How You Can Promote Your Music Better

Free Music Promotion Tips

by Focus the Producer

Tip #1: Start with asking your friends and family to share your music on their social networks. This gives you a guaranteed aid in promoting your music on a viral marketing plan. If you have 100 of your closest friends and family members share your music on facebook and twitter, that will be 200 links to your music sent out to however amount of friends they have in total.

Lets say each friend or family member has a total of 1,000 friends on facebook, and 1,000 followers on twitter. That gives you a potential reach of 200,000 people. Don't get too excited though... most likely all of those people will not look at your link. You should normally expect 2% to 5% of those people to check out your music.

So with the family and friends first approach, granted they actually have 1,000 friends on facebook and twitter you can expect 4,000 - 10,000 clicks through to your music. From that point your music will have to do the rest. If people really like it they will comment and share it with their friends as well. You could really get to a whole heap of views this way.

Tip #2: Sharing your music on forums can help out a whole lot. If you go to these websites and participate (meaning comment on other people's music) people will return the favor. Make sure you are sharing your music on actual forums that are based on music and that you read the forum rules before you share your music.


Tip #3: Sharing your music at peak times is very beneficial. Based on my research there are actually perfect times to share your music and here they are.

- 9am est, 12pm est, 3pm est, 6 pm est

Tip #4: Hiring a professional music promoter is something independent artists overlook. Even if you are working hard (3 to 5 hours per day or more) promoting your music, the benefits of having a great promoter on your team are endless. Your exposure will be more wide spread, as most professional music promoters normally have a better strategy, and more resources. This can come in handy seeing as its a well known fact that after exhausting all options to ask friends and family to listen and share, all other messages from an artist trying to self promote tends to look like spam.

The small amount out of pocket it takes to pay for good music promotion services now a days is well worth getting your music heard by more people, getting radio play that pays royalties, and getting the almighty right to feel accomplished.

WARNING! - There are a whole lot of promoters and music promotion services out there who are promising a certain set number of plays, or likes and other stats for a low price. Those are fake views and stats. If you get those you could be banned from certain websites. If you get those services and get away with it you still will have nothing to show for it but a whole lot of views. Make sure you find yourself a reliable music promotion service that will get you organic views, likes, plays, comments and downloads.