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
Holiday Songs: Copyrighted or Public Domain?
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. When you choose which Christmas songs you … Continue reading
Boost Your Holiday Sales with Limited-Time Pricing, Free Tracks, and Quantity Discounts
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
Marketing Your Music WHILE Recording
CD Baby president Brian Felsen interviewed music marketing guru Bob Baker (the “Godfather of Indie-Music Marketing) earlier this month at the Taxi Road Rally. In this video, they talk about … Continue reading
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
Cover Band Vs. Original Band: Do you have to choose between the two?
A couple weeks ago, we posted an article by David Roth called 4 Lessons on How Much to Charge for Your Performance. It generated quite the discussion in our comments … Continue reading