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Selling Your Music Web is Easier Than You Think.

The Internet is loaded with sources to endorse your performer sell music Online direct to your fans, with no middleman (a.k.a. record label) to take a big piece of the action.

many of these organizations provide their services for free, others ask for reasonable fees for more elaborate music marketing plans. You will find here web sites that advocate you sell your traditional compact disc, as well as ways for you to  encourage  and circulate your MP3 files.

Sites Where You might Sell Your Music Online

compact disc Baby.com (http://www.cdbaby.com)

CD Baby.com only sells music that comes directly from musicians. They won’t accept music from distributors. All you need to do is send them your CD s. They will warehouse them, sell them to your customers and pay you directly every week.

Garageband.com (http://www.garageband.com)

Garageband Records offers this service in partnership with CD Baby.com, allowing you to leverage their branding to sell your music to hundreds of thousands of music buyers globally. In addition to all of the services offer ed by CD Baby, Garageband Records will establish an Album Profile page for your band where you can enter your sleeve notes and choose tracks on your album that are furthermore on garageband.com. You can link to this page from your own website, so all of your visitors have instant access to purchase your music. Garageband promotes your CD  and CD Baby mails you a check every week.

Hostbaby.com (http://www.hostbaby.com)

likewise in conjunction with compact disc Baby, Hostbaby is a full service Internet hosting company with tools, services, technology and special features only geared toward performers and performers. You’ll be able to host a full service music website with all of the bells and whistles for a  profoundly low monthly fee. Extra services that other hosting organizations charge for are included in this special hosting package for performers and performers.

CD  Street (http://www.cdstreet.com)

This website will enable you to sell your music and all of your merchandise with their storefront and customizable Internet pages. For a one time  set up fee, your band might sell as a lot of products as you wish and accept Visa, MasterCard, Discover Card, American Express and JCB. You keep 80  percent of the sale.

MP3.com (http://www.mp3.com)

MP3.com provides tools and services that allow you to  promote  your performer while selling your music Web so that you may directly interact with your fan base with targeted messaging to announce upcoming shows or song releases.

They also provide perks such as your own Web page with unlimited disk space at no additional cost, featured performers and music, the ability to establish and MP3/ CD  formatted CD  (the net CD ), a rewards program (Payback for Playback), promotional auctions and much more.

Amazon.com’s Advantage for Music Program

Get the power and security of a proven brand with Amazon, the Web’s number 1 store with customers in all 50 U.S. States and over 160 countries around the world. If you want to align your band with a brand recognized for service, reliability, and security, then Amazon can work for you.

MySpace Music

It could make the the majority sense to sell your music Internet where you fans already know where to find you and where they love you. You put a lot of time into your MySpace promotion, so why not go ahead and offer your fans the opening  to purchase your music while they’re loving you on MySpace?

MySpace.com teamed up in a joint venture with a few major record labels to bring you MySpace.com music with the idea that embedding an Web music store in their social network would produce a more dynamic connection among you and your fans. And hopefully what that means for your performer is selling more music and merchandise Web.

MySpace music is like a one stop shopping experience for all things music, allowing you to provide more than just music. You might provide music, ringtones, concert tickets, merchandise, and more.

Because MySpace has over 110 million users, and over 30 million visit their music platform, they’re hoping to leverage this traffic and familiarity so that MySpace Music will give Apple iTunes a run for their money.

It certainly makes a lot of sense.

No matter which web site you select to sell your music On-line, the fact of the matter is that On-line music sales are the wave of the future that is happening now and downloaded music will surpass compact disc  sales in less than 2 years. So if your band isn’t selling your music On-line yet, now is the time to get busy. It is easier than you think and only a few clicks away.