How to Submit Your Music to Pandora
Pandora is currently my (any many music fans’) favorite place to go to listen to music. The listening experience is great, the suggestion algorithm works pretty well, and it’s apps are available on any mobile device.
Any band should therefore ask, “How do I get my music on Pandora?” Here’s how to get your music on the site…but be warned, it’s not easy:
Submitting Music to Pandora: What You’ll Need
1) A physical CD of your music
2) A unique UPC code for that CD. (If you don’t have one, you can get one at NationWideBarcode.com, or at many other music services including CDBaby.com, ReverbNation.com, and TuneCore.com.)
3) Your PHYSICAL CD must be available for sale on Amazon (not just as MP3s)
4) You must own your music, or you must have secured the rights to any music that isn’t yours.
5) A Pandora account
6) Two MP3 files for two of the songs from your CD
7) Once you have all of these items ready to go, you can submit your music to Pandora for consideration here: http://submitmusic.pandora.com/.
Getting Music on Pandora: After I Submit
The Pandora team will decide whether your music’s quality meets their standards, demands, needs, and audience tastes. You can see the status of your submission here: http://submitmusic.pandora.com/submit/status.
How Hard or Easy is it to Get Your Music on Pandora?
Sit down, and take a deep breath. Hear it from Pandora itself: “In genres such as rock, pop, or jazz, where we have a large collection to draw upon– and where we already have a great deal of music by independent, unsigned artists– a submission from an independent artist must be uniquely compelling to be accepted.”
Who knows what that means, exactly. If you have a story to tell, or a fan base already in place, I’d imagine it’d only play in your favor. Keep working on those PR briefs, people.
Most importantly, GOOD LUCK!!
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Without a fan base, good frickin luck man. Develop some sort of fan base and the money will follow.
Below are a few tips you can use to promote your band online for no cost. Those same tips will also help you develop a fan base as well.
Enjoy.
Send Out a Newsletter
You can send out a newsletter via email to your possible fans or people in your age group. It’s pretty simple and it only costs around twenty bucks a month for the service. The best way to capture people’s emails is from your website or every time you sell tickets for a show you can ask for your fans’ email address. Then you can stay in touch with them with your newsletter and give your fans updates and discounts and such.
Use Social Networking Sites
Surprise surprise right? But you really have to be using Facebook and Twitter. I’m not a fan of MySpace so I wouldn’t advise using it anyway. However, there are over 300,000,000 (that’s three hundred million) people on Facebook. Set up fan pages and stay in contact with your friends and give out promotional materials to your Facebook and Twitter friends. You’ll also want to have a nice following on Facebook because band managers and record labels look at that kind of stuff.
Post Your Music Videos on YouTube
Yes, again you’ll have to give away your goods. You can use a basic flip digital recorder and have someone tape your band doing a few songs. Then post those songs on YouTube. You can promote that on your Facebook page as well to drive more traffic. It works. This is a ninja tactic that all the internet marketers use and they are making a killing at time. And you will too.
Have a Blog
Your blog can be a free Blogger blog or you can host a WordPress blog with your domain name. Your blog will be your main website for your band. Post your music on there, sell CDs, T-shirts and even MP3s. The list is endless at how you can promote your band online with your blog. Just make sure you update the blog at least twice a week so it will rank higher in the search engines.