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Musician Tips5 tips for sending better holiday emails to your fans
How you can create an email that drives engagement and boosts sales this holiday season Did you know a huge percentage of all annual music sales happen in the last six weeks of the year?...
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How this artist grew to 500,000 monthly listeners on Spotify without playlists
This is an excerpt from Ari Herstand’s book How to Make It in the New Music Business (second edition). Three years ago the northern Virginia conscious hip hop artist Lucidious was struggling to get listeners...
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Livestream on Twitch to grow your fanbase
How musicians can use Twitch to build an audience. In all my years advising digital music companies on what they should do with their services and how to grow them (let’s just say I’ve seen...
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29 ways to market your music right now
Right now CD Baby’s Standard Album Distribution is just $29. To celebrate, we came up with this list of… … quick ways to promote your new music today. Make a lyric video. Create a playlist...
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Music Marketing: How to Dominate in a Niche Market
Finding more creative and focused ways to reach, impress, and engage your audience. Throughout his music career, Simon Tam has dominated not just one niche market, but many. It’s impressive, it’s inspiring, it’s frustrating (in...
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How to get your lyrics on Instagram Stories: The REAL info (that’s actually helpful)
Instagram Stories now allows you to add words to your music. You can now create quick Instagram Stories that feature your lyrics. The words to the songs are auto-populated, so you don’t have to type...
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Here’s what every artist wants…
FANS! (But they don’t invent themselves.) There’s a movie where a ghost tells a guy to build a baseball diamond in the middle of a cornfield, promising that when he does, thousands of sports fans...
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How to write a stand-out biography (and what it can do for your music career!)
Effective music PR begins with a good artist bio. As an independent artist, it’s your job to wear a plethora of hats if you want to make it in the music business. You’re basically an...
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How to instantly claim your Apple Music for Artists account with CD Baby
Control your artist branding with Apple Music for Artists If you distribute music to streaming platforms through CD Baby, your music is already on Apple Music. As a CD Baby client you now also get...
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Music Video Premieres: YouTube vs. Facebook
Which social platform is better for premiering new music videos? You may have noticed that whenever you schedule a video release on YouTube or Facebook, you have the option of making it a premiere. In...
