Your Spotify artist profile isn’t just a placeholder—it’s your storefront, your press kit, your digital merch table, and your virtual … Continue reading
Reach new fans by recording a holiday single
People seem to have an insatiable appetite for holiday music. The radio stations start broadcasting it earlier each year. (I heard a Christmas carol the DAY after Halloween!) And Big … Continue reading
Top 10 tips to get your music selling this holiday season
20% of industry-wide music sales take place in the last six weeks of the year. 30% of music sales on CD Baby happen during that same period. And yet most … Continue reading
Defining success, and how to achieve it in your music career
The first requirement for being successful in anything is to define what success means to you. That is one of the biggest challenges musicians face today. There is no standard … Continue reading
Stiffed: musicians, what do you do when you don’t get paid?
Revenge is an EDM remix best served cold Ever gotten screwed out of a guarantee? Ever produced an album for a band or label that didn’t pay you? Ever engineered a … Continue reading
The uninsured musician’s guide to the Affordable Care Act
The Future of Music Coalition has been doing some investigative work recently, and they’ve stated that about 43% of artists and musicians lack health insurance right now. That’s 2.5 times higher than … Continue reading
The Death of Twitter #Music?
Mike Isaac of the Wall Street Journal says that Twitter is “strongly considering killing off its Twitter #Music mobile application.” And it’s only been around for, what, six months? According … Continue reading
Musicians, Does Your Website Matter?
An online place you can call “home” You probably feel like you have a ton of “sites” online. You’re on Facebook, Twitter, SoundCloud, and handfuls of other places you barely … Continue reading
CD Baby Has Paid Over $300,000,000 to Independent Artists
$300,000,000. That’s a lot of scratch! It’s also how much CD Baby artists have earned since we started helping independent musicians sell their music online way back in 1998. It took … Continue reading
The Top 5 Website Mistakes Musicians Make
Don’t give your web visitors an excuse to hit the “back” button Someone is checking out your website. You’ve done something right — announcing your URL from stage, optimizing your … Continue reading
How Musicians Can Use Reddit to Attract Traffic to Their Websites & Videos
Promoting your music through Reddit This is a guide about the power of Reddit and how you can use it to attract lots of traffic to your music. Allow me … Continue reading