DK Music Business Academy
Welcome to DK-MBA.
Are you releasing music?
You need it to fly. Welcome to First-Class Music Education and Powerful Tools For Independent Artists, Revolutionized.
You will learn how to release your music successfully step by step with The Roadmap To 1 Million Streams, gain a real genuine fanbase and commit to world domination with your music.
With over 10,000 students so far in 75+ countries, DKMBA is the World's Number 1 Online Music Academy for Independent Artists, so you're in safe hands.
Start Here
Release Your Music.
- Starting with the flagship course The Roadmap To 1 Million Streams, you'll learn how to to master key platforms to get your music heard.
- DKMBA has over 50+ hours of courses, making it the biggest course library in Music Business Education.
Build a Real Fanbase.
- Anyone can get numbers. But you need invested fans.
- With DKMBA, you learn how to grow a dedicated and engaged fanbase who will support your music, utilising both organic and paid media strategies.
Scale and Monetise.
- Streams are great, but we need to set up our music as a business, regardless whether you're looking for world domination OR a weekend side hustle.
- With DKMBA, you set up your music as a business and learn how to make money from your art.
Inside DK-MBA
The biggest course library in the world.
Join The Roadmap To 1 Million Streams.
Our extensive 40+ hours course database teaches you directly how to build your career from the ground up, specialising in growing your Spotify, your social accounts and reaching new fans. When you join, you start with The Roadmap To 1 Million Streams which takes you from getting started to hitting a major milestone in music.

My Exclusive Community.
Join the family.
In the insanely valuable Exclusive Community, I can help you personally with your questions and keep you on track with your growth. I've put a lot of effort into creating a safe space where you can share, learn and grow with other musicians in your position and beyond. As well as the Private Mastermind Group, you can also join the DKMBA Official Forums.
A lot of artists mention daily motivation as a major obstacle to success. In my Exclusive Community, I work directly with you to overcome any issues you have.
We're in this together.





































































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Jonathan K Horstmann Hey y’all I just wanted to share a win with you. My band hit 500 followers on Spotify today!
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Karan Master Can you let me know the most up to date Spotify ads strategy I should be using for my next single?
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Tim Milligan This is INSANE, I’ve just hit 3000 streams in one day! Thanks Damo!
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Tylin Jarrett What do you guys think is the biggest key to becoming a successful musician?
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Liam Hillyer Hey people... I’m going to release a new single in around 4 weeks time as I’ve just finished recording and mixing it. Does anyone have any recommendations for places to get my music reviewed and put on Spotify playlists?
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Thomas Hays Not sure if it was luck but I just got on my first Spotify playlist after getting in this group. I think you folks are magic!
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James Smith What Instagram growth strategies have been working best for you guys?
Live Sessions with Damian Keyes
Next live session starts in
Join me for two weekly live sessions where we can work directly on your music (valued at $200 a month alone!). Each livesession is automatically available as a replay so you can get your answers when you're ready.
Every week we discuss topics like:
- The best strategies for your upcoming releases
- How you can stay motivated in an ever changing world
- How you can get your music into Spotify playlists
Get Your Music Playlisted With Sonar.
Sonar is DKMBA's Exclusive Portal into Spotify playlisting. Taking data directly from Spotify, you can quickly find ideal playlists for your music alongside the playlist curator's contact details. To get started:
- Search a keyword or genre to get started like "rock" or "drive".
- Contact the curator via email or Instagram.
- Get your music playlisted!
- Sonar also comes with a playlist submission template!

Your membership includes:
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The Roadmap To 1 Million Streams
The flagship 8+ hour course taking you to over 1 million streams.
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Industry Defining Course Library
40+ hours of courses from music industry leaders.
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Get Playlisted With Sonar
Get immediate access to our premium playlist finder and curator tool.
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Weekly Livesessions with Damian
Get your questions answered directly from Damian in weekly livesessions.
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The Exclusive Community
DKMBA has the best music community online, fact. Our community is via a private Facebook group and built in forums.
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Damian’s Personal WhatsApp
Message Damian anytime on WhatsApp to work together on your music (Pro only).
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Get on the DKMBA Discover Playlists
Damian put together his own Spotify playlists for the industry and you can get featured instantly.
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Direct Feedback Quickly
Damian and his team aim to reply within 24 hours, meaning that you’ll always be able to get fast feedback on your music and strategy.
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Access your Music Career Toolkit
Grab over 50 essential tools, documents and resources for your career quickly and easily.
Choose Your Plan
Feature Choose Your Plan |
Monthly
$24 |
Pro
$16.50 |
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The Roadmap To 1 Million Streams Course Library (over 50+ hours) | Included | Included |
Get Your Music Playlisted With Damian's Sonar Playlisting Tool | Included | Included |
Access my Exclusive Community and Get Support For Your Music | Included | Included |
Weekly Livesessions with Damian, including Live Q&As | Included | Included |
Press Release Templates & Social Media Cheatsheets | Included | Included |
PRO BONUS: Damian's Amazon Best Selling Book The Rule Breaker's Guide To Social Media | Not included | Included |
PRO BONUS: Damian's Amazon Best Selling Book Stop Selling Music | Not included | Included |
PRO BONUS: Access To Damian's Personal WhatsApp 24/7 (this is going soon but will stay for existing Pro Members) | Not included | Included |
Select Monthly | Select Pro |

Meet Damian Keyes
Damian has worked in the music industry his whole life, starting from being signed to Universal Music at 18 to building the world's largest music college (BIMM), to then performing over 2000 gigs worldwide, including playing as a session musician for Eric Clapton, Alanis Morrisette and Billy Cobham. He has built a YouTube community of over 200 thousand musicians and has helped countless musicians launch their careers in the new music industry.
- 12M+ 12M+ Million Views on YouTube
- 180K+ Subscribers on YouTube
- $250M+ Founded the largest set of music colleges in the world (BIMM), valued today at $250M
- 10K+ 10K+ DK-MBA Students Worldwide
I work with musicians like you all over the world...
Video testimonial for Sam and Sounds
In 8 months, I went from zero to 1.3 million streams on Spotify and 50k+ followers on Instagram!
Video testimonial for Telco
When I released my EP, after a little over 2 months we had a little over 250k streams on Spotify. We had also made it onto the fresh finds rock playlist on Spotify!
Video testimonial for Joy Frost
I recently hit over 3 million streams on Spotify and signed a record deal!
Video testimonial for Emerger
"We achieved 100k streams on our debut EP, won a songwriting competition hosted by Abbey Road Studios and were chosen by Apple Music to be featured on Artist Spotlight"
Video testimonial for Mike Henthorn - The Wild and Free
Since working with Damian, it’s put my band in a straight and focused path to success. In DK MBA, it’s focused on the action plan for your music, so it’s a no brainer. I can’t recommend it enough!
Video testimonial for James Sight
I hit over 100k streams on Spotify and started my own record label!
Video testimonial for Alan Solomon
If you're looking to build a career in music, you should listen to Damian. He's one of the good guys.
Video testimonial for Jaeden Martinez
DKMBA is by far the best Music Industry programme I've ever seen and the courses have completely changed the way I view my career. If you're an artist looking to get the edge for your career, I couldn't recommend DKMBA more!
Video testimonial for Kelsey Colbert
One of the key things that sets Damian apart, is that he genuinely cares about people on a human level and that’s rare in the music industry.
Video testimonial for Jack Galloway
When you’re a one man band, it can be confusing and daunting to tackle the business element and marketing yourself. The course content really is amazing and the results are speaking for themselves.
FAQs
DK-MBA is for you if you are a musician looking to further their career online and offline. DK-MBA specialises in helping you build your audience and develop your career path and monetise.
Damian is in DK-MBA every single day whether it be on a live session, in the community or via WhatsApp for Pro members. Damian takes your career as seriously as you do and will work with you on your strategy and goals. Damian will also give you feedback on your socials and strategy.
The teachings in DK-MBA are for all genres of music as the foundations of branding, building an audience and music business are universal regardless of what genre your music falls into. DK-MBA has musicians from rock, rap, pop all the way to classical.
There are two main options: a monthly subscription or an annual subscription. The monthly subscription is $24 a month, cancellable any time and the Pro subscription is $199.00 a year. With the Pro Membership you get access to Damian's personal WhatsApp and his two Amazon Best Selling eBooks The Rule Breakers Guide To Social Media and Stop Selling Music.