypebot.com/live-nation-post… hypebot.com/live-nation-post…
Live Nation Posts Record Q3 2026 Despite Ongoing Lawsuits

Live Nation Posts Record Q3 2026 Despite Ongoing Lawsuits

Live Nation posted its first-ever $10.1 billion quarter and record attendance, even as the FTC and seven states press for a jury trial over BOTS Act violations.

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How Major Labels Really Plan a Release Campaign hypebot.com/how-major-labels… hypebot.com/how-major-labels…
How Major Labels Really Plan a Release Campaign

How Major Labels Really Plan a Release Campaign

If you're an independent artist, here are some of the lessons I've learned from watching how the major labels strategize launches. Read on!

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Rotor Unlimited Scales Visual Content in Minutes hypebot.com/rotor-unlimited-… hypebot.com/rotor-unlimited-…
Rotor Unlimited Scales Visual Content in Minutes

Rotor Unlimited Scales Visual Content in Minutes

LyricFind’s new Rotor Videos Artist Unlimited subscription lets artists create limitless Spotify Canvas, lyric videos and visualizers in minutes.

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The Legacy Headliner Isn’t New. The Fans Discovering Them for the First Time Might Be. hypebot.com/the-legacy-headl… hypebot.com/the-legacy-headl…
The Legacy Headliner Isn’t New. The Fans Discovering Them for the First Time Might Be.

The Legacy Headliner Isn’t New. The Fans Discovering Them for the First Time Might Be.

Sonic Temple’s 2027 heavy lineup isn’t a new festival formula — it’s a decades-old one — but TikTok-driven rediscovery is what we're watching.

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MUSIC INDUSTRY NEWS 🎵 Elvis & Eminem sue Suno • Macklemore vs MSG • Spotify + United Airlines • AI copyright law • K-Pop film “Twice: This Is For… You" • More hypebot.com/music-industry-n… #musicbusiness #musicindustry #musicnews hypebot.com/music-industry-n…
Music Industry News: Searching The Web So You Don't Have To

Music Industry News: Searching The Web So You Don't Have To

The latest music industry news from across the web under the INDUSTRY NEWS tab at the top of every Hypebot page.

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In The Trenches With Daniel Stover of Pittsburgh's Spirit hypebot.com/in-the-trenches-… hypebot.com/in-the-trenches-…
In The Trenches With Daniel Stover of Pittsburgh's Spirit

In The Trenches With Daniel Stover of Pittsburgh's Spirit

Daniel Stover, Director of Programming and Talent Buyer for Pittsburgh's Spirit tells us about the local "spirit" that powers their community forward.

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Marianne Beaulieu on Owning the Interpretation: Interview with the #Québec singer-songwriter on her transition from social media to live performance and the art of the cover song hypebot.com/marianne-beaulie… #artistsofinstagram #socialmedia hypebot.com/marianne-beaulie…
Marianne Beaulieu on Owning the Interpretation

Marianne Beaulieu on Owning the Interpretation

We chat with the Québec singer-songwriter on her transition from social media to live performance, the art of the cover song, and the sound of a river.

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Culture Shock 🎵 What 10,500 Record Labels Reveal About the Global South's Genre Story - MIDiA asks: Are we on the verge of a major cultural re-balancing? hypebot.com/marianne-beaulie… #recordlabels #globalsouth #musicbusiness hypebot.com/culture-shock-wh…
Marianne Beaulieu on Owning the Interpretation

Marianne Beaulieu on Owning the Interpretation

We chat with the Québec singer-songwriter on her transition from social media to live performance, the art of the cover song, and the sound of a river.

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#MUSICIANS: Today is LAST DAY for artists to upload videos and thank you messages for Spotify Wrapped 2026! hypebot.com/spotify-wrapped-… #SpotifyWrapped #musicmarketing hypebot.com/spotify-wrapped-…
Spotify Wrapped 2026 Artist Deadline: One Day Left!

Spotify Wrapped 2026 Artist Deadline: One Day Left!

Tomorrow is the Nov 6 deadline for Spotify Wrapped 2026! Artists. Don't miss out. Upload your thank-you videos, live clips, and tour dates today!

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MUSIC INDUSTRY NEWS 🎵 Live Nation revenue, attendance rise • Songwriter Hall noms • Weeknd tour breaks records • Rush to Sphere • Warner Records layoffs • Musixmatch + DistroKid • More hypebot.com/music-industry-n… #musicbusiness #musicindustry #livenation hypebot.com/music-industry-n…
Music Industry News: We Search The Web So You Don't Have To

Music Industry News: We Search The Web So You Don't Have To

All the latest music industry and live music business news from across the globe under the INDUSTRY NEWS tab at the top of every page.

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How to Price Patches for the Merch Table - Woven and embroidered patches stand out from the crowd and are surprisingly affordable hypebot.com/how-to-price-pat… #themerchtable #merchtable #musicians hypebot.com/how-to-price-pat…
How to Price Patches for the Merch Table

How to Price Patches for the Merch Table

A boring merch table is a predictable merch table. Woven and embroidered patches stand out from the crowd and are surprisingly affordable...

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