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"Eilish and Finneas spent a week recording the song—“We just sat in his room dancing to it,” she recalled—and uploaded it to SoundCloud simply to have a shareable link for Eilish’s dance teacher. T...
After posting debut single “Ocean Eyes” to SoundCloud for her dance teacher in November 2015, the petite teenager with gray blonde hair and ice blue eyes watched as the track erupted, earning atten...
Unlike Spotify Discover, where an algorithm pick your tracks, Hillydilly features a daily lineup of new songs all curated by real humans. That includes artists you won’t find on Spotify, and each t...
It literally cannot get easier than this. Hillydilly’s sole purpose is to uncover new music and bring it to you daily, so you can be well-versed on the latest albums from the start. Think of it as ...
"In the fall of 2015, they uploaded a song for the teacher to Billie’s personal SoundCloud. Hillydilly, a music-discovery website, picked it up, and the song took off" https://story.californiasunda...
"We put it on SoundCloud with a free download link next to it so my dance teacher could access it. We had no intentions for it, really. But basically overnight a ton of people started hearing it an...
In 2015, she uploaded her track ocean eyes to SoundCloud with a free download link. The song gained traction within a few hours. Hillydilly, a music discovery website, uploaded the song onto their ...
“Ocean Eyes” would go on to launch Eilish’s career by earning the support of influential blogs like Hillydilly and catching the ears of Interscope/Darkroom Records. https://www.spin.com/2019/05/bil...
Hillydilly began as a music blog dedicated to unearthing new sounds and emerging artists, and now has its own app so you that you can continue your music discovery on the go. Browse newly added tra...
https://www.memphisflyer.com/listen-up-ethan-healy-on-returning-to-his-memphis-roots-new-single-and-video-released-july-23rd "Healy recorded three or four songs that were released on Soundcloud by ...
https://i-d.vice.com/en_uk/article/597z88/gen-z-music-genre-lil-nas-x-billie-eilish-sofia-reyes Billie started making genre-defying music with her brother at the age of 13. In 2015, she uploaded he...
https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/hip-hop/8055046/electric-feel-management-interview-post-malone-camila-cabello How do you scout talent? James Canton (Age 23): First and foremost, the stud...
http://www.interviewmagazine.com/music/discovery-billie-eilish/#_ "“OCEAN EYES”: It was weird, because we didn’t plan for it to do anything really. The reason we put it out when we did was that the...
https://www.wonderlandmagazine.com/2016/03/27/new-noise-lany/ "A picture of Michael Jordan and magic Johnson with LANY over the image was our profile photo on Soundcloud, and we had a whopping zero...
"From the start, her success has come not in spite of industry gatekeepers but with their help. After she and Finneas uploaded ‘‘Ocean Eyes” to SoundCloud, it received a boost from Hillydilly, a mu...
https://www.vogue.com/article/billie-eilish-pops-next-it-girl?verso=true "I was at Starbucks one time, and Finneas called, like, “Dude! Our song got 1,000 plays. We made it.” We were just so over t...
https://www.thelineofbestfit.com/features/interviews/joan-on-the-rise "The pair officially released their debut single “take me on” with a little help from independent label 20XX back in 2018 - but...
"there still isn't an algorithm that can find artists before there is data, so until that changes, the true roots of discovering artists will come from a human." https://www.complex.com/pigeons-and...
Laica is an artist we launched through Dreams Never Die Records https://earlyrising.co/2021/06/24/early-talks-w-laica/ "THAT’S ACTUALLY FUNNY, BECAUSE CHAD ACTUALLY FOUND ME THROUGH SOUNDCLOUD. THR...
Simon aka fijitrip is an artist we released two EPs with through our label Dreams Never Die https://p3.no/musikk/manedens-urort-mai-2021-fijitrip/
After we shared TayoSound on Hillydilly he was picked up by Threesixzero management and shortly after signed to Black Butter Records. https://www.instagram.com/p/CMSf4xJMzRy/
https://inside.com/campaigns/inside-music-21894/sections/chad-hillard-interview-183205
https://www.elevatormag.com/hillydilly-founder-chad-hillard
Hey everyone, not sure if any one is familiar with Before The Data in here, but it's basically a music discovery platform that specializes in human-led curation and finding artists super early (via...
Shut down Hillydilly after 13 years and replaced it with Before The Data https://www.instagram.com/p/B_2mAJKF8G8/