One Nation Under A Groove

When I set up my first Facebook artist page, I found a link to an app that offered me an opportunity to establish another artist profile that would sync to my Facebook page. That app was for Reverbnation. It seemed like the thing to do, as it was aimed at helping me spread the word about my music.

Reverbnation is a website that offers artists tools to help them with everything from social networking to getting an artist's music into e-music stores. The site went online in October of 2006 and today is home to some 2.6 million artist. The site is young, but growing. I find that it has a lot to offer artists and other music industry professionals as well. For the artist, you can link your main networking accounts, such as Facebook, Twitter, and Myspace, and send valuable information to all sites at the same time.  As an artist, the site offers Fan Reach to send email to those who follow your music.

You can also get widgets to stream samples of your songs. You can start a blog or use their site builder to custom design your Reverbnation profile. And as I said before, an artist can have their music distributed to e-music stores such as iTunes, Rhapsody and Amazon.com. There's also the ability to purchase ads on Facebook. And, like Myspace, you can even add a link to your YouTube videos.

The feature that I have found the most interesting is their charts. Artists are ranked globally among all genres, then globally within a genre. After that, an artist is ranked nationally and then within a specific region. While making a chart might not seem like much, it can give your promotional effort a boost when your chart position begins to show some upward movement, especially within a specific region.

There's a lot more to Reverbnation than I've mentioned above. If you're an artist, the best way to know if the site is for you is to go and check it out. If you're a music fan, though it's just my opinion, I can easily say that the site will make you take notice. There are lots of artists there from every genre. There's music to suit every  taste. In a way, you could say that Reverbnation has put it in all into one nation, under a groove.