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
Come Say Hello to CD Baby This Week at SXSW
CD Baby’s Official SXSW Day Party & Evening Showcase Once again, CD Baby is headed down south to Austin for SXSW! We want to get some “face-time” with CD Baby … Continue reading
Offline Social Networking Tips for Musicians
[In this post, guest contributor and full-time DIY musician Ari Herstand talks about social networking (“social” and “networking”) away from your computer. Throughout the article, he’s sprinkled links to other good … Continue reading
This Week’s CD Baby Artist Payout Crushes Record at $3,800,000
CD Baby’s highest artist payout ever This week we paid out 3.8 million dollars ($3,821,326 to be exact) to independent musicians around the world. That’s the most CD Baby has … Continue reading
Surviving a Bad Music Review — or “Does Pitchfork Matter?”
Is all press good press? You’ve heard it a hundred times: “There’s no such thing as bad publicity.” But five or six years ago, it seemed like a bad review … Continue reading
HostBaby’s Best Web Tips for Musicians
This month’s roundup in web tips: best-practices to smarten-up your online music marketing When’s the last time you checked out The HostBaby Blog? Every week, we’re posting new web tips for … Continue reading
Social Media for Musicians: 10 Musts for Social Music Marketing
The nuts-and-bolts of promoting your music with social media It’s a busy life, being a DIY musician. Amidst all the booking, touring, songwriting, snapping Instagram photos, and hunting for mandolin … Continue reading
Keeping Your Band Together: Top Tips to Blend Your Differing Tastes
[This article was written by guest contributor Rob James.] It can be hard sometimes to reconcile the different tastes of your band — you might want to play nothing but … Continue reading
4 Reasons Why Twitter is Better than Facebook for Music Marketing
[This post was written by guest contributor Nic Robertson of Jaden Social.] As both a musician and the managing director of a digital marketing agency, I spend a considerable amount … Continue reading
10 Busking Tips from June Caravel (of “Busking in Australia”)
How to Make Money Busking [French singer June Caravel spent the summer of 2012 Busking in Australia. She had busked 1h15 minutes in her life before she left for Sydney and vowed to … Continue reading
The Quickest Route to Effective Music Marketing: Lessons from The Onion
[This post was written by guest contributor Bob Baker from www.TheBuzzFactor.com.] The power of a great headline Marketing your music can be confusing. And overwhelming. Wouldn’t you love it if there … Continue reading