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
What to expect at the DIY Musician Conference 2016
Our inaugural DIY Musician Conference last year in Chicago was a huge success, so we’re really excited to do it again (and even better this time)! What is the DIY … Continue reading
DIY Musician Conference early-bird ticket sale EXTENDED until Friday
Join us in Chicago at the Congress Plaza Hotel — September 30th to October 2nd. You’ve got till Friday before tickets jump to $99! Tickets are selling fast for this … Continue reading
Reason #3 to attend CD Baby’s DIY Musician Conference: VALUE
Join us in Chicago at the Congress Plaza Hotel (September 30 – October 2) and get more out of a $99 ticket than you ever thought possible. Well, we checked … Continue reading
Fifteen things I learned AFTER music school
[This article was written by percussionist Damon Grant, and it originally appeared on his blog.] This list is in no particular order, and they all should be #1 because they’re … Continue reading
How to set up a blog premiere for your song
Blog premieres (where you give a blog a limited window of time in which they’re the ONLY place someone can go to hear a song or watch a video) have … Continue reading
Reason #2 to attend CD Baby’s DIY Musician Conference: EDUCATION
Join us in Chicago at the Congress Plaza Hotel (September 30 – October 2) and get the inside scoop on being a successful independent musician in the year 2016. The … Continue reading
Will Instagram’s new move hurt or improve the platform?
Instagram has announced plans to organize your feed based on, allegedly, the things you most want to see — similar to how Facebook determines what posts are displayed in your … Continue reading
A radically old-school approach to new music promotion yields big results
Last September, seven days before the release of his debut album Patterns, Irish songwriter Daniel Anderson started to really worry that his new music would “fall silently into the ether … Continue reading
What color should your band t-shirts be?
My friends at the graphic design team Chicken 3000 created a new t-shirt design for me last week. They knew it was going to a be a single color printing, … Continue reading
Building a borderless fanbase: how global and cross-cultural musicians can expand their circle of listeners
[This article was written by Dave Kusek (founder of the New Artist Model) and world music PR expert Trista Newyear Yeager.] World musicians face an interesting and unique conundrum. You … Continue reading