40 Life Saving Tools For Unsigned Musicians

1. Overplay- is a music Website dedicated to the promotion and exposure of unsigned bands. It's a full blown Website that offers a good chance to sell your music online, and yes there is a growing music community.

2. Spotmeup- Simple Spotify distribution. Free way of adding your own music on Spotify.

3. Band Weblogs- features music commentary, band and music blogs, music articles, interviews, opinion, tour dates, guest music bloggers and more with free promotion and advertisement for bands. I like this site :)

4. BlogBurst- puts the web's best blogs in the hands of top-tier publishers to bring you

new traffic, new readers, and new revenue. Requirements for acceptance into the BlogBurst network: a weekly posting, family-friendly language and content, distinct, intelligent writing style and an XML syndication feed in a standard format such as RSS, RDF, or Atom - go to their website for more inf.

5. SplitGigs- a social network that helps emerging bands or musicians find gigs to play, through a simple but highly effective idea: the "SplitGig" i.e. I let your band play at my gig, then you return the favor by letting my band play at your gig.

6. Lemonrock a dynamic live music gig guide updated directly by 1000s of bands, artists and venues

7. Topspin - There’s that platform again. Not only does Topspin allow you to email your fans, but it’s also

a full-blown online music store, complete with all of your music and merch, ready for you to sell through easily integratable widgets that you can send out or set up on your site.

8. OurStage: Artists can enter original music into any of OurStage’s genre-based channels for a chance to win. Winners are featured on Amazing Radio, which boasts an international listening audience of thousands.

9. Radio Airplay: With Radio Airplay, musicians’ music plays on stations featuring

the popular artists they choose. What’s more, artists have access to reports and data about their fan base.

10. Stageit: With Stageit, artists perform live online shows via their mobile device. Fans can ask questions or request songs. Fans can also monetarily support their favorite artists.

11. Dizzyjam: Dizzyjam is a free online service in which musicians can create and sell branded merchandise. To get started, create your personalized shop, and then develop products for sale.

12. Music Gorilla: Music Gorilla connects artists with industry professionals.

Artists can sign up, upload music, and create a profile page. What’s more, the company does live, label showcases and provides artists with film and television placement opportunities

13. Bandbook: Bandbook makes your life easier. Within the platform, you can manage your schedule, track your expenses, and send private messages to anyone with a Bandbook account.

14. Artist Growth: Great for both managers and musicians, Artist Growth helps individuals schedule events, create reports, track finances, and manage tour merch all from one place.

15. TeamSnap: With TeamSnap, you can manage member’s contact information, coordinate upcoming events, track group fees, and share files within the group.

16. Unsigned Only: Unsigned Only was produced by the same team that created the International Songwriting Competition. Solo artists, bands, and singers can enter a wide range of categories, including rock, pop, country, and vocal performance.

17. International Songwriting Competition: The International Songwriting Competition is an annual song contest for amateur and established songwriters. The contest is judged by an impressive panel of judges, offering great exposure for artists.

18. Haulix: Haulix is a one-stop-shop for musicians. Using the platform, you can create promos, manage contacts, track progress, and more.

19. Kompoz: Kompoz is the ultimate collaboration tool for artists. The website allows you to upload your song idea and collaborate with other musicians from around the world.

20. Indaba Music: Indaba is a place where musicians can collaborate with some of the biggest artists and bands in the world to create new music.

21. Bandmix: Bandmix is the largest musicians wanted and musician classifieds website. Users can search through thousands of musicians in their area.

22. AirGigs: With AirGigs, songwriters and producers can connect with top studio musicians, singers, and engineers and virtually collaborate on projects.

23. SongTrust: SongTrust ensures that musicians and songwriters are able to confidently manage their music publishing. The website simplifies everything from the administration of music publishing assets to digital licensing.

24. CoPromote: CoPromote is a network of artists dedicated to helping one another grow their fan base by cross-promoting social posts.

25. Radar Music Videos: Need a music video? Through Radar, artists can reach out to up and coming filmmakers to get their music video developed.

26. Hootsuite or Buffer. These two similar sites are a serious time saver for musicians, or anyone involved in social media for that matter. It’s a central hub for posting to Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and other similar sites. You can spend 30 minutes and enter all your tweets and status updates for the entire day. These sites will post your info for you at the schedule you set.

27. TUBEMOGUL- Though YouTube is the number one video platform and has been for sometime, there are still quite a few out there than can not only help your SEO but also provide other ways for people to accidentally find you. TubeMogul allows you to upload your video one time and it will send it out to a vast array of video networks across the web.

28. MOZES, BAND TXT ALERTS (tie) You could use Twitter to communicate with fans, but not everyone wants an account. Every cell can accept text messages. Mozes is free (carrier rates apply) and robust, but pays for itself with ads that could upset some. Band TXT Alerts costs a little, but takes a way the ads.

29. Damntheradio is another great music application that I stumbled upon last week when checking out a new artist. Damntheradio sets itself apart by engaging fans through their tabs. The functionality that you have to like a page to listen to a song is nothing new, but it is a great tactic to garner more fans. Damntheradio has the edge in that its platform allows you to create great campaigns instead of just a simple Facebook tab that is essentially like your Myspace page. As an added bonus, they also have integrated with Topspin to drive sales to your online store.

30. Tweet For a Track- Probably one of the simplest ways to build buzz around a track that you have been dying to release. Tweet For A Track allows you to do pretty much exactly as it states. You upload your track, share a link, if people tweet it out or repost it on Facebook, then they get emailed a download link to your track. Setup takes little to no time at all and this is a really unique way to get your fans to continue to spread your track around Twitter and Facebook.

31. LAST.FM- Above and beyond my favorite social media platform on the internet. If you don’t have your profile up here, then you’re missing out on many potential fans. Last.fm assembles all of the tracks that you play from wherever you wish depending on what media client you’re running. Then it takes that data and compares it to your friends music along with other people that have listened to similar music and gives you recommendations based on your playlist. I have found countless bands this way and discovering your band could be just around the corner. Building a profile on here follows the wiki format so it shouldn’t be too hard for you get that up and running.

32. Fanbridge- One of Fanbridge’s motto is “If it were any easier to get fans, you’d feel like you were cheating.” They boast a massive communication toolset to help you not only garner new fans but keep the ones you have already made engaged and turn them into paying customers.

33. AWAL (Artist Without a Label)- AWAL is a full-featured music services platform built for independent artists. Powered by Kobalt. Everything you need without a label. As an AWAL member, your music is distributed without upfront fees to over 200 different digital stores and services around the world.

34. SproutSocial- SproutSocial is not exactly for musicians only, it is rather a great social media marketing tool for all. You can automate, schedule and analyze your social status updates with it, find targeted people, get customized reports and do a lot more with SproutSocial.

35. Artistlink- Helps musicians to promote music on Spotify, BeatsMusic and MTV. You can leverage the traffic in Beats Music App to drive visitors to your site or sell directly to your fans. Also, it enables you to sell directly on your Spotify artist page and get a free MTV artist page.

36. Patreon- With Patreon, you can crowdfund freely without any time limits or necessary amount to reach. Musicians can give fans the opportunity to support the content they're already releasing on a regular basis.

37. TuneCore- Sell your music on iTunes, Spotify, Google Play, Amazon, Tidal, & Deezer! Get your music in 150+ stores and keep all of your rights & revenue. Free sign up.

38. Apple’s iTunes Affiliate Program - Allows you to sell songs of other artists through your website, blog, or wherever you feel warranted and collect a commission percentage for each one sold.

39. Periscope- Periscope is a live video streaming app for iOS and Android developed by Kayvon Beykpour and Joe Bernstein and acquired by Twitter before launch in 2015. Periscope users have the option to tweet out a link to their Live Stream. They can also choose whether or not to make their video public or viewable to only certain users. Scopes can be LBB (Limited by Broadcaster) which disallows comments. The service is pretty similar to Facebooks new live broadcasting feature but Periscope connects you to a much broader variety of audience as well as allows you to reach beyond your circle of friends.

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