11 Most Interesting Platform For Artists,Fans & Independent Musicians
By ajay at June 6, 2012 | 11:47 am | Print
11 Most Interesting Platform For Artists,Fans & Independent Musicians
Crowdbands is the first record label driven by the decisions of its members.It means now every fans and members had an opportunity to directly affect how music is made, released and played. In other words, it is guiding the record label’s decisions and artists’ careers!
Artist Central is to help you to promote your music on amazon.It is a website where the music industry ’s artists, record labels and managers can upload content for publication on www.amazon.com and other online properties, including on Amazon Artist Stores.
You can upload photos, videos, a biography, a twitterfeed, a page banner, and full tracks for free streaming by www.amazon.com customers.
Pikup is software that runs on your PC, phone and tablet. As it runs it uploads information about the media you play in iTunes to your personal account on pikup.com creating a digital diary of you media life.
Pikup keeps a record of the name of what has been played, when it was played, which app recorded that it had been played and your user id number.
At the end of the month they analyse your personal account and splits up a monthly subscription into individual micro-payments based on the media you have been playing.
The results of your subscription is then combined with other peoples subscriptions. Giving the artists you love a regular income to support their work from you, their fans.

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LicenseQuote
The LicenseQuote service provides a powerful array of publishing and licensing tools for music publishers to set up and manage their own branded Licensing Store.
Your Licensing Store is a private label solution that allows you to publish your own brand names including: Licensing Store Name, Publisher name and various artist, album, band and library names, etc.
Spotmeup is just a pure distribution service where you can simply enter your details and upload/share your music, and there you go, your album or songs on Spotify.
When you distribute your music to Spotify, your music will be available for streaming and downloads. Users can purchase music downloads via a la carte or bundles.
BuskerLabel is an online community where fans can discover new music, fans can raise funds for their favorite albums even sponsor their favorite artist and get early and exclusive access to unreleased albums.
Artist uploads audio files of his own new and not yet published album.
The Artist fixes the date when to release the whole album to the community. Then Fans can listen to some promo tracks even fans can sponsor the album with some coin (each coin is equivalent to 1 €) each. Fan immediatelly gain access to playback whole album.
RouteNote is an online music distribution service providing artists instant access to a large proportion of the online market.
Artists can upload tracks to the RouteNote catalogue and enter into a non exclusive agreement permitting them to distribute their music to a worldwide audience in a matter of moments.
They then select partnered retail outlets that they wish their music to be available through (e.g. Napster, Snocap, Samsung Mobile) and within moments their songs are earning money as part of a world wide, web wide, distribution network.
SellaBand allows artists to enter into deals with any label, management company, or publisher and there are no advances to pay back.
Artists maintain control over their career and have 100% freedom to create the music that they want to create.
SellaBand can also be utilized by management companies, record labels, publishers, sponsors and media companies to fund projects for their own artists while also building the core fan base required to launch an artist or take them to the next stage of their career.
Hello Music aims to connect best independent musical talent to real industry opportunities.
Artists can upload their music and input their information at HelloMusic.com.
From there, the company’s evaluation team takes over, screening the quality of the music submissions and determining where they fit into the musical landscape.
The Hello Music team evaluates the music in advance for partner companies, giving them a clear professional assessment about all the music on the service. At the same time, it gives the artist feedback to assist with their career development and connect them with the right Hello Music partner opportunity.
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WorldSings
WorldSings.com is a new concept in music and social networking. Musicians and bands all over the globe can link their original music videos on the website, and members can vote for their favorite songs as well as interact with the artists and their friends.
Artists and members will create their own profiles with their original materials.
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Swift.fm
Swift.fm will allow all artists, both major label and independent, a voice to promote their music and perspective on twitter.
By allowing you to upload your own tracks, demos, mixes and mashups Swift.fm is your portal to worldwide exposure on Twitter.

