Should you give your music away ?

[scott_robinson]

The point is if people don't want to download something they won't.

Example. I put a liveset up the other day and it had maybe 5 downloads from here and that was free. So it's not down to weather a track is free or not. I am sure if it had been Dave the Drummer there would have been 500 downloads.

This is interesting. Even when stuff is free it doesn't mean people will download it. You need to be established for people to be interested. To do that you need fans to get fans you need to work hard to either get gigs or release records. If you are an unknown there is not much chance of that these days and if you don't have a tune or 2 out then you wont get booked.

Having gone over this in my mind last night I was wondering if anyone would be interested in an experiment.

I suggest we take an established artist and an unheard of artist and make people pay a reduced amount, say 1 euro, for the established artist and offer the unheard of artists track for free. Then count downloads up and gather some stats.

I think the established artist will still get more downloads despite the fact the people have to pay because people don't give a crap about unheard-of's but offer a track by a well established name for a bargain Euro and that artist will still win.

So I will offer a track for free, maybe a few of us can then all we need is an establish artist to step forward and offer up a track.

Does this sound stupid or interesting?

[teknonotice]

interesting idea scott..what format are we talking?

I got some quality techno released on my label which Henry himself has said is good and others lap up..

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[scott_robinson]

well I guess MP3 would be fair to both parties. Glad you thought it was an interesting idea.