How to Get Your Music Heard on Facebook

How to Get Your Music Heard on Facebook

How to Get Your Music Heard Online

One you really know How to Get Your Music Heard by Playing live it will go a long way to maximising exposure for your band and material. The amount of music-lovers who attend gigs is generally on the rise and live shows are considered by many to be the most lucrative income stream for bands and solo acts in 2012.

For original artists in particular, once you've got people to your gigs you can obviously aim to sell your music and merchandise to them and so multiply the financial benefit of playing live. 

How to Get Your Music Heard "Offstage"

To be the kind of act that has a full diary of band bookings week in week out though, you'll need to know how to get your music heard before people see you live. For example, you need to have demos easily accessible by the people who make decisions about whether or not to book you for the venues you're targeting. 

This can still mean dropping off a demo CD but increasingly of course now means having your music available at those places online where venue bookers spend their time. 

These venue bookers are no different from anyone else and so a good proportion of their online time will involve Facebook. Imagine then if they could hear your demo without even leaving that site...

Knowing how to get your music heard by venue bookers for your potential gigs is only one benefit of this kind of "offstage" exposure. Especially if you play your own material - rather than covers.

Once you know how to get your music heard on Facebook and elsewhere online, you'll be able to build your fanbase both in terms of getting people to your band bookings and also buying your music -whether or not they ever go to one of your shows.

 

How to Get Your Music Heard and BOUGHT Online

There is a way you can create your own personalised mp3 music players and upload your music onto your own website, Facebook and even your Myspace profile (if you're one of the few who still goes there). In fact you can upload music players anywhere online the website in question will let you.

Songrila is site which offers you the ability to sell your music directly to your fans who get iPod compatible DRM free tracks purchased with just 2 clicks directly from your band's website.The site is free to register with no fees and and you can leave at any time.

The guys who've set up this cool service also take care of the payment processing, hosting and streaming of your songs and the processing of any collecting rights societies (MCPS, ASCAP, SACEM etc). You'll even get to keep 80% of the income you make from the sale of your material. Certainly a better deal than you'd expect from any record label methinks....