Indie Labels/Artists: Future of Fanbase Building

Indie Labels and Artists, did you obtain your invitation to affix WeVerse? No, you didn’t.

The next comes from Rhythmic Riot, an organization DMN is proud to be partnering with.

What does the long run maintain for indies when main labels have their very own platforms for group and fanbase constructing and also you’re neglected?

It was nice ten years in the past when indies might construct a fanbase on Fb and Instagram, simply as simply as a giant artist. You can make a put up and get a like from virtually all your followers. Now, Mark Zuckerberg has modified the foundations. Solely a small proportion of your followers see your posts, and you have to pay for extra followers to see them.

Fb and Instagram have was music profession killers. As we speak, a lot of you will have near 1,000,000 followers on socials. You make a put up and get 2,000 likes. Is that this as a result of individuals stopped liking you?

No. It’s as a result of for years, your posts have been squashed. And people followers who’re randomly proven your posts barely keep in mind you. What a multitude! Creators spent years constructing fanbases solely to have them taken away.

That is precisely why Hybe created WeVerse. Hybe wished their very own platform, the place they’re in command of fan knowledge and the fan expertise. 

Common Music Group was so impressed that they partnered with Hybe and are putting their artists on WeVerse. They’re constructing a database of tremendous followers. Because of the app, they’ll freely talk with these followers, with no squashed posts, and no e mail spam filters. This actually is the way forward for the music business.

Excellent news! You’re not neglected! Right here’s your invitation!

You’re invited to affix the Rhythmic Riot platform, which is so much like WeVerse. It’s a spot the place you’ll be able to construct communities of followers and message them via the app. Every artist account has its personal emailing system. There’s a built-in web site builder, merch retailer, and many different options.

There’s power in numbers and indies must work collectively!

Why is Hybe blissful to share WeVerse with Common Music Group? As a result of Common Music Group will deliver thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands of followers to the platform, and each artist on the platform might be uncovered to these followers.

If indie labels and artists work collectively, they’ll have your individual platform with thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands of followers. The Rhythmic Riot platform is the right place so that you can do that.

So who, what, and the place is Rhythmic Riot? My identify is Greg Allen and I dwell simply south of Macon, GA, USA. I’m a singer-songwriter. I wrote my first track at 12, spent my 20s on the highway with my band, had an actual job for 20 years, and in 2016 I made a decision to get again into music by discovering methods to help different artists. 

I shortly found that many individuals had been complaining about low streaming royalties. Streaming had killed album gross sales, which not solely harm artists however actually harm the songwriters.

My resolution was twofold: (1) Create a platform the place the music creators, labels, and administration had been in management; and (2) Provide you with artistic options for growing earnings that supplemented streaming royalties.

Promoting a karaoke expertise and entry to a ten monitor/stem participant had been concepts designed to assist improve songwriter and artist incomes. 

In January of 2017 I put collectively an excellent crew of software program builders that made my imaginative and prescient a actuality. 

After I checked out Fb and Instagram, and the billions of followers that they had there, I knew that the one manner we might construct our personal model of this was if all of us labored collectively. 

Think about if each indie artist on the planet joined Rhythmic Riot right this moment and constructed their web site. Then tomorrow, every artist went out and invited their followers to go to their web site, click on their FOLLOW button, and be part of their group powered by Rhythmic Riot. Immediately, we’d have 500 million followers that we might all market to and talk with. We might have our personal model of WeVerse. 

The Rhythmic Riot platform has been dwell since July 2017. It’s nicely seasoned and examined. There’s nothing to cease us from making this occur.

I need Rhythmic Riot to be that place the place artists, songwriters, labels, and administration work collectively to make the foundations for the platform and assist determine what software program we create subsequent. I need this to be a platform the place everybody feels pretty handled and that they’ve a voice.

With Rhythmic Riot, you’ll be able to:

• Create your albums digitally on the market with instantaneous listening and downloads, and bundle that with a CD or Vinyl. 
• Bundle albums with the karaoke expertise or/and entry to the ten monitor/stem participant for every track. 
• Promote entry to unique movies inside our Artist Premiere function. 
• Your merch retailer can embody on-demand printing and success of CDs and vinyl by Printful. 

You can even use a present code and supply free entry to those unique movies. It is a nice technique to get followers to affix your group. 

You proceed to make use of Fb, Instagram, and TikTok to seek out new followers, however continuously give them causes to go to your web site and be part of your group. Followers be part of one time and might work together with and purchase music and merch from any artist on the platform.

Communication with these followers is crucial factor. 

Every artist and label account comes with its personal emailing system. However, every time you ship an e mail, we place a duplicate contained in the Fan Account Message Heart. The fan immediately will get notified on their telephone by the app. They faucet the notification and see the message you despatched. 100% supply. No spam filters. Additionally they see this message within the browser if they’re logged in there. This message will also be despatched with out utilizing e mail. 

Every artist and label has possession of the fan information for followers which might be your followers and a part of your group. You may export this information weekly if you would like. We wish you to know you will have management over your fanbase.

 There’s artist, music, and video discovery within the app and at Rhythmic-Riot.com. The Rhythmic Riot crew supplies receipts for buy and assist. We retain a small proportion of gross sales, and it’s free to affix.

Artists that use our platform, like Ray Scott, are discovering it simple to construct their communities, message these communities, and promote extra music and merch than ever earlier than.

RayScott.com was constructed utilizing our web site builder, and his merch retailer and emailing system are powered by Rhythmic Riot. 

Ray is driving music gross sales by permitting followers to listen to unreleased songs solely on his web site, whereas the album is on pre-order. Followers go to his web site, hear the track, and never solely purchase the album, however additionally they store and purchase plenty of his different albums and merch. 11% of Ray’s earnings comes from ideas due to the tipping buttons we offer at checkout. 81% of his album gross sales had been CDs and 19% had been digital solely. You may be taught extra right here.

It’s time that we take management over our enterprise and cease letting others dictate how and after we can talk with our followers. Hybe and Common Music Group are taking motion now. That’s proof that this method is the way forward for music.

E mail me at [email protected], inform me you agree and wish to be a part of this motion. We will have Zoom conferences the place everyone seems to be included, the place we focus on our progress, resolve issues, and plan future software program enhancements. I’ll reply to everybody that emails me inside 48 hours. If you happen to don’t get a response, test your spam folder or e mail me once more and embody your telephone quantity.I’ll textual content you.

Platforms like this would be the largest factor to occur to the music business for the reason that invention of music streaming. We don’t must be excluded. Now we have our personal platform. What if, a minimum of for a short time, our indie platform had extra followers than WeVerse? It’d occur should you all begin becoming a member of proper now. 

Let’s do that!