SELLING YOUR MUSIC ONLINE

Beginner’s Guide to Selling Your Music Online

The first thing you need to know about selling your music online as an artist is that it’s very slow going for most musicians who try to sell their albums from an official artist’s website. Even gigantic bands like Metallica and Foo Fighters or enormously popular pop stars like Jay-Z and Justin Timberlake sell hardly any music from their respective official sites (metallica.com or jay-z.com, perhaps) compared to what they sell from outlets like iTunes and Amazon. This is because selling music online is more than simply making songs available.

Selling music online requires placement on sites who are likely to show up on page 1 of a Google search. This means giant companies like Amazon and iTunes.

But how does one get one’s music on iTunes to begin with? The answer is in online music distribution companies like MondoTunes. These crews are experts at getting your music from point A to point B, except that point B is actually hundreds of online music stores, rather than just one site (Mondo boasts more than 750 stores in their distro channels.  In fact, they reach iTunes in 115+ countries alone).

The end of all this is that it isn’t really about selling your music online, but about getting someone else selling your music online. This can be as easy as picking an online music distribution company out of a hat and paying them what they ask for.  But naturally smart musicians will do better to vet the various options and choose depending on things like customer service satisfaction, net cost of the distribution, and other such importance’s.  All of which can be researched online from the comfort of one’s home to ensure that the best music service company is chosen for the artist material.