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The Do It Yourself Artist – Part II
For the Do It Yourself artist, what is one of the most important determinations of their success? Well, like all entrepreneurial endeavors, success largely depends on keeping expenses low. Very low. As in, each band member lives very frugally. And herein lies the trouble. The superstar artist of the past lived extravagantly off money from [...]
CD Sales Gap
CD sales are down 19.3% through May of this year when compared to CD sales last year. What that translates to in money is $270 million dollars. Gone. When other revenue streams are accounted for to pick up some of that slack, there is still $162 million of lost revenue. This really puts the problems [...]
Almost Famous
Last night, I had the honor of being a part of a musical event that included a number of artists. I was back stage before playing, and a major recording artist was back there as well chatting it up with all of the musicians. One of the artists played her song, came backstage, and was [...]
The Music Bank
Lars Ulrich, drummer from Metallica, recently said the role of the music label was to be that of a bank. Historically, that was a big role of the label. There was a simple trade off. The label would present seed money to the artist in exchange for an advance to the band. The band was [...]
The $99 Music Video
Here is a challenge for all musicians. The website www.99dollarmusicvideos.com puts forth the opportunity to create a music video in one day, on a $99 budget, use a second day for editing, and then submit it to the site to be viewed around the world. This is yet another easy tool for musicians to use. [...]
My Music Site
Another day, another new music site to help independent artists promote and sell their material. This time, it’s a site called MyMusicSite (MyMusicSite.com). With MyMusicSite, independent artists can sell their music while retaining the ownership rights to the songs. Their fans can also produce ringtones based on their favorite songs. The site also offers advanced [...]
Orchard’s Harvest
The Orchard, an all in one website for independent artists, has just announced some encouraging sales numbers for the recent quarter ended September 30th. The Orchard helps independent artists with music sales, distribution, marketing, and other features. They are publicly traded on NASDAQ as ORCD. The Orchard has really been getting a lot of traction [...]
Indie Artist Distribution & Promotion Package
I like to highlight the ways that technology is making it easier for artists to get their music heard online. A recent development is that two companies set to help artists with distribution and promotion have just joined forces to offer a one-stop-shop for this service. The two companies are TuneCore & iLike. TuneCore allows [...]
CD Baby
CD Baby founder Derek Sivers sold his company to Disc Makers back in late August of this year. CD Baby is an online record store that sells cds by independent artists. As of the writing of this blog, CD Baby has 254,310 artists that sell their music at CD Baby, 4,805,638 CDs that have been [...]
