funsongs wrote: ↑Mon Mar 04, 2019 10:42 am
Hey, TAXI Buds...
Hi Peter. In the last TAXI TV show with Erin the music lawyer, two of the usual suspects, CD Baby and TuneCore, were mentioned. E.g. CD Baby states:
Make your music available on 150+ streaming and download services around the world, including Spotify, Apple Music, iTunes, Amazon, Pandora, YouTube, and Deezer, all for a one-time setup fee. Wherever your fans prefer to listen to music, they’ll find you!
https://cdbaby.com/
An important thing to remember is to properly think about whether to check the publisher box, or not. Erin and Michael talked about that on the show. It could mean that your music cannot be signed by libraries anymore. Also, the structure of the fee(s) you pay for distribution is varying, and if the budget matters, you might have to look into different options and compare to see what is best for you.
DISCLAIMER: I have not used any such services myself yet, and I am generally clueless.
The good thing about SoundCloud and YouTube is that they are free. Obviously you are on SoundCloud. With YouTube one can run adds to promote the own stuff as far as I know (because YouTube reminded me of that on my own channel). I have not ever looked into that, but maybe it could make sense to run an add for a specific song that you have targeted to a specific audience. I don't know how expensive they are, but apparently one only pays if/how much the ad gets watched. Say, you have a great song with a faith context. Maybe you could run an ad, so that people who watch related contents on YouTube would see your ad, leading them to your song and to your channel. Maybe someone on here knows how that works. Maybe running such an ad could work as a kickstarter to get a certain followership/amount of subscribers. Not sure.
Again the DISCLAIMER that I have not tried any of that myself, but I might in the future.
Tom