Promotion
Promotion
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Musician TipsTikTok promotion for musicians
How to promote your music on TikTok, the popular short-form video platform. Many artists today are wondering how to promote their music and grow their audience on TikTok. Of course they are: TikTok is one of...
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Distribution
Why new musicians MUST put out a single FIRST
If you’ve never released music before, you have to start with a single song. Artists at the major label level usually put out a single first, unless they’re dropping one of those “secret” overnight albums....
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Promotion
Releasing a single song: The 10 best strategies for 2020
How to plan your next single release: promotion and distribution tips for a standalone track. It all starts with a song. You write a song, or you find a song; the song moves you and...
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Musician Tips
12 ways to make the most money from your music this holiday season
The 12 ways of Christmas (music promotion). Can you believe it? The holidays are almost upon us, which is good news for your music. A huge percentage of the industry’s annual music sales take place...
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Promotion
If you only do one thing to promote your music this holiday season, email your fans (and tell them about 1¢ shipping)
The best way to get your fans to buy your music this holiday season is (you guessed it) ASK THEM to buy your music. Yes, the easiest way to promote your music this holiday season...
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Musician Tips
5 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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Promotion
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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Promotion
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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Promotion
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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Musician Tips
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...
