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
Remixing, Public Domain, and the Creative Commons License
[HELPFULAW FOR THE INDIE ARTIST is a monthly advice column on legal matters pertaining to the music industry. If you have a suggestion for a future article that you would like to … Continue reading
CD Baby Included in Shopify Article on the History of eCommerce
Someone’s been looking through old baby pictures of CD Baby Shopify wants to take you on a trip down Memory Lane, which happens to wind right through the middle of … 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