Music Industry Newsletters serve as one of the easiest ways to stay up to date. Want to stay ahead of the game? Learn from the experts right from your inbox with some of the best email newsletters in the industry. Check them out right here…
Best Music Industry Newsletters
Back Of House
Back Of House is a weekly music industry newsletter created to help you stay up to date with global live music industry news. Not only that, but to also learn about industry best practices, and discover new ideas to fuel your brain. Whether you’re looking for updates on live events or on the hunt for job openings, Back Of House probably has what you’re looking for and more.
Your Morning Coffee
Jay Gilbert curates one of my favorite music industry newsletters, Your Morning Coffee. This highly-curated newsletter offers a weekly snapshot of the New Music Business. Not only that, Jay and Mike Etchart, former host of the syndicated Sound & Vision Radio program, host a fantastic weekly podcast. In it, they break down the top stories, latest news and trends in the industry.
Beats & Bytes
By the makers of Nue Agency, a Creative Music Agency located in New York City, Beats & Bytes is an innovative newsletter that sits at the center of everything music, brands, and technology for the industry. This one curates the industry’s top news and biggest trends and is a staple in my inbox.
Symphonic Weekly
Here at Symphonic, we have our own weekly music industry newsletter to help independent artists and music lovers alike navigate through the industry! By subscribing to our newsletter, Symphonic Weekly, you’ll get updates on important trends in the music industry along with tips to help guide you through distributing, monetizing and promoting your music with articles from yours truly, as well as contributors from all over the industry.
Sym Latino Newsletter
If you’re subscribed to Symphonic Weekly, you already know it’s jam-packed with weekly music industry updates, insights, how-to’s, company highlights and more. Our Symphonic Latino newsletter makes sure our Spanish speaking clients and supporters never miss a beat either.
Hypebot
Founder and editor, Bruce Houghton, created Hypebot‘s music industry newsletter to capture daily news and commentary on the music industry. Industry professionals and DIY musicians who are looking for a one-stop-shop of news should definitely be subscribed to this one.
Water & Music
Cherie Hu is a music industry and tech journalist with bylines in Billboard, Forbes, Rolling Stone, and more. Water & Music breaks down the biggest ideas in the music industry and serves as a staple in my inbox each week.
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Music Ally
The Knowledge is Music Ally’s weekly newsletter. It offers an at-a-glance overview of the “whirling, weird maelstrom that is the modern music industry”, right to your inbox every Friday. It not only gives you industry news, but also some of the best resources to help you learn key insights as a musician.
Trapital
Trapital offers a weekly newsletter keeps its readers posted on the latest trends from some of the biggest players in the game. They’ve been featured in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Fortune and more. For those looking to stay ahead of the industry’s ever-changing trends in the hip-hop landscape, this newsletter is for you.
Motive Unknown’s Daily Digest
Motive Unknown is a digital marketing consultancy founded by Darren Hemmings. Hemmings started the Daily Digest to summarize every day’s news in music, tech, and apps.
Music Biz Worldwide
One of the industry’s favorite newsletters from the mind of Tim Ingham. This one brings you in-depth news along with insights and industry analysis’ for the international music scene. From interviews to the latest acquisitions in the game, Music Biz Worldwide is the resource to gain a global outlook on the industry.
Platform & Stream
Platform & Stream, created by Jeff Hyatt, covers the latest news about streaming platforms. Whether you’re interested in the latest innovations in streaming technology or the impact streaming has on the music business, you’ll get tons of updates about the industry on the daily. There are well over a hundred issues of this newsletter out to date. So if you’ve been meaning to do some catching up, this is the place for it.
Girls Who Listen
Girls Who Listen is a female founded nonprofit dedicated to supporting and shaping future female creatives and executives within the music industry. That said, their newsletter remains a great one for anyone looking to stay up to date on opportunities for women in music.
In Conclusion…
Working in this industry means keeping up with its fast-paced trends, innovative tech advancements and everything in between. Subscribing to these newsletters is an easy way to keep yourself informed and stay ahead of the game.
Enjoy!
