Music Hosting Websites

There are a plethora of sites which allow you to upload band profiles, photos and mp3s. Most of these accounts are free, with the option to upgrade to premium features if you consider it worthwhile. I spent a fair whack of time putting our material on the free accounts and then monitoring progress. Below is a sample of the sites I used and responses gained over the initial 10 day period. I will provide updates of progress on these through this blog over time.

UNSIGNEDBANDWEB.COM
The most successful at this early stage with 47 streams and 27 downloads over the first few days. Comments left as well. 8/10

ISOUND.COM
286 visits and 13 plays – that’s a huge number of visitors without a great percentage streaming the songs. However, 13 plays can’t be sniffed at. – 7/10

RECORDSCOUT.COM
36 visits and 11 plays – not bad. 7/10

REVERBNATION.COM
19 visits, 4 fans, 1 play – now 4 fans and 1 play just doesn’t add up. How can you be a fan when you haven’t listened? Looks like it uses the Myspace definition of friendship. OK though. 6/10.

MP3UNSIGNED.COM
104 visits and 0 downloads. That’s a skelping lot of page hits without a single download. There is of course the possibility that some visitors have followed the link to our Bandcamp site and downloaded tracks from there. 4.5/10

BROADJAM.COM
1 play and 1 ‘connection’. – “Mom, I thought I told you to stay in the car” 2/10

INDIE911.COM (aka HOOOKA)
0 plays – Elvis has left the building. 0/10