Many people have emailed me recently asking “what is the best way to get your single or mixtape out to the DJ’s, bloggers and tastemaker”. The most current trend to marketing and promoting your single to industry contacts mentioned above is strong email campaign. An E blast gives record labels, music artists and marketing departments the opportunity to use today’s web technology to its full advantage. The E blast will digitally distribute music to an extensive list of DJ’s, Radio Stations PD’s & MD’s, Label A&R’s, Record Breakers, Record Pools, Bloggers, Magazines, TV Stations, Tastemakers, Publicist, Music Websites, Major Labels, Entertainment Attorneys, Indie Labels and more. An E blast can be the key to saving your company thousands of dollars in pressing and distributing vinyl and CDs to DJ’s who might not play your music.
There are a lot of companies that offer different E blast packages. The following is a list of companies that I would recommend and have used personally for my clients.
Digital Waxx Service – The DigiWaxx Service allows prompt delivery of quality music via email without clogging the recipient’s inboxes with large files. Unlike typical outdated mp3 services, our emails take up no more space than a normal text document. This allows individuals with Hotmail, Yahoo and other low storage email accounts to quickly access to the high quality mp3 downloads. Digiwaxx provides eye-catching graphics to help deliver your music and its accompanying versions safely and securely to our extensive list of registered users. Currently digiwaxx service reaches over 10,000 influential Commercial Mixshow, Club, Mix tape, College, Satellite, Community Radio, and On-Line DJ’s domestically and internationally.
Company strength – Feedback is sent directly to our clients from our registered DJ’s and programming contacts. These reports include statistical breakdowns of DJs’ and tastemakers’ impression of your music, segmentable nationally, regionally or per respondent. Rates Start at $1500.00
Rapstarz Promotions – Rapstarz Promotions specializes in the complete servicing of your material to its database of over 500,000 Industry Contacts. They are considered the Donald Trump of promotions and have a pulse of what’s happening on the streets and all things viral. Because of Rapstarz Promotions E Blast artist have been signed to Def Jam, Swag Team and Jive Records. The E blast service focuses on DJ’s, Radio Stations PD’s & MD’s, Label A&R’s, Record Breakers, Record Pools, Bloggers, Magazines, TV Stations, Tastemakers, Publicist, Music Websites, Major Labels, Entertainment Attorneys, Indie Labels and more. “We don’t do blast we make you famous”
Company Strength – Rapstarz Promotions has the largest verified list and it continues to grow internationally. They are also expanding in there larger packages the option to take part in Million DJ conference call that host over 1000+ DJ on a call. They also have programs that include Rapstarz Radio, Rapstarz Press Release and Feel It or Kill It single review. E Blast to Rates Start at $250.00
MP3Waxx – MP3Waxx.com takes pride in delivering top quality service for our clients. MP3Waxx sends your music to our 428,000 contacts that allows your music to be heard and considered seriously. Our contacts consist of 60,000 DJs worldwide – radio DJs, music directors, program directors, club, satellite, mixtape, internet DJs. Also included in our contacts are music magazines, top 100 music websites, top 200 music blogs, record pools, public relation firms, a-list booking agents, and record label executives.
Company strength – MP3Waxx allows you the client to network with our contacts directly after your music is serviced by our company. MP3Waxx takes pride in working directly with all of the national and international DJ coalitions such as: The Core DJ’s, Hittman DJ’s, Cool Running DJ’s, Violator All Star DJ’s, Bum Squad DJ’s, Future Star DJ’s, The Heavy Hitters, Turntable Assassins, TJ’s DJ’s, Slip N Slide DJ’s, Super Friends, Czar Squad and more… Rates Start at $300.00
Bottom Feeder – Bottom Feeder Music is one of the original E Blast companies that was created to serve the needs of major label clients to deliver artist singles at the click of one button. Bottom Feeder has built strong reputation as the company to get your single serviced to all the mixshow DJ’s, Radio Stations PD’s & MD’s, and major label A&R’s. Bottom Feeder also serves as the VP of Marketing for the Shadyville DJ’s which is a coalition headed by DJ Whoo Kid. Bottom Feeders data base is concentrated to 35,000 real industry contacts.
Company strength – Bottom Feeder has a great work ethic and is very focused on his clients needs and targets his emails directly to the major dj’s and industry clients that have the power to break records. Rates Start at $150.00
Coast 2 Coast Mixtapes Services – Coast 2 Coast Mixtapes offers services for any artist that is looking for online promotion, from mixtape promotion packages to monthly promotions to DJ Coalition servicing. They not only have an extensive list of over 60,000 industry contacts but they actually have established partnerships with all the top Eblast companies listed above with access to over 2 million contacts. They also have the ability to not only blast your track to their exclusive list of 500+ mixtape DJs, they can actually guarantee placement of your single on over 100 mixtapes in a single month through their Coast 2 Coast DJ Coalition package!
Company Strength – Coast 2 Coast Mixtapes offers numerous services from E-mail blasts to complete mixtape packages to monthly promotion packages. They also have partnerships with every E blast company listed above and have the ability to send out discounted blasts to all Eblast services with larger promotion and mixtape packages. Rates start at $500 for mixtape promotion packages and $1000 for DJ Coalition Packages.
Other Companies that I receive E blast from:
Lex Promotions / New Music 4 DJ’s
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Marc Smilow
