Ever wish you could travel back in time, dust off your old tracks, and introduce them to a brand-new audience? You’re not alone, more and more indie artists are discovering the magic of their back catalogue, and the results can be seriously rewarding (both creatively and financially). Imagine: the song you wrote on a rainy Tuesday in 2014, the live set from that one legendary night, the outtakes you almost deleted, what if all of them could find new life, new fans, and a fresh revenue stream, all thanks to a little 21st-century ingenuity?

Let’s turn the kaleidoscope for a second, imagine all your past musical gems waiting backstage for their second act. The secret ingredient? A music distribution service that knows how to roll out the red carpet. It’s not just about uploading a new single; it’s about taking those hidden gems, B-sides, and deep cuts and letting them shine in places they’ve never been before. And with today’s niche music distributors, think MusicAlligator, CD Baby, Ditto, and TuneCore, you’re no longer limited to just one or two major streaming platforms. Your entire back catalogue can reach the corners of the world you never even dreamed of, one playlist at a time.

Giving Old Songs a New Lease on Life

Older releases in an artist’s catalog can become steady revenue streams with the right approach. An analysis by Xposure Music in 2025 highlights that optimizing a legacy catalog’s presence on modern platforms, making sure all those old tracks are available on major streaming services and organized into curated thematic playlists, can significantly boost their streaming performance among both new and long-time listeners. This isn’t just theory; it’s happening every day. Maybe your old EP never got the recognition it deserved back then, but add it to the right Spotify playlist now, and suddenly people all over the globe are singing along.

Why does this work? Because listeners are curious. The internet rewards exploration. When someone falls in love with your latest single, chances are they’ll want to go on a little musical journey through your history. And when your music is easy to find, easy to access, and popping up on curated playlists (from “Rainy Day Indie” to “Underground Pop Anthems”), you’ve turned yesterday’s tracks into today’s cash flow.

How to Get the Most from Your Back Catalogue

Ready to bring those classics back to life? Here’s what you’ll want to do:

• Organize releases into themed playlists for discoverability.
• Update metadata and artwork to catch new listeners’ eyes.
• Distribute across niche and global platforms with MusicAlligator.

Each of these steps makes it easier for your audience to find and love your older songs, and for you to get paid. Never doubt the strength of a good song title, sleek album cover, presentation can do all the work when it comes to getting to your old favorites.

Niche Distribution: Why the Right Platform Matters

Big names like Spotify and Apple Music are essential, but the beauty of niche distributors is their reach into specialty corners, think platforms for lo-fi hip-hop, underground dance, or indie-folk enthusiasts. MusicAlligator, for example, is designed to help you zero in on those smaller, passion-fueled audiences, offering features like detailed analytics, playlist pitching, and direct fan engagement. You can finally reach those vinyl collectors in Tokyo, the jazz bloggers in Paris, or the college radio station that loves your 2011 debut. And since MusicAlligator also works for labels, you can manage multiple artists and bring a whole archive back to the world in style.

1982 SEMI-FINAL RESULTS:

Thank you for your participation in the Pro Football Hall of Fame Revisited Project. If you are unaware of what that is, we acted like the PFHOF had its first class in January 1946.

We have completed the years up to 1981.

For “1982,” a Preliminary Vote with nearly 100 players whose playing career ended by 1976. We are also following the structure, where players have 20 years of eligibility, and if they do not make it into the Hall, they are relegated to the Senior Pool.

Each voter was asked to select 25 names from the preliminary list, and the top 25 vote-getters were named Semi-Finalists.

A week later, the voters were asked to pick 15 names from the 25 Semi-Finalists, and next week, they will pick five from the remaining 15. We will continue this process every week until we catch up to the current year.

32 Votes took place, with the top fifteen advancing.

This is for the “Modern Era”

Bold indicates they advanced to the Finals: 

This is for the “Senior Era”

*Bold indicates they advanced to the Finals:

This is for the “Coaches/Contributors Era”

*Bold indicates they advanced to the Finals:

We will post the Class of 1982 Pro Football Hall of Fame Revisited Project next Saturday.

Thank you to all who contributed. If you want to be part of this project, please let us know!

It is with great pleasure that we have brought back the Notinhalloffame MLB Regular Cup, and let us explain how this works:

For every regular-season game, we anointed the top five players with the most points, in descending order: 5-4-3-2-1. 

We know the following:

• The top players for the MLB NIHOF Cup are not always the best in the league, as injuries keep players out of games, and a premium on staying healthy can help pile up points. It also does not hurt to be a top player on an average or mediocre team, as they can amass Cup points more easily than elite players on loaded squads.
• In Baseball, it is more common than in Basketball and Hockey for a player to accrue points with a single Home Run in a game, which favors position players. Starting Pitchers have a hard time with approximately 30-35 Starts and throw fewer innings than previous generations. This is also true for closers not made for this process.
• Please remember that this is NOT necessarily who we think were the best players this year and does not reflect overall consistency. Treat this the way we did: as a fun process and more of a compilation of temporary statistical domination.

Here is the current top ten after games concluded on August 14.

1. Shohei Ohtani, Los Angeles Dodgers:  163 Cup Points in 119 Games.  (#1 Last Week).  5.8 bWAR, 115 Runs, 132 Hits, 43 Home Runs, 79 Runs Batted In, .284/.391/.630 Slash Line, 1.021 OPS & 181 OPS+.

2. Aaron Judge, New York Yankees: 158 Cup Points in 111 Games. (#1 Last Week).  6.7 bWAR, 94 Runs, 134 Hits, 38 Home Runs, 88 Runs Batted In, .333/.444/.687 Slash Line, 1.131 OPS & 209 OPS+.

3. Pete Alonso, New York Mets: 147 Cup Points in 121 Games. (#3 Last Week).   3.0 bWAR, 63 Runs, 123 Hits, 28 Home Runs, 99 Runs Batted In, .272/.356/.528 Slash Line, .883 OPS & 150 OPS+.

4. Cal Raleigh, Seattle Mariners: 141 Cup Points in 119 Games. (#4 Last Week).   5.3 bWAR, 78 Runs, 108 Hits, 45 Home Runs, 98 Runs Batted In, .243/.350/.582 Slash Line, .932 OPS & 164 OPS+.

5. Kyle Schwarber, Philadelphia Phillies: 129 Cup Points in 121 Games.  (#6 Last Week).  3.9 bWAR, 81 Runs, 112 Hits, 42 Home Runs, 98 Runs Batted In, .249/.371/.577 Slash Line, .948 OPS & 155 OPS+.

6. Manny Machado, San Diego Padres: 128 Cup Points in 115 Games. (#5 Last Week).   3.7 bWAR, 68 Runs, 133 Hits, 20 Home Runs, 72 Runs Batted In, .300/.359/.500 Slash Line, .859 OPS & 136 OPS+.

7. Jose Ramirez, Cleveland Guardians:  128 Cup Points in 117 Games.  (#8 Last Week).  5.3 bWAR, 79 Runs, 132 Hits, 25 Home Runs, 64 Runs Batted In, .298/.371/.528 Slash Line, .899 OPS & 146 OPS+.

8. Riley Greene, Detroit Tigers:  126 Cup Points in 119 Games.  (#8 Last Week).  2.3 bWAR, 64 Runs, 124 Hits, 28 Home Runs, 89 Runs Batted In, .269/.317/.512 Slash Line, .828 OPS & 124 OPS+.

9. Bobby Witt Jr., Kansas City Royals: 124 Cup Points in 119 Games. (#7 Last Week).  5.1 bWAR, 75 Runs, 135 Hits, 17 Home Runs, 67 Runs Batted In, .288/.346/.494 Slash Line, .840 OPS & 132 OPS+.

10 (TIE). Francisco Lindor, New York Mets: 121 Cup Points in 119 Games. (#10 Last Week).   3.1 bWAR, 80 Runs, 120 Hits, 22 Home Runs, 65 Runs Batted In, .249/.320/.435 Slash Line, .755 OPS & 115 OPS+.

10 (TIE). Vladimir Guerrero Jr., Toronto Blue Jays: 121 Cup Points in 120 Games. (Not in the Top Ten Last Week).   4.5 bWAR, 81 Runs, 136 Hits, 20 Home Runs, 67 Runs Batted In, .300/.397/.496 Slash Line, .893 OPS & 147 OPS+.

Nobody fell out of the Top Ten.

Notably, 1,051 baseball players have earned at least 1 point, up from 1,037 last week.

Welcome back to the WNBA Cup!

In every WNBA regular-season game, we award descending points (5-4-3-2-1) to the top five players.  At the end of the season, the player with the most points will be awarded the Notinhalloffame WNBA Cup. 

However, the winning player must accept their award in person in the Emerald City of Seattle.

Here is the current top ten as of games concluded on August 13:

1. Napheesa Collier, Minnesota Lynx, 106 Cup Points:  26 Games, 4.08 Cup Points per Game, 23.5 PPG, 7.5 RPG, 3.5 APG, 1.8 SPG, 1.6 BPG, 31.1 PER, 7.0 WS.  (#1 Last Time)

2. A’Ja Wilson, Las Vegas Aces, 105 Cup Points:  29 Games, 3.62 Cup Points per Game, 22.0 PPG, 9.8 RPG, 3.4 APG, 1.7 SPG, 2.1 BPG, 31.6 PER, 5.8 WS.  (#4 Last Time)

3. Alyssa Thomas, Phoenix Mercury, 95 Cup Points:  26 Games, 3.65 Cup Points per Game, 16.1 PPG, 8.7 RPG, 9.0 APG, 1.6 SPG, 0.5 BPG, 26.2 PER, 4.9 WS. (#5 Last Time)

4. Allisha Gray, Atlanta Dream, 90 Cup Points:  32 Games, 2.81 Cup Points per Game, 19.0 PPG, 5.6 RPG, 3.8 APG, 1.1 SPG, 0.5 BPG, 20.2 PER, 6.1 WS. (#6 Last Time)

5. Nneka Ogwumike, Seattle Storm, 89 Cup Points:  33 Games, 2.70 Cup Points Per Game, 18.2 PPG, 7.3 RPG, 2.4 APG, 1.1 SPG, 0.5 BPG, 22.3 PER, 4.4 WS. (#3 Last Time)

6. Dearica Hamby, Los Angeles Sparks, 84 Cup Points, 32 Games, 2.62 Cup Points per Game, 17.7, PPG, 7.8 RPG, 3.3 APG, 1.6 SPG, 0.5 BPG, 22.9 PER, 3.9 WS. (#6 Last Week)

7. Aliyah Boston, Indiana Fever, 74 Cup Points:  33 Games, 2.24 Cup Points per Game, 15.1 PPG, 8.2 RPG, 3.6 APG, 0.9 SPG, 1.1 BPG, 22.8 PER, 5.5 WS. (#9 Last Week)

8. Breanna Stewart, New York Liberty, 73 Cup Points:  24 Games, 3.04 Cup Points Per Game, 18.3 PPG, 6.5 RPG, 3.9 APG, 1.4 SPG, 1.4 BPG, 23.0 PER, 3.6 WS.  (#2 Last Time)

9. Sabrina Ionescu, New York Liberty, 73 Cup Points:  32 Games, 2.28 Cup Points Per Game, 19.3 PPG, 4.7 RPG, 5.4 APG, 1.4 SPG, 0.4 BPG, 21.4 PER, 3.9 WS. (Not in the Top Ten Last Week)

10. Kelsey Mitchell, Indiana Pacers, 68 Cup Points: 33 Games, 2.06 Cup Points per Game, 20.0, PPG, 2.0 RPG, 3.2 APG, 0.9 SPG, 0.2 BPG, 20.1 PER, 4.1 WS. (Not in the Top Ten Last Time)

Chicago’s Angel Reese and Phoenix’s Satou Sabally fell out of the top ten.

At present, 122 players have received at least one point, up from 112 last week.

Our next update will be up next Friday.