1,000,000 Soundcloud Plays

Getting listens and likes is nice. But likes and listens won’t buy you that new mic you’ve been eyeing. Luckily SoundCloud lets you add a ‘Buy’ link to your track upload. Just click on the ‘Metadata’ tab when you’re uploading. Add the right  links: Buy on iTunes, Beatport, Juno, Bandcamp or whatever else you use […]

How can new fans find your music? Well, one of the best ways is to tag your music. Tagging makes you discoverable when a listener is searching SoundCloud. The better your tags, the easier you are to find. The best way to tag is to be honest. If you made a drum & bass track, […]

Maybe it’s a lazy long weekend for you, but with SC101, you can still make sure your tracks are working overtime. On SoundCloud there are no barriers to entry, meaning anyone can upload a track instantly and be discovered. But with all this glorious content, how can you ensure that influencers and future fans stop in […]

Welcome to the third installment of Music Industry Advice – our interview series with today’s most successful managers, label workers, and industry professionals. In this series, we share the results of our interviews with these experts – the stories of their successes and the strategies that got them there, from broad mindsets to specific techniques. […]

Here at Heroic Academy, we believe in sharing our secrets – especially when it comes to music industry advice. We’ve shared everything we’ve learned through our journeys with our artists – the exact strategies that led to our growth and success as well as what we learned from our mistakes and missed opportunities. But we […]