So you blog about music and you’re fed up with the record labels for restricting the ability to stream music to the player of your choice.
Might I suggest looking at Independent artists to fill your needs?
SoundClick.com is a website that allows artists to promote and sell their music on the Internet. They bill themselves as “The #1 Artist Music Community”. I don’t know about #1…but they do have a fair bit of traffic. One of the tools that SoundClick offers artists in the promotion of there wares, is of course, a widget. In this case, many widgets.
Widgets:
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Music Players
Store Widgets
Chart Widgets
Banners
…of course banners are not widgets per se, but they are simple embeddables that help to promote your music.
What SoundClick says:
SoundClick, established in 1997, is an originator of the social media format. SoundClick continues to be the leading free music community featuring signed and unsigned bands plus state of the art social media tools.
SoundClick offers free member profile pages, mp3 downloads, streaming audio and video, music charts, custom radio stations, a proprietary music store, message boards, lyrics and music e-cards. SoundClick also offers users the ability to promote their favorite music with viral widgets.
With 3.4 million members and 70+ million monthly pageviews, SoundClick is the ideal destination for original music fans and marketers who want to engage them creatively.
Is it difficult?
You can find artists from all genres of music with some tracks for sale and others, FREE to download. In order to find an artist’s widgets, go to SoundClick.com, scroll down to “Music Charts and Genres” pick your favorite genre, find an artist you like. Go to their SoundClick page and on the left hand side in the “Navigation” pane, click “Widgets and Banners”. Now choose your widget. Very easy!
Here’s artist Ben J Hayes:
