If you're a young music-maker hoping to take the pop world by storm, this is the best of times and the worst of times to make your bid for glory. The music industry has undergone a convulsion in recent times as CD sales have slumped and streaming services have risen in popularity. That has created new challenges, but also new opportunities. First, the bad news: a lot of other people have the same ambition. "There are 20,000 tracks being uploaded to Spotify every day," says Am

Some Kind, Some Weird, Some Unbelievably Harsh Here at Literary Hub, we’re big fans of rejection. And why not? Everybody gets rejected at some point, including young, aspiring short story writers who go on to win Nobel Prizes in literature. So here, I’ve collected a few of my favorite writer rejections—for the most part, I’ve stuck to more substantial ones, as opposed to the one-liners you see frequently repeated around the internet, unsourced except for by the power of conse

Fullness. It’s one thing that separates a great-sounding song from a clearly home-produced song. But how do you get fuller sounding songs? It would be nice if there were a “make my song sound fuller” knob I could turn on. But as far as I know, there’s not (yet). This is a learning journey I’ve been on myself. And producing music from a walk-in closet, it’s hard for me to get that wide and deep sound. I have, however, learned a few things so far about making my songs sound ful

Ithaca Holdings LLC., a media holding company led by SB Projects founder Scooter Braun, has fully acquired Big Machine Label Group. The deal price was not disclosed, but a nine-figure acquisition sum was being rumored in recent months. (UPDATE: sources close to the deal say it was worth circa $300m with all aspects considered.) BMLG is an independent record label founded by Scott Borchetta. In a joint announcement, the companies claimed that the buyout “creates one of the mo