The question: “How do I start a career as a singer?” The answer given: “Put videos of yourself singing popular songs on YouTube so you’ll come up when people search for that song.” I’ve come across exchanges like this several times over the past few days while answering questions on Yahoo! Answers. The scary part [...]

It’s a false belief that you must tour nationally as a new band in order to make a name for yourself. While it’s true that you will end up having to tour nationally at some point, it can actually be counter-productive to attempt a national tour without laying the groundwork in you local area first. [...]

This process is for musicians that are serious about selling records – it is not, by any means, easy. It does, however, help to solve some of the problems that many musicians encounter when they release a record:

* It allows you to test your music with the people you’re hoping will buy it
* It ensures that you’re spending your recording budget wisely, only paying to record songs that are in demand
* It improves your chances of selling more records at the release by creating a mailing list to announce when your record is coming out.
* From an artistic standpoint, it let’s you get all of your music out to the public in a cost effective way while giving your fans an incentive to stay interested

The following is a response to How to Write a Great Song from David Hooper’s MusicMarketing.com From everything I’ve seen it’s not making a single song great, it’s about writing enough songs to get to the great ones. I mean, if you believe in 80/20 rule (which I do) then you know that 80% of [...]