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Album Release Road Map (Part 1) 26 Things You Should Do Before You Release Your Album We'll talk about the first 13 today.
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1. Do Market Research on Your Songs Is your music ready for primetime? Which song is best as the first single? Which song should you do a video for?
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Audiokite.com ** Soundout.com Fluence.io
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2. Register Your Publishing When you distribute your music widely online, chances are you're not getting all the royalties due to you.
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Songtrust is great if you've written songs for other people CD Baby Pro is run on the Songtrust platform and is great if you perform all your songs.
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3. Register every song with a PRO (Performing rights organization) Collect publishing royalties for songwriters and publishers
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Bmi.com Ascap.com Sesac.com
Your Songtrust account syncs with these PROs.
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4. Register with Sound Exchange
Collects royalties for artists and labels for digital recordings like online radio
soundexchange.com
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5. Get on a credits database Liner notes and credits Be found by sites looking for music credits
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These are central sites for artist, discography and credit info. Allmusic.com/product/submissions Discogs.com
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6. Copyright your all songs
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Copyright.gov
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7. Register for YouTube and Soundcloud revenue CD Baby and Songtrust collect YouTube revenue Adrev.net
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Tunecore, CD Baby, and Repost are for distribution AdRev, Audiam, and Songtrust strictly revenue collections Tunecore.com Repostnetwork.com Cdbaby.com Adrev.net Audiam.com Songtrust.com
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8. Send music to distribution company Do this sooner rather than later. It takes time to get into everyone's database.
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Tunecore.com Repostnetwork.com Cdbaby.com
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9. Get a licensing company Song pluggers for film, television and commercials
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Taxi.com
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10. Create your folder of assets A folder on your desktop with the name of your album STEMs (drums only, guitar only, etc. for remixes & DJs) Text doc of all lyrics Merch designs for reorder Promo photos, album cover with and without text (for Text doc with all album credits by song posters), single cover (hi-res, print-ready, 3000 x 3000 px) 1-paragraph, short & long bios of all members of group Promo photos, album cover (web versions, rgb palette, Promo materials and designs 300x300 px, easily emailed) Demos (during the songwriting process) Wavs of all your songs including instrumentals and Music videos performance tracks Behind-the-scenes videos 320 kbps Mp3s (with meta tags including contact information) Text doc of login information of all sites and links you'll need of all your songs including instrumentals and performance (soundcloud, itunes, etc.) tracks Also upload all mp3s and wavs to Dropbox, Box.com, etc.
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11. Get new high-quality photos Choose location to match the story you're telling with your music and album Ask photographer to listen to the music first Use top 3 for promos
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12. Put together an elevator pitch (30-sec or less) New bio 30-sec elevator pitch (a short description of you as an artist, piques interest) Short: 1-2 paragraphs Long bio (good for website)
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13. Write a new press release Announces new album
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Contact Information
Title
Readable and Enticing
It MUST Be An Event
1st Paragraph Who, what, where, why, when, how much
2nd Paragraph Background of your band, your interesting story and accolades 3rd Paragraph Ari Herstand's How to Write a Press Release Information about the event
Last couple sentences http://aristake.com/?post=115 Other interesting information
Never Attach It To An Email
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Come back for Part 2 We'll talk about the final 13 items in the list of things to do before you release your album. Rebranding Promotion Being found
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ECHE After Work April 17th at 7:00pm 9701 Apollo Drive, Ste 410 Largo, MD 20774
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