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by Marc on June 15, 2007
New York artist and former software programmer Jonathan Coulton is profiled in the New York Times magazine section. He explains how he's created a full-time living through free distribution. He writes a song a week and posts it free to his blog.
The results illustrate how artists can make a living without a label. His web site attracts 3,000 people a day. His top songs have reached half a million downloads. He earns an average $4,000 a month by selling CDs and digital singles on iTunes and his own site.
Plus he's learned that a fan is really a fan(atic). They interact with him from dozens of emails a day to blog comments to music and marketing suggestions to creating music videos for him to being his street team and marketing him to new fans.
Read the article.
The results illustrate how artists can make a living without a label. His web site attracts 3,000 people a day. His top songs have reached half a million downloads. He earns an average $4,000 a month by selling CDs and digital singles on iTunes and his own site.
Plus he's learned that a fan is really a fan(atic). They interact with him from dozens of emails a day to blog comments to music and marketing suggestions to creating music videos for him to being his street team and marketing him to new fans.
Read the article.
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