Once you have a Twitter account up and running to promote your music, you gotta get some fans to follow you. It can feel like a hard slog through concrete. You post, you re-tweet, you @ message, but, you seem to only get a few followers a day.
Billboard is a music magazine based out of New York City and has been around since 1894 but it became about music around the 1960s. They are very well known and respected in the music industry for maintaining weekly record charts, like the “Hot 100” and “Billboard 200”. Billboard exists primarily for record label professionals, …
It's a huge milestone: you are putting together your first mixtape and getting yourself in the game. Want to make a splash? Do the things you see below:
So, you started with a powerful instrumental beat, and layered it with vocals and samples to make it your own. Now you are ready to get it out in the world. No matter how good you are, it doesn't matter if no one knows it. The web offers a dizzying array of music, social media and networking sites. But, if you tried to maintain a presence everywhere, you'd have no time left to create the music you are there to promote. If you are a one-woman or one-man show doing all your own promo on your own, make sure you are at least on the sites below:
Bandcamp
Hip Hop became the #1 music genre in the world. There is no doubt that this style of music continues to influence many other genres. Rappers today have it easier than ever when it comes to getting their music out there to the masses. Not only can they make and record music at home with …
