This quick guide will give you a few useful starting points for promoting your music online!
Probably the most useful place to start would be making some pages for your music on the more popular social networking sites. This will be where people can come and get a good idea about your music, image and what you're about, so it's important to make it look nice and read well.
So have a quick search and find some social networking sites beyond just MySpace and Facebook - there are loads out there! Remember not to clutter things up on you pages - keep it easy for potential fans to find the information they want!
Online Music Charts
Get your music onto some of the many user-submitted music charts online - this is a great way to grow your fan base to a load of people who genuinely enjoy new music. It's also an exciting way to get the fans you've made more involved - rallying your cause and saying "Let's make it to number 1!" (Sites like Reverbnation are awesome for this) can be a fantastic method of generating hype!
With literally thousands of radio stations available, it shouldn't be too hard to find some to submit your music to and get it out to a new audience! Even the smaller radio stations are useful to promote to - if nothing else, the DJ who plays it could become your new biggest fan! Just remember to keep in contact with the DJs, send them your new material and, where appropriate, ask for bigger features, like interviews or performances.
Forums
Find a forum that discusses your genre of music... and get involved! It's not just a case of posting a single thread about your music and leaving it there - if you can keep talking, make friends, and help people out then you're much more likely to grow your fan-base that way than hoping that your lonely thread does the trick!
Now it's all well and good putting your songs up, but if no-one is searching for them then you won't get any views! Try thinking about what people are searching for - try putting the title as your genre of music. A video entitled "The BEST Electro House for 2010" is probably going to get more views than "DJ Randomguy - funky beat mix" since no-one knows DJ Randomguy (yet)!
And that's just some of the many things you can do. Be imaginative, think about where your fans will be and go forth and show the world your tuneage; itís all up to you now!
