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CARDI B' IS TIRED OF GOAT LUCY-NOW SPEAKING AGAINST THE MUSIC INDUSTRY(...
Is your soul and spirit worth millions of dollars to give it to the negative spirit?
Sunday, December 23, 2018
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Toni Braxton loses the copyright to 27 of her songs and claim Bankruptcy
Toni Braxton loses the copyright to 27 of her songs and claim Bankruptcy
A recently single and broke Toni Braxton has lost the copyright to 27 of her favorite songs.
The six-time Grammy Award winner has filed for bankruptcy not once but twice.
The 45-year old R& B singer was given the opportunity to purchase the copyright of some of her best hits from her music catalog for $20,000 when they were put up for sale on July 15.
But Toni was unsuccessful in her bid to buy back ownership of some of her most famous hits - including You're Making Me High and was outbid by another buyer TMZ reports.
Ross M. Klein doubled the low offer Braxton made and now he now owns the rights and can profit from hits like How Many Ways and Always.
Toni made a deal with the bankruptcy court to resolve her financial woes which included settling a whopping $150,000 debt last month.
But despite her gloomy predicament she still owns the rights to her most famous hit Unbreak My Heart, which was not included in the auction - for now.
The loss of her music still comes as a bitter blow to Toni after a number of financial conflicts with her trustees.
Toni had previously filed for bankruptcy in 1998 for debts of $3.9 million and has legal trouble this year after her debtors tried to claim $754,000 in fees she made for International performances.
The singer and her trustee finally came to an agreement this week and agreed to pay the $50,000 she owed for the property and $100,000 from the performances.
She recently finalized her divorce from husband of 12 years, Keri Lewis.
The split was amicable, Lewis is the father of her two sons, Denim, 11, and Diezel, 10 and they share custody of the children.
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Best Websites To Upload Your Music For Free
Upload Your Music Online for Free
Please check out the list below on the best websites to upload your music free of charges.
1. Start your music promotion with a website
It’s important to have one platform where you control your music, content and brand image—your website. If a promoter or fan is searching for you online, the first hit they should get is your band website. This is your chance to hook them with a great first impression and win them over with an amazing user experience. Don’t be afraid to blow your own trumpet!
Even if you promote your music online elsewhere you should always have a website to list your tour dates, news, contact details and some sneak peeks!
If you don’t have a website yet, don’t worry! You can easily create a website with Jimdo below and connect your band’s social media page. What are the advantages?
- Easy music integration: Add songs from iTunes or Spotify directly on your homepage
- Videos: Easily upload videos from your performances to your site
- Contact form with map: This lets visitors know where they can find you and how they can contact you
- Social media: Link your social network profiles
- Designed for music: Use a layout that is specially designed for music websites
2. Get discovered on Spotify
Uploading your music to Spotify has a ton of advantages, the main one being a huge reach. Spotify is used by a worldwide audience with its mobile and desktop downloads. Unknown artists have the chance to shine through the “Discover” tool and “Release radar” that connects similar music. Almost every artist is in the Spotify music library, connecting your name by association with the biggest stars.
3. Post your tracks on Reddit Music
Many music channels tend to be saturated with artists but Reddit still has a lot of untapped potential for grassroots marketing to promote your music. This is the perfect opportunity to get up and personal with your potential fans and build up your brand. Reddit is interactive and there’s no distance between you and your customer base. You can introduce yourself, share your website so people can listen to your tracks and interact with your potential user base. Reddit users don’t hold back so be prepared to get some constructive (and unconstructive) feedback about your tunes.
4. Try music-related hashtags on Twitter and Instagram
Hashtags are huge on Twitter and Instagram but you’ve got to make sure you use the right ones to really see effective results. You should always add hashtags like #music, your music genre e.g. #AcidJazz and your own band/artist hashtag to get started.
On Twitter, you can look at @TwitterMusic and use trending hashtags like #newmusic, #nowplaying, and #musicvideo. Whilst on Instagram you can also search for music emojis, as well as hashtags, so try a mixture of both. Trending hashtags to look out for are #instamusic, #instanewmusic, #instanowplaying, #instalive, #instaartist. You could also try using e.g. #insta before the genre e.g. #instaacidjazz
If you play live, always have your artist/band hashtag displayed clearly at
If you play live, always have your artist/band hashtag displayed clearly at
gigs so people can tag you with credits when they post the video on their
social media page.
5. Upload your videos on YouTube
social media page.
5. Upload your videos on YouTube
Did you know? Artists Justin Bieber and Carly Rae Jepsen were discovered on YouTube! The platform offers a perfect opportunity to organize playlists, showcase your music videos and show backstage antics. The “Browse channels” offers the potential for you to be found in the “Creators on the rise” or “Popular on YouTube” section.
6. Spike on Last.fm
Last.fm has some really cool features for aspiring artists. The “scrobbling” feature checks what users are listening to most then streams songs based on the findings. Fans can subscribe to your music and they’ll receive an instant notification if you’ve uploaded a song or given an update. Users often find new music by following people with similar tastes so they get notified about their new favorite song.
7. Create buzz on Musical.ly
Musical.ly is a global video community and a favorite of Gary Vaynerchuk. If your music appeals to a younger audience (or tweens) and is video-focused this is a chance to directly target your niche market. Although Musically is only available via mobile app there’s still a lot of potential. The musical.ly market is not as saturated as bigger platforms. There’s an interesting story on EDM.com where an artist tried a three-week Musically campaign for their song and “saw monthly Spotify listeners increase from 86,000 to 902,000.” Now that’s potential!
You can click this link for more details https://www.jimdo.com/blog/best-places-to-upload-your-music-online-free/
Sean Cos Mason Is Now on Google Play Artist Hub and Google Plus Artist Page
Sean Cos Mason Is Now on Google Play Artist Hub and Google Plus Artist Page
Tuesday, December 4, 2018
Wordpress: Sean Cos Mason Topic On Rap And Emcees
Wordpress: Sean Cos Mason Topic On Rap And Emcees
You can click the link to read about Sean's thoughts about the difference between an Emcees and Rap https://seancosmason.wordpress.com/2018/12/04/what-is-the-differece-between-rapper-vs-an-emcees/
Sunday, December 2, 2018
How to create a Knowledge Panel?
How to create a Knowledge Panel?
For musicians and bands, one of the most basic SEO achievements you can make is to get a Knowledge Panel to appear for your band keyword searches.
In past blog posts, we’ve talked a lot about the different types of search results pages that matter to you as a musician. The key to unlocking many of the rich search features offered by Google for musicians and fans is to get your basic Knowledge Panel working.
Before you dig into this post and follow the advice, we suggest you head over to Chapter 1of this multi-post guide to get familiar with your SEO strategy and the Fan Journey and all of the other topics we’ve already covered. You may want to follow those steps first, including optimizing your website for SEO.
So... why do we care about getting a Knowledge Panel?
Having a Knowledge Panel helps people during the Exploration phase of the Fan Journey. It helps people get to know your band and become fans. At a glance, before they even click on a website, they can see your photos, bio snippet, and other detailed information.
Let’s zoom in on an example that we used in an earlier post, of a complete-looking Knowledge Panel for Zardonic.
Ton’s of great stuff there for fans.
For a less established band, a knowledge panel may look a little more simple, at least to start with. Like this one for Robert Bruey:
All of this information in the Knowledge Panel comes from Google’s Knowledge Graph, and reflects what Google knows about your “entity”.
Your entity is basically the “thing” that is your band, or you as a musician - at least, as far as how Google views you. If you want to nerd out a little, you can have a bit of fun looking up your own entity. You might be surprised to find you already have one.
What we need to do is to spoon feed the Knowledge Graph with knowledge about your band, in a way it that can easily understand and organize. The information that appears in your Knowledge Panel depends, in part, on the knowledge Google has available about you.
You need to spoon feed Google with knowledge about your band.
Once you feed Google with that knowledge, it will decide for itself how to display it in search result pages.
One really important caveat to all of this though, is that whether or not Google decides to show a Knowledge Panel for your band keywords depends a whole lot on how notable - in other words famous, or established - you are. Don’t let that hold you back, but keep it in mind.
So, let’s introduce Google to your band.
Establish Your Google Accounts
Perhaps the most obvious way to create a presence for your band entity in Google is to just tell Google directly. They give us a way to do that, even if it's a little convoluted. Doing this alone won't give you a Knowledge Panel, but it's a good place to start.
The first thing you'll need to do is log into your Google account, or create a new one if you don't already have one. Then, as you follow the next steps, make sure you're always logged into the same Google account.
#1: Create a Google Brand Account
The first order of business is to tell Google that you're a "thing". And not just any thing, but a band or artist specifically. You can do that by creating a Google Brand Account for your brand (band).
Yes, you need to create a Google+ page for your band. No, you don't have to use it or even remember that it exists. The most important thing is that once you do this, you've indicated to Google that you're an entity.
#2: Manage your Brand account
After doing the first step, you'll now have a Brand account for your band, which you can manage.
As you can see Bandzoogle, like many brands, has a Brand account. And of course your band (or you as an artist) is also a brand.
Your Brand account management page might look a little bit different from Bandzoogle's. Go into your Brand account and add links to your all of your band profiles around the web, and any other info you can.
#3: Add your Music to Google Play
Uploading your music to Google Play is a simple way to provide Google with more detailed information about your entity - specifically, your music. Not to mention the other added benefits of having a presence on Google Play, which we won't get into here.
It's not entirely clear whether Google uses the data from Google Play to populate the Knowledge Panel, but it seems like a no-brainer that feeding structured information directly to Google itself would be advantageous.
So, if you haven’t already, we suggest you head over to Google Play and add your music.
#4: Register Your Site in Search Console
Finally you'll want to connect your Brand account to your band website. It's not enough to simply link to your website from your Google accounts - after all, you could link to any website. You need to verify that you actually own the website, and that way Google can connect your official website to your entity. This is a step that Google specifically recommends, so it should be done.
You do this by adding your website to Google Search Console.
Add your band website to your Search Console and verify it. If you use Bandzoogle, we make verification pretty easy for you using the HTML tag.
Once you've followed these steps, you'll have associated all of this information by connecting it under a single Google account. Google will now know that your band exists. It will have data about your band including your music and other content, as well as your other band profiles around the web. It will know what your official website is. And it will know that you are the official representative of the entity.
A nice added bonus is that once you become the official representative of your entity, and once you get a Knowledge Panel, you can suggest a change directly to your Knowledge Panel. That way, you may be able to fix any issues you have with it, once it's there.
Bandzoogle lets you create a professional website in minutes with all the music promotional features you need including SEO tools, a blog, mailing list, and social media integrations. Try Bandzoogle free now!
Create a Wikipedia Entry
If you look at the Knowledge Panels of other artists, you might notice that they usually have a link pointing to the artist’s Wikipedia page, just under their bio near the top. Like this:
Google relies on Wikipedia to show biographical information in the Knowledge Panel. It also helps Google identify you as an entity.
Creating a new Wikipedia entry is not that simple unfortunately. Wikipedia has strict guidelines for approving new entries. We wrote a great post about this on our blog that can guide you towards successfully getting a Wikipedia page for your band.
We recommend you make your page entry as thorough, organized, and well-written as you can. No shortcuts. And absolutely make sure you link from your Wikipedia page to your band website - Google specifically recommends this.
If any of your band members happen to be notable enough individually to have their own Wikipedia page, do that too.
So what you can do now is head over to Wikipedia and create a entry for your band, or edit your entry if you already have one, to make it as complete as possible. Be thorough and follow the best practices advice we’ve provided.
Create a Wikidata.org Entry
It might seem redundant after making a Wikipedia page, but Google gets its Knowledge Graph data from Wikidata as well.
The information you enter into Wikidata is similar to Wikipedia, but it’s more structured. That’s why Google likes it for their Knowledge Graph - it’s easier for a computer to understand.
Keep the information about your band that’s online organized and consistent, everywhere.
Go to wikidata.org and do a search to see if you’re already there.
If you are there already, then just edit your entry to add more complete and detailed information. If not, then you’ll need to create a new “item”.
The form will look something like this:
We won’t go through it step-by-step here, but it should be fairly self-explanatory.
Just be sure to keep the information about your band online organized and consistent with what’s found in other places on the internet (like your Wikipedia page). And make it as complete as you possibly can. No shortcuts here either!
So now, you can head over to Wikidata and create an entry for your band, or edit your entry if you already have one, to make it as complete as possible. Be thorough and follow the best practices advice we’ve provided.
Create a MusicBrainz Entry
MusicBrainz is kind of like the Wikipedia of music.
Google specifically recommends artists add their band information to MusicBrainz if they want a Knowledge Panel in their band SERPs. So it’s a must-do.
MusicBrainz have their own set of rules on how to contribute. You’ll probably want to get familiar with them, and then create an account.
First, check to make sure you’re not already there, and if so just review and edit your entry as needed. If not, then go ahead and add your band’s information.
Add any album and song information you have too. Again, be as thorough and detailed as possible, and make sure the information you add here is identical to the information you’ve added to Wikipedia and Wikidata.
Also, absolutely make sure to include your band website in your MusicBrainz profile - Google specifically recommends this too (in the same place we linked to previously).
So now you can head on over to MusicBrainz and create a entry for your band, or edit your entry if you already have one, to make it as complete as possible. Be thorough and follow the best practices advice we’ve provided.
Optimize Your Images
The previous steps will cover a lot of the biographical information about your band for the Knowledge Panel. But it’s also nice to have a selection of different images to show fans as well, like this Knowledge Panel for Kaia Kater.
Obviously Google can’t simply look at an image and know it’s you. We need to indicate that to Google. In truth, the way Google chooses these images is not that clear to anyone outside of Google themselves. But here are some tips to help things along.
Firstly, of course, you have to have enough images of your band on the internet for Google to use. So, start there - get a variety of different band images online for Google to find. You’ll notice that Google only shows headshot-style images in the Knowledge Panel, not abstract images such as landscapes. So make sure you’re putting high-quality promo shots online that actually showcase you - as in, your face (or faces, if you’re a band).
Secondly, optimize the promo shot images that are on your band website by making sure your band name is in the image alt text and file name.
The alt text is found only in the HTML where the image is placed, inside the <img> tag. Here’s a made-up example of how that might look in the code:
<img src="http://www.kaiakater.com/images/kaia-kater-promo-shot.jpg" alt="Kaia Kater Promo Shoot">
Notice how the words “kaia kater” are included in the image file name, as well as the alt text? That’s the idea.
When supplying promo images to media, try to make sure they do the same thing on their websites as well, because Google might use those images too.
Another trick is to use YouTube thumbnails, which is where Google is getting Kaia Katers’ main image from currently. If you have a video on your YouTube channel that you can produce a nice still from, make it into a thumbnail.
Another trick you can try is to suggest a a main feature image directly in the Knowledge Panel, as long as you already have a basic Knowledge Panel showing, and you're an official representative of your entity. Your suggestion may or may not be accepted, but it's one more thing you can try.
One last tip: make sure your Google Brand account has one or more promotional images associated with it. This is an easy way directly associate a relevant image to your entity.
There isn’t really any hard-and-fast rule for Knowledge Panel images, but these tips should get you started.
All of the same tips also apply to albums and songs, by the way. If you have an image that is specific to an album or single, like cover art, make sure you optimize the alt text as well.
So what you can do now is go through all of the images on your site and optimize them as we described. Optimize your YouTube video thumbnails if you can. And try to make sure your images are also optimized when you’re getting press, by sending images with good file names, and maybe even requesting that they add alt text.
The Takeaway: Introduce Your Music to Google
Getting a Knowledge Panel for your band involves providing Google with the right structured information, in the places where Google specifically looks for that information.
While that’s not the only thing you need to do, it’s one of the important steps. You might also need to become more established, and you’ll also want to optimize the structured data on your own band website, which we’re going to cover in detail in our next SEO post.
So, let’s recap what you’ll want to do next:
- Establish your Google accounts, including adding your music to Google Play
- Create a Wikipedia entry for your band
- Create a Wikidata entry for your band
- Create a MusicBrainz entry for your band
- Optimize your artist images
- Make sure all of the information you enter, everywhere, is consistent and as detailed as possible
You may need to be patient, and you're never guaranteed to get a Knowlege Panel for your band name - or even to keep it once you have it, for that matter. There are other factors - like competition and notability - that affect your chances.
But taking these specific steps should bring you a lot closer to getting a Knowledge Panel for your band. And once you have that, then you can take it even further by adding more information, and getting other rich SERP features like the Event Carousel.
We'll write more on how to do that in following blog posts in this SEO series.
Special thanks to Cameron Gorham for contributing research and ideas to this post.
Read other articles in this series:
- Part 1 - SEO for Musicians: It Starts With The Fan Journey
- Part 2 - SEO Keyword Research for Musicians
- Part 3 - Music SEO: Know Your SERPs
- Part 4 - Optimizing Your Band Website for SEO
- Part 5 - How to Get a Band Knowledge Panel
- Part 6 - How to Optimize Your Band Schema for SEO
Sean Mason aka Sean Cos Mason Music "My World" Is On Google Play
Sean Mason aka Sean Cos Mason Music "My World" Is On Google Play
Saturday, December 1, 2018
A List Of Free Blog Hosts
A List Of Free Blog Hosts
- Based on the same software as LiveJournal, offers free voice posts, 1GB of photo hosting, and space for up to 2,000 user icons.
InsaneJournal.com - Another site based on the Danga software that runs LiveJournal, offers free and paid accounts, paid benefits are only enhancements.
JorunalFen.net - Runs on the Danga platform, very much directed towards various "fandoms" (i.e. Harry Potter, various Television shows) and is meant for users 18 and older.
LiveJournal.com - One of the most well known of the blogging hosts. Offers multiple account types such as ad-supported and paid. The center of a few controversies recently.
- A site dedicated to travel blogs with map integration and more.
BlogCheese.com - A video blogging website.
BusyThumbs.com - A blog site specifically for your text messages and camera phone images.
Freevlog - Designed for video blogging and completely free.
Trippert.com - Create and share blogs of your travels.
Ufem.com - Blogging site specifically geared towards women. Offers multiple themes and plugins.
Word Count Journal.com - A new blogging format that is also part challenge. Write one word on the first day, two words on the second day and so on, at the end of the year you'll have written 66,795 words.
Xanco.com - Another moblogging site for you to share all your mobile communications with friends and family.
- Offers multiple templates, anti-spam, free sub-domain and more.
BlogRox.com - Runs on WordPress and offers 50MB of free online space.
Blogsome.com - Based out of Ireland, this site uses the WordPress MU platform, large choice of themes.
Edublogs.com - WordPress powered blogging for educators.
WordPress.com - Not only can you install WordPress on your own sites, you can use the same software on their site and save yourself all of the technical work.
Blog.com - Offers free blog hosting with unlimited bandwidth for their free package, more benefits for paid members.
Blog Ladder.com - All blog entries show up on the main ladder as well as inside your own blog.
Blogger.com - A great starting site to get a taste of blogging, very easy to use.
Blogr.com - Allows you to blog, host photos & videos, and podcasts.
BlogSpirit.com - European based blogging site, offers 30-day trial and subscription thereafter, but offers quite a bit of storage.
Blogster.com - Offers free image hosting in addition to free blogs.
BlogYx.com - Blogging site with extras such as chat boxes so you can interact with your readers.
Bloki.com - Lets you build a blog site and even open it up for collaboration.
Bravenet.com - Free blog hosting with RSS feeds and more.
ClearBlogs.com - Free blog hosting and offers templates, friends only posts, IP-Banning and more.
Etribes.com - Based in Europe, allows you to create all sorts of websites including a blog.
Multiply.com - Mixes blogging and social networking, with photo galleries and more.
Netcipia.com - Free blog and wiki for private or public display with 2GB of storage.
Open Diary.com - Offers unlimited storage and posts, low cost subscription rates for advanced features.
ShoutPost.com - A platform for creating blogs with a focus on generating traffic.
SoulCast.com - Have something you want to talk about, but want to say it anonymously? This may be the blogging site for you.
Squarespace.com - Lets you build your blog with numerous themes, also allows you to add other site features.
Terapad.com - Offers blogs as well as features such as an integrated store.
Tooum.com - Fully integrated blog and forum which allows for seamless discussion between the two.
Tumblr.com - A blog platform with a focus on allowing media-rich posts.
Weebly.com - Allows you to create a site and blog, free hosting and change designs on the fly.
Windows Live Spaces - Free blogging with your MSN account, only drawback is readers have to have an account also.
Vox.com - Part of the SixApart family of blogging sites, very much geared towards the personal journal types of blogs.
Xanga.com - Part social network, part blogging, all free.
Yahoo 360 - Part of your Yahoo account and features easy publishing.
Zoomshare.com - Free blog hosting with 250MB of free storage.
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