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
Why Wax is Happy to be Leaving His Label
You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone Or so says Wax about the experience of losing his direct connection to fans when he signed to Def Jam Recordings. … Continue reading
How to Sell and Share Your Music on Facebook
1 in every 13 people on Earth is using Facebook. What better place to sell and share your music! CD Baby’s free MusicStore for Facebook is the easiest way to sell and … Continue reading
Promote Your Music with YouTube Playlists
A YouTube playlist is a group of videos that play in succession. If you have a YouTube account, you can create a playlist and add any video on YouTube to … Continue reading
5 Ways to Expand Your Gig Horizons (and Make More Money!)
Build your audience and get paid more every time you play a gig. If you’re like most artists, your live gigs are your bread and butter. Unfortunately, many musicians get … Continue reading
7 Ways to Magnetize Your Band's Merch Display
How can you make the crowd swarm your merch booth after the show like a Depression-era breadline? Your merch display doesn’t have to be attractive, but it has to be … Continue reading
Do the Faces You Make on Stage Distract Your Fans?
The wide-eyed bobble-head, the sweaty John Mayer, painful-urination face, the demented otter, the meekstress, Satan’s glare; these are all facial expressions you’ve probably seen musicians make at some point, though … Continue reading
The #1 Website Mistake Musicians Make
The biggest mistake we see artists make when promoting a new release is sending fans to a website that’s not their own artist website. Promoters, bookers, venues and fans – they all … Continue reading
Pussy Riot: Freedom of Expression or Hooliganism?
Back in February of this year, three women from the Russian feminist punk collective Pussy Riot entered Moscow’s Cathedral of Christ the Saviour and performed a protest song against then-Prime … Continue reading
10 Reasons Why You're Losing Your Facebook Fans
Maybe you haven’t followed “The Rule of 4 C’s”– consistently create compelling content! Bands, solo artists, hip hop crews, jazz ensembles– you’re losing fans on Facebook; your engagement is going … Continue reading
Musicians, How Do You Feel About Fan-Polling?
[Yes, I’m aware of the irony in asking a question about asking questions. It’s like a meta-poll! But I digress…] The question, in a nutshell: Is fan-polling a smart way … Continue reading