Listen to this great description of how one listener uses and enjoys iMix selections from the Apple iTunes Music Store. People in America used to use radio and mixtapes for that kind of experience, but now they turn to other listeners online. So here’s one suggestion to boost sales of your music while growing your [...]
Listeners Use Your Music in Context — How You Can Spread Your Own Music Using iMixes
September 12, 2006 By Leave a Comment
It’s Easy to Sell a Million CDs
September 5, 2006 By 1 Comment
…and so very difficult to sell one thousand. Grant Robertson’s on fire over at the Digital Music Weblog, and he’s totally right about the pricing of online downloads. Fifteen years ago, if you had to get your hands on a rare/obscure/import disc, you had to pay more. When I moved back to Ithaca, New York [...]
Juliana Hatfield Lets Fans Run a Tab
September 5, 2006 By Leave a Comment
What’s the Real Value of a Song? Free Downloads and Sponsored MP3s.
August 29, 2006 By 3 Comments
For years, I have written and lectured about how your songs (as downloadable MP3s) are your very best promotional vehicle. They contain value themselves, but making the process of getting them into your fans’ iPods and CD changers is where you can trade a tremendous amount of value for the personal information and the attention [...]
SellaBand: Fans Pay for Your Recording Sessions
August 16, 2006 By Leave a Comment
Over the last few years, I’ve been talking to clients and members about how to get a core group of your fans to fund your recording sessions by selling pre-order copies and letting folks purchase “executive producer” credits on discs. We’ve even had folks use neat little PayPal donation meters to track their progress. Today, [...]
Piracy vs. Obscurity
June 29, 2006 By Leave a Comment
Lefsetz on Downloads: WTF?
June 14, 2006 By Leave a Comment
Lefsetz has some choice language for record execs that don’t understand why there are still ten illegal downloads of a hit song for each paid download. And he wonders why nobody in the mainstream media’s writing/thinking about why this whole DRM issue is so absurd. That’s probably because most folks working in “mainstream” journalism share [...]
CD Baby updates
March 15, 2006 By Leave a Comment
Thousands of artists use CD Baby’s digitial distribution program to get their music into iTunes, Rhapsody and other digital stores. Today, CD Baby posted a streamlined version of their DD agreement. Among the changes are: improved readability, ringtones and an easier-to-grasp term length. They’ve also removed language and items that were suggestions and not required [...]
Starbucks Eyeing MP3 Downloads
January 25, 2006 By Leave a Comment
Looks like Starbucks is moving closer to offering digital music downloads through their Hear Music program, allowing customers to load MP3s directly onto portable players, in addition to CD sales and on-the-spot CD burning: “A lot of our customers are asking for device fill-up, and going forward we’ll do that,” Ken Lombard, president of Starbucks [...]
