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A brand new mashup italo disco hit has just been released! Konstantinos Dilzas from Greece meets Sandra Cretu at this amazing mashup hit remixed and produced by DJ ChrisZ (Netherlands). The song is a mashup of Sandras’ huge hit “Innocent love” and Dilzas’ amazing cover on the 80s hit “In the Dark”. Recordings in Greece were made at Polyphoniki studio Athens by Petros Petropoulos and the amazing lyrics video clip was filmed by LM World UK. A new dance track for the summer 2018 has just arrived! Let’s have some “Innocent love in the dark”! Good luck!
Maryland native rapper Logic recently signed a new record deal with Def Jam. Logic originally signed to Def Jam a few years ago for $200,000 and he just got a major upgrade in record deals! Def Jam recently re-signed Logic for $30 million dollars. If you didn't know, according to streaming stats, Logic is the 5th most streamed artist ever on Spotify! So that would be the major reason for the major increase in his deal. Congrats to Logic for setting a new record for the DMV area!
What is even more interesting however is that the very next week after getting news of the new record deal, we hear news about a divorce between Logic and his wife of 2 years, Jessica Andrea. Apparently there is a prenup in place, although all details of the agreement are unknown, but we do know that it entitles her to a payout yet to be determined, however, she will not get their house or car. Word is that She is no longer living with him and has moved in with a family member. The two expressed online that there are no hard feelings and that the relationship just was not working for Logic as he stated that he was happier being single. The rap artist is currently preparing to go back on tour soon to promote his new projects. I guess it is easy to say that marriage just isn't for everyone.
Universal Music Says Artists Would Benefit From a Spotify Equity Sale. "Consistent with UMG's approach to artist compensation, artists would share in the proceeds of a [Spotify] equity sale," the rep said.
Sony Confirms It Will Share Spotify Equity Money With Its Indie Label Partners. “Sony Music will be sharing with its distributed labels,” said a spokesperson; the company’s stake in Spotify is thought to be worth more than $1bn at current valuations.
CD Baby Paid Indie Artists $80M In 2017, Up 33%. The bulk of the income for CD Baby distributed artists came from three sources last year: Spotify (35%), iTunes (24%) and Apple Music (13%), followed by Pandora (8%), Amazon (7%), and Google Music (4%).
Warner Music, Facebook Finalize Licensing Partnership. Thanks to a new deal, users of the social network can create, upload, and share videos music licensed from WMG, to "enable users to personalize their music experiences" across Facebook, Messenger, Instagram and Oculus.
DeAnthony Yonko is a R&B/Pop artist/vocalist, Rap/Hip-Hop artist, and songwriter from Nashville, TN coming to a stage, radio station, magazine, & TV near you after signing to Zobe Records!
Roc-A-Fella Records was a very successful record label that was founded by Dame Dash, Shawn "JAY-Z" Carter, and Kareem "Biggs" Burke back in 1995 and operated as a division of The Island Def Jam Music Group. So it looks like Dame Dash is trying to recreate a record label on the same level with Kanye West who also used to be with Roc-A-Fella Records. Neither one of the two are as close as they used to be with Shawn "JAY-Z" Carter so one thing that we can say is that he most likely won't have anything to do with this new record label. As of now a lot of information about this new label is unknown so we have to stay tuned to find out more.
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Who is Hefe Heetroc you ask? Well... he is a music artist...
So his album / mixtape hybrid titled, (The Julie Project), is the album
we chose to review today. Is from none other then Mr Hefe Heetroc from
New Mexico, On his album he states, (The Julie Project) was an,
"exercise in experimentation", Mr Heetroc says, his business partner of
his studio Whyte Wulf Studios in NM, made an off handed comment / joke
to Hefe, that he should record a trap album under the moniker "27
SAVAGE". After much thought. Well what turned from a joke into a reality
is when he hit 1# on reverbnation on their local charts, and number 21#
on their regional charts. "I was stunned at first seeing how high the
album charted", Hefe says. He (Mr Heetroc's Business Partner) told Hefe
maybe this might work. And they both developed a business model to
generate multiple revenue streams. As the streams and plays were
tallied, Hefe replied, "hmmm let me develop this further", As for his
album? It was born from a simple off handed humorous concept. The lyrics
for his project were a "collection of material written in Los Angeles
& New Mexico, respectively, poetry, streams of thought, cut and
paste poems." he also says via text.
Lex Woods is a R&B/Pop artist/vocalist, songwriter, and actor from Fresno, CA (based in Los Angeles, CA) coming to a stage, radio station, magazine, & TV near you after signing to Zobe Records!
"Life Choices" is the title – absolutely not random – of Nahoti’s debut album, an artistic project born in 2016 from the encounter of Mercy Sunday with Ermanno Figura, on stage Herman Ezscò. The album contains six unplugged songs performed with guitar and voice, with a sound that wisely combines american blues and afro-soul. The lyrics, in english, often explore themes related to the singer’s life, like "Am talking about freedom", where Mercy take on the sadly present subject of feminicide. They released, simultaneously to the album, the elegant black and white videoclip of "Took me back" directed by Laura Baglieri. The album has been entirely produced by Herman Eszcò in collaboration with Danilo Pao – who also handled mixing and mastering – and Fernando Alba from Maqueta Records. Nahoti (Mercy Sunday) is a very young african girl who left her country to reach Sicily to find shelter inside the welcome facilities. She began writing her first songs after meeting with Ermanno Figura, guitarist and bluesman of the highest repute, who also collaborated several times with Roberto Ciotti. For more on Nahoti’ check out:
Apparently the easiest way to get nominated for a GRAMMY is to make a remix! This proved to be true for Cardi B with her 3x's platinum song "Bodak Yellow"! Cardi B got nominated for Best Rap Performance and Best Rap Song in the 2018 GRAMMY 60th nominations!
So this is what you do:
Start stripping and stack your money up
Make a fool of yourself and get everyone's attention to build a fan base by creating a lot of videos of yourself and posting them online and slowly sneak some music videos of some original music in there to show people that you actually have some talent. (Making a fool of yourself to get attention is the most important part! Hey look at the "catch me outside" girl... she got a record deal and is now reported to be a millionaire after making a fool of herself. Please note: these tips may only work for marketable females.)
Use some of the money you saved from stripping to get some producers to create some beats very similar to other artists songs
Listen to the most recent popular artists to see whose sound you like and can imitate
Write a song very similar but change the lyrics to fit yourself but keep the same style and song format of the original artist
Don't forget to name the song after the artist who created the original song
Use some more of that money to get studio time to record the song
Use your saved money to get a music video filmed for the song that you want to be your single
Put the majority of your saved money into marketing that song, music video, and pushing that song to radio to really get your buzz up
Advertise and the media will do everything else for you
You've got a hit song and the record labels will come knocking!
This is what you don't do:
Get mad because everyone thinks that you don't really deserve to be credited for having a hit song when all you really did was remix a song of another artist and the original song and artist didn't get anywhere near the type of recognition from the industry for their original song that you remixed.
Obviously spelling and grammar doesn't even matter when you're a Rap/Hip-Hop artist making millions and in the lime-light but anyways, what do you think?
What Kodak Black knows that many people don't is that he is getting credit for the song and is listed as a writer in the credits of the song! Of course the two are label-mates under Atlantic Records so it was easy to arrange this type of situation between the two artists. So both artists are getting paid royalties for the song Bodak Yellow!
