andyonbass Posted January 17, 2011 Share Posted January 17, 2011 Just wondering if anyone can offer advice to help an original artist get their songs out to a wider audience. she's aware of the three sites mentioned above, and has had a track played on a BBC local radio initiative, but what else can she do? Any advice appreciated Cheers Andy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Russ Posted January 17, 2011 Share Posted January 17, 2011 Bandcamp's great for hosting your stuff and generating sales - much better than ReverbNation. As far as promotion goes, having a Facebook presence is great, but she should definitely add Twitter to her social media repertoire - that's where the "zeitgeist" is right now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyonbass Posted January 17, 2011 Author Share Posted January 17, 2011 Thanks, Russ, I'll pass that info on Does anybody know of any others? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul h Posted January 18, 2011 Share Posted January 18, 2011 tumblr is pretty hot right now. Certainly in terms of graphic design and art. I imagine there is a similar audience there for music too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Russ Posted January 18, 2011 Share Posted January 18, 2011 [quote name='paul h' post='1093349' date='Jan 18 2011, 01:13 AM']tumblr is pretty hot right now. Certainly in terms of graphic design and art. I imagine there is a similar audience there for music too.[/quote] If you want to have an "integrated" online presence, you have to pull in resources from different sites. One thing I've been seeing a bit of is people using AOL's new homepage service, About.me to set up homepages, then using that page to link to their various profiles elsewhere, eg, using Facebook for general "friending" and networking, Twitter for live updates and staying in touch with the zeitgeist, Tumblr for blogging and Bandcamp for music hosting. Granted, Myspazz does almost all of these things, but not very well. I think that was part of its downfall - it tried to do everything, instead of concentrating on doing one or two things very well. I think having separate sites that concentrate on doing one thing very well is the way forward, especially since, with their APIs, they can all now "talk" to each other (eg, Twitter update going straight to Facebook, Tumblr blog going straight to Twitter, etc). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul h Posted January 18, 2011 Share Posted January 18, 2011 +1 And there are plenty of integrated clients out there to help you manage it all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grassie Posted January 21, 2011 Share Posted January 21, 2011 Soundcloud and Hyped Sound are two others that spring to mind... : ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyonbass Posted January 21, 2011 Author Share Posted January 21, 2011 Thanks for your help, you guys, I'll pass the info on Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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