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By: Christopher

Christopher — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 12:07:39 +0000

The relatively new way of promoting music is the participation in the specialized social networking sites. These sites are the virtual communities for musicians and producers. That’s the platform where they can easily meet each other while in the real life that takes a lot of effort. The most popular social networking sites dedicated to music are TalentWatch (http://www.talentwatch.net/index), SoundCloud (http://soundcloud.com/tour) and SoundSwift (http://www.soundswift.com/). TalentWatch (http://www.talentwatch.net/index) is a perfect social networking site for musicians and music lovers. It requires registration to allow full access to all the functions, but it’s worth the time. The musicians here get the ability to upload their audio and video works. Every one of them gets the profile where personal and contact details are specified and where the links to all uploads are located. The music lovers also get personal profiles. They act as the audience and the jury on this site. They have the ability to rate and comment the uploaded media. All the site ratings are based on users’ votes. Thus everyone can play the role in the rise to fame of the favored artist. The SoundCloud (http://soundcloud.com/tour) social networking site for music is more technically advanced than the previous one. The functionality of the site contains the unique music player that serves as the communication and commenting device at the same time. After the music or song was uploaded other users get the ability to comment it directly in the player by setting time stamps in the places that have drawn their attention. The site also has advanced privacy settings and the great amount of discussion groups for every genre and music direction. The last but not the least in the review of the social networking sites for music lovers goes the site SoundSwift (http://www.soundswift.com/). This site focuses on the promotion of young artists and claims to be professional and respected. It gives them the ability to reach their audience and to get noticed by influential people from music industry. It also promotes the investment initiatives into the development of beginner artists.

By: MattG

MattG — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 18:21:15 +0000

You should check out this really cool site for Bands & Fans that is launching at this year’s SXSW! It is called Bandromeda.com and it looks like it is really taking off. The big draw with them over other sites like ReverbNation is that they not only allow you to build your own presence but they will actually customize your own website using the same content (videos, photos, music, merch, etc) that you create on their site! If you look at their Band Solutions page you can see examples. And they have this really cool service where they will take some of your still photos and one of your songs and create a sick video from them. Bandromeda looks to me like MySpace on steroids!

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By: Marvin

Marvin — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 00:10:27 +0000

Myspace would be an excellent choice for up and coming artist as they are able to reach a network of online audience. They are able to integrate many online tools into their page such as those from Topsinmedia.com which is geared towards artist seeking the self distribution model.

By: Christopher Cahill

Christopher Cahill — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 16:53:56 +0000

I would suggest Myspace as the best, they often update their profile with newer more user friendly items and apps for musicians to use

I find it very easy to use, and the expansion of fans is amazing, word spreads like rapid wildfire

around myspace, what you are doing. I have about 410 friends and it is so awesome to see what is being done, and the amount of promotion.

By: rick

rick — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:43:16 +0000

pandora

By: Piano Lessons by QM

Piano Lessons by QM — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 23:36:07 +0000

Just got started with Last FM. Great site!

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By: Jacob

Jacob — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 15:52:36 +0000

I think they all suck. Bring back the old MP3.com!

One of the best features of the old Mp3.com and Myspace music layout was the regional music searches that has been deleted. Being from MA, I want to know who is #1 in my City of Lowell, Boston and the entire state in the respective genre I’m searching for long before I care who is #1 in the nation… The local aspect of all the major social music sites has been thrown out the window and it sucks.

If you know of any good sites that have the feature I’m reffering to please let me know.

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:45:03 +0000

Last.FM and Pandora are always fun… haven’t spent much time on Ruckus yet. Thanks for the post. I’ve been messing around with Maestro.FM and Hype Machine which are both intriguing for those not satisfied with current options…

By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:16:39 +0000

I like last.fm, and I just checked out nuTsie from jon’s request, and it looks interesting too!

Has anyone heard about JamBuzzer yet? It’s not out yet but I read about it recently and it’s supposed to come out soon. http://www.jambuzzer.com
Just curious.

By: Simon Slade

Simon Slade — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 18:52:27 +0000

I pretty much agree with this list. A lot of people rave about Pandora, but I think that the selection of music and the community is nowhere nearly as good as Last.fm!

By: jon

jon — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 19:12:21 +0000

Check out nuTsie.com!!!

I found it last week and am hooked. Especially the “grab bag” feature – all you can eat song grabbing – for later listening.

By: Brendan Cooper

Brendan Cooper — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 17:40:16 +0000

I loved Pandora but, by virtue of living outside the US, cannot use it anymore. It just worked. Last FM is my current port of call for high-quality streaming but you should also check out Musicovery.com - lovely interface, very good algorithm. But I'd take Pandora back any day. Brendan Coopers last blog post..Forward to Fleishman Hillard

By: ChaCha Fance

ChaCha Fance — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 11:20:55 +0000

I BEG TO DIFFER!! Imeem should be on this list!!!

By: pligg.com

pligg.com — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:09:37 +0000

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By: Melanie Nathan

Melanie Nathan — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:11:54 +0000

I participate in a lot of social networks and music sites seem to be a big topic lately. This therefore comes in really handy because now I’ll know what everyone is talking about lol. I’ll totally be using this list as a reference. Thanks Brian!

Been hearing really good things about last.fm on plurk btw