Category: MusicTakeAway (EN)

The #MusicTakeAway column – Lessons and advice on the music industry

The success of a major tour is measured by the NOs we said six months prior.

Managing an artist for stadiums and large arenas means receiving hundreds of requests. Many are tempting: important locations, guaranteed budgets, immediate visibility. But this is where the trap…

Music Takeaway: Plan B is Written in Ink

Digital tools are fantastic, right up until they fail you at the most critical moment. In my backpack, tucked between the laptop and cables, I always keep a…

Skip rate data is the pair of scissors we must have the courage to use to cut through our own egos.

There is no judge more honest than the retention curve. While we fall in love with an intro or a specific instrumental passage, the user tells us the…

Stop looking at streaming numbers in real-time. It’s useless (and it only feeds your anxiety).

In our industry, we have a sickness: compulsive refresh syndrome. The track drops at midnight. By 12:05 AM, we’re already checking the data, weighing the first comments, and…

The “playlist” test.

Infallible. For music. For ads. For anything you want to sell. It came back to me while watching a bad commercial for an air fryer. I saw 3-4…

How to immediately tell if someone hasn’t read your contract… explained with stories of Music, M&M’s and AI

A colleague told me about how AI occasionally “glitches” and stops following instructions. To catch it, she (brilliant!) inserted an extra rule, hidden among the others: it must…