Here at RouteNote we are now starting to add iTunes Artist Ping pages.
As you may have heard, Apple just launched a new service called Ping. A social network for music where iTunes music fans can follow their favorite artists and friends to discover music they’re talking about, listening to and downloading.
Ping has “People” accounts and “Artist” accounts. Artist accounts allow musicians to upload and create their own pages featuring their pictures, videos, tour-dates, music recommendations and a lot more.
Roadrunner Records has announced that they will be relaunching their “SignMe to Roadrunner Records” crowd sourcing A&R process on October 4.
The platform allows artists to upload their music and then have it rated and reviewed on site. Roadrunner will then examine and potentially sign the artists commanding the top placement of these charts.
Currently it claims to have 6,000 active band profiles and more than 10,000 user accounts.
There are currently a lot of changes happening at Myspace and here the latest is a new band profile. We have been able to get our hands on a video which showcases the new Myspace band profiles. Check it out below and let us know what you think.
NME has launched a new site in partnership with social media firm Webjam. The site is called NME Breakthrough and its a basic social network for bands.
The bespoke platform will allow artists to upload their music, embed video content from other social networking sites and grow their fan base through community engagement. Another social site that needs to be kept updated, but after taking a look at the site and the features I cant see this either generating much traffic or building much of a community.
NME Breakthrough is probably a bit of a waste of time.
Independent music promotion and discovery site Fuzz.com is shutting down in mid-February due to “increasing operating costs and flat revenues”. Sister site Blip.fm will remain open. A letter sent to users reads in part:
Dear Fuzz User:
Sadly, we are contacting you to announce that Fuzz.com is shutting down on February 13, 2009. Between now and then you may want to take the opportunity to post your forwarding information to fellow Fuzz users. It was with a heavy heart that we finally made the decision to turn off the lights,but because of increasing operating costs and flat revenues it simply no longer makes sense for us to keep Fuzz.com running. We offer our heartfelt thanks for being a part of it, and we’d like to give a special added thanks our avid, core users — true music fans who made Fuzz their home-base, and created a real sense of community.
Please note that once the site is shut down on February 13, 2009, the band and user accounts, and all other content on Fuzz.com, will no longer be accessible. For artists who have used the site to sell music, we plan to make a final payout within 60 days of the shut down.
Here at RouteNote, we’re constantly trying to find new ways to get your music to earn money for you. To this end, we’ve signed up a new retail partner, imeem. They’re a social network, aimed at introducing their users to new music and video content. While anyone can upload their music to the site, RouteNote artists uploading their music to the site will get a share of the ad revenue imeem makes from anyone visiting their profile pages and listening to their songs.
To start the revenue flowing, you’ll need to revisit the tracks that you want to use on RouteNote and select imeem as one of the retailers for each track. Then create a profile for yourself on imeem and upload the files for the music you’ve selected to your profile. It is very important that you use *exactly* the same file you uploaded to RouteNote for uploading to imeem, as their software matches the files to confirm that your material is the same music we have on file as yours. Without this matching up imeem can’t confirm that you are who we say you are, and will either delete the profile you make, or keep all the money from ad revenues.
If you’re interested in using imeem as a retailer for your music, it’s important that you know what you’re buying into, so please visit their site here: http://www.imeem.com/tour/tourmusic.aspx
Please take the tour and look at their terms and conditions, and if you decide to sign up, we’ll see you onsite!
Currently for RouteNote we are in the stage of purchasing advertising for the site, both online and offline. This brings us to the point of asking the question “where do you musicians hangout online?” Im trying to build a list of possibly places in which to advertise our service to musicians who will actually really benefit from what we are trying to achieve.
Currently I have several options, but not sure which resources would be the most appropriate. If anyone has any suggestions it would be greatly appreciated and any feedback on my suggestions would also be great.
Roadrunner Records has announced that they will be relaunching their “SignMe to Roadrunner Records” crowd sourcing A&R process on October 4.
Currently for RouteNote we are in the stage of purchasing advertising for the site, both online and offline. This brings us to the point of asking the question “where do you musicians hangout online?” Im trying to build a list of possibly places in which to advertise our service to musicians who will actually really benefit from what we are trying to achieve.