Streaming Music

I guess by now you know who Tila Tequila is. If you don’t, she is the girl on MTV reality television show “A shot at love…” She’s also a artistsigned to A&M Records.

Tila got to where she is now, largely due to her decidedly intensive activity on the Internet. Or MySpace.com to be specific.

Sandi Thom is another performer who utilised ‘the power of Internet marketing. She got signed to RCA following, reportedly, she played a live concert to an audiences of 70 000 individuals from her home!

Today you may actually performance up a show like that yourself, more or less for free, thanks to web sites like Mogulus.com.

There are a lot of musicians who make a nice living from their Web music promotion. Good examples are David Nevue and Chris Standring who also invest time educating performer on how to duplicate their success.

Recently a MySpace.com top musician Stevie Hoang, additionally became a number one musician on iTunes Japan. I had a opportunity of speaking with him recently and he agrees that a lot of his success came from the fact that he has been one of the 1st musicians on MySpace.

Major artists like Lilly Allen and Sean Kingston all got their leverage using the Internet.

Bands like Coldplay and Radiohead, albeit already uncommonly famous have been able to sustain their careers using On-line music promotion.

In case of Coldplay, you could actually say they able to get to the next level thanks to the Web ! Who knows where they would be now If they didn’t come up with the brilliant promotion for their single and tour, on the band’s web site.

So I guess, despite the cries of many industry members, Internet is now a bona fide music marketing tool. The dust is performance tling down as more and more individuals understand the medium better.

The nice news is anyone may be successful on the Web ! There are a lot of free web sites dedicated to educating musicians on how to get their music out there.

Who knows, might be I will write the next article about you…