There are lots of ways to encourage fans and new listeners to buy your music from CD Baby, but enticing them with sales, discounts, and free music is one of … Continue reading
Musician Tips
Find success and grow your music career with promotion tips and advice from the CD Baby DIY Musician Blog.
Redefining Your Sound Without Losing Fans: lessons from Everyday Prophets
How does an established act change its sound without alienating fans? Not every radical musical shift has to be as in-your-face as Dylan at the Newport Folk Fest. Sometimes you … Continue reading
Billboard Sets Minimum Pricing Threshold for Sales Tallying
Effective December 10th, Billboard will “implement a minimum pricing threshold in order for sales to be counted towards chart placement and to be presented as unit sales data by Nielsen … Continue reading
What Makes the Perfect Holiday Song?
This is an excerpt from Holiday Music: A Guide to Copyrights, Mechanical Licenses, and Christmas Songs. To download the whole PDF for free, click HERE. How to make a classic holiday tune … Continue reading
A Parable About Why People Should Pay for Music,… I mean… Cabinets
BBC’s Wales Music Blog featured an article by Adam Walton that tells the sad story of a passionate and skillful cabinet maker who finds it increasingly difficult to support himself … Continue reading
Long Live the Gig Poster! (why concert posters still matter)
Telephone poles in well-trodden areas of your city may no longer be the kaleidoscopic collage of ripped paper and rusty staples they once were, but the gig poster lives on, … Continue reading
Secrets of Business Success for Musicians: a free DVD!
Micah Solomon, president and founder of Oasis Disc Manufacturing, is offering a FREE DVD called Secrets of Business Success for Musicians. It’s a presentation he gave at the Berklee College … Continue reading
The Pros and Cons of Playing in a "Persona" Band
This article was written by Bill Salfelder, an enthusiast of manned spaceflight who works at CD Baby and fronts the Star Trek-themed death metal band Stovokor, based here in Portland, … Continue reading
Creative Booking: Book Your Next Show at a Grocery Store
Atypical locations stir the magic Sometimes the best gigs happen in strange places: maybe it’s playing your 15-year-old sister’s birthday party, opening for your friend’s art show, or playing live … Continue reading
iTunes Match Now Live! How you will benefit as an artist.
Along with the launch of iTunes 10.5.1, Apple has released the long-awaited iTunes Match, which allows iTunes customers to store their music library “in the cloud” for an annual subscription … Continue reading