In today’s age, it is no secret how important it is to get onto Spotify Playlists to help boost the streams of a song. Getting on a highly followed Playlist can increase your numbers dramatically. Most of the popular ones are controlled by Spotify themselves or one of the major labels. There are still plenty of independent curators with large Playlist followings. How do you get onto these playlists? Below we will cover some tips and tricks as we receive a lot of tracks ourselves. Song and Profile are as complete as possible Before you even send your track out to an independent curator. You need to make sure that…

SoundCloud has made real efforts to stay competitive this year in an ever crowded market. One of their announcements has come to fruition. They have announced that users can now have access to their catalog in the Serato DJ software. Serato DJ Pro 2.1 or DJ Lite 1.1 users who are also SoundCloud Go+ premium subscribers can now access SoundCloud’s catalogue of roughly 190 million tracks during DJ sets. You can also DJ using your pre created playlists. They have also announced updates to the IOS app and Instagram. This is all in a bid to enhance their struggle for financial solvency. There is one big issue so far is that there’s…

Pioneer has announced a new DJ controller, the DJ XDJ-RR. This is a cheaper model from the very popular DDJ-RX2. As it is only retailing at £1,019 pounds almost 500 pounds cheaper than the other model. There are some notable differences between the DJ XDJ-RR and the DDJ-RX2. There are fewer beat FX, colour FX, no touchscreen and fewer performance pads. It does have the full license of the Rekordbox software. There is also duo USB ports for a seamless switchover. You can even record your own mix straight from the hardware. There seems to be a strategy from Pioneer to provide entry-level DJs route into their world with more…

Instagram has launched a new app where you are able to share videos with up to an hour of content. It has been described by Instagram as its ‘most exciting feature to date’. They have launched a separate app where you can watch longer videos. The difference is on the app there is no feed, no still pictures and no stories. Its distinguishing feature from other video platforms such as YouTube is that all the video content is in a vertical format. You will be able to watch the videos on the app as well as the traditional Instagram offering. All of the people on their are listed as channels.…