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Top 101 Music Sites
This is a listing of 101 essential sites for artists looking to promote their music, network, do business and market themselves. They are not listed in any particular order and some have a focus on just one piece of the pie when it comes to the full pie promotion technique! All of these sites combined make for
powerful music promotion strategy.
Click the name of site to launch the site in a new browser window.
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The most popular social networking site.
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The Hype Machine follows music blog discussions and serves up the most popular finds in the blogosphere.
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MP3 Music Downloads – MP3.com offers links to legal digital music downloads from a wide variety of services. Buy MP3 music online from your favorite artists with MP3.com.
Artists upload music and profile. |
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The world’s largest social music platform. Show off your taste, see what your friends are listening to, hear new music, get personal radio, recommendations, and downloads, all for free.
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At ACIDplanet.com you can create, upload, and listen to music from artists around the world. ACIDplanet.com is a forum for aspiring new artists to showcase or remix music.
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We bring together artists, fans, venues, and record labels to forge relationships around the music that sustains us. Even in the age of the internet, music is still enjoyed both live and recorded, and still travels from fan to fan. ReverbNation is here to provide the online environment in which those relationships can thrive.
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Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them. People use Facebook to keep up with friends, upload an unlimited number of photos, share links and videos, and learn more about the people they meet.
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The web’s largest independent music community and home to the definitive charts of the best emerging artists. Visit GarageBand.com for FREE mp3 downloads or to promote your music.
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Spending too much money sending out bulky press kits? Try Sonicbids. Our Electronic Press Kits (EPKs) are a faster, better, easier, and cheaper way for bands to connect with club owners, festival directors, conference organizers, songwriting competitions, or radio station programmers at a click of the mouse.
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Artists can upload songs to be used in podcasts.
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Free member pages including unlimited free webspace, free MP3 download and hosting, streaming audio, personalized news, charts, tour calendar, auctions, ecommerce, music greeting cards, and tons more. Join Now!!
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Deezer is the first free music on demand website. Come and discover more than 150.000 tracks, create your Playlists, upload your entire song library
in your private space, no storage limit, and share your favorite songs with your friends! |
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PureVolume is the place for rising artists to host their mp3s and get exposure. We showcase unsigned artists, independent labels, and major label artists. Visitors can download over 100,000 mp3s for free.
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Users interact with each other by watching, posting, and sharing content of all media types, including blogs, photos, audio, and video.
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MOG is an online community where music lovers can discover people through music and music through people.
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Sell your CD’s online and through their digital distribution service.
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Hosts user-generated videos. Includes network and professional content.
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Indie Bands/Artists: • Post all your music tracks • Easily share your music • Make new fans • Become more popular! • Totally Free. Join iJigg.
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Sell your CDs / Downloads through Amazon.
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Qloud is a music search service with social features. You can search for artists, songs, keywords, styles and more, with Qloud serving up a list of tracks that you can preview on the site. You can then save the tracks to your favorites, email the results, link to the page or buy the individual tracks on iTunes, AOL Music Now or Amazon. Qloud is also a social network: you can visit profile pages, add users as friends and view their tags and channels.
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eListeningPost enables musicians to market and sell music directly to consumers all over the world via email, any web site and any P2P network in a way that is termed Super Distribution.
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iTunes
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A digital music jukebox. Download music, TV shows, movies, and more.
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Lyrics collection organized by artists alphabetically. Search engine included. Upload your lyrics so people can find them.
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Social networking and microblogging service utilizing instant messaging, SMS or a web interface.
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Offers a profile page, a friend request feature, photo storage, music reviews, video, and email.
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Thousands of free videos on Veoh.com, your internet television network. Watch long form, television quality content and publish your own videos.
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Craigslist provides local classifieds and forums for jobs, housing, for sale, personals, services, local community, and events.
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Sonic Garden, the free home for independent artists & indie labels, featuring music, pictures, videos, tour info, reviews, interviews and a music super-store with thousands of CDs & merch from your favorite independent artists. Tons of promotional opportunities for artists & labels and always free for artists, labels & music fans!
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Users can create, share and discuss blogs, photos, videos and music with others as well as post reviews of movies and books, or share a calendar of events.
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Sell Your Music with Secure Mastercard and Visa from Your Own Site NOW! – No Setup Fee!, No Sales, No Cost to You! Thousand’s of Leading Edge Bands for BUYERS!
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Project Opus™ is an online music community designed to support artists, fans and local music. It is a single point of contact for discovery of new music. There are two goals:
1.) make it incredibly easy for bands to self-publish music, find their audience and then get paid for the sale and licensing of their music, and 2.) make it incredibly easy for fans to find music they love and support the artists that make it. |
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Fuzz is a new breed of music company – combining a next-generation music label, a powerful artist promotion platform, and a feature-rich interactive community that engages artists and fans to promote, discover, share, review, influence, buy, and sell music.
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Supports searches by artists, album or song titles; browsing
by artists. Upload your own lyrics so people can find them. |
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Slide is the largest personal media network in the world, reaching more than 134 million unique global viewers each month and 30 percent of the U.S. Internet audience. We help people express themselves and tell stories through personalized photos and videos created on Slide.com and viewed anywhere on the web or desktop.
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MyxerTones™ makes it really easy for you to share and sell your original ringtones and wallpapers to anyone with a mobile phone
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Real-time search for user-generated media (including weblogs) by tag or keyword. Also provides popularity indexes. Good tool to search for yourself or band to see what’s going on with your popularity on the WWW.
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File transfer and email service. Also offer secure and large file transfer. This is an awesome way to share music, or share mixes with people all over the world.
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Disc Makers provides CD Duplication, DVD Duplication, CD Manufacturing, DVD Manufacturing, CD Replication, DVD Replication, CD Duplicators, DVD Duplicators.
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Allows users to share photos with music, and blogs, and draw on members’ White Boards.
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The Hype Machine tracks a variety of MP3 blogs. If a post contains MP3 links, it adds those links to its database and displays them on the front page. Some of the frequently accessed tracks are cached by the Hype Machine server, much like Google Search caches web pages, to reduce load on the bloggers’ servers and protect their bandwidth. Those tracks are NOT available for download, but you can preview them via the play buttons that are next to each track.The blog that posted a particular track is identified under every track by name so you can read more about why they posted it. If you enjoyed a track someone posted, stop by and let them know!
You can purchase CDs and individual tracks by using the “amazon” and “itunes” links that appear next to most tracks. Each purchase you make via the Amazon and iTunes links supports both the artists and the Hype Machine. Please buy and enjoy. |
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Improve your blog with Daily Blog Tips. Articles
on design, promotion, SEO, monetization, WordPress and more! |
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Join indie and unsigned music artists in the quest to stardom. Artistopia community services include profile bio, MP3 song uploads, news press releases, band gigs and events calendar, directory, class ads, promotion tips, radio play, forums and shopping
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Most comprehensive music blog aggregator – search and browse hundreds of thousands of music posts.
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Broadjam helps its tens of thousands of musicians and bands promote their music online. Musicians use Broadjam to:
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Virb is a community web site that combines social interaction with music and entertainment exploration. It’s a great way to keep in touch and meet people with similar interests. Use Virb to discover music, videos, cool companies and organizations… then share what you find with your friends. Virb was created by the same folks who made PureVolume.com.
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NowLive, the inventors of Social Broadcasting, empowers you to connect any time with peers, fans, friends, and new and interesting people.
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Welcome to the world’s largest music industry search directory, including contact information and individual track records. Knowing the track records of music industry people is absolutely necessary and crucial for the career of every unsigned artist.
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INgrooves is the world’s largest digital record company and a leader in the digital entertainment industry. As the digital representative for top artists and labels, INgrooves provides valuable marketing, promotion and distribution services that increase the online exposure and earnings potential of its artists and labels. INgrooves distributes to all the major online services through its patent-pending software platform, Digital Music Access™, features content for ring tones worldwide, licenses music to TV and films, and ties its artists in with the marketing campaigns of major consumer brands.
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MusoCity.com is a music oriented online community. We currently provide accounts designed for music fans, artists, musicians, music retailers and music venues.
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Upload and share your videos.
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Searchable lyrics database. Submit your lyrics.
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5,000 stations at Live365. Get your music heard!
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Odeo is an online application that allows for recording and sharing podcasts with a simple Macromedia Flash-based interface. It also contains a directory and radio, with podcast channels.
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The new Google Analytics makes it easy to improve your results online. Write better ads, strengthen your marketing initiatives, and create higher-converting web sites. Google Analytics is free to all advertisers, publishers, and site owners.
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Artists and labels can easily promote and sell their music through digital retailers and through the SNOCAP MyStore. Online retailers and legal, authorized peer-to-peer networks have access to all the content in the SNOCAP Digital Registry, from major labels to indie labels and unsigned artists.
Consumers can purchase directly from their favorite artists. |
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Digg is a place for people to discover and share content from anywhere
on the web. From the biggest online destinations to the most obscure blog, Digg surfaces the best stuff as voted on by our users. |
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Number One ent. is a premier grassroots marketing company specializing in the online marketing of musicians and their art, online street team direction, online media awareness, targeted email marketing, market research, and cross promotions with our marketing partners. Using our own database of nearly 4 million young adults and 13,000 + field reps we reach deep into the world of 13-to-29 year olds. We cover almost every music genre and we’ve had over 2,6 million fans join our street teams and mailing lists. Through the completion of hundreds of successful online marketing campaigns, Number One ent. has developed proprietary processes and procedures that we believe to be the most effective online marketing methodology in the music industry.
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Oasis provides CD replication, CD duplication, CD-ROM replication, CD-ROM duplication, & DVD duplication / DVD replication / DVD manufacturing for musicians, labels, DVD developers.
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As mass culture is dying, “the mass” turns out to be a collective of individuals, each and everyone with their own dreams and hopes. So our vision is simple: Your dreams, our tools. With cutting edge design and software, we see Trig as a new community for anyone who ever had a dream, and all the people who go their own way.We want to give you the platform you need, whether you want to be a fashion designer, musician or maybe just looking for new friends and sharing your thoughts with the world, the platform will adapt to you, not the other way around. Originality, Democracy, Revolution. It’s all about you.
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StumbleUpon helps you discover and share great web sites. As you click
Stumble!, we deliver high-quality pages matched to your personal preferences. These pages have been explicitly recommended by your friends or one of 3,978,749 other websurfers with interests similar to you. Rating these sites you like automatically shares them with like-minded people – and helps you discover great sites your friends recommend. |
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IODA is the industry-leading digital distribution company for the global independent music community. Run by an experienced team of digital music experts with a passion for independent music, IODA distributes thousands of releases from independent labels to digital music and video outlets around the world. IODA provides any or all of these services to music labels and distributors, video distributors, and artists including:
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A collection of shirts submitted and rated by the public. This would be a really neat promo tool if you have some design skills and could upload your band/act t-shirt for people to vote on.
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Pump Audio represents the best independent music from around the world, for licensing to advertising, television, film and web clients.
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Includes large archive of lyrics.
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Free, automated weblog publishing tool that sends updates to a site via FTP.
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Visitor Map, MySpace Map, Frappr Map – The most social maps on the Web.
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At CafePress.com, you can create and sell a variety of customizable products with zero up front costs and zero inventory investment.
You can sell:
What CafePress.com does 1. Gives you a FREE online shop to promote your products 2. Produces each item when ordered using our unique print-on-demand technology 3. Handles all payment transactions including major credit cards 4. Ships your products worldwide 5. Manages all returns/exchanges 6. Offers customer service via toll-free phone and email 7. Sends you a monthly check for your earnings on sales! |
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A social bookmarks manager. Using bookmarklets, you can add bookmarks to your list and categorize them.
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Put Evoca to work for your web site Offer your customers, audiences and supporters easy ways to record and play content: comments, reviews, testimonials, and opinions online. Let them call your web site from any phone – landline, mobile and Skype™. Post the content you choose with branded Flash players that bring any web page alive.
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9rules is a social content network where readers can explore interesting content across dozens of communities and connect with other like-minded people around the globe. 9rules was originally launched in 2005 and has evolved since our original concept, but the focus is still on connecting you with content you enjoy and people to enjoy it with.
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Design and purchase custom t-shirts, custom mugs, posters, prints, cards, and postage online. High quality, fast turnaround, and volume discounts available.
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DMusic – the oldest site for independent musicians and music fans. Features a strong supportive community, free member pages, free legal mp3 download and hosting, music news, concert calendar, streaming audio and more!
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Think of Crucial Music as a bridge. A bridge that links independent artists and musicians to those in the industry who want their songs. A bridge built on passion to help gain exposure for great music in the marketplace. We seek to negotiate the best prices for both artist and buyer. The Music Supervisor gets the music they need. The Artist gets the exposure and cash they deserve. A win-win situation.
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The AMG editorial staff, along with hundreds of expert contributors (all music fanatics in their own right), has made allmusic the most comprehensive music reference source on the planet. We are all dedicated to creating and maintaining the knowledgeable, spirited content that music lovers and industry professionals have come to expect from AMG.
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Sign up for FREE as an artist to get your music heard by 1,000′s of site visitors. Instantly create your own professional band/artist web site.
Upload your mp3s, videos and photos. Put your music anywhere on the internet with our portable player. Sell your music downloads and keep 100% of the net profits. Instantly sell your mp3s as ringtones. Get exposure to record labels. |
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The Canopy Channel is full of magazine articles, photographs, videos, music and other audio clips, essays, short stories, poetry and much more. What’s more, every item in the library is unique, contributed by people from all walks of life. People with talent or creative ability. People with special skills, expertise or knowledge. People with imagination. People who have had experiences they want to share with others.
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With Pandora you can explore a vast trove of music to your heart’s content. Just drop the name of one of your favorite songs or artists into Pandora and let the Genome Project go. It will quickly scan its entire world of analyzed music, almost a century of popular recordings – new and old, well known and completely obscure – to find songs with interesting musical similarities to your choice. Then sit back and enjoy as it creates a listening experience full of current and soon-to-be favorite songs for you.
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7digital is the UK’s leading digital media delivery company, catering
for record companies, artists, film and TV companies as well as other digital media owners throughout the world. |
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Download.com Music is your source for legal and free MP3 downloads. Download MP3s from thousands of artists.
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Music SUBMIT submits your music to genre-specific radio stations, online music magazines, online music directories, blogs, podcasts, indie record labels, and other electronic music media. You’ll save time & money using our system. We’ll save you hundreds of hours tracking down radio stations, music magazines, other music sites – we’ve already done this work for you! Your music will be delivered directly to their inbox – save money on postage!
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PodOmatic specializes in the creation of sophisticated tools and services that enable anyone to easily find, create, distribute, promote and listen to both audio and video podcasts. The premiere destination for veteran and novice podcast creators and consumers, PodOmatic is the largest and most widely used service for creating and hosting podcasts.
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Flickr is almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world. Show off your favorite photos to the world, securely and privately show photos to your friends and family, or blog the photos you take with a cameraphone.
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Funender.com is mainly an online music distributor (OMD) which promotes both signed and unsigned musicians. Our powerful servers, no spam quality service, responsive support, tons of promo tools, and the fact we actually care about promoting independent musicians separates us from the rest. If you are a music lover be sure to browse around the site and listen to songs from the thousands of talented artists we have here. If you are a musician yourself and would like to upload your own songs, you can create a free account.
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Independent artists are encouraged to upload music and sell it through their platform.
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Promote your band for free. Watch videos of unsigned bands. Listen to new music.
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Free music portal.
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Fast, easy, and fun! Unbiased, unsigned music discovery. At 9ViBe, it’s all about the music… period. Promoting music from unsigned/independent musicians of every genre. We find your fans and validate your songs. Free musician and A&R resource.
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AccuRadio is the world’s leading independent, multichannel Internet radio station,* featuring over 300 channels and subchannels of really cool music. Plus, you can customize each channel to your tastes. And, best of all, it’s free!
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iLike is a social music discovery service that lets consumers get personalized recommendations and follow what their friends are listening to.
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Upload videologs to your favorite artists.
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Humble Voice is a community of artists and those who appreciate them. Get connected to the best new music and art.
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A fan widget, or gydget, is a stand-alone viral promotions tool perfect for bands, sports teams, or any organization that wants to get the word out to fans across all social networking sites about news, media and events
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BETA Records web site serves as a musical breeding ground and a valuable promotional tool where both musicians and music enthusiasts can discover new artists, network with other artists, and promote themselves, their music and their talents.
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Amie Street is the most fun way to discover and buy music online because we have a social network that facilitates music discovery and because we price music right – all songs start free and rise in price the more they are purchased. Our dynamic prices allow fans to buy music without breaking the bank and they serve as a useful tool for finding great music.
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Eventful is the leading events web site which enables its community of users to discover, promote, share and create events. Eventful’s community of users select from nearly 4 million events taking place in local markets throughout the world, from concerts and sports to singles events and political rallies.
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SayNow delivers voice and text services that are used by entertainers, politicians and community leaders to communicate with their fans. We give people with large audiences a number that fans can call to hear their latest voice messages, take part in polls, send messages, and even buy things with a press of a button.
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IAC is Independent Artists Company, the Indie Capital of the World.
It is comprised of several components, only one of which is the music site. Other facets will be coming over the course of the next several years. |
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Fans join your club from a Broadtexter Widget on your web sites. OR from your Fan Page on a computer or phone browser.
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With more than 54 million members worldwide, Friendster is a leading global online social network. Friendster is focused on helping people stay in touch with friends and discover new people and things that are important to them.
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A community-built database of music information. A site with discographies of all labels, all artists, all cross-referenced.
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This audio archive is an online public library of live recordings available for royalty-free, no-cost public downloads. We only host material by trade-friendly artists: those who like the idea of noncommercial distribution of some or all of their live material. Live recordings are a part of our culture and might be lost in 100 years if they’re not archived. We think music matters and want to preserve it for future generations.
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