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Online Music Stores

I am sure I am not the first to tell you, but the online music stores are causing a dramatic change and shift in the entire music industry. They are leveling the playing field allowing the unsigned artist to get equal “shelf-time” with the superstars and mega labels. Even though online stores only accounted for about 10% of total sales in the previous year, these companies are now the new mega players in the industry. Itunes is the overall leader, but Amazon music, Rhapsody, eMusic, Napster, MySpace SnoCap are all music store and portals affecting change. There are several others out there also all competing and providing different, unique models for both customers and musicians.

So here is the question for you pan musicians - Are you getting your music online? Are you a pan fanatic? Can you even find pan music in any of these stores? Many steelbands and steelpan musicians are still pursuing the traditional distribution methods (CD) for getting their albums out there, but this model is quickly becoming obsolete. Online stores and music portals is the way to go. If you are not familiar with the computer, then you are probably very out of touch and missing a golden opportunity. This is the dawn of a new trend, and whenever a trend is starts, those first in line are always rewarded the highest. Get out there, do the research and get your music into the online stores - its the wave of the future. And when you have published your pan music, ensure you add HighLite Vibes as similar sounding artists because we play pan too!

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Getting your music out there

As many of you are already aware of, websites such as facebook and myspace (commonly referred to as social networking sites and WEB 2.0) are dominating the internet with mind numbing views/day and staggering amounts of users. What you may not be aware of is that social network sites exist for almost any hobby, viewpoint, career or just about anything you can think of - further, the music portals are an extremely popular choice for community and interaction. All musicians, artists, record labels must have a profile on these sites - Last.fm, airplaydirect.com, reverbnation.com, numberonemusic.com, BroadJam.com, Rhapsody.com, Lala.com - and there are several others not mentioned here.
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