For many bands/artists, “merchandising” is a significant source of income. What is “merchandising” I hear you ask. Merchandising simply means the selling of products other than your music. T-Shirts, posters, stickers, caps etc. We’ve all been to a concert where the T-shirt line was longer than the line to get into the gig so how [...]
MySpace.com is one of the great Internet success stories of our time. It is in the top five or ten most popular web sites on the planet, right up there with Google, Yahoo and Ebay.
With more than 190 million registered users and hundreds of thousands of music acts setting up free profiles on the site, [...]
We have been talking in recent articles about various ways for independant bands and artists to sell their music online. Selling your music is only part of the process however. First of all, people need to be aware of your music. They actually need to hear it somewhere. These days it’s not hard to knock [...]
In Part 1 of Selling your music online we looked at moving CD’s through CD Baby. In this installment we are going to start to look at some of the services to distribute your music digitally ie downloading it over the internet rather than shipping a physical CD. While Cd’s still outsell digital downloads, that [...]
OK, you’ve spent your hard earned money putting together a recording of your band, you’ve had some copies pressed and now you are wondering how you are going to get rid of them to get your money back or even make a profit! Sure you can sell a few at gigs and a few to [...]
The folks at Australian Music History have teamed up with Groovy Tunes Music to start an all Australian Internet Radio Station. The first broadcast is already running and features artists such as Mark Johnson, VonSonic, Talkback Radio, Someone Your Not, INXS, Jet, Kasey Chambers and many more.
They are very keen to hear from any original [...]