There is a website called Animoto that lets you upload or import a set of photos and music and then it will churn out a slick music video for you. Usually when I get back from a live performance the promoter or fans will send me some photos of the show. Why not get these [...]

Twitter is a service that fits somewhere between email, instant messengering and micro blogging. If your a musician or record label you can use Twitter as a promotion tool. Twitter has RSS feeds and badges so each of your posts can instantly be placed across the internet at several locations at once. Twitter is also [...]

Writer, speaker, dancer and singer for Jesus, anointed Gospel recording artist Carine (care-EEN’) has a ministry motivation to bring people into the Presence of The Holy Spirit through exuberant praise and passionate worship. With several years of ministry experience behind her, this hidden artist has just released her long awaited debut CD “It’s My Turn” [...]

According to Nickelback, “We all just want to be big rock stars.” But in today’s music industry, it’s not sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll that launch an artist to stardom.
For a musician to become a star, they must be able to navigate the ever-changing terrain of music consumption. This includes using traditional techniques such [...]

By Ben Rayner Source: TheStar.com
With CD sales down the drain, musicians are spending more and more time making money the only way they still can: on the road
The recording industry might appear a place of never-ending woes these days, but one shouldn’t confuse sagging CD sales with the looming death of music altogether.
While a sizable [...]

Last.fm, the CBS Corporation-owned social networking music Web site, released figures today that showed it to be the fastest growing online music network in the U.S., as their free-on-demand music service saw a unique listener increase of 92% since it was launched four weeks ago.
In addition, since the launch of free-on-demand, unique visitors continued to [...]

“Fan Exclusives”: The Easy Way to Turn Casual Listeners Into Registered Fans
Wouldn’t it be great if you could use access to your music as an incentive for fans to provide demographics (age, gender, location) and contact info (email) to you? Now you can. It’s a new feature called Fan Exclusives, and it’s only available at [...]

Take a good look at the model for the music industry today - a major label discovers a new talent, produces a record for that talent, then sells the album at a major retailer.
In five years, that business model might be a dinosaur.
There are some remarkable changes going on in the music industry, almost all [...]

Make it simple for others to help you. There are a lot of people out there who want to help you, but often they don’t know how or they don’t have the tools or information they need to do it.
Newcomers: Make It Easy For Them To Get To Know You
In this day and age there [...]

By Mark Cuban
There once was a time when the release date of an album was exciting. For our favorite artists we knew when the last album came out and when the next album was due. If you loved the artist you bought it. If you didn’t you either bought the single or you listened to [...]