Andrea Young on Playlists: A Revolution for Artists

[REPLAY] A 2018 podcast favorite -- Andrea Young sees playlisting as a revolution for artists. She shared a lot of basics of how to engage with both your fans and playlisters to create a thoughtful playlisting strategy for artists at different stages of their careers. Toolsets are available within different platforms to understand analytics and learn from where and how your fans listen to your music. We talked about how the new funnels are a bit more translucent than the old ones to get your music in the right places and to the right fans. How do you pitch the playlists? We talked about that a pitch is more than just sharing the song. Andrea shared tools like Chartmetric and Spot on Track, and the processes she uses to work with artists. We ended the conversation talking about the impact of smart speakers like Alexa in opening up the demographics for streaming to 2-year-olds and to 90-year-olds. Guest: Andrea Young, CEO, DPG Worldwide Andrea is an entrepreneur with extensive experience and expertise running projects and companies from startups to established brands. As a management executive she has worked for a major label and distribution company on campaigns for Tom Petty, Spyro Gyra, Chaka Khan, Elvis Costello and hundreds of lesser known artists; co-owned a music retail chain of 15 stores; co-founded the company that computerized over 2,000 retail and wholesale music industry stores and warehouses; was part of the group that created SoundScan; ran and chaired Aspen Colorado’s public radio station (APR), and continues to produce and host weekly radio news and music shows on APR.  Recently she has focused her energies on music curation services, playlists, and working with emerging and established artists through label services offered at DPG Worldwide.DPG Worldwide: https://www.dpgworldwide.com/ Chartmetric: https://chartmetric.io/Spot on Track: https://www.spotontrack.comLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/andrea-young-8191447Twitter: @aspenbeatVisit our website: https://innovatingmusic.comFollow us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@innovatingmusicpodcastSubscribe and leave a review! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.