Karma: Buy Indie Music to Sell Your Indie Music

Yes corruption is everywhere and it is so easy to point the finger at others. That being said do you buy indie music? Ahhhh, don’t be so quick to judge the mainstream entertainment industry if you don’t buy any indie music. Have you purchased the album of some of your friends or [...]

John Nash’s Economic Theory Explains Why Millions of Indie Artists Go Undiscovered

Online Music Retailers Over Crowded
In the past I have stressed the importance of signing up with online distributors such as itunes. This is true, but now there is an over population problem on these sites. There are way too many indie artists overshadowing each other and getting lost in the shuffle. The [...]

Do It Yourself!!!

I recently read an article where a man created a cell phone game is his spare time (he still held a day job) and uploaded on apple’s
i phone application store. For those of you who don’t know what that is, the i phone application store is a store like i tunes where you can [...]

How Indie Music Artists Count Properly

Yes we’re going to be doing some math Indie Artists so suck it up!!
Indie Math Formula for Profits
100 albums x $8.00 = $800 USD
Major Recording Label Math Formula for Profits
100 albums x $.08 = $8.00 USD
$8.00 – $250,000 (advance given during signing you have to pay back with album sales or out of pocket) =
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CDBaby Sold to Disc Makers

Sorry I missed this guys, working on Hot Indie Music has been killing me.  For years I have been referring Independent Artist to CDBaby for distribution. CDBaby first launched in 1998 out of the home of Derek Sivers in Portland, Oregon. Sivers sold the company to Disc Makers, a CD duplication/manufacturing company popular among Indie [...]

HotIndieMusic.com Is Up!!

Add HotIndieMusic.com link to your webpage of blogroll.
The People’s Billboard for Independent Music

Sneak Peak at Hot Indie Music:

Honey Brown
“This is one the most solid Indie albums on the market!!” Jamille Luney Music Analyst

#1 R&B Pick HotIndieMusic.com
Official MySpace
Buy It on CDBABY!!

Our Favorite Tracks
It’s Alright
Hot Daddy
Ghetto Story
Feelin Good

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Still Standin’ Band

#1 Pick HotIndieMusic.com [...]

Do A Remix For a Big Named Artist

Attention music producers:
one of the best ways to get in the game is a “remix” of a big named song. If you have an indie artist your producing and promoting, put them in the remix so their vocals are paired along side a grammy winner.
How To Get A Remix?
So how do you get the [...]

Your Song Name Could Get You Discovered!!

How did the Soulja Boy Song catch fire on the Internet? In an interview with Billboard Music magazine Soulja Boy revealed that he intentionally mis named his song after famous song names on the Billboard charts so people would download it.

How He Did It
What? How? Soulja Boy said [...]

HotIndieMusic.com: We Launched It, You Hated It, We Took It Down…

till October 5. Why? BECAUSE YOU ALL SAID SO!! At least some of you did (well over 2500 of you). You guys voted and said the site was difficult to maneuver and follow, some of you said it would not even load on your screen. HotIndieMusic.com was up all of 3 [...]

Another Way To Get Your Barcode

I’ve given numerous lectures on the importance of having your own registered barcode for digital sales and physical sales. I’ve also told all my fellow indie artists how to purchase one. If your new to the site and have now idea what I’m talking about read the following post to catch up Got [...]