According to the iTunes Store’s trending data, Hip hop artist Drake has logged the two highest selling weeks ever for a DIY artist, totaling almost 300,000 song downloads in only two weeks fueled by the single “Best I Ever Had”.
If I could, I would agree more than 100% to EVERY SINGLE PIECE OF ADVICE in this video. I tell “artists” all the time the very same things. They have to start working the music industry as a business and look at their “craft” as a fan who just recently stumbled across their music. What would make you want to buy your music? Better yet, what makes you want to buy someone else’s music that you haven’t seen all over BET, MTV, FUSE, or VH1?
[...] two parts below—and includes Q&A in Part 2. But when it came up in my Reader feed (via Digipendent) I put it on play while I was working and listened to it all. Anyone involved in blogging, music, [...]