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Fortnite Is Highlighting Viral Songs and Dances and the Music Industry is Living For It
Throughout the pandemic, gaming and TikTok are two things that Gen Z has become hooked on. Fortunately, there’s one video game that has found out how to integrate these two elements into one. TikTok’s immensely popular viral dances have provided a great opportunity for the popular game Fortnite, as it is known for it’s emotes that players can perform throughout the game – with the famous “default dance” being the first emote on the platform. Since its humble beginnings, Fortnite has only grown in popularity and in quality. At the beginning of March 2021, the game helped to celebrate the GRAMMY awards by highlighting some of the nominated songs of…
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Can Artists Earn A Living By Putting Their Music on Spotify?
Spotify is one of the biggest music streaming platforms in the world right now. With 155 million people utilizing its premium subscription alone, it’s safe to say that the company is in no shortage of money. Knowing this, you’d think that they would have figured out an efficient way to compensate the creators on the platform – but looking at their statistics might just prove that assumption wrong. Toward the tail-end of 2020, Spotify had announced that one of their main goals was to provide artists a way to earn a living from posting on their platform. In their own personal statement, Spotify went as far to say that their…
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TikTok is Changing the Way We Use Music
If you’ve been on the internet in the past year (or even if you haven’t), you’ve most likely heard about the hit app “TikTok”. Formerly known as “musical.ly”, TikTok has grown significantly in popularity over the course of the past year – especially with the events of the global pandemic. The platform relies heavily on music as a supplement for jokes, dance crazes, and even informational videos. Most of the popular, charting songs of the past year have grown in popularity because of TikTok. In 2021, if your song isn’t being used on TikTok (even if it’s just for a small trend), it’ll most likely fade to the background of all…
