Guess what Jeremy? Because it reeks of desperation. Funny that your album is on Spotify for free , I listened to your music on Youtube and Myspace for free. And on your own website you give the song"I drink alone" away for free. So I think you don't completely agree with Maurcie on fremium! I agree with you that musicians are the worst business people. But not because they take advice from Jeremy, but because they're screwed by the recording company.
When the Dutch band Focus remember Hocus Pocus? They made millions for the record company, but they had a bad contract. After 30 years that company still makes money off of them. Here's another way of thinking about this "Give your music away for a reason" a subtle but powerful difference :. It's bullshit, that there are those who seem to use the theory, that because the Artist or music is not known, it should be given away for free, so that people will come to appreciate it!
Why do you think mp3 was created? I think someones ear will tell them whether they like a song or not. So then, why should an Artist give there music away for free, if that's the case? Lets mooch off the backs of hard working, creating musicians. What makes then seem to think that they need to make a living off there music, right! I only disagree with one point and have a statement. I'm glad you can find new music on Spotify and similar services. I use iTunes all the time. I have what I would call a fair cd library not including the stack of demo cds from small stores I go to and I like listening to it once and a while.
I like listening to the Refused. I've used music services. For me it's "meh" at best. Where do I still find my music? Small mom and pop music stores. Sometimes the depth of the internet. The sorrow I have is that I find a new band, and I go to a "massive music online player" and I can't find the band.
I don't know, by what I am reading might not be what you are saying I should be able to find these bands. So in short, sure the mass public may benefit to their ever changing palates but it just doesn't cut it for some of us. Everything else I agree with. I also demanded to be paid by the person who had me watch that OK Go video. Didn't like them then, still don't like them.
Glad others do. With all due respect, I think this is pretty horrible advice and very oversimplified. As others have mentioned, free downloads can be used strategically to help expand and reward your fanbase but this article seems to suggest that artists should spend their time and money making quality music to just give it away? I strongly disagree with this. People will always value something they've paid for more than what they got for free. There is no absence of free music online.
In fact, there is too much. Also, giving away a lot of your music can cultivate the wrong culture amongst fans. This isn't always the case but as a young, upcoming artist, I want my fan base to expect to and WANT to buy my music. Not just expect everything to be free. I could wax lyrical for much longer but that'll do for now. Apologies if anything came across as blunt but I do feel that advice like this is somewhat harmful to up and comers who don't know any better.
Hi, I wanted to point out, that I really think, as a whole, the conclusion that I have of this society. Because this happens with music, and the economy, and all together.
And I mean, that a long time ago, they were scientists looking for a better way to live, all the appliances that we have, the mp3, the mobile now can be your laptop, isn't it amazing??? The problem in my opinion, is the fault of values, I hear music and I download it, but when I really love an album, I buy IT, why??? I like the cd, the lyrics, the design, everything, even the thanks message.
And I keep on listening the best music ever nowadays. Maybe not everybody does this, but if I have money, I like buying 1 album every month. So, what society needs right now is to worth everything in life, for me the music is the only think that makes me happy, perhaps for another person is another thing, but at the end, everybody likes music,so???
The albums need to have something else, if I had the chance to record an album, I'd do it and see the results, but at the moment, I would need someone to give me that chance ;-. First, thanks for this article. I found it while looking for creative ways to offer my music for free - something I'm about to start doing. I love creating music and the only thing it will cost me is time.
I already have a good setup and can record digital music in various formats. Most of my gear already pays for itself as I use it teach and hire. My plan is to record to MP3 and load it onto YouTube so people can listen and download as they please with the option of going to my website to do the same.
Also, because I'm good at art and photography, I may offer personally created compilation CDs at the cost of postage and physical material, only. Just wanted to share some ideas. Your money is on your value.. If people like your work.. If you openly devalue yourself.. YOU are the product.. Notify me of follow-up comments via email.
Connect With Us. Enter your email address: Delivered by FeedBurner. How Deep Is Your Love? Dec 29 December 29, Email Article Permalink Share Article. Reader Comments 26 Interesting article but a bit flawed I think. NoiseTrade is also really simple, but with it, you get more out of your giveaway. On the platform, you can ask for a certain monetary amount called a tip , which people don't need to do, but it never hurts to ask, right?
If even a few people send a few bucks your way when you were planning on not making a cent off a free download, it's a win-win. On top of having the option to donate funds, users typically need to give their email address and zip code in exchange for the no-cost music. That information can be very valuable if you use it correctly.
Adding those who downloaded your music to your email newsletter is a must, and if even one or two of them come out to a show when you're in their town, it was likely worth it. The website's name explains pretty much everything you need to know. The Free Music Archive is an organization that collects music that musicians are willing to give away for free. It's as simple as that, and while there are thousands of tracks, it isn't as much of a mess as it may seem.
Free music is not just for new fans. Also, never post mp3's within the email. If they give you their details, it means they want to hear from you. No one will spend time downloading music they haven't heard yet. Offer a preview of your track to entice listeners before they choose to download.
Once you decide to exchange your music for social currency, make sure you have a strategy for how you will make money in the long-run. You could give away a single track, and then direct downloaders to purchase your full album. Or offer a discount on your other music and merchandise to anyone who downloads your free song.
You can read more about them in our article about how to use upsells and cross-sells , but this is the gist:. An upsell is when you offer another related product or an upgrade during the checkout process, often at a discount. You see it pretty often with retailers. How do lead magnets play into this? If you use affiliate marketing , either as an affiliate or merchant, you can create lead magnets as opt-ins for your list and use a drip campaign to sell your affiliate products.
Providing assets for your affiliates encourages them to promote you by cutting out the amount of work they have to do and ensures that your branding stays consistent no matter who is speaking on your behalf. Think of your landing page or sales page for your free digital download as the abstract section of a research paper -- without purchasing the full product, you should be able to see the gist of what the study is related to and its findings.
Forrester, a marketing research company, demonstrates this well on their paid reports. Check it out :. As for how much information you should ask for people, keep it on the light side. If you force users to give more information than they want to access your digital download, you can anticipate getting junk data and cold leads.
First, I have a special phone number -- a great rejection hotline -- that I hand out to companies that ask for more information than I want to give to see a download that may or may not benefit me. Any product you can sell on Podia, you can offer as a free digital download. That said, some types of content work better as lead magnets than others.
Here are just a few to get you started. Do you know what I love? Electronic instruments of his own design are at the cutting edge of both music and video performance technology. He has performed at music, film, and multi-media festivals around the globe. In I gave my music away. That music had previously existed on CDs and LPs yes, I began making music in the days of vinyl and tape.
I moved all of it to the Web, downloadable for free. Today, seven years later, I see that giving away music for free is not as easy as I had imagined. In some ways, it turns out to be impossible. The reasons why this is so say a lot about creativity,property, and power in a networked world of corporately owned digital commons policed by netbots and stochastic algorithms.
If they incorporate it into music of their own, they should note that they did so, and since they used my music as their source material for free, they should not charge for their music either. In the real world, I have no resources with which to enforce those conditions.
And as we shall see, the problems I have encountered in this endeavor have been entirely in another direction. This was no big surprise, as the record business never worked for most musicians.
What is surprising is how many musicians seem either to not know this or to have forgotten it. The whole structure of the industry put corporate interests first, musician interests a distant second. Actually, this is not quite true. The biggest stars get taken care of pretty well. Lady Gaga should have no complaints. But many people would be shocked to know how many bands whose names they know and CDs they bought never saw any money from those sales.
My income comes from concerts, not recordings I have performed internationally since For most of my audience, before the Internet came along just finding my recordings was a major undertaking.
Concerts in various parts of the world were often attended by people who travelled long distances to get to the show, hoping to find some recording for sale which they had heard about but were never able to find.
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