Modern Music Marketing

In this interview I talk with Sam Duboff, the Global Head of Marketing & Policy at Spotify, about how Spotify royalties work, why they imposed a 1,000 stream monetization threshold, how they're handling AI music and much more.   🏆 Hire us to run your ads 🚀 Spotify Growth Machine Course 🌍 Best website / store / funnels for music artists (get your 14-day FREE trial!) 👥 Fan Growth Machine Cou...

In this episode I talk to Jesse Cannon about how artists can get their music heard, and his amazing 30+ year journey working in the music industry. Jesse's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@Musformation My .4 Cents Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@MyPoint4Cents 🏆 Hire us to run your ads 🚀 Spotify Growth Machine Course 🌍 Best website / store / funnels for music artists (get your 14-day...

In this episode I talk with Keyan Houshmand - a guitarist that built an online audience of nearly 200k followers, 15 million views on YouTube alone, and who made the gap to playing shows with artists like Animals As Leaders, I Built The Sky and more. Keyan's Channel 🏆 Hire us to run your ads 🚀 Spotify Growth Machine Course 🌍 Best website / store / funnels for music artists (get your 14-day FREE...

In this video I talk to James Rhodes, the president of FiXT Records. We talk about what it's like running a label, what revenue sources are most important for them and how they approach marketing their artists. Check out FiXT and FiXT Academy: https://fixtmusic.com https://fixtacademy.com 🏆 Hire us to run your ads 🚀 Spotify Growth Machine Course 🌍 Best website / store / funnels for music artist...

In this episode I spoke with Noah Kellman, a jazz piano player that grew to 200,000 subscribers on YouTube and makes a living in the music industry. Watch more of Noah here . 🏆 Hire us to run your ads 🚀 Spotify Growth Machine Course 🌍 Best website / store / funnels for music artists (get your 14-day FREE trial!) 👥 Fan Growth Machine Course 🎬 YouTube Growth Machine Course 🧑‍💻 Consultations...

In this episode I talk with Goshfather about how he went from almost quitting music to 50k monthly listeners, playing EDC, being an Insomniac radio host and more in under 2 years. Follow Goshfather here . 🏆 Hire us to run your ads 🚀 Spotify Growth Machine Course 🌍 Best website / store / funnels for music artists (get your 14-day FREE trial!) 👥 Fan Growth Machine Course 🎬 YouTube Growth Machin...

In this episode I chat with Alan Douches, a Grammy award winning mastering engineer with over 16,000 credits to his name and founder of West West Side Music. Alan Douches website . 🏆 Hire us to run your ads 🚀 Spotify Growth Machine Course 🌍 Best website / store / funnels for music artists (get your 14-day FREE trial!) 👥 Fan Growth Machine Course 🎬 YouTube Growth Machine Course 🧑‍💻 Consultat...

In this episode I talk to Mark Roberge about how artists can grow their fanbase, get more fans to shows, sell more merch, and how he promotes his band back from the Myspace days to now. Check out FanFlowy: https://www.makeourmusic.com/andrew_fanflowy 🏆 Hire us to run your ads 🚀 Spotify Growth Machine Course 🌍 Best website / store / funnels for music artists (get your 14-day FREE trial!) 👥 Fan...

In this episode I talk to Joe Wadsworth from The Online Recording Studio about the importance of song quality, how artists are making money with their music and how an online recording studio works. Free 20 minute song feedback session + $100 of TORS credit: https://geni.us/XgGwNm 🏆 Hire us to run your ads 🚀 Spotify Growth Machine Course 🌍 Best website / store / funnels for music artists (get y...

Is physical media back? Rob Bach, formerly of Virgin Megastores, Amazon and CD Baby, talks about the value of physical media for music artists and how artists can get into it without the hassle of dealing with shipping. Check out Spinney Media (use coupon code 'SOUTHWORTH' for 25% off!): https://geni.us/SpinneyMedia 🏆 Hire us to run your ads 🚀 Spotify Growth Machine Course 🌍 Best website / stor...

Michael Walker got over 24 million streams with his band Paradise Fears, but now with his company Modern Musician he's helped indie music artists make over $12 Million in revenue. My interview on the Modern Musician Podcast 🏆 Hire us to run your ads 🚀 Spotify Growth Machine Course 🌍 Best website / store / funnels for music artists (get your 14-day FREE trial!) 👥 Fan Growth Machine Course 🎬 Yo...

Jimmy Mikaoui co-founded Marathon Music Group, which has a roster of 200+ artists including Courtney Barnett and Afro B. He sits on the board of multiple music tech companies such as Mahogany, SongTools Web3 Music Association and more. Jimmy Mikaoui's website 🏆 Hire us to run your ads 🚀 Spotify Growth Machine Course 🌍 Best website / store / funnels for music artists (get your 14-day FREE trial!...

Troy Carter discovered Lady Gaga, managed John Legend, Nelly, Meghan Trainor, Eve and many more. Then he became Global Head of Creator Services at Spotify. Nowadays he helps independent artists through his innovative distribution platform Venice Music, and he's here in this episode to give you advice on your music career. Venice Music Venice Community Troy Carter IG 🏆 Hire us to run your ads 🚀 S...

In this interview I have a chat with Alex Bochel, who runs a profitable record label called spiration music by running Meta ads for music marketing. spiration Demo Submissions 🧑‍💻 Consultations w/ Alex or me Alex's YouTube Videos 🏆 Hire us to run your ads 🚀 Spotify Growth Machine Course 🌍 Best website / store / funnels for music artists (get your 14-day FREE trial!) 👥 Fan Growth Machine Cour...

Looking to get sync placements for your music? Chris SD has helped countless indie artists get their music placed in TV, Film and Ads. Chris SD Links: https://syncsongwriter.com https://sundownsessionsstudio.com 🏆 Hire us to run your ads 🚀 Spotify Growth Machine Course 🌍 Best website / store / funnels for music artists (get your 14-day FREE trial!) 👥 Fan Growth Machine Course 🎬 YouTube Growth...

Sammy Arriaga is a country / Latin artist that was dropped by Sony, grew to 1 Million Spotify streams per month organically and made over $250k selling music NFTs. In this interview we talk about how he did it. Sammy's site: https://www.sammyarriaga.com/ 🚀 Spotify Growth Machine Course 🏆 Hire us to run your ads 🌍 Best website / store / funnels for music artists (get your 14-day FREE trial!) 👥...

In this interview PLV Music (Aurelie) and I talk about how she went from no knowledge of music to a full time producer in less than 2 years, while being entirely self-taught. PLV on YouTube PLV Site 🚀 Spotify Growth Machine Course 🏆 Hire us to run your ads 🌍 Best website / store / funnels for music artists (get your 14-day FREE trial!) 👥 Fan Growth Machine Course 🎬 YouTube Growth Machine Cour...

Andrew Batey is the founder of Beatdapp, the company that does fraud detection for Spotify and all other DSPs. In this interview we talk about how music fraud works. Andrew Batey LinkedIn Andrew Batey IG Beatdapp Site 🚀 Spotify Growth Machine Course 🏆 Hire us to run your ads 🌍 Best website / store / funnels for music artists (get your 14-day FREE trial!) 👥 Fan Growth Machine Course 🎬 YouTube...

In this interview I talk to Danny Garcia, a music marketing expert and CEO of SongTools, a tech platform that simplifies music marketing for creators and companies, helping over +1.5 million songs get discovered worldwide. Try SongTools here. For 60% off playlisting: SOUTHWORTH60 For 10% off IG ads: SOUTHWORTH10ADS 🚀 Spotify Growth Machine Course 🏆 Hire us to run your ads 🌍 Best website / store...

Ryan Shuck is a platinum selling musician and co-founder of Orgy, Julien-K and Dead by Sunrise. He was the lead singer of Adema and has writing credits with Korn. In this interview he talks about his journey and how being a major label artist compares to being an independent artist. JULIEN-K OFFICIAL WEBSITE FRAME|WORK OFFICIAL WEBSITE 🚀 Spotify Growth Machine Course 🏆 Hire us to run your ads 🌍...

In this interview Ryan Schmidt and I talk about music law, how artists and labels can protect themselves and how music royalties ACTUALLY work in language anyone can understand. Ryan's Website Ryan's IG 🚀 Spotify Growth Machine Course 🏆 Hire us to run your ads 🌍 Best website / store / funnels for music artists (get your 14-day FREE trial!) 👥 Fan Growth Machine Course 🎬 YouTube Growth Machine...

Johannes Formella has toured internationally, worked at Warner Music and Universal Music and is an expert in flow states in music. In this video we talk about how artists can make it in the music industry and how to maximize your creative output. Music Flow Zone Music Flow Formula 🚀 Spotify Growth Machine Course 🏆 Hire us to run your ads 🌍 Best website / store / funnels for music artists (get y...

Jend (Nico) was able to grow to 2 million monthly listeners on Spotify using Meta ads. When we filmed this video he had 1.8 million, but at the time of upload he has 2 million! Jend Blueprint Jend Spotify 🚀 Spotify Growth Machine Course 🏆 Hire us to run your ads 🌍 Best website / store / funnels for music artists (get your 14-day FREE trial!) 👥 Fan Growth Machine Course 🎬 YouTube Growth Machin...

Eric Copeland (Make Music Income) got his song placed in hit Netflix show 'Love Is Blind' - what happened to his Spotify afterwards? Check out Eric's channel here . 🚀 Spotify Growth Machine Course 🏆 Hire us to run your ads 🌍 Best website / store / funnels for music artists (get your 14-day FREE trial!) 👥 Fan Growth Machine Course 🎬 YouTube Growth Machine Course 🧑‍💻 Consultations 📰Join the...

Dr. Tonya Lawson is a musician, blogger and passive income specialist. In this video we talk about diversifying your income streams, SEO for musicians, building a music studio and more! Tonya's Website: https://tonyalawson.com/ Tonya's FREE 5 Days to Ranking Challenge . 🚀 Spotify Growth Machine Course 🏆 Hire us to run your ads 🌍 Best website / store / funnels for music artists (get your 14-day...