Music News, Music Promotion
How to Get Your Music on Shazam
How to Get Your Music on Shazam Here is some exciting news for all you CD Baby users out there! CD Baby is the first major independent music aggregator to partner with Shazam— and, more importantly, music by CD Baby artists can now be discovered using Shazam’s popular music IDing app. You know all about [...]
Music Promotion, Social Media
Social Media for Musicians: 10 Musts for Social Music Marketing
The nuts-and-bolts of promoting your music with social media It’s a busy life, being a DIY musician. Amidst all the booking, touring, songwriting, snapping Instagram photos, and hunting for mandolin strings at 11pm, it’s easy to forget the basics of social media marketing — or at least conveniently ignore them when your schedule is full. [...]
Music Promotion
Fun Funding Tips For Kickstarter: It’s All About Creative Rewards
You’ve all heard about fan-funding (or crowd-funding) by now, right? Using a platform like RocketHub or Kickstarter, you can raise money for your upcoming creative project (album, tour, etc.). You set your funding goal (the amount of $$ you want to raise), post a video telling people about your project and why they should contribute [...]
Music Promotion, Social Media
14 ways to promote using your social network
If you want your music to reach the wider listening world, the internet can be your best friend. However, if you’re going to have a presence online, you need to make sure that you do things right. Here are MusicRadar’s top tips for making it big via the world wide web…
Social Media
4 Reasons Why Twitter is Better than Facebook for Music Marketing
[This post was written by guest contributor Nic Robertson of Jaden Social.] As both a musician and the managing director of a digital marketing agency, I spend a considerable amount of time working (playing) on Facebook, Twitter, and the many other Social Media platforms that exist on today’s online landscape. Working with more than 40 [...]
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Music Promotion Videos
Selling your music online – Indie music distribution & release methods
Posted on 30 April 2013
In this video, Loren Weisman goes over how to keep you fans engaged in your music and ways to not piss them off. What are you putting? How are you putting it out? The old model of creating a full album and pushing the same material over and over for months is a dying way [...] Continue Reading
Music Promotion Videos
The Death of the Album and the Future of the Music Industry
Posted on 30 April 2013
In this video, Wallace Collins, an entertainment attorney based in New York, discusses the generational shift that has taken place in the music industry, that divides the CD-buyers from downloaders, and draws parallels between today and the early days of rock-and-roll in which singles drove the music business. He also shares his thoughts on whether downloading [...] Continue Reading
Production
Confessions of a Music Supervisor Pt. 1
Posted on 21 April 2013
Here is a great article from Cliff Goldmacher of Educated Songwriter about his confessions about being a music supervisor. We want to thank Cliff for letting us share his article. Hi. I’m a music supervisor. My confession? I’m an “anti-music” music supervisor. I don’t want the best song for my film and I don’t even [...] Continue Reading
Production
Best Music Producers – Finding the best producer for your recording
Posted on 21 April 2013
Best Music Producers – Finding the best producer for your recording. Michael McFarland Interview. Another Who, What, When, Where, Why and How Music Industry Interview Segment from WMW Videos. Best Music Producers – The best depends on you Michael McFarland was interviewed in this segment talking about the relationship with his music producer, Jason Rubal [...] Continue Reading
Music Networking
Five Career-Endangering Music Networking Mistakes And How To Avoid Them
Posted on 08 April 2013
Introduction One of the great mysteries in the music business is how to meet the decision makers who can help bring success to you and your songs. However, the second greatest mystery is why – once in contact with one of these elusive industry people – so many songwriters throw common sense out the window [...] Continue Reading
Music News, Music Promotion
How to Get Your Music on Shazam
Posted on 06 March 2013
How to Get Your Music on Shazam Here is some exciting news for all you CD Baby users out there! CD Baby is the first major independent music aggregator to partner with Shazam— and, more importantly, music by CD Baby artists can now be discovered using Shazam’s popular music IDing app. You know all about [...] Continue Reading
Music News
This Week’s CD Baby Artist Payout Crushes Record at $3,800,000
Posted on 06 March 2013
CD Baby’s Highest Artist Payout Ever This week we paid out 3.8 million dollars ($3,821,326 to be exact) to independent musicians around the world. That’s the most CD Baby has ever paid to artists in a single week, and we’re thrilled, of course. As exciting as this news is, it’s not surprising. Continue Reading
Music Promotion, Social Media
Social Media for Musicians: 10 Musts for Social Music Marketing
Posted on 02 March 2013
The nuts-and-bolts of promoting your music with social media It’s a busy life, being a DIY musician. Amidst all the booking, touring, songwriting, snapping Instagram photos, and hunting for mandolin strings at 11pm, it’s easy to forget the basics of social media marketing — or at least conveniently ignore them when your schedule is full. [...] Continue Reading
Music Promotion
Fun Funding Tips For Kickstarter: It’s All About Creative Rewards
Posted on 28 February 2013
You’ve all heard about fan-funding (or crowd-funding) by now, right? Using a platform like RocketHub or Kickstarter, you can raise money for your upcoming creative project (album, tour, etc.). You set your funding goal (the amount of $$ you want to raise), post a video telling people about your project and why they should contribute [...] Continue Reading
My Musical Journey
Keeping Your Band Together: Top Tips to Blend Your Differing Tastes
Posted on 25 February 2013
[This article was written by guest contributor Rob James.] It can be hard sometimes to reconcile the different tastes of your band — you might want to play nothing but elaborate guitar riffs while your drummer may have an unhealthy obsession with jazz. Other band members might be moving towards using more electronica or dance [...] Continue Reading
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