A few weeks after Spotify revamped their artist profiles with a ‘brand new’ tab-based design, a new dedicated Merch Hub was, too, debuted on the platform. It is powered by the Canadian e-commerce company Shopify.

Starting your professional music journey, maintaining a stable music career, or taking on a new music project can be tricky. There are many things one has to consider or that may get in the way. One of them is one’s financial situation. Thinking about how to spare money or earn enough of it to finance both your current life and your future in music might feel heavy and discouraging. Luckily, there are plenty of funding and investment opportunities for both emerging and established music professionals to help achieve their goals and take their career to the next level. In this article, we’ll show you how to get around music funding and what opportunities are actually available.

It was the last week of September that the American company Songtradr made the headlines by acquiring Bandcamp. Yes, that’s right. Less than two years after the American video game and software developer Epic Games bought the online record store, it’s being sold again.

It was announced that less than 20 months after its launch, Amazon is about to shutter Amazon Amp, its live radio streaming app. While the multinational technology company cut half of the Amp’s existing staff last year, it stayed on the low about the app, making it seem as if more is to come, after all. However, as it turned out, the opposite is true.