6.20.2007
Music Charts for Unsigned Artists
As my regular readers know, I'm big in my support of indie artists in general and indie musicians specifically. So I was very interested in this new service offered by tourdates.co.uk for unsigned artists: an unsigned chart with free music downloads. Their press release:
I think it's a great idea and I hope that someone in North America considers doing something this progressive. (If anyone knows of a site on this side of the pond that is doing this already, please let me know.)
Tourdates.Co.UK, Britains fastest growing new music website, has launched a chart for unsigned bands.
The site allows new bands to upload promotional tracks, announce gig dates and create profiles to promote themselves alongside major artists such as the Artic Monkeys and The Twang.
Tourdates Jarrod Robinson says, there are some fantastic unsigned bands in the UK and we wanted them to know how much our community likes their music, an unsigned chart seemed the perfect answer.
Chart results are announced on the site at 19:00 every sunday, the sametime as the No1 single of the week is announced on BBC's radio 1.
I think it's a great idea and I hope that someone in North America considers doing something this progressive. (If anyone knows of a site on this side of the pond that is doing this already, please let me know.)
Comments:
There is something in the USA called (I think) Unsigned.com
I (and lots of other bloggers) did a paid post about it ages ago.
I (and lots of other bloggers) did a paid post about it ages ago.
I blogged about Unsigned.com, too, and while they have many of the same features as Tourdates.co.uk they don't have charts that I'm aware of. I did stumble across another site: indiecharts.com. It compiles artists from various websites like MySpace, etc. but it's not quite as thorough (and I can't even tell where they're located).
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