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Music Blogs vs. Album Release Websites


Recently, Chris Leavins for blogs.com wrote an article discussing the top ten music blogs you haven’t heard or read yet. The article seemed to focus on bands and new releases that had their own blog made completely to generate public opinion on a specific project or release. Also, Mr. Leavins describes a trend in the music industry that stays away from creating complete project websites and has gone for a more grassroots approach via blogging to garner public interest in a new music offering.

I applaud the move to blogs because it engages the people and connects them in a way that is much better than a static website. The website has become less of a necessity and the subsequent expenses can be added to the bottom line profitability of a given music release. Furthermore, the content loss with a blog versus artist release website is minimal given the variety of content that can be offered through the blog’s simple HTML coding parameters.

Furthermore, this blog will be moving towards an approach that lends itself to better public appeal. The team here has included a brief survey for catering a series of blog postings on music production tutorials. These postings are not your typical tutorials because we take for granted you as a music producer don’t need to know the same answers to things readily available online via generic You Tube posts. This series focuses more on industry secrets and the scientific principles that undergird them in a relevant studio environment.

Be sure to fill out the survey to help us zone in on what the first few postings should be geared toward in the series. Thank you all for the support and be sure to leave your own comments.

References

Leavins, C. (n.d.). Top ten music blogs you haven't heard (or read). Blogs.com. Retrieved on August 20, 2011 from http://www.blogs.com/topten/top-10-music-blogs-you-havent-heard-or-read/


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Audiosocket: Spend Money, Make Money

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Have you ever wanted to license music quickly for a marketing project or promotional effort? Have you ever stolen the song elsewhere because of the time and process? Audiosocket makes it easy to license music the right way to use in almost any marketing avenue. Plus, did you kno
w you would share in the revenue created from the plays of the songs you decided to license? I thought that might get your attention.
Listen up! Audiosocket is not easy to get into if you are an artist that makes music. They screen everything and only have about 19,000 songs so far. However, if you are lucky enough to get content in the system, then with the right promotion your music can easily be licensed by businesses, film producers, record labels, or any other business looking to make a commercial of some sort. What is in it for them you ask? They make a small revenue off the song as you do each time it is played! An investment is measured by how long and how much you get back. Imagine spending money on licensing a song, then over time making back your money through your marketing of the song and actually making more money off licensing it than you spent on it originally!
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This is an amazing idea that could only be done legally if all the publishing houses were on board. Oh wait; Audiosocket took care of that according to an article by Anthony Bruno for Billboard where the company got BMI and ASCAP on board earlier in 2011. This idea is genius! Imagine all of those You Tube vids that use bootlegged content from your favorite artists, now using licensed material and promoting new artist’s music because it helps them make money instead of taking money from the artists. Could it be that music may have found a way to combat illegal downloads by helping people make money? My dreams have been answered…or have they? Only time will tell.

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