Q&A: How do independent music artists do selling their music on cdbaby? With promotion from myspace and mp3.com?

Question by Woodstockt67: How do independent music artists do selling their music on cdbaby? With promotion from myspace and mp3.com?
Is there money to be made? Can a artist make enough for a car payment just being an internet musician?

Best answer:

Answer by musicalone8123
You could…I know people who make good money selling their music online. But…these are people who usually perform live regularly and, therefore, have built up a good, reliable following. I used myspace and some other sites to try to promote myself, without performing, and it didn’t really work out for me. People who use myspace care more about having a high number of friends than discovering new artists, let alone buying some unknown person’s $ 10+ CD when a lot of us are unwilling to buy a known artist’s entire CD (I know I don’t buy CDs anymore). Another thing is, of course, how good your music is and what genre it is. I’ve found that rock groups seem to do the best.

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