THESIXTYONE.COM
This site describes itself as a “game” technically, but it’s a platform to get your music heard. Basically, you upload your songs, and the people who have listener accounts “heart” your songs if they like them. If your song gets enough hearts, then it gets posted on the home page. Listeners only get so many “hearts” per day, so they have to choose which songs to use them on, but they will later earn “reputation points” and level up as other people heart the songs they previously hearted. The earlier they are in hearting a song, the more points they might earn from it later. You can set whether or not your song can be downloadable, but if your song is available for digital sale on Amazon, the site automatically links to it so people can buy it. BEFORE YOU SET UP YOUR ARTIST ACCOUNT, I’d recommend setting up a listener account and accruing points for a few days until you get up to level 5 at least. [You do that by listening to songs on “the rack” and hearting lots of songs.] Then once you have some points as a listener, create another account [with a different email address] as an artist. The reason you want to do this is that artists cannot “heart” anything. Then once you upload a song in your artist account, IMMEDIATELY log out, and log back in under your listener account, and be the very first one to heart your song. That way you can earn the most points from it as it gets hearted. I created an account in July 2008, and uploaded our entire record plus some remixes we’ve done. By mid-September, we got an email from a record producer who wanted us to do a remix of a band he’s working with, paying work. Plus we’ve had many people contact us as listeners who said they would buy our record on iTunes from that exposure. So it’s a good site. I have not found anything else like it. [UPDATE: OK, so I totally got busted on this site and they deleted both my artist and listener accounts. Proceed at your own risk, if you want to play it safe, just be an artist and let the fates do what they will, don’t try to work the system.]
[Hi all, Ellen here. I've decided to take a very long handout that I created for my college students and break it down into a series of blogs. This is a summary of what I know about promoting yourself and your music online. If you or someone you know is a self released artist who doesn't necessarily have a plan of action after the CDs are manufactured, subscribe to this blog and read the series. I'm breaking it down into bite sized portions. ]
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