Social networking sites have obvious benefits for artist promotion – they provide a platform where groups of people sharing common interests and tastes can interact, and they facilitate communication to and between these people. Sites like MySpace have long been hubs of musical promotion, but Facebook has now opened its doors to musicians also…
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Using Social Networking to Promote Your Band
Thursday, December 20th, 2007How to Make People Love Your Music
Thursday, April 19th, 2007The music industry has always been notoriously unpredictable, and the old A&R maxim that the ‘cream always rises to the top’ is far from a given. For any one band that makes a living out of their music, there are at least a thousand that never will – and the proportion of musicians that actually become wealthy through their work is smaller still. There is, however, a general feeling (if not an actual consensus) that those musicians who do make it are there because they are in some way intrinsically ‘better’ than the swathes of artists left in their wake.
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