SellaBand - Is it Worth The Hype?

I’m on a mission to see if SellaBand lives up to all the publicity it has been generating.

Before you even get to the ‘About Us’ text in SellaBand’s web site you’re confronted with their manifesto:
“The music industry is all about fences. Those who are on the inside, and those who are on the outside. SellaBand wants to break down all the fences. Everybody with a passion for music can be on the inside. It’s your music. It’s your choice.”
I couldn’t agree more with this declaration. Let’s see if they can live up to the promise.
What an artist has to do on SellaBand is sell 5000 so called “parts” of his song to potential music “believers” (as they’re called on SellaBand), and by that raise a total of $50,000. Once this amount is raised , the artist is tagged with an A&R person and a producer and shipped to a high end studio where the the artist’s first album is recorded. The album is then printed in a limited edition of 5000 copies and shipped to the “believers” that invested in this project.
Ok, so where’s the money?
Well now the artist is back to square one- he still has to work for it, but now possesses some cool PR and marketing tools. The artist gets a store front with free downloads. All revenues made from this store will be split between the artist and the “believers”.
You think it’s over? It’s just begun.
Now, assuming the artist’s album got downloaded a lot and it’s a hit, a regular version of the CD is printed and sold, guess where……on the artist’s personal website and gigs! Guess by who…..you get the picture. But keep in mind that SellaBand promises you that there are no strings attached.
All in all it’s a good and pretty plausible marketing plan, but I think it’s just a bit much to ask of the artist. All I’m saying is if the artist had the fan base to achieve this goal, he wouldn’t need SellaBand from the get go.
So let’s find out how this website is doing so far. I’m sorting by artists and checking out the top three contestants:
First ranked band, Nemesea, signed up to SellaBand on the 8\15\2006, only a couple of months back, and they’ve managed to raise a whopping 41,000$ (subject to change daily). Not bad for a day’s work.
Nemesea are a band from The Netherlands with a cute Evanescence sounding vocalist…Come to think of it, the whole band sounds like Evanescence. They’re not bad, they got some MTV potential. The first song “In Control” is a bit repetitive, but it does the job as a cool pop/new metal hit. I’ll take the hint from their second song title “No More” and move on.
Second runner up, The Fakes, are shorter on the cash flow with 5,910$, but they signed up a month after Nemesea, so all in all - not bad. I think these guys are from France, I can’t quite make it out. Listening to “I Want You To Know” reminds me of a lot of music styles mashed up together, but they make it work. Not the best I’ve heard but it’s nice and melodic.
There’s a promising contender by the name of Daniel Ward-Murphy, a folk rocker with 4,150$ to his name. Straining from the UK the guy actually sounds pretty good. I can’t make much from this first listen but he’s got a cool James Bluntish voice to go along with his tunes.
If I had to invest my hard blog writing cash into someone I’d definitely go for one of the top artists on the site, because I personally doubt anyone can actually raise 50 grand, so I’m better off with the band that’s already half way there (but isn’t that the point of this whole website to begin with?!). Probably, the first band would be my choice because their music can sell some records, not a lot, they won’t go a long way, but just enough so I can collect on my three way split from the record sales and ads on SellaBand.
Bottom line, I think SellaBand is a pretty nice project. I’ve been following them for a few weeks now and the traffic is pretty good. I see bands that rise up quickly, those Nemesis guys doubled their sales in the past week.
SellaBand is still in par with music competition sites and the Sonic Bids of world, who are walking a thin line between ripping off artists and giving them an incredible option to promote themselves. Let’s hope it proves to be a profitable scheme for independent musicians.

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Posted on November 1, 2006

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40 Responses to “SellaBand - Is it Worth The Hype?”

Johan Vosmeijer on November 4th, 2006 12:47 am

Hi there,

Interesting post and comments. It’s somehow good to know we are being watched closely by so many people. Please do let us know how you think we are doing as we move ahead with our concept.
One thing I’d like to make clear, though: SellaBand has no intention to walk that fine line you mention; ripping off artists is definitely tha last thing we have in mind. Joining SellaBand is free of charge for any artists, and the real commitment doesn’t start until you have raised the full $50.000. And that, so we like to think, is actually the moment when only good things will happen to an artist;-)

Best regards,
Johan V
Managing Director
SellaBand

PS Nemesea have no raised the full 50k, and will soon start recording their album!

Rustycat on November 4th, 2006 3:16 pm

Johan,
Good to see you’re sticking by your guns.
Congrats on Nemesea reaching the 50 grand mark, looking forward for their album soon…keep it up.

The Plugg - Music and Entertainment Blog on November 6th, 2006 7:40 am

[...] I’m a big fan of new music concepts and start-ups, I always like finding a cool website that has some interesting new bands given the fact that MySpace has become a free for all spam community. I, myself, own a small label called Rusty Records and I’m always happy to throw some songs into these sites and reach a few more music lovers that I haven’t met already. Last week I wrote about SellaBand which is, like Amie St., a promising new way for artists to expose their music and get a chance to earn a few dollars on the way. Amie Street’s business model is pretty easy and straight forward. They promise that they’re all about discovery, not raiding your wallet. Once a song is uploaded by an artist, or its label, it’s offered as a FREE download. The more a song is downloaded the more its price rises. So if you’ve downloaded a song for free, chance is the song is new on Amie St. (or you’re the only one who likes it) and if you’ve bought a song for 98c (top price) chance is it’s the most popular song available. Pretty simple. I like it. The artist keeps 70% profits, gets recognition, and makes a few dollars. The listener downloads new music for free or at a cheap price, everybody’s happy, win win situation. Bottom line, if you’re into discovering new music and you don’t want to pay for it, Amie St. is the place. If you’re a music buyer then why not support some cool indie bands on the way and buy it off Amie St. From the listeners perspective it’s perfect, but the seller/artist might still need to address some issues: Today almost any artist can distribute their music using CD Baby or even The Orchard and reach a huge potential audience through the iTunes’s of the world, and get top dollar for their MP3’s, so what does Amie St. have that these other competitors are lacking? Traffic? Potential fans? Target Audience? Industry? Or is it just another tool to promote their own band? I guess these questions will remain unanswered for the time. And one last thing…I tried uploading some songs of my own to see it in action and it keeps giving me an error screen, but I’m not giving up, I’m sending them an email… [...]

Brian Taylor on December 8th, 2006 3:19 pm

Hello,
My name is Brian Taylor. I am a singer/songwriter in an Australian band called Vegas Dragons and I would like to have my say on the above.
Firstly, it is only fair that I make it clear that our band is currently listed on Sellaband. Please feel free to check out our music for free at: http://www.sellaband.com/vegas_dragons
As for “Sellaband: Is it worth the hype?” In my opinion and the opinion of many tens of thousands -yes, it is.
Since the time the above article was written so much has happened. As of today (Sat 9 Dec) there are 1083 artist on Sellaband and that number is growing by the day. One band (Nemesea) has already reached the target and are soon to record what will be a highly anticipated and (I believe) very successful CD.
One artist (Cubworld) is nearly half way towards $50,000 (and 15 artists in total (including Vegas Dragons) have $2000 or more invested and are going strong!
As a struggling band that does not have the financial power to tour the world yet (Australia is so far away from most destinations!) and create new fans, Sellaband is the best option available for us to grow our band worldwide.
Sellaband allows our music to be heard in every corner of the globe. We have been listed on the Sellaband site for less than a month and we have had over 3000 people check us out and our list of believers (investors) come from all over the world - so far, they include UK, The Netherlands, Germany, Latvia, France and Spain!
For a band that is located thousands of kilometres away from those countries (and we have never visited or met any of these people), this is remarkable!
The possibilites of Sellaband are unbelievable and I believe the growth of this company will astound you. When you read this (whether it be in a days time or months from now) : just click on Sellaband through our site (www.sellaband.com/vegas_dragons) and check how much those figures have changed!
Amie St is also a great concept for getting your music heard (as is myspace) and making a few dollars. They should be applauded and so should ANY website that helps promote an artist for free! However Amie St or Myspace does not allow the artist the chance to record an album, own their album’s masters, get investors to invest in your band’s future and potentially become a very well known name on a global scale.

I would be very intersted to know how the person who wrote their comments on “Sellaband - is it worth the hype?” some time ago feels right now at the progress of the company.
If he or she is not impressed, than they are very hard to please. Sellaband is not a fad. It is the future. Just see how far ahead the company and our band will be one year from now! We hope to be at our goal of $50,000 or just about there! Keep an eye on us and Sellaband.
Thank you for your time.
Brian Taylor
Vegas Dragons

Rustycat on December 9th, 2006 4:19 am

Hey Brian.
I’ve been actually following SellaBand and I’ve seen the changes you talk about. I know they’ve grown and I’ve heard about Nemesea. I have an idea…lets give it one more month and I’ll write a follow up article, sound good?

Good luck

Brian Taylor on December 9th, 2006 11:57 am

Dear Rustycat,
Thank you for taking the time to reply to me. That sounds fantastic. I am sure many Sellaband Believers, artists and onlookers will look forward to your honest thoughts on this matter.
All the best to you for the rest of the year and hope 2007 brings you great joy and prosperity.
With warmest regards,
Brian Taylor

Mandocello on December 14th, 2006 4:32 pm

Spellbox sees great potential to sellaband. We’re now 50th in place to get the 50k mark. No where else is this possible! We’re looking forward to it!

Brian Taylor on December 15th, 2006 8:37 am

Spellbox is awesome!!

admin on December 20th, 2006 9:40 am

Spellbox sound great, good luck!

Rudi on January 13th, 2007 7:19 am

Sellaband has a second artist who reached the 50.000 $ goal :
Cubworld (USA)
http://www.sellaband.com/cubworld

See his live performance from Sunday january 7th 2007, Paradiso - Amsterdam (The Netherlands) : http://www.fabchannel.com Find the ‘Archive’ section and search for ‘Cubworld’

Enjoy

Second Person on February 3rd, 2007 10:11 am

Hi there,

This is Mark Maclaine from the band Second Person - currently the top band (after Nemesea and Cubworld have reached their $50k goals) from Sellaband. I would like to copy and paste something we wrote a while back on the unofficial Sellaband Message board. It was as a reply to “After the 50k?” where people had rightly asked what would happen if they got the money:

“We were fortunate enough to hear about Sellaband quite early on. When the guys came to London (after the site went live) to do all the press stuff we all went out to dinner to discuss what it was that they wanted to do with their amazing idea. We were pretty impressed not only with what they had to say but actually by how much they really do care about music and the artists on Sellaband. There is no doubt in our minds that they will do everything they can to make it happen for any band that gets to the $50k, although they’ve got a few things going for them that hopefully make that job a lot easier…

There are some obvious things that contribute to the success of an artist: Talent, Promotion, A well recorded album and a lot of luck. Sellaband is constantly gaining press coverage (all over the world) and seem well on their way to the next steps of their promotion campain. Added to this the “peer” promotion of “listen to this band I invested in” - bands that reach the $50k should have running start on the publicity front. Talent: by setting the amount at $50k Sellaband actually provide a filter whereby bands really have to generate fan investment - it is unlikely many bands could invest this amount in themselves - else they’d prob not be needing Sellaband at all. Also in order to generate that kind of money they would most likely have to have some talent (for people to have liked them in the first place). A well recorded album should then come from it being asigned a good A&R person and then a good producer… Sellaband don’t seem short on people who have consistantly delivered good results in the past.

When everything else is done, the last thing to think about is luck. Many people would agree that in one way or another you can make you’re own luck. With the combined efforts of a band who really want to make it happen for themselves (after all they went out there to find people to invest 50k), the Sellaband team (who really want to make this happen not only for their business but also because they care about good music and the Sellaband idea), the well connected producer and A&R (who have not only a financial [percentage based] interest in the band but they’ve invested their own time and love) and of course the fans (financial interest and love of the music) - the luck making factory is in overdrive. All that’s needed is for other fans to start loving the product too and buy the albums.

This thread is about what happens after the $50k. The answer is most likely to be: A lot. Most of this work is going to have to be from the band however: getting out there playing shows, writing to radio stations, etc etc - but any of us who make it are going to have a lot of help from a bunch of people who have invested not only their money but their time and love into the music too. It’s quite a comforting feeling to know that we’re not going to be going it alone if we do make it.

Second Person”

—-

We took a while before signing up, really just to work out if it was something that would actually be of benfit to us. We acknowledge that Sellband may not be for every band - and of course people should have a look through all the terms and conditions - but it’s been great for us. If we reach the $50k (we’re nearly at half way) we will have the opportunity to finish our album to a professional standard, and will have gained hundreds of new fans who have a vested interest in seeing us do well.

I would just like to note that having spent more time with the Sellband guys (we also went to play their New Year’s show in Amsterdam) it is clear how dedicated they are to actually doing something good with this and making a difference in the music industry, we’re happy to be a part of it.

Mark Maclaine, producer/bassist for Second Person.

admin on February 3rd, 2007 1:44 pm

Mark,
Thanks for the info, I think it’s safe to assume after reading all the user comments here that SellaBand deliver on their promise.

It’s good to see companies living up to their mission.

Rusty

Mysti Mayhem on March 28th, 2007 12:30 am

Hi,
I am a fan of Sellaband. I joined as an artist a few months ago, and have met the most beautiful, and talented people.

The site is fantastic. There are no barriers between my fans and my music. They are able to communicate directly with me and enjoy my music as it unfolds, moment by moment, song by song. It’s a beautiful journey that I am blessed to experience, especially with my fans close by.

Sellaband is worth MORE than the hype, it’s the REAL DEAL. No Tricks, No Gimicks. Just Music.

Rustycat on March 28th, 2007 1:11 am

I’m really glad to hear artists feedback regarding SellaBand. Great site guys!

Mandyleigh on March 30th, 2007 6:11 am

I found out about Sellaband in November, and proceeded to do alot of research to make sure it was not a scam of some sort. I soon found out it had alot of respect in the industry and press, so I signed up and uploaded some of my songs.

The music industry as a whole has become a nightmare for musicians… even those that are signed. The focus has been lost and music is controlled by the accounting and marketing departments. Artists are regularly having to declare themselves bankrupt, as they can’t afford to pay back the huge bills the record co’s are racking up in their name.

Sellaband is a revolutionary concept for the music industry… it’s putting the artists and fans back in direct contact and cutting out the middle man. Since Sellaband started in August 2006, FOUR artists have reached the 50k target, and are now recording in top studios thanks to the lovely Sony contacts of the Sellaband management (who are ex Sony Music Europe).

The model is more than fair to the artist and believers (investors)… in fact, Sellaband should be asking for more themselves.
- Worldwide cd album profits - 50% to the artist, 50% shared between the believers.
- ad revenue from the whole site - 1/3 to Sellaband, 1/3 to the artists who have recorded an album, and 1/3 to the believers of a recorded artist.
- each believer gets a limited edition cd for every part they invest.

Sellaband is letting music grow again. Just check out all the amazing talent there.

Love, Mandyleigh XXXX

Private Nation on April 10th, 2007 7:06 am

My name is Mike Nealis, I am the bass player for Private Nation. We Joined Sellaband 2 weeks ago and have thus far raised $750.!! I believe!!! This is a company that is dedicated to its workers and believers not buricrats!!! There are many other things that can tie into this to guarantee worlwide success if people believe in you!! Remember this is only the beginning, I expect big things from the future with Sellaband!!!
Sincerely,
Mike Nealis

Sheet Metal on April 30th, 2007 1:29 pm

Hi guys,

Just a quick mail to agree with my sellaband colleagues here. Not only does the business model stand up from the bands point of view, it also allows us to have feedback from both consumers and artists the world over without having to do the grungy pub circuit again and again.

London Calling is the next sellaband showcase and Sheet Metal will be in attendance to show their support for this awesome community.

Maybe it’s time for that new article?

Dreb of Sheet Metal
http://www.sellaband.com/sheetmetal

Shaun Hinichi on May 17th, 2007 5:38 pm

We’ll heres a good experiement, I’ve just set up a profile on Sell a Band and I bet anything it’ll take years for us to achieve anything at all. I mean the idea is good, but you can garentee that only like 5 or 6 bands will ever make it to $50k and the rest will be people throwing money at a lost cause.

http://www.sellaband.com/100waysforward

Second Person on June 9th, 2007 3:23 am

There are now well over 4000 artists on Sellaband and this is growing by the day. However some of the bands simply put up a profile, cross their fingers and hope people will find them. All of the other bands who have got to the $50,000 (there are now six including us) have told us that right from the start they went out and found believers themselves. For us, these were people who came to see us play live, people we met at parties and fans that had added us on Myspace. It it likely that all of the bands in the top 500 will have followed a similar plan.

It is true that once you have more money “invested” in your CD you do start to attract more believers and larger sums of money. However, simply putting up a profile and hoping for the best is only likely to frustrate you and make you write on internet blogs about how much you think Sellaband isn’t a good idea.

Shaun, I had a look at your band’s profile, I’m no expert but it seems very professional. It also looks like you have a lot of live gigs set up in the next few months. Why not tell your fans to invest and if you don’t get to the $50k they can always take their money out.

Best

Mark from Second Person

Funfile on June 9th, 2007 6:50 am

@Shaun Hinichi :

I’m a believer on Sellaband and have already bought parts in over 30 artists/bands.

Sorry to tell you, but your experiment looks like it’s going (and meant) to fail. You only have created your profile, and all you are doing now is ‘Sit and wait’. Ofcourse nobody buys parts in your band this way. Why would anybody invest in you if it’s very obvious you’re not interested in Sellaband at all ? As far as I can see - maybe I’m wrong - you didn’t even made the effort to respond to Netvalar’s message on your profile. Or did you PM him ?

You also have the ‘disadvantage’ of being a metal band. Nothing wrong with metal bands, but there aren’t a lot people interested in metal. This means it will be harder to find believers, but it isn’t impossible.

You’ve also never updated your profile since the sign-up. So people will think : ‘artist hasn’t been here since sign-up, so why should I bother to sign up ?’

I wish you all the best in live and with your band,

Funfile

Christy on June 9th, 2007 3:45 pm

This is not new it is similar to the discredited pyramid selling.
What bothers me is, what happens to the money put in by believers where the band does not reach the magical 50K?
Loads of bands will get a few hundred dollars and then fall off the radar, spit up, get fed up and the money will go to the website owners.
I remeber this scam by insurance companys sit in front of a telephone and call up everyone you know to sell insurance to them - they buy out of loyalty and then you are sacked when all that is left are real cold calls.

A little bit about everything » Blog Archive » Internet business model that seems to work on June 26th, 2007 4:25 am

[...] Sellaband launched in August of 2006. You get the chance to buy $10 shares in a band and when they reach $50,000 they get to record an album - it was met with cynicism in some quarters. Ten months later six bands have reached the $50,000 mark and the first two albums are available [Dutch nu-metallers Nemesea & Hawaiian singer-songwriter Cubworld] with four other artists about to enter the studio - Second Person from the UK, Clemence from France, Lily from the US and Maitreya from New Zealand. [...]

Daniel Hart on July 23rd, 2007 7:44 am

Hi,

My name’s Daniel Hart (danielhart.us), a singer/songwriter from North London, thinking of signing up on the sellaband site and start working it. As mentioned above, Mark, from Second Person, says - investors can take their money out if you don’t make the 50k mark. Is this true? - If so that’s karmically cool… I intend to make the mark of course, but should I pull out for whatever reason, it’s good to know my fans are protected, so can you verify this.
Ta, Dan

Charbarred on July 23rd, 2007 8:05 am

As far as I know fans can pull out if the project doesn’t get to 50k

Jason Minter on August 14th, 2007 9:00 am

Hi there,

The concept of SellaBand sounds great to me and it’s cool that some bands have manged to get their material recorded via this service…however I have a couple of queries regarding SellaBands terms & conditions (freely available on their website)…

1. In the Artist Conditions, SellaBand states that once a band reaches the $50K mark “$30,000 will be used for recording the CD.”
They then go on to say that “the rest of the budget will be used for manufacturing, packaging and posting the 5,000 CDs for your Believers.

My question is this: If it’s costing SellaBand $20K to get 5000 CD’s manufactured & packaged it seems like they’re paying $10-$12K too much…?? Why such a high budget here? You can get 5000 CD’s replicated for around $5K…

2. Also the publishing split 60/40 seems high considering that (as far as I can tell) SellaBand isn’t actually contributing any of their own finances as part of the $50K raised, therefore they have no financial risk attached to the artists material. So if nothing eventuates from exploiting the artists works, SellaBand hasn’t lost any money other than maybe some basic administrative costs…?? I suppose you can argue that the artist doesn’t have any risk either as they also didn’t contribute (in theory) to the $50K raised…

3. In the Artist Title agreement document Clause 14.2 it says “If the Artist fails to comply with his/her obligations under this Agreement on purpose, as he/she for example does not want to cooperate with the realization of the Recordings after achieving the Hurdle, the Artist is liable to forfeit an immediately payable penalty to SellaBand, not eligible for setting-off, of $50,000, notwithstanding SellaBand’s right to claim the factual damages suffered.”

A $50K penalty immeditely payable when SellaBand hasn’t fronted any money?! Why so steep?

Anyways, my apologies if I’ve missed something here but these points seem curious to me is all..

Cheers!
Jason

sHANE on December 27th, 2007 2:40 pm

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Richie Murray on February 24th, 2008 10:30 am

I’m one of the many ‘believers’ on the Sellaband site. I find it hard to understand the various criticisms levelled at the site because what it offers artists and their ‘believers’ is VERY CLEARLY spelled out. No one is forcing artists or ‘believers’ to use Sellaband and, because reaching $50K usually takes a bit of time, there is invariably plenty of time for artists and ‘believers’ to withdraw if they have second thoughts or misgivings.
Whether the site will ever throw up a REALLY BIG STAR is up for debate. However, it has already allowed several very talented artists to have albums professionally recorded, produced and distributed in a way that does not seem to have been open to them previously.
As ‘believer’, I don’t see that Sellaband will make me significant profits. In fact, I will be surprised (and quite chuffed) if it makes me any profit at all. I look upon being a believer a bit like being in an interactive, online fan club where the membership fee gets you some goodies … in this case, music CDs.

Chip Campbell on February 28th, 2008 7:31 pm

I like the general concept but a few things bother me, one: The mandatory condition of all the songs on the album having to be published through sellaband. Two: the ownership of the master for one year to sellaband Three: Who picks the studio and producer

Netvalar on March 7th, 2008 7:10 am

I see a few questions in the comments and thought to address them.

@jason

1)The 5000 cds not only need to be manufactured but also sent all around the globe so a large chuck of that is used in postage and handling. Those numbers are also rough estimates as the actual numbers will differ from artist to artist.

2)It is actually in one of the weekly Tribunes but Sellaband uses an upfront promotion budget of 5k and also continues to build partners and contacts to get the music out there. In essence it is this small advance and the amount of time and energy put into promotions that warrents the 30% Publishing. 10% of the publishing then is for the producer in exchange for a much smaller fee. Since most artists can only get a 50/50 publishing deal at best this is quite good.

3)The 50k is actually the funds raised by the fans so in essence is paid back to Sellaband and refunded to those fans who who helped raise the 50k. In addition there is a penalty above this to pay for the various transfer of funds fees. Sellaband themselves don’t get any of this penalty it is merely there as an safety valve for the believers money. Since all funds are refundable back to believers at any time pre 50k, if an artist fails to do anything post 50k the money is also refunded back to the believers.

@Chip

1)The album is being handled by sellaband including sellaband publishing. The publishing agreement is only for those songs on that album not any other songs done by the artist.

2)The master ownership for one year is so that Sellaband can make the deals needed to insure sales of the album.

3)The Artist is assigned an A/R rep to advise them but the final decisions are all theirs including studio and producer so long as it fits within the budget of 50k

Sandbox on April 22nd, 2008 7:38 pm

We BELIEVE in Sellaband!
CHECK OUT OUR INTERVIEW IN THE SAB TRIBUNE TO FIND OUT WHY WE’RE STAYING WITH SAB!!
Q + A: Australia’s mysterious Sandbox
http://www.sellaband.com/tribune/edition79/
EVERYTHING STARTS IN THE SANDBOX!
SBM
http://www.sellaband.com/sandbox1

Bob Slayer on May 7th, 2008 6:23 am

It is great to see so many Sellaband Artists supporting Sellaband publically - I think that tells a big story - those that have got involved (with the odd exception) have been very glad that they did.. We are certainly happy so far I signed Electric Eel Shock up this week and already they have raised:

$14,0000 in just 5 days!

Electric Eel Shock have previously had different record and publishing deals with Sony BMG, Roadrunner and a host of small independents but we are very very happy to be working with Sellaband.

Sellaband has established their concept, they have answered their critics and they are growing and developing through supporting artists…
I am a BIG believer!

Atheen on May 29th, 2008 6:25 am

Glad I found this thread, it has answered some of my questions.

I discovered SellaBand a couple of days ago when I was researching how I could get people to buy shares in my music.

I tentatively created a page, not sure that it would work for me, but the next morning I had sold my first three parts! (thank-you guys!)

I’m totally enthused by this, I could never afford a professionally recorded album otherwise. I’ve had an album written for 3 years now but have only been able to afford to record two of the tracks so far.

To me this is a fantastic way into the industry that gives an artist a professional product and full creative control over their work, you don’t get that being signed to a label or management.

At the same time you’re getting to meet people worldwide that actually support and like your music so you really feel like the effort you’re making is worthwhile.

It’s nice for Believers too that they can help fulfill somebody’s dream plus have the rewarding feeling of knowing that they were there at the beginning and that they are more actively involved in the industry than the average music fan.

A fantastic idea, I’m definitely a Believer already!

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M. Harris on January 23rd, 2009 11:06 am

Just wanted to thank you for the information, and let you know that there are still artists out here on Sellaband (like myself and my band The Congre’Gation) aiming for that 50K Goal. With the starting of ArenaFest, we really hope it will become something that will expand Sellaband in the North American Market and beyond!

M. Harris

Painter on June 26th, 2009 1:16 pm

Very, very cool site site! I am loving it!! Will come back again - taking you feeds also, Thanks.

милeди on July 24th, 2009 9:57 am

Давно искал такую информацию, Спасибо за Вашу работу.

medon12 on September 24th, 2009 4:09 pm

stariki, starushki

Deborah on December 11th, 2009 3:41 am

Hello,
I have joined Sellaband as well, with big hopes of finding investors for my music. That could be a lifetime dream coming true!

Deborah

http://www.myspace.com/deborahdinauta