verry thanks for the good article and the interesting discussion. It ´s cool

Greetings from Germany
Sven Fischer

I don`t mean any disrespect to you and I see your point but although we don`t know the success of it all yet, I`m willing and waiting to find out. I`m willing to take the jump and see where I land.

As with everything in life there are no guarantees but to be honest this is one of the best ways to get out there, and let the world be your audience, and it truly is.

Please keep an eye on Sellaband and its artists because with imput and critique of any validity it will either `make` or `break` something. I believe that Sellaband is a great thing and I am willing to say that I feel it will `make` a big difference to artists and alot of listeners. The world needs to have good stir-up where the music industry is concerned! I am there to help stir.

Hope to see you on Sellaband one day

Love always, Mandyleigh

To answer to Drama 2.0, yes, 2,700 bands have signed up for the service and four have actually made enough money to record, and if you see that SellABand started in August that’s a really big achievement - you can see SAB as a new record label that less than one year after its creation has covered their expenses, made profit, have a considerable number of well-paid employees and released already 4 albums (actually 6 - 2 of them compilation CD’s) with its costs already covered even before production.

Michael - I appreciate your efforts to call early winners, but I think you’re going to be caught with your pants down. Scribd (sp?) is a worthless company. It ADDS complexity to the internet rather than decreasing it. It’s adding friction to a world with ever decreasing friction.

All of these models: online music, video, blogs, etc. Any content that is driven by what is “cool” versus what is useful will have a very low rate of success. As I mentioned on the post about the Prom Queen show on myspace, you’d need to make 1000 mini-shows to get 1 hit. The ROI is simply not there.

I think these types of concepts are the future of music as we know it, it puts the onus back onto both the artist to write and record the music they really want to, but also, it gives more ‘power’ to the consumer, allowing them to invest money towards artists and music they actually like, rather than simply following trends and marketing strategies set out by big record labels.

I think that if they aren’t already, the majors will be looking with great interest at Sellaband, - indeed, it’s something they should be worried about.

:0)

Phil

- sharing rev - along the whole way .. makes a ton of sense for everyone!

- Rbowles

in no time…internet is able to cut the red-tape in the music industry….

As a follow-up to Tuesday’s post, check this out.
The most telling paragraph for my tastes: “Unfortunately, most media conglomerates view these flurries of support for a failed pilot as a threat, not as a sign of fan enthusiasm. &#822…