I received an email from CDbaby and they are offering me a £7 off Voucher for digital distribution of my song. At first, I could not remember if I signed up with CDbaby so I was a bit in a daze but then, it came to me at the right time. I recorded a song from my Macbook using Garageband and it's called Astral Projection. It was a nice guitar instrumental, very relaxing. I made a mini-music video of the song in a dream-like inspired scenery. I went to Guitar Central and recorded some parts of the video then I send my recording to Untapped Talent to be mastered. After all the hardwork and massive DIY effort, my song now is out on iTunes and other major digital distribution i.e. Google Play for Android, Amazon, Play.com and of course CDbaby.
It was released on Monday, October 14, 2013. I was too excited that the night before I was already checking it and searched the song on Google and found out that it was already on Play.com but on a pre-order. Also was already on Amazon but on queue, until the release date.
The launching was for me successful, I reach out to my friends on Facebook and a lot of them replied, liked and shared my song. So, instantly, I sold around 10 downloads of my song which was not bad because I paid CDbaby only $10 instead of $17 and my song is available for only $0.99 so 10 downloads offset already my initial capital. Thanks ever so much CDbaby.
In case you're wondering if it's difficult to use CDbaby and how I used the £7 off voucher, it was easy and straightforward. First, I signed up as an artist then followed every step of the way. Like trying to input details or artist bio and of course details of the song and the album. Also you have to tick how you wanted your song be distributed if its only just CDbaby or other major digital distribution like iTunes, Amazon, Google Play, etc. and also streaming like Spotify. Then, which territory would you like to send it. So, I clicked "All Countries and Territories" I wanted a wider market being an independent artist.
I had a little bit of trouble with my artwork because I did not prepare any hoping that CDbaby will give me the option or template to choose from. So I had to improvise and grabbed some photo in hope that CDbaby will accept it. Cropped and adjust the attributes to my photo and put some caption like the title of my single which Astral Projection. Then, when uploading the audio, I put the highest quality wave file that was given to me by the recording studio but it was too high for CDbaby and I had to convert it to mp3 and then it was fine.
In summary, prepare your artist bio details and your photo or artwork and your audio recording based on CDbaby's requirements so that next time there's a nice offer or voucher like this then it will come handy when all is ready.
Don't forget to get your copy guys of my song. Just search on iTunes and type Vincent Ryan Borres or even Google it and search for Astral Projection by Vincent Ryan Borres. Much appreciated guys, cheers!
The launching was for me successful, I reach out to my friends on Facebook and a lot of them replied, liked and shared my song. So, instantly, I sold around 10 downloads of my song which was not bad because I paid CDbaby only $10 instead of $17 and my song is available for only $0.99 so 10 downloads offset already my initial capital. Thanks ever so much CDbaby.
In case you're wondering if it's difficult to use CDbaby and how I used the £7 off voucher, it was easy and straightforward. First, I signed up as an artist then followed every step of the way. Like trying to input details or artist bio and of course details of the song and the album. Also you have to tick how you wanted your song be distributed if its only just CDbaby or other major digital distribution like iTunes, Amazon, Google Play, etc. and also streaming like Spotify. Then, which territory would you like to send it. So, I clicked "All Countries and Territories" I wanted a wider market being an independent artist.
I had a little bit of trouble with my artwork because I did not prepare any hoping that CDbaby will give me the option or template to choose from. So I had to improvise and grabbed some photo in hope that CDbaby will accept it. Cropped and adjust the attributes to my photo and put some caption like the title of my single which Astral Projection. Then, when uploading the audio, I put the highest quality wave file that was given to me by the recording studio but it was too high for CDbaby and I had to convert it to mp3 and then it was fine.
In summary, prepare your artist bio details and your photo or artwork and your audio recording based on CDbaby's requirements so that next time there's a nice offer or voucher like this then it will come handy when all is ready.
Don't forget to get your copy guys of my song. Just search on iTunes and type Vincent Ryan Borres or even Google it and search for Astral Projection by Vincent Ryan Borres. Much appreciated guys, cheers!
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