An indie artist just almost outsold Snoop Dogg in NFTs 💸
+ 8 more stories in Web3 music this week
Gm music fans,
Here’s everything you need to know in Web3 music this week.
1. Indie musician almost outsells Snoop Dogg 💸
Only in Web3 could an independent musician dream of taking on Snoop Dogg’s sales figures.
But Sammy Arriaga nearly did it.
The country singer galvanized his community and tried to beat Snoop’s recent 10,000 open edition drop.
He got close, selling more than 6,000 NFTs.
In terms of volume, Sammy got even closer, netting 37 ETH compared to Snoop’s 45 ETH.
It’s worth noting that Sammy has just 50k followers on Twitter compared to Snoop’s 21 million, but the power of Sammy’s passionate Web3 community was enough to (almost) equal the firepower of Snoop’s fan base.
This is no overnight NFT success for Sammy, either. He’s been playing live on Twitter Spaces for 14 months, built a profile-picture collection called Pixelated and hustled to build his loyal community in Web3.
2. The power of Sound’s referral links… 🔗
Part of Sammy’s success was tapping into other big music communities and using Sound.xyz’s referral links.
For example, Rae Isla encouraged her community to share referral links to Sammy’s drop, generating 1k extra mints and netting her community treasury 0.35 ETH in referral rewards.
3. Own streaming royalties in Martin Garrix + David Guetta tracks 🎧
The Web3 platform that brought us the recent Rihanna drop is back with more big names.
On March 28th Anotherblock will host an NFT drop that unlocks streaming royalties in Martin Garrix & David Guetta’s track “So Far Away” (350 million streams). It will only be available to existing Anotherblock holders.
As usual with drops on Anotherblock, the headline artist is not directly involved. The royalties are unlocked via the song’s feature singer Romy Dya.
4. Dreams Never Die Launches Founder Pass ⚰️
Indie record label Dreams Never Die just announced 1,000 NFT founders passes.
DND is founded by the team that ran Hilly Dilly — the first music blog to post about Billie Eilish, and a bible for us back in the Soundcloud era. They know music better than almost any team out there.
The drop will give you hands-on access inside the record label where they develop a roster of 25 artists. Read more here.
5. Legendary Basquiat album art reissued as NFT vinyl 💽
A legendary punk album by The Offs, featuring Basquiat artwork is coming back to life as a limited edition run of gold vinyl, claimable via an NFT.
Only 550 will be available. Premint is available here.
6. Violetta Zironi sells out Another Life ✅
Singer-songwriter Violetta Zironi just sold out her second NFT project Another Life.
It’s a collection of 5,200 unique profile-pictures, combined with five different tracks.
Zironi launched the project with a 14-hour Twitter Spaces marathon with her community.
7. Music on Lens Protocol 🌿
Web3 social protocol Lens is quietly becoming a hub for the music community.
For example, Beatsxyz — a Web3 music platform built on Lens — is starting to gain traction, hosting drops with Iman Europe, Karma Violetta and Alec Dalel last month.
8. The interactive music NFT trend 🕹️
We’re noticing a strong trend towards more interactive and immersive music NFT projects lately.
Palaye Royale just dropped an immersive graphic novel NFT combined with a music soundtrack.
Toigo’s Door is a music NFT combined with a Minecraft experience (minting now).
Annika Rose is launching a video-game fan club concept using Unreal Engine.
TK is generating money and rewards for fans through a digital street team.
9. Builders keep building 🚢
Catalog launches ‘Hidden Gems’ and editorial profiles - two new ways to highlight music on the Catalog platform.
Neume launches Neume 2.0 - improving the scalability and performance of its open source Web3 music infrastructure.
Reveel launched its Beta V2 redesign
Showtime launches new drop feature allowing up to 1,000 editions
Oohlala launches a new drop calendar.
Bonfire launches content pages.
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