Michael Brandvold
These are interesting and outside the box ideas for promoting your music. Today you can no longer just release your music to iTunes and expect it to sell. You need to create a event, create a story. What ideas have you used or found?
This was the topic of episode #81 of The Music Biz Weekly podcast.
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