Thursday, 16 July 2009

How to get your music onto iTunes

Discover some great up and coming ReverbNation.com artists, and don't worry, they are getting paid to give away these downloads! How? The program's first sponsor, Microsoft Windows is making these downloads available for FREE, download as much music as you want and download it all for no cost.

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Without any doubt ReverbNation.com is the best website for unsigned bands. Operating in a similar way to MySpace, ReverbNation.com have more tools and controls, enabling the unsigned artists to create a manageable fanbase. The optimisation of this sites widgets and flexibility is excellent, you can update your status via twitter and add your blog's rss feed. Not only do they provide a free service they also pay the bands a percentage of the profits generated by the artists page. They also have several premium products including a distribution add on. Get your music on 10 MAJOR MUSIC STORES (including iTunes, Amazon, Rhapsody, Napster, and eMusic), Collect 100% of the proceeds, and get FREE PROMOTIONAL TOOLS! Setup your albums for FREE and pay only when you decide to release them. (The fee is quoted as $34.95 at the time of writing this.)

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A free download of 'You Have The Power' by This Window has been made possible by Microsoft; simply go to the page and grab it. There are 1,000 FREE songs available for you to download. These free downloads (m4a and mp3) are all from ReverbNation artists and made available through the Sponsored Songs program. These songs are EXCLUSIVE to the program, which means you would have to pay to get these downloads from anywhere else.

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1 comments:

limey59 said...

Nice piece on Reverb! Makes my effort look lame.
All the best!
Dave


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