Crowdsourcing in music
I have been looking into how the internet is changing the music business. Certainly distribution has been transformed now that music can easily be downloaded and the industry is struggling to cope with piracy as a result.
At the same time, the global popularity of artists such as Snow Patrol and Lily Allen has been credited to social media websites such as MySpace. And now I have found a company that is employing the concept of crowd sourcing to make great bands famous.
Sellaband is an online company offering a new model for the free distribution of music. It provides a direct link between artists and their fans, but is very different to MySpace. Click here to read the rest of this Isle of Man Examiner Tech Talk column.
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Just bought the new Radiohead album this morning. You’re free to pay as much as you think if fair for the album. I paid £1.38 which I thought was a good deal: http://www.inrainbows.com/
Interesting….thanks for turning me on to Sellaband.
Selling music and the internet were made for each other. It gives the artist and the buyer and incredible amount of freedom. I am surprised that record companies did not jump on the bandwagon instead of trying to fight it. They could promote 10 times the amount music this way instead of just sticking with bankable artists. More choice for everyone. I would really like to hear the other side to this argument though.
Thanks for stopping by guys. Did you see the debate that the Radiohead deal is causing in the music industry? Interesting times.
Interesting idea for music lovers and bands, hope it succeeds…
Nice post too, hv given a link to it from my blog aweBsome - all that’s awesome on the web @ http://www.eit.in/b/awe/