Where can I sell my music online?
An article on where you can sell your music online
This is a common question: Where can I sell my music online? Many unsigned musicians are unaware that there are a great number of websites that will help you sell your music online today. This article tries to help you find the best place to sell music online.
This is because such services are hard to find unless you're looking for them. You don't find them in magazines. While you can get your music on some of the bigger retailers (with a lot of patience), that's not the end of the story because those retailers aren't interested in small unsigned musicians. You have to look at some of the up-and-coming online music services that understand the changing nature of the music industry.
While an international record label can help a dozen artists make millions, that cannot sustain the industry as a whole. There has to be a ladder between total poverty and total wealth. The bit in between for normal people who are good at writing and recording songs and just want to make a decent living doing it. It's not just a hobby.
So where can I sell my music online?
There are many options. If you want to sell through those same big retailers that have no interest in unsigned musicians, then go with one of the websites that will distribute your songs onto iTunes and Amazon, and the others. You'll have to pay up-front and usually a subscription, though.
So what's the best place to sell my music online?
If you're an up-and-coming unsigned artist, the best place to sell music online that I've seen is Songstall. Why? Well, every artist is treated equally. All artists get their own personal home page that they can distribute and promote, plus a separate page for every album and every song.
Artists can set their own prices, and that's the FINAL price - no additional transaction fees are added when your punters check out.
Then you can customise your page - choose the colours, add your artwork, upload a banner. You make the page look and feel like your own website, except you have no hosting fees whatsoever.
24th November 2009