The Great Gear Giveaway from CD Baby and Disc Makers

Think you can handle this prize package? The Great Gear Giveaway is our biggest sweepstakes yet, with a Grand Prize worth over $12,000. You get everything you need to make and sell your music. You get songwriting software to help you create your music. Guitars to help you perform it. Recording gear to help you immortalize it. CDs and distribution to help you sell it. And a website and online radio play to help you promote it. It’s the complete package! The Grand Prize includes: • A Gibson Memphis ES-335 Electric Guitar • A Gibson J-165 EC Acoustic/Electric Guitar • A premium CD package (1,000 CDs in 6-Panel Digipaks) complete with posters, design,   mastering, and more. • Distribution through CD Baby and HostBaby website • Studio gear from IK Multimedia • 5,000 Spins from Jango • MasterWriter 2.0 Songwriting software • and much, much, much more! And that’s just the grand prize. We’re also giving away 12 other prize packages which include a second and third place, plus 10 honorable mentions! Enter today! *See website for complete contest rules and prize packages. No purchase necessary. Deadline for entries is 11/30/12. To receive future email promotions and newsletters directly from CD Baby, click here to join our mailing list. Have questions for us at CD Baby? Email cdbaby@cdbaby.com and we’ll get back to you, pronto. © CD Baby 13909 NE Airport Way, Portland, OR 97230, 503-595-3000, www.cdbaby.com

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The Shattered Hit Record Model

Headlines     The Shattered Hit Record Model We've all heard the complaints about the current Music 3.0 music industry model: physical product doesn't sell anymore, download sales don't make up for the shortfall, and streaming music cannibalizes sales and pays a pittance in royalties. Then let's heap on the accusation that music today is so formula and soul-less and generally a shadow of what it once was. More     Help Your Band 'GetBooked' Hear It Local just announced GetBooked, a new Facebook application offering the first Direct to Fan booking platform for Independent Music. GetBooked makes it easy for fans to find, fund and book the musicians they "like" on Facebook for house concerts and private events. Independent musicians will now be able to use GetBooked to inspire and facilitate the fan booking and payment process right from their Facebook page. More     YouTube Free 'Creator Playbook' Despite being a powerhouse in delivering the world's visual and audio content, YouTube still goes underutilized by a number of artists and music professionals. It's not that their content isn't on the platform; instead most are not taking the time to learn how to effectively navigate its inner workings in order to ensure their content is best optimized for views and shares. Recognizing this, YouTube has provided an official "Creator Playbook" that outlines exactly how to effectively utilize the platform. More     The Streaming Gold Rush The music streaming world is one full of contrasts and inconsistencies. At one end We7 and MOG sell for peanuts; in the middle Rhapsody, Sony, Rdio, Wimp, Rara and others continue to steadily build a market; and at the other end Deezer and Spotify are sucking in investment with the force of a black hole. Spotify's investment is well documented, but this week Deezer confirmed their seat on the fast train with a $100m investment from Access Industries, which also just happen to own Warner Music. More     BAMM.tv Launches An Immersive iPad App for Fans of Live Indie Music BAMM.tv has spent the last year or so shooting and producing live concert videos, both in its own studio and on-location at events like SXSW. The result is an impressive library of live music videos; it's got more than 70 hours of material from 175 artists. In addition to live performances, it's also produced a few series of episodic content, as well as some documentaries. More

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How To Collect Live Performance Royalties

Headlines     How To Collect Live Performance Royalties For songwriters and bands performing their own material, there's an opportunity to earn additional royalties from live performances. All three US Performance Rights Organizations (PROs) can pay royalties from live performances at bars, clubs, restaurants and other music venues. More     Rdio Pays Artists to Recruit Subscription music services offering unlimited access to a massive online jukebox have been around for more than a decade, but they're still struggling to attract a mass audience. Meanwhile, some musicians complain that the likes of Spotify and Rhapsody pay such minuscule royalties, it's counterproductive for artists to support them. Now, one of those services - Rdio - is trying to solve both problems at once. More     YouTube Shares Ad Revenue With Musicians, But Does It Add Up? YouTube is well-known for videos, but a recent Nielsen study revealed 64 percent of teens and young adults go to it to listen to and discover music. The free website, which is owned by Google, has set up advertising deals to help musicians get compensated. But it's not clear how they're getting paid - or how much. More     Why a Facebook Profile Can't Replace a Fan Page Quite often, we have musicians who approach us with the same questions: "I don't have a Facebook fan page, but I DO have a personal profile and everyone tells me I need to get a fan page. Why do I need a fan page if I already have hundreds of friends on my personal page?" More     Why Albums Make Little Sense for New Artists When you first start out, the path to music fame and fortune seems pretty straightforward. Not because you necessarily know what to do, but because of what history tells you. Write some songs, play them live, and record an album. Then you get signed and fame and fortune flows. The problem with this is the music landscape has changed and this template is now largely outdated. More

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