Musicadium was thrilled to see ‘Here Come The Australians’ the Olympic-themed anthem by A Voice In The Crowd figure prominently in the iTunes Staff Picks and Recommended section on the iTunes homepage lately.
Australian Music Business Declining According to the PricewaterhouseCoopers study Australian Entertainment & Media Outlook Australia’s recorded music market is expected to decline 6.8% to $795 million at the end of 2008. This comes off the back of a 10.6% fall in 2007. Again - the finger is pointed at digital and ringtones. Apparently their rise hasn’t made up for plummeting physical CD sales. The moral of the story? Buy more music on iTunes.
Study: The Leading Digital Music Retailers in the USA are…
iTunes and Amazon. This is according to the most recent surveys by NPD. Read about it here .
Musicadium featured on a South by South West panel at the Troubadour in Brisbane last week. The panel was free and aimed at musicians, managers and music entrepreneurs looking to get their groove on at SXSW 2008. Nick talked about how overwhelming SXSW can be for beginners, the good and bad of the SXSW tradeshow, how important it is to book meetings in advance and the benefits of staying in close to Sixth Avenue. If you want to know more about SXSW - send Nick an email.
Musicadium was chuffed to present the QSong Award for the Musicadium New Music/Experimental category on Tuesday, August 12. The winner of that category was Lawrence English for his song ‘Watching It Unfold’. Cheery Lawrence won $1000 cash for his troubles. Check his music out here. It was also great to see our artists - Asa Broomhall, Andrew Kennedy, Mr Rascal, Andrew Veivers and PJ Weston nominated for prestigious QSong awards across a range of categories!
Check out all Musicadium’s photos from the night here.
Every so often, an act comes along that stops you in your tracks. You feel the need to tell everyone about them, play them continuously, find out everything about them and basically cling to the fact that you found them first. The Hungry Kids of Hungary are one of these acts.
With glowing reviews from JJJ’s Richard Kingsmill, Nick Findlay and the Courier Mail’s Pat Whyte to name just a few, Brisbane act the Hungry Kids of Hungary are gaining attention and momentum at a rapid pace. By fusing indie, soul, and 1960s pop/rock, these local Brissie lads have produced an EP that once listened to, will not be forgotten. The Musicadium team agrees that this is a band to watch, see, dance to and rave on about to anyone who appreciates quality music and brilliantly-crafted songs. (more…)
How do I get my music on iTunes?
This is the fundamental question, the one that independent artists around the world are asking every day.
And this is the answer: Get your music on iTunes with the help of a digital distributor.
iTunes will not take your calls or emails, they will send you a stock-standard email with a list of all the world’s digital distributor.
Take the hint. But make sure you get yourself the best distribution deal.
Musicadium is a Digital Distributor. We help independent artists and labels to sell their music worldwide on iTunes, emusic and Amazon mp3. We pay our artists and labels 100% of royalties - we take no cut. We help our artists and labels to access promotional opportunities on each of the outlets.
Musicadium charges only an upload fee and an annual renewal fee. We can provide barcodes if needed. Musicadium’s distribution deal is non-exclusive, there is no lock-in time period, artists and labels are free to leave as they please and most importantly, they retain 100% of all rights to their music.
Musicadium’s free e-book ‘Nine Ways To Ride The Digital Music Wave’ is now available for download.
After our artists continually came back to us with the question: My music’s online, now what? we decided to get together a comprehensive answer.
“9 Ways To Ride The Digital Music Wave” outlines the 9 ways to make the most of music online. The e-book covers a bundle of really important information including:
You can download it now, free, here: http://www.musicadium.com/promotions/ebook
We are keen to hear from you. Please leave us a comment and let us know, what are some of the best ways you have seen for marketing and selling music online?
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