Musicians: Meet Your Audience With Online Radio
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Being an independent musician, I have found it quite an obstacle to establish a loyal fan base and earn a living doing what I love. They can’t listen to us without them knowing we exist. However, how can we introduce ourselves and our style of music? Online Radio
These days, most artists set up a MySpace page or a website. Those are great tools, of course, but it still does not help to have a web site or MySpace page if no one knows who you are. How can an independent band get discovered by their potential audience?
Listeners need to be able to find you and, with the help of a fabulous online radio station that I discovered, that is exactly what is happening for my group. Thanks to IM Radio, we now have exposure to a large international audience, we are able to communicate with our fans, and we feel like we are in control of our music. That is very important when you put your heart and soul into what you do.
IMRadio.com is very easy to use. We simply signed up for a free account in a couple of minutes, then we began uploading our audio files.
For listeners to use IMRadio is effortless as well. When you go to the web site, there is a drop-down box that lets you choose the genre you would like to listen to. There are many different options! You can just imagine every type of music – even some that you have probably never heard of. Acid jazz, adult contemporary, alternative, Americana, country., club music, emo, dance, death metal,and grunge are some of the categories included.
A couple of non-musical categories to choose from – comedy/novelty and spoken word/poetry are also available at IMRadio. When searching for material appropriate to their particular station, radio stations can just come along and seek Airplay Direct. Without having to contact you and wait for you to post them a CD, they can download it instantly and get it into their playlists quickly once they have found your music.
My band and I continue to enjoy the results of making ourselves available on IMRadio.com. It is such a kick to know that so many more people are enjoying our tunes, and we love hearing from our new fans. IM Radio is the perfect tool for artists who want to get their songs into radio rotation with no charge whatsoever. Online Radio
Tags: Artists, Musicians, Online Radio, Radio, Songs
