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5 Sure Fire Ways to Get Radio Play for Your �Independent� Music!

by: Ty Cohen

You have to find radio airplay time if you�re going to be heard and we�re not just talking the local college campus. The trick is called promotion. Now that doesn�t mean you just put your press kit in an envelope with a demo and hope they take pity on you. Perhaps you call a station and they give you the standard pitch of, �Send it and if we like it we�ll put you in rotation.� After a few months of never hearing your music, you automatically think you�re not worthy.

First, don�t buy that. You�re one of hundreds, maybe even thousands depending on your city. Your disc will probably end up in the trash or, for more enterprising DJ's, on Ebay in a one-cent CD sale. If you want to be heard and make potential sales, you have to stand out from the crowd, and in this jewel of an article, I�ll show you Five(5) Knock �em Dead Ways to Do Just That!:

#1 - Get your CD into the right hands. The intern that�s too busy to getting coffee or typing up a report for the station manager isn�t going to be the one making the airplay decision. So find out who the head honcho is in that department and touch base with them. If the club you�re playing at charges an admission or you have a show coming up offer to send the stations tickets to give away to listeners. Now keep in mind you can�t give the tickets to the staff, since that�s illegal and called payola, but you can offer free giveaway items to your potential audience.

#2 - If you�ve got one station in your pocket, then drop names. Let them know that WABC is playing your music and it�s getting a great response.

#3 - Make genuine friends in the business. If you�ve got a disc jockey that�s got you in rotation and really likes your sound, get to know them. Find out why they enjoy it and see if they�ve gotten any responses from listeners. If they haven�t, ask if perhaps they might Q & A their callers about your music so you get a feel for your target audience. It�s not a bad idea to ask them for a testimonial or quote if they�re well known in your area if you know them personally. People help people. That�s a fact so if you treat your area disc jockeys like a living and breathing human and not dollar signs, that�s a foot in the door. Another good source is club owners. If they play your music and the fans go nuts ask them to say a few words about your sound that you can pass along to prospective stations, but be sure to sit down for a drink with them. Ask them about the picture of him and the woman and two kids behind the Magic Kingdom. Don�t be fake, but be genuinely interested.

#4 - Network. Find out if someone you know (or someone they know) has connections to the music stations. Remember six degrees of separation - you�re only six people away from knowing anyone on the planet and yes that includes station managers, concert promoters and record execs. The trick is it takes a great deal of work and time, but if you�re serious, it�s well worth it.

#5 - Go local, state, national. Don�t think you�re going to skip your local and state stations and be the next Matchbox Twenty. It doesn�t work that way. Start small and then get big.

Making contacts and getting names can be tough, that�s why you should start with a tested and proven music industry resource like The Industry Yellow Pages - Music Industry Contact Directory at http://www.TheIndustryYellowPages.com

The TIYP is helpful and loaded with contacts you can start using immediately without doing all the legwork yourself.

About the author:
This article was written by Ty Cohen, the music industry's most recognizable voice!
Ty is the C.E.O of Platinum Millennium Publishing, Platinum Millennium Records as well as owner of and .

Some of his work includes: books, directories, mini-courses and software programs including the titles: "How to Make a Fortune in the Music Industry by Doing it Yourself" and "How to Make $500,000.00 "or More" A Year in the Music Industry by Doing it Yourself".
For nearly a decade, Ty Cohen's Get Amplified! Newsletter and series of Free Music Industry Success �Mini Courses� has helped over 40,000 independent musicians, singers, rappers, composers, record label owners, producers, managers, agents and others reach their music business goals. Using a unique combination of tested and proven music business success resources, which includes a series of books, directories, software programs, videos, seminars and newsletters, our goal is to educate and empower musical individuals just like you with the tools needed to succeed!
To find out more about Ty Cohen, his services, products and how he may be able to help you succeed in the music industry go to and sign up for his free limited edition music industry success 10-part �Mini-Course�, it will work wonders for you and best of all, it�s FREE, but EXTREMELY VALUABLE!

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A Huge Concern Over Web: Music Download
by: Plaily Muzic

Internet has come to change everything that once relations used to be lied on. Since Internet had invaded homes, the daily life has never been the same again. Internet changed the family�s habits, the culture and the way someone sees the world. Music is just a part of this change.

Regarding to music, this issue is even more complicated. People now can prepare their own CDs by downloading music from the Internet. And this has become another problematic thing that has contributed to increase the piracy.

The music download problem lies on two issues:

- If people can have access to the most varied types of music, they can have a better idea of a particular artist�s material, they can find out singers they had never heard of and get their CDs even this. These actions may be a little bit illegal and sometimes reduce the profits of the big music companies, but, however, it increases the range where a singer is known. When this happens, both singer and his/her music records win a special recognition, which may lead to the hire of them for shows and (guess what?) profits.

- But if it is true that music download can be beneficial for an artist, sometimes it can also be harmful, speaking about profits of course. And this loss of money in general happens to already famous artists. People download their songs from the Internet because they already know that singer and because they like him/her.

The big music industry complex has a tough battle to face. Profits or recognition!? Profits and recognition depends on each other: you only have profits when you achieve recognition, but your recognition can be measured by your profits. How to solve the problem?

Well, even if this matter seems to be far from a solution, some measures are being taken by the companies. Some laws have been created and other demands are being done. Even if it is hard to supervise all the websites on the Internet that offer music download, some people have been being charged of piracy and arrested.

Janis Ian on her article states that the music download increases the profit of the music industries, instead of what these industries allege. According to Janis, when people downloads a music form he Internet and get to know that song, they buy the CD because they already liked it and have no way to regret buying that CD. She also states that this happens because most of people cannot pay for a CD just to �give it a try�.

Music download is a reality � no matter what.

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