29 Apr

Internet TV Stations And Advertising Revenue



There were some very strong structural reasons why advertising was hard to obtain for Internet TV stations, and that this was allowing the free-to-view space to be inhabited by the main channels and broadcasters, who could subsidise their Internet TV operations with revenue from the traditional broadcast channel.

Is there a solution to these issues ? Well, if there isn’t one yet, then one can certainly be constructed. Firstly if the tv player software could pull in advertisements from an external source and integrate them smoothly into the schedule stream, and that external source could be an advertising agency or a buying agency, so that the count of the number of times an advertisement played could be independently verified, then that would be a good start.

Secondly, Internet TV station owners could reposition and reframe themselves away from the TV advertising model. What I mean by this is that just because you want TV advertisements, doesn’t mean you buy into the whole TV advertising model and the way TV advertising is bought and sold ie the advertisement is not the whole model.

There is another advertising model that I see as being more appropriate, the press advertising model. Let us suppose for a moment that you are a manufacturer of sealed unit windows, and you have just made a technical break through that means you can produce windows that are lighter, stronger, retain heat better, reflect sunlight better, and more resistant to breaking.

Your market place is the architects, the structural engineers and specifiers, and the construction companies themselves roughly in that order. What you need to do is create an Advertising campaign that generates awareness initially, and follows that up with technical data, and gets some buildings built or refurbished with your windows.

That Press Advertising campaign is going to be based around advertisements in the “trade” press that each key group architects, structural engineers/specifiers, construction companies and builders etc) read because that is the most cost effective route into that audience.

So, as an advertiser, you are “buying” a discrete targeted group purely on the basis of their profession and their role in the total buying process for your product. And that is also what you are selling as a station owner. And that needs to be your pitch to the advertising agency or media buyer (or both), you want video based advertising (and you are happy to be accountable, and you can provide click-throughs to the advertisers web-site) that is relevant to the audience you have on your Internet TV station.

You have an audience that is valuable to specific advertisers. And ideally your monthly viewing audience is larger than that of the relevant trade or specialist press publication. Clearly the tighter and more homogenous your audience, and the tighter and better targeted your programmes, and the more relevant your proposition is, then the more likely you are to get advertising.

And you need to design this into your Internet TV station from the start if you are to have any chance of getting significant levels of advertising revenue. Essentially, you are competing with the trade press, and you can use their advertising rate card to structure yours. So the media buyers and advertising agency planners you would need to talk to are those dealing with Press and/or buying/planning Press campaigns, rather than TV. The third issue I discussed in the previous article was the typical audience size of an Internet TV station, compared with a programme audience on a typical mainstream broadcast TV station -there’s no comparison, your tens of thousands, maybe hundreds of thousand of viewers per month, against several millions for 1 programme on 1 day !

However, it should be apparent that comparing your audience of several tens of thousands of architects (say) a month against the readership of, say, Construction News, is going to be a much better match, you may even have better figures. There is another possibility I want to raise, which is of a family of Internet TV stations, all broadly targeted at 1 group, in much the same way that traditional press publishing companies have families of journals. Take for example an Internet TV station aimed at Vets, that could be allied with Internet TV stations aimed at dog owners, cat owners, horse owners etc etc.

So while Internet TV may be your communication medium, your business model, I believe, should be closer to that of specialist press publishing. Now, when you go on Joost, Blinx, Babelgum and similar internet video content aggregators, and your content is buried along with thousands of hours of all other sorts of video content aimed at God only knows who, its no surprise that these businesses struggle with advertising revenue, and you aren’t likely to get much.



29 Apr

Cell Phone Base Stations and your Health



As cell phones grow in popularity, cell phone service companies are working to keep up with the service demands by building hundreds upon hundreds of cell phone base stations. These stations, also known as cell phone base transceiver stations or telecommunications structures, are low-power, multi-channel two-way radio towers that are essential to maintaining the cellular network.

These cell phone base stations have large antennas for the receipt and transmission of cell phone signals and to connect cellular phone users to the rest of the network as well as to the fixed-line phone system. These antennas are either mounted on top of the transmission towers of the base stations or they are mounted on the roofs of the base station. They must reach a certain height in order to ensure that they create an ideal width of coverage.

Base stations and cell phones are essentially two-way radios and therefore produce a certain degree of RF radiation in order to communicate with each other. Therefore, people living and working near these cell phone base stations will experience a level of RF radiation exposure. However, as cell phone base stations are only low-power transmitters (for short-range use) and as the radiation occurs at the level of the antenna – very high up – the exposure levels to the RF radiation are quite low.

However, if you live near a base station, work near a cell phone base station, or if your children have one near their school play ground, you may still be concerned that there may be health risks involved in being near the base stations so regularly. Fortunately, the consensus among the international scientific community seems to be that the level of exposure to the radiation from the antenna is far too low to be able to result in any kind of health risks, as long as people don’t actually come in direct contact with the antenna itself.

As the antennas are on the very top of the cell phone towers, and not along the length of the towers, this means that keeping your distance only comes naturally. You’d have to climb the full height of the tower in order to come in contact with the antenna.



29 Apr

Learn To Play Piano - Let The Train Station Teach You About Piano Playing



Learn to play piano on a train station? Let me show you what you can learn about piano playing as you wait for your train!

Well, all people seem to go by car these days but we might have had the privilege to go by train and this experience can teach us a lot about piano playing:

1. You want to go somewhere by train. In piano playing this is the wish you have to learn something on the piano.

2. You go to the train station trying to find a suitable train. Before you can know if you are taking the right train you have to decide where you want to go. When learning to play the piano this is the goal you want to reach.

3. Before buying a ticket to the right train you have to decide when you want to arrive. When you learn to play piano this means when your goal is to be accomplished.

4. When you know these things it is much easier to find the right train. In piano playing this means that when you know what you want to accomplish as a pianist and when you want to have accomplished it it is much easier to select a proper method to use to reach your goal.

5. Now you can buy a ticket to the right train. This is when your decision becomes a commitment. Learning to play the piano can involve money but the most important investment is your work and motivation. Through a commitment you gain momentum to accomplish the piano playing goal.

6. After having bought a ticket most of the job is done. Left is only to find your train and your seat and then relax. In your piano playing this means that when you have decided what you really want to accomplish it is much easier to progress. You know where you are in your piano skills, where to begin your work and you don’t have to waste your energi by wondering what to do.

Do you have to take the right train?

Some unusual people might think it is okay to take any train and travel for the fun of it with no thought about the destination. If you feel that way about your piano playing and are comfortable with it it’s okay I guess.

Let me share some thoughts…

The reason why I started to be very interested in computers way back in the late 80’s was because of what I believed that computers could help me with. I was very interested in composing music and had used pen and paper so far.

I tried to write nice sheets with music but it took a lot of time and if I wanted to change something in my compositions, which I often wanted then and even now, it was difficult.

The notation programs back then were difficult to use but I perused the manuals because I had this great goal before me that computers and notation programs could help me with my creative endeavors.

The goal was actually to compose music and the means was computers and notation programs.

Computers have become much easier to use and notation programs more sophisticated since then and I feel that I have reached the goal to become more effective as a composer through the use of computers as a means for my music composing.

Some of my friends have used computers the opposite way. They have been interested in computers and have aimlessly installed and uninstalled programs and changed os or messed around in the Windows directory and so on.

I guess we could say that their goal was to have fun with computers, even if they haven’t expressed it that way, and I think they also reach their goal.

What I wanted to say with this is that it is much easier to select methods to use and to be really motivated when you learn to play the piano if you know what you want to accomplish.

Take the right train and enjoy your journey into piano land!



28 Apr

Online Games – the Ideal ‘sit at Home’ Playing



Video games not only playable on play stations, PS2, Xbox etc. you can also play on computer. As a fact computers are considered as the best medium to play games. The websites of online games are endless. These sites can be availed anytime easily and swiftly. You will find several sites that offer free games.

There are other reason of increasing popularity of online games is that there are huge range of choice that are available for your benefits. Everybody has liberty to play their favorite without any external disturbance. The other advantage of playing online games is that you can find a partner in any game without forcing or requesting any one. The competitor with whom you play game is unknown to you and may more powerful. So that, the attempt and effort you make during playing games become more exciting and interesting.

The graphics and layout that are used in these games are very advanced that seems like the every models and background of the games are real. There are some thematic games that create lots of excitement among the gamers. These types of games attract lots of gamers. Apart from this, online games are perfect way to spend free time. You can play online games any time. There are different types of games like action, adventure, dress up, makeover, shooting, funny, racing games, etc.

There are numerous websites that offer online games that you play anytime. These sites are easily accessible. If don’t have the address of websites then the easiest way to find the games is search engines such as Google, Yahoo and MSN. Many websites offer free games. So it is good for you because you can try or play as many games as you want without paying. It is most beneficial for those people who cannot afford to purchase latest games.

You can play these games as well as download also. The process of downloading is also very simple as all the instructions are given on the website. Just follow the instructions to download and play games with any disturbance.



25 Apr

Learning to Play by Ear



So perhaps you’ve learned your basic chords or scales on your respective instrument. You’ve been working on your technique, and it’s starting to come together. There are a couple of songs that you like to play and they sound OK. When you play your axe, you’re starting to get a feel for when it’s really in tune. What now?

I cannot stress enough the importance of being able to play by ear. Everything that you’ve ever heard anyone play on your instrument is at your disposal - you just have to figure it out. Learning how to play tunes or instrument parts using your ear is just like anything else you practice: the more you do it, the easier it gets. If you do it often enough, you won’t even need your instrument to figure it out. The concept of teaching your ear to decipher musical structures as they’re being played is called ear training and it’s been practiced and honed for centuries.

Whether you are interested in learning to play the guitar by ear, or virtually any other instrument for that matter, there are a number of excellent learning aids available to assist you! The current state of learning aids for ear training is quite well these days (thank you for asking). With a variety of books, CDs, DVDs, and even software, there’s plenty from which to choose when you decide to add this important skill to your arsenal:

Ear Training Books -

In the musician world, there are two reknowned learning institutions, the Berklee College of Music in Boston, and Musicians Institute (MI) in LA. Both have their own take on ear training. For Berklee, it’s Essential Ear Training for the Contemporary Musician and for MI, it’s Ear Training - The Complete Guide for All Musicians. Homespun, which makes a large variety of books, CDs, and DVDs for all musicians and styles, has their take, which is Ear Training for Instrumentalists featuring a whopping 6 CDs full of exercises and drills. If you’re a guitar or bass player, you’ll definitely want to check out Ultimate Eartraining for Guitar and Bass by Tribal Tech’s Gary Willis. My friend Chris, who’s a working electric jazz bassist in NYC, absolutely loves this book.

Ear Training Videos -

Playing the guitar by ear, or nearly any other instrument for that matter, is not as hard as you may think! For videos, Berklee has produced Harmonic Ear Training (DVD). This 73-minute DVD will help you recognize chord progressions quickly and listen to music more analytically. Bass players get a real treat, as jazz bass great John Patitucci has released John Patitucci - Electric Bass 2: Soloing Ear-Training And Six-String Technique Video, which teaches soloing by stressing the importance of ear training.

Ear Training Software -

As you might expect, software is a natural choice for teaching ear training because it’s interactive. The cream of this crop is Ars Nova Practica Musica which is both Windows and Macintosh compatible, covers just about every aspect of ear training, and features customizable exercises. Ear Training Coach is a more affordable option and offers a 10-grade curriculum in ear training and sight-reading. However, the piece de resistance and the one tool that should be in everyone’s ear training bag is the SlowGold CD-ROM. This nifty piece of software lets you slow down any piece of music on CD or MP3s without changing the pitch. So if you’re learning to play a passage from a recording, and it’s too fast, just run it through SlowGold to hear every single note at the exact pitch it’s played.

Ear Training Hardware -

Not surprisingly, music equipment makers have gotten into the ear training game, and not surprisingly, the offerings are particularly good for electric guitar and bass guitar. The Tascam CD-GT1 MKII Guitar Trainer and the Tascam CD-BT1 mkII Bass Guitar Trainer features the same slowdown technology of the SlowGold software, but have housed it in a standalone unit with a built-in CD player, effects, and a headphone jack for silent practicing. Tascam has even made one the vocalists, the Tascam CD-VT1 Portable CD Vocal & Performance Trainer, which has a Vocal Cancel feature that removes the vocal from the CD during playback. Karaoke will never be the same …

Learning aids aside, one really useful exercise is to pick out a recording of a simple tune that you like. Listen to it very carefully. See if you can determine when the band is changing chords. If you can pick out where these chord changes occur, then you’ll know the points in time when you need to determine what the next chord is.

Tune your instrument to the recording. Take the first chord in the tune. As it plays, try to pick out a low note on your instrument that best matches that chord. There should one note that resonates with the recording. Did you find it? This is the root note of that chord. If this note is a C, you know that the first chord is a C (something). It could be a major chord, a minor chord, a 7th chord, but whatever it is, it’s a C version of that chord. If you’re listening to “Hey Jude”, the root note for the first chord is an F. If you’re listening to “Wonderwall”, it’s an F#. If it’s “Layla”, it’s a D …

Now that you have your root note, the next step is determine what the quality of the chord is. Is it a major or minor chord? Is it a power chord? One surefire way to determine this is trial and error. Assume it’s a major chord. Test out this possibility by playing the major chord for your root note along with the recording. Does it sound good? Does it resonate? If so, you’ve just figured out what the first chord is. If not, try a minor chord. Play the minor chord for your root note along with the recording. Does this sound good? Does this resonate? Try a few different choices. If you get stumped, look at the sheet music or transcription of this recording. This is your answer key, so to speak. If you’re just starting out and need a lot of easy tunes for practice, there are some great 3-chord songbooks such as The Guitar 3 Chord Songbook and Favorite Songs With 3 Chords.

After you’re figured out the first chord, go to the next point in time where this changes, and figure out what the second chord is. Repeat this process until you’ve covered the entire tune. A lot of popular music is cyclical in that the same 3-4 chord pattern will often repeat throughout the tune, so you may not have to figure out more than 3-4 chords for the entire song. Yes, when bands write great songs using just “three chords and an attitude”, it makes your job a lot easier.

So why would you want to do this? Well, first of all, you’re improving your ear. Secondly, you’re improving your knowledge of chords because you’re forcing yourself to play a variety of chords. If you know your root note for a particular chord is an F#, but you don’t know what the quality is, you may have to test out an F# major chord, an F# minor chord, an F#7 chord, and so on. This solidifies your knowledge of chords throughout the parameters of your instrument. The more tunes you figure out, the easier it is to find and play these chords. The other benefit of going through this process is that you’re playing along with recordings, which is going to make you’re playing better, because you’re subconsciously absorbing all the nuances of the recording into your playing.

The main thing is to not get discouraged and to do it on a regular basis. Turn on the radio and try your hand at whatever’s playing. If you don’t like the tune, change the station. Put it on the classical station - yes, you can play along with classical ones too. Don’t be afraid. It’s all just music, and in the end, armed with just an ear and the knowledge of some basic chords for the trial-and-error process, you can figure out how to play it.



25 Apr

Add More MySpace Plays Whenever You Want Them, Increase Plays, Get Signed And Climb The Charts



If you want to jump start your myspace music promotional campaign and watch and increase your MySpace song plays you need to follow a deliberate strategy.

You can increase your Myspace music plays - Even choose how many plays go to each individual song and if you do this consistently you will get attention to your artist or band and get on the Myspace music charts.

Record labels, corporate sponsors, booking agents and music magazines all search for new music artists on Myspace everyday. Make sure you are usng this to your advantage.

Here is what you must remember:

Fact:

The number one Myspace criteria music executives use to determine If you are a possible profitable artist Is the total number of plays on your profile.

Fact:

Major labels search for new artists that are supported by large total plays count numbers on your MySpace music player

Fact:

More plays get you attention. It’s the number one factor to get on the Myspace charts. While having lots of friends on Myspace Is Important - It’s only useful if you have targeted a REAL fan base - It’s proven that the very first information looked at are your song plays!

It all starts with the plays so make sure you have a impressive Myspace music player count.

What you need to look for as you start your myspace music player promotions are the following:

* Cost effective solution for plays and views so you can afford to consistently promote

* Add plays to Myspace music, video and Youtube services all at once

* Cycle a complete playlist of songs. Each song gets equal plays

* Choose which songs you want to target. Give new releases more plays

* Add your plays whenever you want

* Emulates 500+ web browser types, operating systems and more to make each hit truly unique

* No need for proxy server configuration

* Relay through a network which can emulate over 10K+ unique visitors around the world

* Browsing agent always changing to stop website from catching on to repetitious traffic

* Use on as many different Myspace band and Youtube profile’s as you want - no restrictions

* Solid and stable software

* Fast and attentive customer support

* Free software updates for life

Make sure all these features and services are offered in order to have the most successful online music marketing strategy.

Important: Don’t let fans come to your page and see 20, 30, or 50 plays! People like to be a part of something big and don’t want to miss out. Use TuneBoom Pro to promote, then when they see a high song play count and see that your song plays are increasing, they will be more likely to click and listen to your music and become friends and fans.

A solid well executed myspace promotion campaign will help you attract record labels, newspapers, magazines, publicity and press, brand new fans, radio and television stations,venues, performance locations, A & R scouts, booking agents and all important music executives.

Use only a proven promotion tool for indie labels and artists to compete at a major level with verifiable results, Increasing your visibility, super-charging your traffic, and getting you more plays so you can out-rank the competition fast and get noticed.

With a well thought out plan you can now use the same strategy todays top successful popular artists are using to kick start your career to the top!

You can expose your music faster than any other promotion available anywhere and you can do it yourself, no need to hire a expensive music marketing or promotion company.

Remember by doing this to get more Myspace plays you increase Myspace plays on your music player giving you a much bigger chance of getting noticed.

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24 Apr

Sony Play Station



About Sony

Globally acclaimed Sony products are known for their enterprising and ingenious features.  The Sony Play Station 3 is no exception and is the aftermath of its Play Station and Play Station 2 siblings.  Born on November 17, 2006, this new video console sold over 5.5 million units in North America, Japan and PAL territories.

Significant features of Sony Play Station 3

The Blu-ray Disc unfolds a brand new generation in gaming experience and is unmatched with relation to the storage capacity of its digital media.  The Blu-ray movies, music media and online services take you into a whole new world of playing the game

There is the high definition multimedia interfacing where you can get high quality displays on the conventional and regular television portals.

The Hard Disk Drive comes with a twenty or sixty GB that can be removed

You can unite the PSP and PS3 for a great playing experience as the media is easy to exchange such as photographs, video games and movies and music from the PS3 into the PSP format. 

The Play Station 3 can play as your play station and play station 2 games, CDs and DVDs.

The Cell Broadband engine is what empowers the play station 3 and is stupendous microprocessor that provides play station 3 with excellent computer performance and power

There is continuous connectivity with Sony Play Station 3 that includes online gaming such as multiplayer gaming, text and video messages, audio chatting, download of required contents and browse on the internet

The wireless control support SIXAXIS is the potential power being play station 3

Sony Play Station Games and Networkworking

Games such as “Resistance: Fall of Man”, Oblivion, F.E.A.R, sequels such as God of War, Gran, Warhawk and others and unique games of Final Fantasy XIII, Monster Hunter 3 and Virtua Fighter 5 are some of the popular games in Play Station 3 Sony Play Station 3 is playable Microsoft’s Xbox Live network and there is a support multiplayer and a subscription fee that goes with it.

Pay station and Pay station 2 games can be downloaded online from Play station network between five dollars and fifteen dollars  Connectivity for formats for Video Play Station 3 offers support to several SDTV and HDTV resolutions. 



23 Apr

How to Have Fun Playing Online Games



al games, played offline, have been a major source of entertainment for millions of people all over the world. Everyone must have some memory of the good old days where cartridge games, plugged into the TV set, provide hours and hours of entertainment in the family.

But the problem with traditional games is that the social experience is still limited. One can only share the gaming experience with so many people when the game set has to be in the house. But gaming isn’t an isolated experience. People want to share and talk about the games they play. They want to have a social experience. So someone invented game rooms, where people can come together to buy and play games. Gamers are even willing to pay by the hour to play a game with friends even though they own the game at home.

Today, that’s a thing of the past. With the Internet, everyone can play and share their gaming experiences with anyone. They can play the game from the comfort of their own home in their web browser, and interact without someone half way across the globe. Talk about the power of technology.

But that’s not all. To make the online gaming world a more exciting place, some people have invented a way to transform traditional games into an online format, and allow web users to play the game on the Internet. Yes, we’re talking about all time favorites like Super Mario Brothers, Punch Out, Tetris, Puzzle Bubble, and many other popular games. It’s no surprise why so many young people love the Internet. They can now play their favorite games to their heart’s content without having to folk out money for costly game stations or cartridges.

And the possibility of being able to interact with their friends online just makes the whole gaming experience so much more attractive. I mean we’re talking about a major paradigm shift here. Most gamers are turning to the Internet to satisfy their gaming appetite. There’s just so much more that can be done on the Internet that cannot be done using traditional mediums. Even modern game consoles are integrating the Internet into their hardware and software.

This means that the whole gaming industry has taken on a whole new direction. Due to ease of purchase on the Internet, whole new business models have sprung up. Selling of merchandise, virtual credits, characters, gaming accounts have sprung up. All these activities are unheard of before the Internet.

The best part about gaming on the Internet is that if you don’t have the cash, you can always play for free. There are thousands and thousands of free games on the Internet that doesn’t require a purchase. Some websites do not even require user registration and you can start playing right away. So surf smart, play smart, and most importantly, have fun!

23 Apr

Ringtone - Shake it Ringtone | Metro Station ~ Shake it Ringtone





Click Here to Download the Shake It Ringtone by Metro Station


Shake It by Metro Station is becoming a massive hit single and the Shake It Ringtone is one of the most popular ringtones in the world right now. The song is being played on radio stations all over the world and is ranking well on many music charts. The Shake It Ringtone is quickly becoming one of the hottest ringtones available. Shake It is the third single released from electro/pop group, Metro Station from their self-titled debut album.

It is their first charting single, so far reaching #10 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #6 on the Canadian Hot 100, as of June 2008. Shake It has already reached #7 on the Billboard Pop 100. The single was certified Gold by the RIAA on June 13, 2008. Shake It was used in a TV spot for the film What Happens in Vegas… and was also featured in an ad for the American version of So You Think You Can Dance in Australia.

If you are looking to get a new ringtone for your phone, the Shake It Ringtone is a great choice. To download the Shake It Ringtone by Metro Station, simply click on the link below and sign up. You will be able to download the Shake It Ringtone and you also receive bonus ringtones, just for joining. Don’t wait any longer - click on the link below and get the Shake It Ringtone on your phone now!

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22 Apr

How To Get More Plays On Your Music Site To Get Noticed By Record labels And Get More Fans



Already on MySpace? Want to get more plays on your songs and rise to the top of the charts? Want to get your music heard by important record label executives and hundreds and possibly millions of people all over? In order to get more plays on your songs on your MySpace music site, you have to do a few things. Just like the top artists at the major record labels, running a consistent promotional campaign is key.

To be successful, you’ll have to maintain consistency to be sure your music gets attention, stands out, gets you the maximum number of listens, and reaches the most people in your MySpace fan base. Most importantly, you have to make sure that anyone who comes to your MySpace music page is listening to your music and telling their friends to come to your page to listen to your music. This shows those big music executives that your music is worth listening to, and that millions of people everywhere are doing just that — listening to it.

To keep new fans coming in on a regular basis, you’ll need to make sure that you are uploading different songs regularly. Keep updating your blog with stories about your music and funny or outrageous adventures, and keep rotating the profile picture on your MySpace music site. It’s something different that is going to get your page noticed over the rest of the musicians out there. Something new will have your fans returning to your page to read your band updates, look at your recently updated pictures, and tell their friends about your most recent awards, tour dates, or concert venues. Don’t be afraid to promote, promote, promote yourself to radio stations, news stations, and other media outlets like magazines or morning shows to get your sound heard. Let them know about how many plays and Views you are getting.

The benefits of getting more hits on your music site and more plays on your own songs is the draw of big record executives; they want to know that your music is popular and that you are bringing in a wide variety of fans. The more plays you have, the more attention you will get. It’s that simple. It’s the number one factor that will drive your name to the top of the MySpace music charts. Fortunately TuneBoom Pro offers many services that were once only available to the major artist and labels at a affordable fee. They even offer a new reliable D0-It-Yourself software and prompt attentive customer service.

If you have a lot of friends, it’s only really useful if your music is getting at least as many plays as would be natural. If you have 50 plays on each of your four songs, there’s a good chance that having 157,983 friends isn’t going to get you very far with the record labels. There isn’t a large chance of being noticed by a label.

In addition, don’t forget to auto play your song list so that each of your songs gets an equal amount of playing time. A listener is likely to let the list play if you have the songs automatically play instead of having to hit the play button on each song title after the last one stops.

When you put up a new song, design a press release to let your fans know about it. Remember, the more people that come to your page, the more likely it will be that your music will receive more plays. If someone likes what he or she hears, they could play a song on repeat and up that count to more than one per person. And if there are hundreds of people out there that want to listen to your most recent ear-catching tune, the number of plays could rise steadily up and up until success is inevitable.