Audio Recording

Downloading songs from the Internet is always a “hot issue” particularly with respect to the copyright owners.

So how can you find ways to legally download free music in the Internet without registration?

Tip#1: Indie artist would offer some of their songs for free

It is indeed hard to find quality music for free on the Internet. The public domain music is fine but it was highly outdated or sound obsolete, those classical music will not appreciate the entire modern listeners.

Most websites like Amazon, iTunes, CD Baby needs users to be registered and a lot of information is needed before someone can download music. Most of them are not for free.

But thanks to the indie music industry; they are happy to share their music and would always be looking for new fans. The secret is to find them. One of reliable and easy to use website is SoundCloud:

a.) Search tracks here:
http://soundcloud.com/tracks/search

For example, leave the form blank and click “Show advance search options”. You can then select what genre you like (e.g. rock) as well as the license. You can also set if you are looking for original work instead of a cover or a demo.

Then click the following (it will turn to orange):

-free to use commercially
-free to modify
-no rights reserved
-downloadable

This is how it looks like:

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Getting to know which genre is popular is very important to you as a songwriter. Why? It’s because of marketing reasons. A very popular and high demand genre will enable you to get more income, exposure and music licensing opportunities of your music. Also with respect to music artist, belonging to a popular genre assures that you have plenty of audience and even more gig opportunities.

If the music genre is on a decline or is not popular anymore, your music will also get a fewer opportunities to earn and attract business. This means less income for a songwriter or music publisher where you are talking about music business. For an artist, it means less fans and audience. There will be fewer places that accept your gig offer or invite you to play because your genre is not that what most people love to listen.

Therefore what are currently the most popular and the best music genre for last year 2011? This is a worldwide survey using Google trends:

http://www.google.com/trends

But first, let’s mention the top nominees. These are the most common type of music genre:

1.) Pop music genre
2.) Rock music
3.) Country music genre
4.) Hip Hop music
5.) Instrumental music

Top Music Genres as of 2011

Below is the Google trends result:

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I know Jango Internet radio when I logged-in to my Broadjam account several years ago and they recommend me to submit my music to Jango for an online play. What I do next is go to Jango internet radio website:

http://www.jango.com/

And then I click the link “Artist and Labels, Get your music on Jango”.The next thing I see is this URL:

http://airplay.jango.com/music+promotion/home

Under pricing information tab; it provides some quick information such as:

250 plays – $10
1000 plays – $30
4000 plays – $100

And then with a stat that says: “1000 plays typically gets 30-50 new fans -which you can contact!”

OK now we have the stats; assuming you are planning to get an airplay. What you will get from this investment? What potential income can you get from this?
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