Music Distribution on the Web: Create Buzz, Sell CDs!
Introduction to Online Music Distribution
Cornerband
Review
Review
by David Nevue, The
Music Biz Academy
Author
of How
to Promote Your Music on the
Internet.
If
you've done any file trading
on the Internet, more than likely
you are familiar with Kazaa
Media Desktop, the most
popular desktop file sharing
utility in the world. Over 250
million people (and counting)
have downloaded this software
and use it to search for, trade,
and burn music by countless
popular artists. I have seen
estimates that at any given
time, 3 million people are using
the software.
How
would you like to get your music
onto the Kazaa network and use
it as a means to promote, distribute
and sell your music? How cool
would it be if, when someone
searched Kazaa for a popular
artist such as the Dave Matthews
Band (or any other artist whose
music is similar to yours),
your song was recommended to
them? What if every time a Kazaa
user listened to your song,
a window popped up with information
about you and a link to your
online store where they could
buy your CD? Even better, what
if you could specify the number
of days a Kazaa user could sample
your music before having to
pay to hear more?
This
is all stuff you can do by signing
up with Cornerband.com.
Cornerband is the exclusive,
official provider of independent
music content to the Kazaa Media
Desktop network. As a member,
you have complete control over
the distribution and security
of your song files. You can
upload your files in MP3 or
WMA format, prevent users from
burning your songs, set the
songs to time out after a certain
number of listens and associate
your songs with a variety of
keywords such as “hip-hop” or
popular artist names.
There
is, of course, a fee to distribute
your music on Kazaa. You can
distribute one song for $34.99,
five songs for $99.99, or up
to twelve songs for $199.99.
Those are annual fees.
Other
benefits of Cornerband include
the ability to create streaming
radio stations of your music,
which you can link to directly
from your official artist site
(I prefer using Live365.com
to do this). You can also link
from Cornerband to your official
site, upload your photo and
tour dates, create a band profile
and view song statistics. Customers
can purchase your CDs direct
through Cornerband or Kazaa
if you like, which are hooked
directly into the CDStreet.com
shopping cart system (see CDStreet
review).
The
Cornerband/Kazaa opportunity
is relatively new, but exciting.
Cornerband offers some incredible
opportunities for targeting
new customers searching for
music related to yours on the
Internet. Don't pass this one
up.
Sign
Up with Cornerband.com |
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