The next gen music biz music keeps rolling out new opportunities for musicians to creatively pursue new revenue streams. Internet sensation Coffey Andersen is a hybrid artist. He uses his soul voice, his country guitar picking and urban influenced drums to make a unique sound. This week he launched his “Direct-to-Fan Live Sessions” series. Coffey [...]
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The age of leverage has changed everything. While the Record Industry was busy keeping the ‘status quo’ and ignoring new business models the heretics were taking over. The key question is why did it deserve to last forever? It didn’t. The record industry failed to read the writing on the wall; they ignored or failed [...]
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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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As a musician or band you need to be utilizing every opportunity to market and promote your music to potential fans on a global basis. The place to start is with your friends and contacts. The good thing with MySpace is it can be used as a functional music website if you don’t have your [...]
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Right you’ve been working your nuts off with the band you’ve got some fantastic new material, you’ve put together a great little ‘EP’ package and are thinking about selling it online, even some free music downloads, ok why not. Providing music downloads from your website should be a part of your strategy but dont forget you can [...]
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Branding is a really important issue when it comes to music marketing. Unfortunately it’s one of those things where musicians and bands often are up running and often well along early in their careers before anyone really starts to think about branding and its importance. Problem with this is it’s a bit cart before the [...]
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Using Facebook is such an easy way to get your voice out there. Social networking sites are proving to be the most effective tools for self-promotion for many new emerging independent music artists? Go on introduce yourself to the world and let your fans get to know everything about you and your music. This short [...]
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As a musician or band you need to be utilizing every opportunity to market and promote your music to potential fans on a global basis. The good thing with MySpace is it can be used as a functional music website if you don’t have your own, plus it’s free! To upload music you will need [...]
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