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We Love Your Songs: A Community for Artists
We Love Your Songs, an internet community for unsigned musicians and music fans, has launched after a year of planning and dreaming. Their goal is to empower unsigned artists and to create an environment where their music can be heard globally. They will be holding competitions and winners will be awarded with money and other prizes. ...
New Facebook Friendship Pages Offer Opportunity for Social Savvy Musicians
Facebook launched Frendship Pages to allow users to follow interactions between two other Facebok friends. Friendship pages include public Wall posts and comments between the two, photos in which both are tagged, events they RSVP'd for together and more. Users can see a friendship page if they are friends with one of the people and have ...
What is a Brand?
Artists today are constantly told to promote their brand, but do you know what a brand is exactly? Brands help fans identify artists and can range from your sound to the clothes you wear. To maintain your brand, artists should be consistent in persona and sound. Bobby cites Madonna and The Beatles as good brands. It's ...
iPhone Sales Flat as Android Surges, Blackberry Falls
Think you can cover the marketplace with just an iPhone app? Think again. A new NPD Group survey, which probably isn't making Steve Jobs the most fun guy to hang out with right now, shows Android's OS was installed in 44% of all smartphones purchased in Q3, an increase of 11% over Q2. Apple's iOS rose ...
4 Essential Elements to a Kickstarter Campaign
Recently, I spoke with Yancey Strickler, who is the co-founder of Kickstarter, a crowdfunding platform for creativity. In this interview, Strickler talks about moving past a one-size fits all model for financing creativity, how pull marketing models relate to Kickstarter, and why fan-funding encourages fans to become more active particiapants in their cultural lives. Hypebot: In ...
Spotify on Track to Pay Labels $60 Million in 2010, but is That Enough?
European executives from the same major labels that have been keeping Spotify from the U.S. are singing its praises. “Spotify is on track to become the largest single partner we have." according to Jacob Herbst, Sony Sweden's director of digital sales. “We already have several artists who receive 80% of revenue via Spotify," added Martin Glemme ...
Anonymous Declares War on RIAA over Limewire
At 4PM EST today, Anonymous is waging war against the RIAA. Dismayed by the downfall of LimeWire, they have gotten more serious in their threats. Their standard DDoS attack is part of the mix, but they have also published on the office address of the RIAA and their phone and fax numbers, as well as, the ...
BearShare Sees 780% Increase in US Downloads
LimeWire falls and BearShare booms. Their daily US downloads went up from 8,000 to 62,400. This is an increase of 780%. Sadly, either there is reason to praise this statistic, since BearShare is now a legitimate service, or discount it, because file-sharers didn't know that. They thought it was the old-version. Thus, once they find out ...
AT&T Hopes You'll Pay for Music on Your Phone Bill
AT&T has partnered with BOKU to offer consumers a direct carrier billing solution for online goods including music using their existing wireless service account. From their wireless handset, customers can make online purchases by entering their mobile number and charging directly to their existing AT&T wireless account. This kind of direct mobile music connection was part ...
5 Ways Artists Disappear Almost Completely Online (and Purposely Hide Themselves from Google...)
This guest post is by Deb Chachra; she writes the blog zed equals zee. For new artists, any discussion of a band name is likely coupled with a domain name search to make sure the URL is available, since they are constantly being told how to have an effective online presence. But there is an interesting ...
