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Magnanimous Music Mogul Maneuvers Magnificent Marketing

If you live on Earth, you have heard about the deal between Country Music Legend Garth Brooks and mega super store, Wal-Mart. Brooks, who has always proved to be a marketing innovator, has inked a deal that is sure to set the music industry on fire. Recently parting from his label, Capitol Records, [...]

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Promote Your CD / Music: Win Over “Payola” And Get Heard!

Promoting your CD to radio takes a lot of organization and time management skills. Let me help organize your process. First you need to find radio stations that are willing to accept submissions from independent artists (Contact names, addresses, phone and email for radio stations across the globe are listed in “The Indie Guide [...]

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How to Market Your Band’s Music and CD to Make Money

As a musician, bands have it easier than a solo artist in terms of cost to make a CD. Other than that, there are little or no differences. For bands/artists who wish to start the process of making, distributing, and getting radio airplay by themselves, believe it or not, you are starting your [...]

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Finding Distribution: Online, Retail and Other Outlets for your Music

Finding a distributor is hard. It can take months and months before you find and secure a distributor, which is not an easy process for independent labels or individuals.
Don’t give up or get discouraged; keep plugging away, even if you can’t find a distributor after months of searching. Distributors get a lot [...]

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The Difference in Karaoke Music Formats

The current market for karaoke music is in three different formats: CDG, DVD and VCD. Each format is distinctly different in terms of quality, background videos, and music selection.
CDG, or otherwise known as CD+G or CD+Graphics, is in my opinion the better format for karaoke music. You have a larger selection of music to choose [...]

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Learn To Play Guitar – Learn To Play Your Guitar Music In Time

Learn To Play Guitar – Learn To Play Your Guitar Music In Time
To be on the right place at the right time is quite nice. It is called timing. In your guitar playing you will find that timing is crucial. This means to play your notes at the right time so that the result will [...]

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New Rules for the New Year: What is coming in the Music Industry?

We’ve seen it coming for several years, but it’s here, full on and in our faces now… so what do artists do? The word “artist” means: “One whose work shows skill.” (The American Heritage Dictionary)
However, with the arrival of unskilled, but nice “artists” being signed to contracts and marketed to the public – and the [...]

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Have You Listened To Any Country Music Lately?

Country music is a great way to have some fun. I love how energetic it is and how lovely the lyrics are. There is nothing like a good country song to make you realize that your life is really, really good. You know the old clich

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