YouTube Shorts, Improving Streaming, Beyonce's Streaming Dominance, Spotify (Un)Wrapped and so much more.

Welcome to the latest installment of Tips and News for Artists. As always, the goal is to keep things short and sweet with links to helpful articles, videos, podcasts all geared towards artists and their teams. Let me know what you think in the comments and thanks for reading!

Billboard spoke with eight rising and established independent artists across genres, including Joyce Wrice, Ayleen Valentine and Siena Liggins, about their indie journeys, advice for aspiring artists and the major ways they fund their careers, without the label advance.

YouTube is rolling out a way to create a Short from a long form video. The Short will also have a direct link to the original long form video. Originally shared in Mashable .

Sammy Andrews ( deviate digital. ) shares 8 ideas on how streaming could work better for artists. Suggestions include tracking pixels, genre tags on songs and collaborative playlists.

Learn how 3 backend engineers took on a new challenge and tackled data at a massive scale for one of Spotify ’s biggest events. This talk reveals how a Wrapped story is created, what architecture goes into place to support these large pipelines and how our engineers avoided running a data job that could've cost millions. And wrapping up, how to continually grow as an engineer.

Rutger Ansley Rosenborg Romero from Chartmetric shares a detailed breakdown of which music streaming platforms are helping Beyonce's Renaissance album the most and who were the key contributors towards it's success on the Billboard charts.

I'm doing something different for this episode of my Podcast. Thanks to my good friend Forbs West for giving me permission to share this with all of you. Recently I was a guest on his Media Industry Guru Podcast and we had an awesome chat about our careers, various learnings along the way and share some predictions and advice.

Spotify has started selling tickets directly at https://tickets.spotify.com and it has been raising a few eyebrows! Friendly reminder that artists can link their Songkick concert listings in Spotify for Artists to have them show in the Spotify app.

William Duvall sits down with Austin native Kydd Jones as he shares his tips for breaking into the music industry. This article was first published on the Playlist Push blog.

In this episode of the CD Baby DIY Musician Podcast Kevin Breuner and Chris Robley address all the issues artists face on tour, and how to handle them.

Something Fun

I always like to throw something light hearted, funny or fun in these newsletters. Here's something special I picked out this week.

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