“Why Uploading Your Music Online Doesn’t Get You Tons Of New Fans” plus 1 more

Gaining tons of people to hear your music takes more than just uploading it to common music websites. Here is what you should do in addition to this:

The first thing to do is know that there is much more to getting new music fans that just putting your songs on a website online and waiting for people to check them out. This is one of the most frequent methods musicians use, and it isn’t very effective.

Growing a fan base is about not only getting people to listen to your music but gaining their e-mail address and other contact information so you can easily update them about what is going on in your career. Having a database full of your fan’s contact information is crucial for getting them to notice when you release something new. Without this, some of your fans won’t even know and may never bother to look for your music again.

Get your fans’ contact info by creating a website specifically for your band/music (not by just making a Facebook page or uploading to a website like Soundcloud). Then come up with something special and interesting to offer them and create newsletter where they can get it by signing up using their contact info. This gives a strong reason to exchange this info with you rather than you just asking for it.

Once you’ve grown a large database of your fans, you now possess the ability to direct them to your new albums, merchandise or any other products you want them to check out. This makes it much easier to earn a living through music. Plus, having a database like this shows other people who work in the music industry that you are serious about what you do. This increases your value in their eyes and gives them incentive to want to do business with you in the future.

Of course, this is just ONE basic approach to help you begin creating a larger fan base for your music. There countless others and working with an experienced music career mentor is the best way to quickly get more fans using a variety of other approaches.

Interested in learning about other methods for growing a fan base? Read this free music career advice to learn some unique ideas for promoting your music and gaining more fans.

 

About The Author:

Tom Hess is a touring guitarist, composer and a mentor to musicians. Tom also trains musicians internationally on how to get into the music industry. Visit tomhess.net to get free music business tips and music career resources.

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With Halloween fast approaching, we’ve taken a look at the music which disguises itself as a soothing bedtime song for young children, but actually has much closer connections to Halloween than you might realise.

Mattress Online have discovered that the lyrics of lullabies are often as creepy as even the scariest Halloween movies.

From children dying in woods, to baby snatching fairies, we’ve collected some of the strangest and most unsettling lullabies from around the world, just in case you really wanted to frighten anyone this Halloween.

Take a listen, and scare yourself with the Lullabies on this interactive map, here: https://www.mattressonline.co.uk/quiz/creepy-lullabies/

The World’s Creepiest Lullabies include:

• Iceland’s famous lullaby ‘Bíum Bíum Bambaló’s title is said to be the name of whatever waits outside, lurking for those who do not stay in bed.
• We all know the phrase ‘babes in the wood’, well this originated from the Australian lullaby, which actually is a jolly ode, enchanting children with a tale of two young children left to fend for themselves in a wood. And then dying…
• Children growing up in Russia and Belarus are unlikely to sleep close to the edge of the bed, due to the song ‘Bayu Bayushki Bayu’ warning of a wolf which will drag children into the woods if they are too close to the edge.
• A popular lullaby in Haiti, ‘Dodo Titi’ is also improvised by parents trying to off to sleep. In classic lullaby fashion, the wide-awake child is warned to get some sleep to prevent ‘the crab’ from eating them.
• An innocent highland fairy lullaby from Scotland may be expectionally beautiful on th ears, but the lyrics are quite the opposite. Although there is no big bad wolf that comes and steal the baby away, the Highland Fairy appears to be a baby snatcher, operating whilst the parents are away.

Have you ever noticed the connection between lullabies and halloween before?

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