the evolution of music discovery
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past few years, you no doubt have heard about ReverbNation or at least stumbled across an artist using its tools and services. Simply put, no one is helping musicians out more in promoting their work then Reverb is, and here are 16 reasons they’re going about making it happen.
1. Ability to share high quality files, fast and cheap.
It was probably only a matter of time before Facebook and Google jumped on board the online music store bandwagon.
Facebook will be adding songs to it’s store, where users have a number of different sharing options. You can either pay a dime for a track, which will allow you to send it to friends, but they can only listen to it online, or pay ninety cents to send a copy that can be downloaded.
Google, in the meantime, looks like it’s going after iTunes.
They’ve teamed up with Lala and iLike, and possibly Imeem, for a project dubbed One Box.
It’s a question that is both easy to answer and complicated at the same time, depending on who you are.
The first thing musicians want to know how to do is get their music on iTunes. Now, this is obviously a no-brainer – millions of people use and love iTunes and you need to be there in case someone is looking for your music there; the iTunes user base is so dedicated that they’ll buy a song or album using the service simply because of the convenience factor.
Among the many highlights on Black Gives Way To Blue, the highly anticipated new album from ALICE IN CHAINS, is a special guest performance by Elton John. The two rock legends collaborated on the album’s stunning title track, “Black Gives Way To Blue,” a heart-stirring tribute to Alice In Chains’ late lead singer Layne Staley. The album arrives in stores September 29.
“We were thinking about adding piano to the track and a friend suggested we call Elton,” recalls guitarist/vocalist Jerry Cantrell. “I remember laughing and saying, ‘Yeah, I’ll get right on that.’ But I decided it was worth trying and wrote Elton an email explaining what that song means to us — that it’s a real, raw openhearted song for Layne.
If you follow me on Twitter you might have gotten word that I cleaned out my blogroll over the weekend. Between two new huge jobs and my computer taking a dirt nap, it was the last thing on my mind. Luckily a few weekend hours on the couch and I sifted through 5,000 feeds to bring you some cool stuff to check out.
Take your time checking out these resources – there’s a lot of stuff to take in at once, I know. Grab a few beers and open the notepad, and I promise you’ll have an information hangover when you’re done!
A few months ago, Depeche Mode released what I believe was the first ever iTunes pass.
Basically, this was a pre-order of their new album that featured an advance tracks in addition to exclusive content while fans awaited the release of the new album.
Well, today, DMB has released their own iTunes pass; here’s the official scoop on what you get:
We are pleased to announce the news that DMB launched an iTunes Pass earlier today! With iTunes Pass, music fans can get new and exclusive albums, songs, video, remixes, art and other content from their favorite artists over a set period of time, delivered to their iTunes library as soon as they’re available.
Musical pioneer Peter Gabriel has now ventured into the world of free music sites.
Yesterday the former Genesis frontman launched the full version of We7, which after an initial visit to the site reminds of a nice hybrid of imeem and iTunes.
So here’s the skinny on We7. The site is ad founded, where people can listen to whatever they want for free. They can even create playlists after making an account, which is the imeem similarity. Now, here’s what’s really cool about We7. Fans can then purchase the track directly off the site if, they want to, and the musicians and rights owners of the tracks will get the money. Ah cutting out the middle man.
I’ve been waiting for this day to arrive for a few months now!
ReverbNation quietly rolled out too hugely freakin’ important things over the weekend that further proves why they are the coolest kids on the block.
Got another press release for ya kids, this time from our friends over at Tunecore. This is a BIG DEAL, so pay attention:
Starting June 11, for the first time ever for independent musicians, TuneCore.com customers who have their music digitally distributed into iTunes will have access to daily sales trending reports. Through TuneCore, bands can download trending data for how many sales took place each day, by song or by album, by day, and by zip code each week a-la-carte for $2.99 a week.
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