With so many musicians and a growing number of bands in the country, marketing your own music has become a challenge. In the last decade, the music market has seen a huge change. Marketing itself has gone from traditional advertisements like print radio and magazines to online marketing focusing mainly on Internet content via sites like cheap youtube views and live streaming.
Regardless of the kind of music you play, there’s always room for you to share your music to everyone. While it would be a long road to success, you can take it small steps at a time.
We musicians are constantly troubled by the idea of wanting to get better and better. But that is not possible in the quiet closet – getting better requires constant feedback from an audience. We have to present, be it quietly on the Internet or in the case of a spontaneous appearance in the pedestrian zone. Only through direct contact with your audience will you find out which music is popular and which isn’t. It is also a lot of fun to watch the audience.
Social networking is among the best choices to publicize music. Many people will have access to your music via websites like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Twitter. Establishing your presence on various social media sites through blogs, articles, and interaction with your fans is essential to your success. Build an internet community and become an influencer.
Here are 3 social media sites on which you should present your music for better views and feedback.
Myspace
Myspace is, so to speak, the grandpa among social networks. It was actually founded by Tom, the first friend of all Myspace users, to give unknown bands a platform on which they could present themselves and their music. This has been and still is used by many unknown bands, with the difference that now established and well-known artists have discovered this platform for themselves and somehow gained the upper hand.
Since then you can still present your band on Myspace, but direct feedback for your own productions has fallen by the wayside. MySpace has unfortunately lost its former “playground character”. Nevertheless, Myspace is still the best-known and largest social network for musicians – even if many users are increasingly switching to other providers on this list.
Facebook has grown enormously and is increasingly replacing MySpace as a platform for private and now also business contacts. You can find your friends there, write on their wall, send messages, and use the network to bring other YouTube videos or your music closer.
Since news is usually displayed publicly, you will receive a constantly updated list of aggregated news and short messages from your environment after logging in. Quite simply, it is simply nonsense that does not affect you directly or even interests you. But: Facebook’s strength is direct communication with friends by rating posts with a “like” or a real comment in real-time.
For musicians, Facebook is not so intoxicating at first, because there is no dedicated music player or general discussion forum where you can talk about the music itself. But Facebook offers the possibility to load so-called apps. With such applications you can, for example, integrate a music player into your profile. The apps usually come from third-party providers who naturally benefit in some way from the content that is pumped into these applications.
Soundcloud
This community is still relatively new and is primarily aimed at musicians: You can upload your music here and make it available to others in a player. The player used by Soundcloud not only plays the song but represents it as a waveform. The special feature of this service is that other users of the platform can leave comments on certain passages in a timely manner.
Another advantage is that the Soundcloud Player (similar to YouTube) can be embedded in other websites. This gives you the opportunity to easily integrate your music on your own website without programming knowledge and also saves webspace.
Another gimmick: Facebook automatically recognizes links to Soundcloud and automatically integrates the player.