31 Mar
2017
31 Mar
'17
1:26 p.m.
To Glen's post:
Things are not necessarily that bad. I can say, for example, that my
experience with Bandcamp is extremely positive. Without being a known
musician I am generating some nice pocket money. My Paypal typically has
over 100-150 EUR, all thanks to purchases of my music by people on
Bandcamp. The stream of purchases is not too thick, but yet constant.
At the same time, if you are an established artist (and there are many
known musicians on Bandcamp) their profits could be very sizeable thanks
to
the fact that Bandcamp's revenue share is very transparent and it actually
gets smaller the more you sell.
Here is an example of my release that got quite a lot of purchases:
https://louigi.bandcamp.com/album/droning267
Note that not all purchases are shown - if people are not registered as
listeners on Bandcamp they can buy the album, but their avatar will not be
shown under the cover art - because they have no account there.
Here is an example of an established artist. Note the endlessness of
purchases.
https://carbonbasedlifeforms.bandcamp.com/album/world-of-sleepers
However, nobody will do your promotion for you. So just putting out tracks
and then doing nothing will not bring any audiences. This latter point is
key and I can talk a lot about that. Putting out your music is just the
beginning.
So, people complain about not being able to sell anything, but it is
always
more than just the music. It is about promotion, it is about making your
music bigger than just a bunch of tracks. Presentation and promotion
matter
very-very much.
For instance, i am absolutely positive that just uploading tracks to
resonate.io will not do anything for you. I also uploaded tracks to
resonate.io - 0 listens. And it will stay that way forever, until I
actually take time to promote it among my listeners.
Just to clarify, it's https://resonate.is
Here's a couple of tips for maximising your exposure on Resonate.
Make sure to edit the meta data for each track and especially add the
genre tags. You can edit the meta data for each track in the song manager
tab.
You might find that your tracks get plays without any promotion. In the
beta app* the default behavior is tracks are randomly selected for the
user.
* access to the beta app is available to artists that have uploaded
tracks. Other members gain access by paying the E5 membership fee.
On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 9:31 AM, Ben Bell <bjb-linux-audio-user(a)deus.net>
wrote:
--
Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd
On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 10:46:09PM +0200, Patrick Shirkey wrote:
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Louigi Verona
http://www.louigiverona.com/
Some of you might be interested in a new
distribution system for your
music based on the #stream2own mechanism.
I don't know how well it will work out but I've signed up. I share
people's
feeling that monetising music is very hard these days. That said, the
big
players have once again managed to structure the market so that they get
the lion's share of what money is available and the artists themselves
either get the crumbs or effectively become invisible because of the
effect
of iTunes, Spotify et al having such critcial mass. Anything that tries
to
lay siege to those walled markets deserves support.
I've put four tracks from my latest album up there and will see how it
goes.
https://resonate.is/profile/1626/
Ben
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