Reverbnation is a web service for musicians which allows them to upload, stream, download, play and sell their music online. The site runs an active Music Chart for all genres that is updated daily and provides other tools for fan links and a fully optimizable profile page. It is ranked in the top 4,000 of all websites for internet traffic by
Alexa.com, which ranks traffic flow throughout the worldwibe web. Reverbnation is probably the best tool for new musicians on the internet.
Going onto a new web service always takes a while to get used to the system, what tools are available and how it all works. Reverbnation was no different, but we were very impressed with the facilities available and didn't lose any time working our artist profiles and creating a label profile for
Gateway Music. John created
Solar-Isis and gathered a few friends to work on some club/dance music, his favoured style as he had been a DJ in Germany many years before. Reverbnation is a virtual online music community. If you 'fan' a musician, in most cases they will come back and 'fan' you in return. However, there is a limit of 1,000 artists you can add yourself as a fan too, but that wasn't going to concern us immediately.
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| Desmond Lewis |
Within twenty-four hours,
Solar-Isis has risen over 18,000 places in the global chart and were in the local top 100 in two days. John had been working with
Andrea and
Desmond too and within a week they were all in the top 10 of their respective local charts. Everybody was delighted with the results, but John knew that the hard work was about to begin as the majority of the band equity score had to be taken from the previous two weeks plays, visits and other activity. By the beginning of March,
Andrea and
Desmond were fighting it our for Number 1 in their local Dartford R&B chart. Meanwhile
Solar-Isis were closing in on their own top spot after featuring at #1 in the Hot Chart climbing an incredible 18,364 places the day after they launched their online profile. It's all starting to look very promising!
Maybe, just maybe, the guesswork from last month was a lucky shot! Want to know how we did it? All in good time, more later!
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