How To Use Turntable.fm To Interact With Fans & Promote Your Band
Turntable.fm, which grew to 140,000 active users in in first month, may have cracked the social music code – it's enjoyable as both a passive and active music experience. Enter a themed room controlled by 1-5 live DJ's and just listen (at work, for example) as they take turns picking tunes or add your own. There are opportunities to vote, chat and interact. Imagine how it can be used to interact with fans and promote music:
- Invite fans to listen to an artist spin their favorite music either with other band members filling the dj seats or alongside select fans.
- Reward fans in each tour city by naming them dj's in an "Official turntable.fm Band X Party" before or after each show. A band member could stop by for a few minutes and participate in a chat.
- Learn about your fans by asking them to spin their own favorite bands – other than yours.
- Artists could "drop in" announced or unannounced to an existing room of related music and get involved.
What creative ways could you use turntable.fm?
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Best possible way to showcase songs in a virtual environment. If it attracts people, I bet it will work. I already subscribed to turntable.fm, but can’t find a way to get an invitation…
I hope soon it’ll open to the general public.
Turntable.fm is in available in the US only 🙁
Ever since I received Bob Lefsetz blog about Turntable.fm I’ve been on there everyday. I manage a hard rock band with a new EP due out in late Summer. Our intentions are to hold an online listening party on Turntable.fm just 1-2 weeks prior to the actual release.
Talib Kweli & Res of Idle Warship were just playing a packed room on Turntable. Here’s a write up one of the attendees did: http://mydigitalsoapbox.tumblr.com/post/6982242371/talibkweliusingturntablefm
@Stu – Appreciate all of the linkage!
At first I thought that this was going to be an excellent resource for holding listening parties for a new album. What I didn’t think of is the fact that Internet fair use rules apply at turntable.fm. That means that you can’t play more than two songs in a row by the same artist, or three in a one hour period. That would definitely remove the possibility of playing an entire album.
You could promote a party and even place the song(s) out to the remix crowd and have a party based on just the remixes…
Nate we are members of Bob’s blog as well and have tried numerous times to get an invite to TurntableFM, we went onto the site it says go through FB of which we choose not to use. Will you tell us what we are not getting?
Here is one I just discovered. If you add a URL to the artists ID3 tag (including http:// ) it will be clickable in the chat when the song comes up for play.
I found this article useful in a paper I am writing at university. Hopefully, I get an A+ now!
Another way you can promote your music is to go to a website called http://www.mycellspot.com you can make free ringtones, it helps get your tunes out there!