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Top 40 best-selling vinyl albums of 2023 so far

You might have thought “Nah, vinyl’s just a fad”. We thought the same way, too. That’s why we’re very much surprised that vinyl is still alive and kicking up to this day. In fact, this year, vinyl sales rose 13.2% in the first nine months. As we approach the end of 2023, it is worth […]

Best 2022 Albums Released on Cassettes

Interestingly, the streaming era has resurrected old physical music formats. Even if digital music still accounts for the bulk of music sales, it cannot be denied that physical formats like vinyl records and cassette tapes are contributing well. For today’s article, we will be taking a look at the 2022 albums that have been released […]

Oscar-Nominated Movies and their awesome merch

The 95th Academy Awards was held last March 12 at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, California. There were a lot of works nominated for each award category, with some even multi-nominated. It was a great night of appreciating and acknowledging talented artists in the movie industry. But aside from the explosion of beautiful cinematography […]

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10 indie film merch items you should sell to your fans in 2023

Just like Hollywood films, indie films need a lot of promotion nowadays, and one way to do this is through movie merch. But here’s the thing— you gotta stand out so it’s worth it! Since there is already a lot of merch released to market popular films, it can be hard to think of something […]

Music Marketing: 20 things we can learn from kpop groups

K-pop has been penetrating the West and the rest of the world for years now. They’ve come to a point where they get to perform and get nominated in big Western award shows like the Grammy Awards with BTS, and the MTV VMAs, with Blackpink. I’m sure you’re wondering how they did it, right? Because […]

VMA Award winning music on vinyl

The VMA’s 2022, was a star-studded award show and was attended by one of the biggest stars in the industry like Taylor Swift, Blackpink, and LL Cool J. There were definitely a lot of awards given out. And so we have made this article compiling a list of the awarded music releases which are available […]

Which custom merch items sell the most?

Not all merch items sell. So before you manufacture thousands of them, you have to make sure they won’t just be dumped in your basement to gather dust. How do you know? By checking the numbers. Data. In this blog, we’ll run through a total of ten custom merch items that musicians have tried and […]

12 of the most good-looking vinyl + cassette bundles

Looking for a good-looking vinyl + cassette bundle? Then you’ve come to the right place, coz today, we’ve got twelve of them just to satisfy your need for all things awesome. We’ve been talking about how these two formats have become en vogue again… so it comes as no surprise that these bundles exist! Which […]

21 Tips for marketing your music during the holidays

The holidays are fast approaching and I’m super sure that fans are looking forward to any music release from you whether that’d be a full album, an extended play, a single, or even a collab. But how do you market them during the holidays? Here’s 21 tips we could think of to help you market […]

Some of our awesome projects in 2022 so Far

This has been a hectic year—the most productive in the history of Unified— and we are proud to present to you some of the awesome projects we’ve had this year. #1. ALICE GLASS’ STUDIO ALBUM CDs  It was an honor to have been the manufacturer of Alice Glass’ CDs for her debut studio album, Prey//IV. […]