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Re: Advice from those in the music profession? Nov 18, 2009 8:03 PM
Hi, the music industry has really changed! I like to say that the record industry is over but the music industry is just getting started...
That said, it's really up to you, and how much you put into the promotion of your product. Essentially, you are the brand and your songs are the products. You need to get emotional pull for your personality, then the products (songs) will be listened to. In today's visual environment, the web, people are drawn to people, and by the truckload if you have even a basic story to tell.
Bands get launched every week on FaceBook, MySpace and Twitter. I don't know if you watched Imogen Heap's tweets, but by the end of making her Ellipse record, she had almost 1 million people watching!!! That's truly incredible, no record company could do that.
Also, are you familiar with TuneCore, and other web services that can put your music on iTunes, Napster, Amazon and WalMart? It's really inexpensive and all you have to do is prepare your music for upload and then join and describe you and your music. Within a few weeks, your music is available for sale on the biggest distribution sites of the web. I remember when you had to beg, borrow and steal to get a CD distributed in your home town!
Anyway, enjoy the journey and let people know about you, via YouTube, your website and other mediums; that's the best marketing plan there is.
Cheers.