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[ More ] April 17th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Industry News |

West Coast Artist Mistah Fab releases “Hit Me on Twitter”

Mistah Fab is one of the few trendsetting artists including NIN, RadioHead, Knaan & Weezer who are using social platforms to release thier music directly to thier fans. 
Fab has taken it one-step further with actually constructing a song that is about the social platform Twitter. Twitter has clearly reached critical mass with it being popularized [...]

[ More ] April 17th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Food For Thought |

Fuck Billboard, WeAreHunted Charts Music People Listen to Online

Looking for some new tunes? We Are Hunted is a music aggregator that pays attention to what people are actually listening to, not what the radio plays.
We Are Hunted scours the internet, peeking into the playlists of Last.fm users, Twitter rolls, torrent search engines, music blogs, and dozens of other sources to get a feel [...]

[ More ] April 17th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Food For Thought |

Top 10 Reasons Why Musicians Should Use Flickr

Ariel wrote this amazing article a few months back and I felt that it would be great to share again. Flickr is still an amazing social networking tool for artist and this article breaks down the most effective way to use it.

Are you too lazy to blog? Are you sick of everyone telling you that [...]

[ More ] April 16th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Food For Thought |

Higher iTunes Prices = Lower Sales Last Week

Last week was the first week of iTunes’s new, steeper pricing on some tracks, and consumers voted with their wallets, according to Billboard. Sales figures from iTunes show that tracks that now sell for $1.29, up from $0.99, sold 12.5 percent fewer units than during the previous week, while tracks whose prices were unchanged sold [...]

[ More ] April 16th, 2009 | 1 Comment | Posted in Industry News |

Fairtilizer: The Do It Yourself Music Club

I originally learned about Fairtilizer from Steven Hodson and Sarah Perez back in September. I’ve been playing with the service on and off, using it to find new music as well as trying to see if I wanted to make it the home for my own music. I think Sarah put it best in her post [...]

[ More ] April 16th, 2009 | 2 Comments | Posted in Food For Thought |

PayPal’s Micropayment Option: What It Means For Digital Download Pricing

Via the Bandcamp blog, I just rediscovered PayPal’s micropayment option
for sellers. (My apologies to Stu — he mentioned it in a comment to my first Bandcamp post, but I failed to follow up on it back then.) It allows sellers to pay a higher pre-transaction percentage (5% as opposed to 2.9%) in exchange for [...]

[ More ] April 15th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Food For Thought |

Myspace Music Adds Playlist Sharing to 44 Sites

Playlists and albums created on MySpace Music can now be shared on 44 of the top social networking sites.
MySpace has made the porting extremely simple. Users just go to their profile, make their playlists and albums public and then click on the appropriate social networking service from the list provided. (see screen shot to [...]

[ More ] April 15th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Industry News |

The Top 7 Sites For Licensing Your Music

Here in no particular order is a list of seven companies that help artists place their music in film, television, commercials, games, etc.

Rumblefish - Licensing for television, film, advertisements, websites, videos, games, podcasts, and sonic branding - e.g. your music inside your local Gap.
Gamecues - Licensing for the gaming industry.
YouLicense - Music licensing [...]

[ More ] April 15th, 2009 | 2 Comments | Posted in Food For Thought |