music promotions

Today SellaBand launch a new music biz model that will open up Fan Funding to the entire music industry. A major artist, considered one of the most influential artists by many in the industry is joining SellaBand shortly and will use the model to fund their next album project. They are one of the many [...]

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To date smaller artists have been restricted from entry to the growing apps market due to costs.  iLike is now offering a solution for acts to build their own apps starting at US$99 (£58) each. iLike is the Web’s leading social music discovery service and the dominant music application on the Facebook®, Orkut, hi5 and [...]

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Today’s music producers and content creators must focus on getting fans ‘attention’ and keeping it for as long as possible. You need to energize that fan base and one of the best ways to do this is to feed them a continuous stream of stimulating content.  It takes time but the benefits of having this kind [...]

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Most music folk now know you don’t need a Universal or Sony behind you to enter the online music market and many independent artists are forging ahead and becoming increasingly savvy in the online music world.  Services like Tunecore and CD Baby enable you to sell your music through the big digital music outlets: iTunes, [...]

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As an independent artist or musician you probably recognise that digital distribution is huge.  If not doing so already you should be seriously considering digital distribution and getting your music on iTunes.  As of July 21st 2009 over 8 billion songs had been sold via iTunes! iTunes controls between 60-80% of digital music sales, depending [...]

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House concerts are becoming more and more popular and can be great fun. If you’re a singer-songwriter performing your own material then you really should consider doing House Concerts. You may find this a little daunting at first because chances are you will probably know most of the crowd.  But this can be turned to [...]

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If you’re ready to let the world know about you and your band a promo package is essential.  This is just what you need to start getting those local gigs. There are some pretty basic ingredients involved in the package.  It must include music, pictures, a biography about you or the band and maybe some [...]

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Three times for emphasis. I’m going to just outline here some real basics about copyright that you need to be aware of.  In most cases, for instance, if you are a songwriter and record your songs then as soon as you record a work and it comes into existence in some tangible form you have a [...]

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Many music composers are interested in writing music for the movies.  There seems no end to the ‘blockbuster’ and new films seem to appear constantly but what are the processes involved and how does that music end up on the movie? Most regular feature type movies are supposedly complete before the music gets added however [...]

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