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This weeks UK number 1 is no suprise really, the Haiti appeal has certainly brought out the masses and although I don’t like this version of REMs’ ‘Everybody Hurts’, I do agree with the principles behind the charity single.

Florence and The Machine and Dizzee’s entrance into the chart at number 2 is a far more interesting story and once again shows just how much a tv appearance can boost popularity and sales figures.  The song was performed by the pair at the Brits on Tuesday night and was produced and mixed by the Brits own engineers.  It was released for download in the early hours of the morning and by 3pm Wednesday, the song had hit number 1 on ITunes. 

I have become dismayed at the influence TV plays on our charts at the moment, with the Christmas number 1 being XFactors spot (I know, they didn’t manage it last year but lets face it they were there the next week!) and now tv’s latest offering, Glee, taking the number 1 spot in our albums chart and 2 of the places in our singles. Now I am not saying that Glee is a bad programme, in fact, I must admit I have watched some episodes and found them quite amusing but to have 2 songs in the top 10??

So, if you are unsigned or signed and want to get into the charts, start  writing a tv show, forget the songs, its the tv that matters!  A cynical approach?  Time will tell….

There have been many articles on the changing of the music industry over the past few years, the download market made sure of it being a hot topic, but now we are all used to that, how have things changed and what is the best way to ‘make it’ in the industry?

Its a hard subject and one that has many answers, one of the biggest is probably one word, ‘luck’ or as we used to put it, ‘its who you know not what you know’.  There are thousands of bands out there that are amazing, I have managed a few but have they ‘made it’?  Well,  if you are talking about making a living from music, yes some have but none of them have gone on to become global megastars.

So why is this?  They were all hardworking, they played gig after gig and sometimes the hours were rough and the pay was little.  The fact is, not everyone can become famous, not everyone can be signed and sometimes, you can be in front of a record lable, play the best you ever have, have the best song ever and yet they are looking for something else at that time.

That is why if you want to make it, you need to work hard and have fans that will work hard for you.  It was this in mind that we came up with Musicfinity.  Its designed to help bands manage themselves and their workload while enabling you to get your music in front of the people that matter.  Over the next few weeks I will explain many of the ways we will help you get the right reactions to your music, get yourself in the paper, get more gigs and earn money from your music.  And the best part about it…. the advice will be free and if you have questions we will be here to answer them.  Not only that, we are going to show you how to do these things for next to no outlay (I mean literally a few pounds each month) and for the least amount of your time spent as possible!

Keep following this blog…….  If you came here for our regular news updates, please redirect yourself to www.musicfinity.co.uk/news

If you are wanting to explore new ways of marketing your band, sign up to www.musicfinity.net, its there to help you!

Now we have released www.musicfinity.net, you may be wondering whats so different about it, why should you bother signing up?  Here is a list of things that we believe makes us bettter than the other sites out ther

1)      We are real people ready to support you and your band, you have a support issue, we respond, not a robot.

2)      We reward hard working bands – the more you market your page, the more we will market it

3)      We will actively drive music fans to your pages

4)      We have promoters and labels that we recommend bands to on a regular basis and we don’t charge for this!

5)      If you have news, we share it with the world.  Our social networks reach over 20,000 people that want to hear your news (over 2000 click throughs from our social networks to Musicfinity news per day)

6)      You can create a store and sell any and all of your merch through it, even downloads and keep all your revenue

7)      We have a database of over 15,000 industry contacts that you can access and send EPK’s and press releases to automatically

8)      Make audio and video available to stream, download or even buy.

9)      Add your gigs and we let tens of thousands of people that are interested in live music know all about them.

10)  Have your own forum, blog, news and gigs pages.

11)  Allow users to add your songs into their personalised playlists

Allow users to add videos to their personalised music channels 

Hey everyone, sorry its been so long since I have put anything on here!  There have been a few reasons, I have got married for one!  The other reason is that we have been working really hard on getting the next part of the Musicfinity online empire up and running, our jamroom.

This is the place for bands and music fans to produce a profile and share their music, ideas and creative juices!

Please go and check it out and add your profile.  You can find it at www.musicfinity.net.

From now on, this blog will change, it will be made up of tips, advice and my thoughts on the music industry.  All the news articles will now be at www.musicfinity.co.uk/news. It will be just as up to date as this blog was for news but its a better format for news so I hope you will enjoy it and start to comment on there as much as you have done on here.

Please do keep an eye on developments at Musicfinity.co.uk, we are moving forward fast!  We think our Jamroom is far more exciing than myspace, not just because we are abou to offer support but there are so many more things you can do with our platform.  We will also make sure we market your bands pages, whats the point of  having yourself on another site unless we do eh??

We will also have a huge database behind the Jamroom  in the near future with all uk and many of the US lables, promotors, press contacts and much more.

So go on, visit www.musicfinity.net as soon as possible!