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Before you even get to the ‘About Us’ text in SellaBand’s web site you’re confronted with their manifesto: the music industry is all about fences. Those who are on the inside, and those who are on the outside. SellaBand wants to break down all the fences. Everybody with a passion for music can be on the inside. It’s your music. It’s your choice.” I couldn’t agree more with this declaration. Let’s see if they can live up to the promise. What an artist has to do on SellaBand is sell 5000 so called “parts” of his song to potential music “believers” (as they’re called on SellaBand), and by that raise a total of $50,000. Once this amount is raised, the artist is tagged with an A&R person and a producer and shipped to a high-end studio where the artist’s first album is recorded. The album is then printed in a limited edition of 5000 copies and shipped to the “believers” that invested in this project. O.k., so where’s the money? Well now the artist is back to square one- he still has to work for it, but now possesses some cool PR and marketing tools. The artist gets a store front with free downloads. All revenues made from this store will be split between the artist and the “believers”. You think it’s over? It’s just begun. Now, assuming the artist’s album got downloaded a lot and it’s a hit, a regular version of the CD is printed and sold, guess where……on the artist’s personal website and gigs! Guess by who…you get the picture. But keep in mind that SellaBand promises you that there are no strings attached. All in all it’s a good and pretty plausible marketing plan, but I think it’s just a bit much to ask of the artist. All I’m saying is if the artist had the fan base to achieve this goal, he wouldn’t need SellaBand from the get go.

1. a) What is the Sellaband manifesto?

b) How many “parts” does an artists need to sell before he has raided the money necessary to go to the recording studio?\

2. a) How does the author feel about the idea behind Sellaband?

b) Do you feel that they think it is a good idea and will prove to be an effective tool and have an effect on the future of the music industry?


3. How do you think sites such as Sellaband could affect the music industry?


OR


4. Do you feel that audience participation and involvement is a good or bad thing? Why?


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