Thanks to our hundred thousands users worldwide, MusicDiffusion has clearly remodeled and inspired the industry since its launch by regularly providing more tools to musicians, always at the best price when it is not simply for free. And today, we are happy to provide to our fast-growing community our new free QR code generator!
In just a couple of clicks, you can now create a trackable QR code for any of your links. Whether you’re promoting a new release, an upcoming tour or your social medias, it’s now easier than ever to reach more fans both online and offline. Add your Free QR code it to your posters, business cards, digital flyers, and other promotional materials.
MusicDiffusion free QR codes are fully customizables, easy to create and to use. We hope you will enjoy this new tool developed by our engineers team!
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As a MusicDiffusion member, you can now distribute your music to our new partner Boomplay, the new leading streaming platform in Africa!
After being the first and only 360° platform for musicians permitting to distribute its music to Asia market, but also Russia and India market, MusicDiffusion also permits now also to reach the African market with Boomplay. The African music industry has been growing rapidly in the last ten years. It’s even got the fastest growing music market after Latin America. It’s not only African music that’s gaining global popularity, but African people are getting more and more access to the global music market as well.
In this article, you will learn more about the development of the music industry in Africa and why it’s important to distribute your music and artists to Boomplay through MusicDiffusion if you want your music to get into the African music market.
Why and how the music market in Africa is growing profusely
The digital economy of Africa is rapidly growing, due to the fact that more than 30% of all Africans have access to smartphones now. Even though the data costs are still very high compared to other continents, the connectivity is improving and these costs are slowly reducing.
Africa’s biggest streaming and downloading service, Boomplay, said that 70% of its streams is based on music from Africa, instead of music from other continents. It’s no surprise when you look at the globally rising popularity of Afrobeat, Dancehall and some Nigerian musicians, like Wizkid.
According to a report from PwC and Ovum that investigates the global entertainment and media outlook from 2016 to 2020, the rapid growth of the African music industry comes from three factors: demographics, availability of internet and streaming.
The entertainment and music industry in the 10 youngest markets worldwide is growing three times as fast in spending as in the 10 oldest. This has more likely to do with the age of a country’s population. Since 6 in every 10 Africans are younger than 24 years, it’s the youngest population among all continents.
It’s obvious there’s a lot of potential here, especially when you look at the revenue it’s already brought in the last couple of years. The IFPI global report showed an overall global increase in revenue for the record business sector of 8.2% over 2019. But in EMEA it was about 15%. This makes Africa the world’s second highest growing record business market after Latin America.
Obstacles to overcome to unleash the potential of streaming services in Africa
Even though the numbers of streams are rising, there are a few obstacles to overcome to unlock the greatest amount of potential. It’s mainly the high data costs and music piracy are still big issues.
The high data costs are most expensive in South Africa. This could be one of the reasons why the global DSPs are not available in every country. For a few months back, Apple Music was only available in 16 or 17 countries in the north of the Sahara. Spotify announced to expand its service in 80 countries, including 40 African countries. Before, it was only available in 5 countries.
Piracy is a big problem in Africa as well. Governments in Africa have been trying to solve the piracy sites problem, like the Kenyan president, Uhuru Kenyatta, who signed a copyright bill. But there still have a long way to go. There is still a high level of poverty around. As long as it’s easy to get music for free, choosing to use a paid streaming service is not the most popular.
Boomplay, the biggest streaming service of Africa
Boomplay – Facebook
As mentioned before, the biggest streaming and download service in Africa is Boomplay Music (formerly known as ‘Boom Player’). Here are a few facts about Boomplay:
The service was first launched in Nigeria in 2015, and in June 2020, they already had over 75 million users.
According to Boomplay’s head of marketing, Tosin Sorinola, it’s the number 1 app in the Play Store across major African countries, and a social media fanbase of at least 1.5 million.
Boomplay offers a feature that makes it easier for users to avoid the high data costs: users can also download songs to their device – with WiFi – to play them without an internet connection. This is a very important feature, since a lot of people in Africa have to travel for hours through landscapes with little to no internet. And of course, there’s no data connection there.
Boomplay also offers the same recommendation and personalization style that made Spotify so big: curated playlists to discover new music, based on users’ preferences, favourite music and moods.
But Boomplay offers more than just music: the Buzz section also offers news about entertainment (and music), sports and lifestyle news.
Boomplay has even got its own award show. Next to that, Boomplay lets users earn Rewards Points when they play music and engage in the Boomplay Community. These Rewards Points can be exchanged for Boomplay subscriptions, airtime, gadgets, coupons and more.
Compared to Spotify and TikTok, Boomplay is globally seen still a small player. But it’s not focused on Western-focused demographics, like the other ones. In Africa, Boomplay is winning, so Boomplay is the right place to be to tap into the African music market potential.
It’s growing and it’s receptive to Western music. Wait until the data costs are declining more, the piracy has been cracked down, more people gain access to the internet and own a smartphone.
But Boomplay is not only planning to operate in Africa alone. It wants to expand to other markets, without directly competing with Spotify or Apple Music: Boomplay wants to target the African populations all over the world, with the music on their platform that’s already a perfect fit for African consumers.
Want to get your music on Boomplay too?
Boomplay is one of the channels where you can distribute your music in your MusicDiffusion distribution dashboard. Especially when it’s Afropop or Gospel, because there’s a high demand for it in Africa.
And if you want to give your artists advice in how to grow a fanbase on the African continent, collaboration with popular artists on Boomplay might be a good shot to engage with millions of Boomplay users. You certainly shouldn’t wait to jump on this ship called Boomplay, because before you know it, others will!
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After have created the first and only 360° platform for musicians and made music distribution easy for all independent artists and record labels worldwide, MusicDiffusion joins forces with the Dualo all-in-one instrument that makes music creation more intuitive!
Dualo is the All-In-One instrument for music makers! Including exclusive sound banks, a sequencer, effects and much more, it permits anyone to create a composition from A to Z, easily from anywhere without any computer or smartphone! And now, you also get with your Dualo 50 Euros to spend on MusicDiffusion.
With MusicDiffusion X Dualo partnership, it has never been so easy to create and share your next creation with the world!
Synthesizer
600 editable sounds
Upload your own samples
8 customizable effects
Stereo headphones audio out
Sequencer
7-tracks looper and 18 loops
69 songs memory
Easy-to-learn system
Online song sharing
Controller
52 pressure-sensitive light-up pads
3 touchable sliders
2-axis movement sensors
Midi out USB
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Music is one of the key ingredients for live streaming. Twitch broadcasts aren’t the exception. More and more creators are introducing music to their live gameplays. To cover that need, Twitch is offering users the option to use copyrighted music from its library.
What is Twitch?
Twitch is an American video live streaming service that focuses on video game live streaming, including broadcasts of esports competitions. In addition, it offers music broadcasts, creative content, and more recently, real life streams. It is operated by Twitch Interactive, a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc.
Soundtrack by Twitch: The ultimate tool for gaming creators using licensed music
Back in October 2020, Twitch unveiled a feature called Soundtrack (Beta), which gives creators the option to use licensed music within their live streams.
Users can select the songs from a collection of curated right-cleared music, allowing them to live stream worry free without receiving copyright strikes, DMCA notifications from rights holders or having their audio being muted.
This music library features playlists and stations with songs curated by Twitch music experts and which have previously been agreed to be used inside the platform after licensing deals with the right music owners (record labels, publishers or distributors).
Music right owners can submit their songs to be handpicked by Soundtrack’s team to be featured on these dedicated playlists. Streamers can then select some tracks or listen to specific stations for a more radio-like experience.
Music featured in Soundtrack is only available for live Twitch broadcasts. On-demand videos of live streams (VODs and clips) don’t include the featured songs, just audio from the streamer speaking during the recording. Instead, Twitch Radio hosts music from live streams on a different broadcast feed.
Soundtrack by Twitch also includes a promotion feature that allows viewers to discover the artists behind the music piece playing during a live stream.
When using licensed music from Soundtrack’s collection, an overlay on the stream shows information about the song and the artist, as well as a link that directs the user to the artist’s channel on Twitch or his/her profile in other music streaming services like Amazon Music or Spotify.
All the above represent a great opportunity for independent musicians and record labels as they can easily get their music catalog uploaded on the platform and legally be used by millions of creators around the world.
From now, our users can expand their music business and send their music to Twitch through MusicDiffusion, reaching new millions of music lovers around the globe.
If you already distributed and monetize your music with MusicDiffusion, you can add all your previous albums to Twitch but also to all the new channels we regularly add – for free – directly from the distribution tab of your albums on your music distribution dashboard:
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We are happy to announce that thanks to an extension of our agreement with 7Digital, your distribution game just got better with MusicDiffusion and five new channels!
If you already distribute to 7Digital through MusicDiffusion, your content is now available in a whole new set of channels, which translates to higher revenue possibilities and exciting new opportunities to engage with wider audiences. Check them out!
Ride the wave of social streaming thanks to Triller.
Become part of the families engaged in shared music experiences through the Electric Jukebox/ROXi.
Help bars, restaurants, stores, gyms, and many other businesses around the world create welcoming atmospheres thanks to your music, using Soundtrack Your Brand.
Tap into the potential of adding lyrics to the digital music experience with Musixmatch.
Explore Trebel innovative idea to delivering free, licensed, downloadable music to audiences that are not subscribed to streaming services.
And last but not least, Wir lieben Jazz! as jazzed, the world’s first dedicated audio-visual streaming service for jazz and jazz-influenced music, is now expanding to the German market.
Again, all those new channels and services are included by distributing your music to 7Digital from your MusicDiffusion distribution account! If you already did so, nothing more to do and like always this is absolutely free of charge!
Distribute and sell your music on iTunes, Apple Music, Spotify, Deezer, Beatport, Facebook, YouTube and much more with MusicDiffusion®
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MusicDiffusion is excited to announce the launch of Instagram Reels, a new tool for creating and discovering short Instagram videos to capture the attention of your audience!
Instagram is already one of the essential platforms for independent artists, since the network has given them the opportunity to express themselves and connect with their fans for several years. Whether through its partnership with MusicDiffusion which allows fans to access your music from the app or through the possibility that it offers to add the lyrics of their favorite songs to their stories to send a message, Instagram is undoubtedly one of the spearheads of artists marketing strategy.
With the launch of Instagram Reels, the network gives you yet another good reason to use it to connect with your audience.
Instagram Reels is a new feature that allows users to edit 15-second video clips with background music. Once created, the Reel can be shared on the Explore tab to reach new fans and introduce music to all platform users. In addition to giving you a new way to encourage your fans to use your titles in their videos, this entertaining tool is guaranteed to have a great time.
FUNCTIONALITIES
When creating your first Reel, take a look at the options available to you to customize your videos however you want.
Audio content: Choose your music! If you’ve delivered to Facebook with MusicDiffusion, your releases should already be available for selection on Instagram.
Reading speed: Fast or slow? It’s up to you! This is a fantastic tool for highlighting the highlights of certain tracks or for creating a video that follows the beat of your song.
Augmented reality effects: In addition to stickers and GIFs, this tool gives you the option of incorporating augmented reality (AR) effects into your videos. Of course, you can always choose them from a constantly updated catalog of graphics.
Timer: Trigger the start of recording remotely and take the opportunity to imagine different content.
Multi-clip pane: Use this tool to start recording your sequence and then stop it to integrate it into your video, which should not exceed 15 seconds in total.
Ghost Tool: Perfect for customizing the timeline or getting smooth transitions, this option lets you see the last frame you recorded while you add a new section to your video.
HOW TO SHARE YOUR REELS
The Share on Reels option allows you to only share your Reels in the Explore tab of your Instagram. So instead of appearing in the news feed of your subscribers, your creation will be highlighted on this tab, allowing you to reach a wide audience. Of course, your Reels will still appear on your Instagram profile, but in a different space. If you want to share your creations both on your Reels and on your News Feed, that is also possible!
TRENDS
Hashtags have always been at the heart of Instagram. Using a hashtag to follow content related to certain topics or trends is one of the go-to methods for discovering new posts, and Reels allows artists to explore this functionality further. In addition to being able to contribute to trending topics, artists can now create their own to inspire users. Artists and fans alike can add trending tracks/audios and hashtags to their Reels to get the maximum audience.
WHAT TO SHARE
Like every time a new feature is available on a social network or on a platform, artists should start by playing around with it to discover it. Think about what your fans particularly like. Find out how you express yourself best. Ask yourself how Reels can help you strengthen your brand and digital strategy.
The most successful music videos are surprising, funny, and often just right. You will need to post content that will make your fans want to watch it multiple times, share it, and create their own music video. You are the one who decides what kind of content you want to post, but like any other network, its ultimately the most inspiring, relevant and user-friendly posts that work best.
SHOW YOUR CREATIONS
We don’t need to give you a lesson on this, but there are some tips that might help you create a relevant Reel. Here is the procedure to follow in our opinion:
1) PREPARE IT
Think about the message you want to share. Do you just want to ask your fans how their day is going, or would you like to tackle something deeper, more thoughtful, that has been going through your mind for some time? A bit of both? Either way, make sure you show yourself the best you can to your fans.
2) SKIN IT
You only have 15 seconds to get your idea across. If you want to build a Reel that incorporates different settings, locations, characters, or angles, take the time to prepare each sequence before. The advantage of this preparation is that it will allow you to use the beat that you want and coordinate your clip with it. And believe us, this organization will save you time.
3) FILM IT
Just like with videos or Insta Directs that you save on your smartphone, there are some tips that will give your Reel a special touch.
Light: Make sure you are not filming under a direct light source and try to leave it behind the lens.
Color / Tones: Use different lighting effects to set the mood of your clip.
Get the attention of your fans: It’s the very first seconds of your Reel that should hook your fans.
Use the tools at your disposal: Instagram Reels offers you a whole catalog of effects and tools with which to create your clip (see above); make sure you use it to entertain your audience.
Have fun: Remember that this feature is all about giving you a good time. If your fans see you having fun with your music, they’ll want to do the same.
4) PUBLISH IT
As we already mentioned, you will be able to publish your clip to your news feed or to your Reels tab (in which case it will be visible in the Discover area of other users). But, like everything in your career, it’s important to build a consistent, long-term strategy.
Instagram Reels is a new feature that lends itself perfectly to the creative expression game. And finally, isn’t this one of the main strengths of artists? This new tool will allow you to create new content to share with your fans to make you known, to communicate with them or to encourage them to integrate your tracks into their Reels. Above all, don’t forget to keep up to date with the latest trends or fashionable challenges on social media. Who knows, soon it might be your song that will make the buzz on Reels.
Distribute and sell your music on iTunes, Apple Music, Spotify, Deezer, Beatport, Facebook, YouTube and much more with MusicDiffusion®
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MusicDiffusion is now one of the most important community of music creators worldwide, serving every month artists and music labels from more than 195 countries and 8320 cities around the world!
Therefor, it’s now time for MusicDiffusion to grow and extend internationally. And we are happy to announce new websites to fit our thousands members localizations, languages and currencies.
You can now choose your local MusicDiffusion website and local currency from the main menu, or choose your preferences directly on our new international website!
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No. We are definitely not just another digital distribution only permitting to distribute your music and collect royalties from all digital platforms, MusicDiffusion thinks global since day one and that’s certainly why you are more than ever to join our music community each day. Thanks to each one of you, sincerely. Today, MusicDiffusion introduces its new exclusive ressources and materials collection for music creation: the MusicDiffusion Creative Tools!
Today, MusicDiffusion launches its own ressources and materials collection for music creation: exclusive instrumental beats, audio samples, sounds, loops, plugins and more under the name MusicDiffusion Creative Tools. MusicDiffusion Creative Tools are top quality ressources and materials, 100% royalty free and ready to use for any kind of music projects or videos, created by our exclusive and multi-platinum music producers team!
Check out now our dedicated section for our MusicDiffusion Creative Tools, we really hope you will enjoy these exclusive ressources to get inspiration. More is coming soon 😉🔥
MusicDiffusion is happy to welcome new partners for its digital music distribution: TIKTOK, ANGHAMI, JIOSAAVN, YANDEX, VKONTAKTE…
First at all, we would like to thank you to be part of the MusicDiffusion success, you are now more than ever to use our platform dedicated to all music creators around the world! Thanks to you, last month we blasted all our previous records 🚀🙏 This motivates us even more to create each day a better service and be helpful to our community during this hard period. Community that you can join on our exclusive social network for musicians now also available on mobile with our new applications.
Today we are happy to announce new partners for our music distribution, already available in our music distribution dashboard. With no additional fee, our members can now deliver previous releases or new music on all those new channels:
– TIKTOK: TikTok is a global video community powered by music. With this app you can discover, create and edit amazing videos, and easily share them with your friends and the whole world. Create and edit videos instantly using special filters, funny stickers and much more.
– ANGHAMI: Anghami is the first and largest legal music streaming platform in the Middle East and is also present in the North Africa region. It has a massive audience of 70 million registered users that generate 1 billion plays per month, according to the last results shared by the company.
– JIOSAAVN: JioSaavn is an Indian music streaming service and a digital distributor of Bollywood, English and other regional Indian music across the world. Since it was founded in 2007 as Saavn, the company has acquired rights to over 40 million music tracks in 15 languages.
– IHEART: iHeartRadio is a free broadcast, podcast and streaming radio platform owned by iHeartMedia, Inc – USA. It functions as the national umbrella brand for iHeartMedia’s radio network aggregating its over 850 local iHeartMedia radio stations across the United States. iHeartRadio is available across more than 250 platforms and 2,000 devices including smart speakers, digital auto dashes, tablets, wearables, smartphones, virtual assistants, TVs and gaming consoles.
– KKBOX: KKBOX is a music streaming service established by a group of Taiwanese software programmers in 2004. It targets the Asian market, focusing on regions like Taiwan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, etc. Working on a freemium and premium basis, listeners can listen to over 20-million songs on smartphones, TVs, media centers and computers.
– MIXCLOUD: Mixcloud is a long-form Internet audio platform. The service provides a home for users who create radio shows, Podcasts and long-form audio from around the world. Mixcloud allows all users to browse and stream audio content uploaded on its site. Registered users can upload content such as radio shows, DJ mixes, and podcasts, as well as promote and distribute their content through Mixcloud’s own social networking widget.
– MONKINGME : MonkingMe is a music streaming service from Spain. Users can listen to online and offline songs for free, in exchange for viewing advertisements, answering surveys and other advertising actions that generate an economic benefit. MonkingMe has various available services: Music streaming and download, Merchandising, Promotion and Advertising.
– RESSO: Resso is a music streaming app that allows users to listen to music as well as generate their own visual content to be displayed in the background while a song is playing. Resso is the new highlight service from ByteDance, the creators of TikTok app
– UNITED MEDIA AGENCY (UMA): UMA provides a music service to customers directly and on a B2B basis with the Mail.ru group. Mail.ru owns and operates Mail.ru (https://mail.ru), one of largest email providers in Russia / the Commonwealth of Independent States. Mail.ru also owns and operates the three largest social media networks in Russia/ the CIS: VKontakte (VK) (https://vk.com) Odnoklassniki (OK) (https://ok.ru) Moi Mir (MM) or ‘My World’ (https://my.mail.ru) Additionally, and as part of the licensing deal, UMA is also making content available in BOOM, a mobile application developed by the group on their behalf which will serve as a standalone music app for the social network users of Mail.Ru Group.
– YANDEX : Yandex.Music is streaming service available in Russia, CIS countries, Georgia, Israel. There are 2 models used: Freemium model – Available on desktop and mobile devices (limited functionality). Monetized by audio ads, display ads and contextual ads. Premium model – Available on desktop and mobile devices. Goes under subscription.
How to publish the music already distributed with MusicDiffusion on these new channels?
To release your precedent albums distributed with MusicDiffusion on these new channels and collect new revenues, please select your album and go to the distribution tab. You will be able to distribute your album on new channels in the list with no additional cost!
Distribute and sell your music on iTunes, Apple Music, Spotify, Deezer, Beatport, Facebook, YouTube and much more with MusicDiffusion®
