For independent artists, playlists remain one of the most reliable ways to grow streams and reach new listeners. What many artists still get wrong is timing. Even after your track is live, when you pitch it can significantly affect whether it gets picked up or ignored. The short version is this. It is rarely “too
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Gary Barlow has reflected candidly on the cost of early fame, describing pop stardom at a young age as “highly unhealthy” and admitting that Take That’s meteoric rise placed the band in an abnormal, pressurised world before they were equipped to handle it. Speaking to the Daily Telegraph, the Take That frontman looked back on
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About Keep Shelly in Athens is an electronic music project formed in Athens, Greece, in June 2010 by producer RΠЯ. The project began as a duo when vocalist Sarah P. joined following an introduction through a mutual friend. The name Keep Shelly in Athens is a wordplay on Kypseli, a neighbourhood in central Athens. Over
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Cat Burns has spoken openly about her decision to postpone her upcoming UK tour, saying the move was essential to protect her mental health and avoid burnout. The singer has pushed her How To Be Human tour from November 2025 to April 2026, following an autism diagnosis in 2023, which came after she had previously
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Bruno Mars made Roblox history in January, performing in the platform’s hit game Steal a Brainrot to celebrate the release of his new single. The in-game concert drew a record 12.8 million concurrent users, marking the most-watched solo artist performance on Roblox to date. Fans logged in to the Steal a Brainrot virtual world on
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Robbie Williams has overtaken The Beatles to become the artist with the most UK number one albums in chart history. His new release, Britpop, debuted at number one last Friday, marking the 16th chart-topping album of his solo career, which began in 1997 with Life Thru A Lens. The achievement places Williams ahead of The
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Harry Styles has ended a four-year media silence, appearing on the Hits Radio Breakfast Show with Fleur East, Will Best and James Barr to mark the release of his new single, Aperture. Speaking about his return, Styles said the timing finally felt right after living with the finished album away from the spotlight. “It feels
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For decades, Adult/Child has sat in Beach Boys lore as one of Brian Wilson’s great unfinished statements. Recorded in the mid 1970s, quietly shelved, and passed around for years as bootlegs and whispers, it has never been officially released. That finally changes this winter. The Beach Boys have confirmed that the long scrapped Adult/Child sessions
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More than half of the UK’s grassroots music venues operated at a loss in 2025, according to new figures from the Music Venue Trust, underlining the fragile state of the country’s live music ecosystem. MVT’s Annual Report 2025 reveals that 53 percent of grassroots music venues failed to turn a profit last year, despite the
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Shakira has been announced as the headline act for OFFLIMITS 2026, bringing her Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran World Tour to Abu Dhabi this April. The Colombian global star will top the bill when the UAE’s first open-format music festival returns to Etihad Park on Yas Island on 4 April 2026, marking the second edition
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