How to Promote Your Album

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Part of the video series: Music Marketing & Promotion: Band Management

Summary: Get marketing tips and learn how to promote your album and sell more records for your band in this music business video.

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Kiely Griffin Kiely Griffin is a third-year music management and jazz flute student at the Hartt School of Music in West Hartford, CT. She has previously served as vice pre... read more

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How to Promote Your Album

Once you have your album all ready, the next thing to do is to promote it and to distribute it across the country. There are many ways to do this. One, is to have CD release parties, or tours. This person created a CD, and made a flyer describing the CD, their album with all the tracks. They discussed themselves and the CD, and they set a release date for the CD. This type of press is excellent for advertising and promoting your new released CD. Another thing that you can do to promote your new album is to have it linked up to a website. In this CD, you can see it has similar backgrounds, and then if you go to his current website, the background is a reflection of a new album. This is very good to promote. When you click on the website, it pops up with music playing from the album. This way people are aware of what is currently being done by this artist. Another way to promote your music is if you have shows. You can sell tickets to your shows with demos of your music, or of other people's music. This is a great way to promote and advertise for your band.

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