"The 20 Best Ways For Your Music To Get Attention."
Here were the Top 20 with some accompanying facts & stats:
1. Synch Placement in a TV Ad for Apple
2. Performance on "The Oprah Winfrey Show"
- Important Stage for Established Stars
- Average viewership of about 6.6 million per show
3. Song in a TV Commercial that runs during a special event with significant viewership (Olympics, Super Bowl, Olympics, Etc.)
- Big telecasts with big viewership
- 97.5 million viewers for the 2008 Super Bowl
4. Song Featured as ITUNES' Free Single of the Week
- Free songs yield exposure and, sometimes, sales
5. Song Covered on Fox's "American Idol"
- Show's 2008 ratings fell, but it's still a huge hit
- Average audience of about 27 Million viewers
6. Synch Placement in Activision's "Guitar Hero" Videogame
- Music affairs man looks for gold
- "Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock" Sales in the US total 9 million units
7. Song Played During A Hit Movie's Opening Credits
- Hit Film can lead to hit sales
- About 19 million moviegoers, based on U.S. Box-Office receipts of $124.7 million and an average 2006 ticket price of $6.55
8. Synch Placement in a High-Rotation TV Ad for Nike
- Just do it, to music
- Nike Ads during the Beijing Olympics averaged 27.7 Million viewers per night during prime time
9. Performance on Lollapalooza Main Stage
- Former artists: Radiohead, Kanye West, and Gogol Bordello
- Daily attendance of about 75,000
10. Synch Placement in MTV's "Rock Band" Videogame
- getting music fans to play along
- "Rock Band" sales in the U.S. total 3.4 million to date
11. Video on Youtube's Most-Viewed Videos Page for Music
- Where to find the most popular music videos
- Youtube had 75 million unique visitors in July
12. Cover Story in Rolling Stone
- Granddaddy of mainstream music publications
- Biweekly circulation of 1.5 million
13. Synch Placement in Rockstar Games' "Grand Theft Auto"
- Mixing speed and music
- "Grand Theft Auto IV" Sales topped 4.7 million units through August
14. Synch Placement on HBO's "Entourage
- The cable network's tribute to L.A. romance
- Average viewership of 225,000
15. Video on the Front Page of Youtube
- Motley assortment, some music
- Youtube had 75 million unique visitors in July
16. Synch Placement in ABC's "Grey's Anatomy"
- Hospital dramedy that loves Ingrid Michaelson
- Average viewership of 18 million
17. Any Single or video listed in the "Free on iTunes" Section
- For emerging artists, free can be a very good price
18. Single played on Radio Disney
- Family friendly programming reaches kids and their parents
- estimated 36.5 million listeners per week
19. Performance on Bonnaroo's What/Main Stage
- Boasts the biggest audiences of any North American festival stage
- What stage headliners drew an estimated average crowd of 70,000 in 2008
20. Synch Placement in CW's "Gossip Girl"
- Lackluster first-season ratings, massive buzz
- average viewership of 2.5 million
2 comments:
You gotta be careful about getting your music on Grey's Anatomy. I may be a fan of the show, and I do think they choose some pretty great music. However, they aren't always very thoughtful about the placement of the music. "Ten Thousand Angels" written by Sandra McCracken, sung by Derek Webb was played in it's entirety...which doesn't happen often on that show. It is such a wonderfully somewhat obscure song about the gospel. Grey's played it during a sex scene. Hmmm....
give me something I haven't done,
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