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Online Music Distribution Rated As Most Effective Career Building Tool By Songwriters;
"20 Questions With The Songwriting Community" provides preliminary results from MusicDish songwriting survey
In a recent online survey conducted by music industry e-Journal MusicDish, songwriters rated uploading their songs to a site, whether their own or a hosted one such as MP3.com, for distribution as the most effective tool in furthering their songwriting career. Of those respondents who had uploaded their songs, 60% (own site) and 53% (hosted site) had rated the experience as at least helpful to their careers, with 32% and 27% rating it respectively as very helpful.
Online Music Distribution Rated As Most Effective Career Building Tool By Songwriters
"20 Questions With The Songwriting Community" provides preliminary results from MusicDish songwriting survey
New York, NY - May 30 - In a recent online survey conducted by music industry e-Journal MusicDish, songwriters rated uploading their songs to a site, whether their own or a hosted one such as MP3.com, for distribution as the most effective tool in furthering their songwriting career. Of those respondents who had uploaded their songs, 60% (own site) and 53% (hosted site) had rated the experience as at least helpful to their careers, with 32% and 27% rating it respectively as very helpful.
These were some of the findings in the first of a series of reports, "20 Questions With The Songwriting Community," based on the online survey conducted from April 16 to May 13 and being released by MusicDish at http://www.musicdish.com/survey/songwriter/. The survey asked 584 songwriters to rate various music industry organizations, resources and activities serving the community as well as their perceptions on issues such as licensing and the Internet. 20 Questions With The Songwriting Community gather 20 key results from the 46 question survey, including respondents experiences with music publishers, events such as song camps and songwriting workshops, and information-based resources.
This report will be followed later this summer by a set of twin reports featuring contributions from an array of veterans and professionals in the field that have spent their careers working hand-in-hand with songwriters. Edited by Anne Freeman, President of The Aspiring Songwriter and volunteer coordinator of the Princeton, NJ Chapter of the Nashville Songwriters Association, International (NSAI), reports will provide an in-depth perspective on the state and evolution of the songwriting industry today. Contributing writers to the reports will include Rick Beresford, Jason Blume, Barbara Cloyd, JW Johnson, and Mark Schultz among others.
The report series is being freely distributed online thanks to the support of leading players in the songwriting industry, including
LiveWire Contacts - http://www.livewirecontacts.com
TAXI - http://www.taxi.com
USA Songwriting Competition - http://www.songwriting.net/tagit.html
Songsalive! - http://www.songalive.org
Songwriters Directory - http://www.songwritersdirectory.com.
About MusicDish
MusicDish is an e-journal that tackles the emerging issues facing the online music industry as it enters the digital era. Reknowned for its analysis by industry experts and audio interviews with leaders in the new industry, the publications also features one of the largest indie review sections and columns on succeeding in this controversial & precedent setting industry.
http://www.musicdish.com
MusicDish is part of a network of innovative music sites published by Tag It, a New Media firm founded in 1997, and consist of Mi2N (www.mi2n.com), the largest online industry newswire and 'LA'Ritmo.com (www.laritmo.com), a Latin music magazine.
For more information on the survey and reports, contact:
Sounni de Fontenay
Editor-in-Chief, MusicDish
Tel: 718-803-9075
Email: editor@musicdish.com
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