Spot on Track is the most highly developed, publicly available tool to track playlisting history of any song on Spotify, regardless of whether it is your artist’s song or not. Here’s how it works:  Find your artists in the search functionality and click follow – On the dashboard, you now have a quick view of the...

In order to lead successfully, important meetings require more time to prepare and follow-up than to attend. In my experience, at all levels of business, most individuals come with bare bones prepared agendas or mere discussion topics, which allow for open-ended conversations that often have weak follow-up and follow-through.  Many of the items discussed...

As we re-watched Prince’s 2006 Super Bowl XLI performance together, ZHU told me he believed it was the best performance of all time, and I can’t disagree. Evan Lamberg once told me Prince was the only artist who wrote, sang, danced, and played every instrument as well as he did, and I can’t disagree...

If you need something done, give it to a busy person. They always find a way. Nonetheless, the word busy is an awful word. A few years ago, I used to say how “busy” I was all the time. I didn’t realize how it sounded until one of my artist’s parents was kind enough...

Yesterday, one of my closest friends and mentors asked if I was going to write about what to do with all the predators in the industry. Yes, I am. And here’s what struck me the most as a small business owner:  Amidst the replies in Bob Lefsetz mailbag was this extremely important message, which...

The most talented artists in the world are fantastic storytellers, and Jessie Reyez is right up there with the best of them. She released the short film - Gatekeeper: A True Story - in May of last year, five months prior to the downfall of Harvey Weinstein and the hundreds of male celebrities and executive...

We are living on the verge of a truly global music economy. We are entering an age where several markets, such as China, are beginning to pay for music for the first time ever. In honor of our artist ZHU’s blockbuster deal with Tencent and Sony Music closing today, I am sharing the blueprint of...

When going through the analytics of Art of a Manager, the most successful post to date was the one about Creative Commission, which means there is great desire here in the AoaM community to learn about tools and resources which help create content and market artists. Therefore, I will be dedicating every Tuesday to...

“In the absence of magic, there is metrics.” At an event we hosted this past Wednesday, Matt Medved from Billboard said the above quote came to him in a dream. In our data-driven industry, how powerful! It couldn’t be closer to the truth. Who is concerned with how many sales Bruno Mars’ album has?...

The Grammy nominations were in touch with the times this year, but here’s one the community may have missed: Metro Boomin for producer of the year. His impact on culture was undeniable. Music Business Worldwide had him #1 on their top songwriters chart for the first half of 2017… over Ed Sheeran. At one...