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Six Last.fm hacks every artist should use
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I wrote a whole post about this on my blog (link) but I'll spare you the pre-amble and give you the deets. If you don't have a Last.fm Artist account.... go and get one! If you do... and haven't figured out how to use the site... take some time and learn. And if you sorta know what you're doing on there, give these ideas a try.
these Last.fm hacks should deliver the music to more listeners then simply posting the music and waiting to see what hits. Regardless of how long your music has been on Last.fm, if you’re looking to push your music a little further may I make some suggestions?
1. Free play your music into the Last.fm environment. If your music is on Last.fm make sure people can FULL PLAY of your song. If you’re more adventurous make it free to download as well.
2. Write a Last.fm Journal post about your artist and cite some of the the musical influences behind the music. These connections will show up as journal entries about the other artists, it will help connect your music to the other artists on Last.fm.
3. If you have friends who use Last.fm suggest they give your album a listen and scrobble their listens. Their listens will help establish your ’similar artists’ references. This is critical because it’ll allow new listeners to discover your music via an artist they’re already familiar with.
4. Tag your songs. Tag your album. Tag your artist. Suggest your friends from point #3 tag your music as well. Common tags are useful, but if you have specific terms that describe your musical sound, use them as well. Taking some time to tag other songs that a similar sound to your music is also useful. The more music you tag, the more likely tags you’ve attributed to your music will match up with other tagged songs in Last.fm.
5. Learn the Last.fm comment/tagging code. Use their tagging code liberally when commenting in shout boxes. Pasting HTML links in a shoutbox are not only lazy, they scream the desperation of being a Last.fm nOOb spammer. Take the time and craft your inter-page links properly.
6. Join groups who support your ‘Sound’. Ask the group admin to link your artist to the group… It’s a longshot, but maybe some adventurous soul will check out your music.
As with all these… these’ are LONG SHOTS in growing an audience. Listeners still have to listen to the songs and actively participate in loving, tagging, and writing about them. These hacks are options in using the Last.fm environment to expose your music to the maximum number of listeners.
If you want to read the full post (link) or if you want to see the results I've generated with my mostly Last.fm only label Humanjava Enterprises (link).
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09/18/08
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filarion
thanks for taking the time to compile this info. i figure a lot of us use last.fm and maybe even have an artist page but don't properly take advantage of what it offers. I'll definitely dive deeper into this soon, this guide is a great help.
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filarion
I didn't mean artist page but music manager account actually.
09/19/08
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RRine
how do you actually add albums and music to last fm???
09/19/08
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vveerrgg
@filarion noprob. figure we're all in the same situation... making music and just looking to share it to an audience who'll appreciate it. so it's the least i could do
@RRine go to this URL link and create an account.
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RRine
thanks vveergg
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