Noise Trade is a great site for artists. It’s a site that understands the idea that for new artists to succeed, people have to hear their music - even if it’s out there for free.
Summary:
Noise Trade is based on the idea that fans spreading music is just as valuable artists selling their music. There are two ways to get an artists’ album from the site – tell three friends about the band in order to earn a free download or pay any price over $1 for the album. Both methods are beneficial for bands because they either get more fans, or they get money for their art.
Pros:
- Music can be downloaded for free by referring three friends to the artist’s album
- Before you can download a song, you have to give three emails
- These people get an email referring them to Noise Trade
- Person gets the positive feel of showing their friends new music and helping a band spread and succeed
- If someone doesn’t want to recommend the album, they can pay anything over a $1 for it
- Great business idea for bands because to reach fame the most important thing is to get people to hear the music
- People are more willing to listen to new music for free than pay $10 for a CD of the same artist
- Good model for bands to show them that eating the cost of albums is worth it in the long run
- DRM free music that is easy to share
- Sharing is even encouraged
- Embeddable player is very easy to post on blog
- Can do all the same activity from the widget as you can do from the actual website
- Such an easy site to use with limited things to do
- Very easy to understand
- 90% of sales go to artist
- Artist gets all the contact information from the people that download the album
- Downloading the full album gets people to listen and hear more than one song from an artist
Cons:
- Not very many artists right now
- Can only listen to 30 seconds of a song before getting the album
- Can’t get information about the artist except the genre
- Bio
- Contact info
- Band members
- Location
