Promote Music And Buy Beats Online

Nov 18
09:48

2010

Kyle Artzt

Kyle Artzt

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This article will teach you about today's music industry in the new digital age. You can learn a lot from this, especially if your interest is to promote yourself on the internet. It's easy to see that the industry is changing to the advantage of independents everywhere!

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This article is about what could very possibly the best business plan ever written to promote a rap artist in today's industry. We're going to look at everything we can starting with the basics of where and how to buy beats online,Promote Music And Buy Beats Online Articles how to get worldwide distribution as an underground artist and most importantly of all, of course, we're going to cover promotion. 
If you read this article all the way through as a newbie who doesn't know a thing about creating and selling music, I think that by the end of this you will be very confident to just jump into the music industry. Everything about the industry has changed in the past couple of years. You need to understand that in today's industry it's more likely for a new up and coming independent record label to do well than it is for an up and coming major record label. The independents are taking over the world it seems like, all the numbers are pointing towards it. 
Many people believe that because of cyber pirating and increasing competition it's actually a bad time to get into it... but that's simply because the people who say that haven't done a lick of research. Not only do 80% of fans still buy music, even with all the outlets available to get free music, but in 2009 Billboard magazine estimated that 50% of all album and single sales were by independents!
We'll start at phase one... The most important thing for you to do as a hip hop rapper is to simply buy hip hop beats. You need to own the music you create or you're not going to be able to sell your tunes. This is the biggest and most important factor to your success. Don't waste time, money and energy recording over beats you can't use because rap beats are cheap these days.
You can always approach local stores in the same fashion as before, simply talking to the store owners and seeing if you can't work out a deal where they keep a certain amount of the money and in exchange they get shelf space, but now there's online distribution as well. 
Instead of needing to go to any offline store, you can simply get yourself on iTunes, Rhapsody and all the other major mp3 retailers. This is easily done using a company called Tunecore that has revolutionized the music industry by making distribution more affordable than you could imagine. It's the kind of thing you or I could easily pay for without necessarily having a budget.
Once you have your beats and you're distributed in a lot of online stores, you can start promotion. Let's discuss the best ways to promote yourself without spending a dime, and by best ways I mean you can seriously make a living promoting music for free using these tactics. The first tactic I'll cover is online promotion using websites such as Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. If you can find a way to effectively promote on these websites then it's free, extremely effective and it's promoting to an online audience that can easily go to iTunes right from your page.
Having said that, your next best option is PR. PR has always been the driving force for most labels and artists. It's free and it's extremely effective. All you have to do is write some really great articles about yourself and your band, put an interesting spin on it and submit it to the top editors of all the biggest magazines (and smaller ones, too). This is called doing a press release and you can do it through a PR company but honestly the best way to do this is to contact the editors yourself and establish relationships. You should start small with local publications such as college news papers, then slowly work your way up to the biggest magazines worldwide.