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’s been three years since Spotify started focusing on collaborative features, including Collaborative Playlist and Blend. And apparently, fans loved them very much! As of the last week in September, Spotify reported that users have created over 45 million Blends and in the past month alone, they’ve cumulatively spent more than 200 million hours listening to Collaborative Playlists. No wonder that now, the platform is back with another collaborative feature called Jam.

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.

AI voice cloning technology has been on the rise over the past couple of months, proving powerful in diverse sectors including the music industry. While we’ve touched upon the topic in our previous piece on AI and music, we feel it deserves its own article, diving deeper into its implications and related concerns for independent artists. Let’s get right into it.