Supernova has to announced the launch of their new music social network, featuring over 180,000 integrated band and listener profiles, song, photo and video sharing, event promotion and publicity, plus exclusive music industry opportunities and insider news. As the only social network that brings new music artists to play on the live concert stage, in front of thousands of listeners and fans, Supernova.com is the premier destination to discover emerging music talent.
With the new launch of Supernova.com, the social platform now offers enhanced features for both artists and listeners in the new music community. New music listeners and fans can be the first to discover and share new talent through the music explorer, and through exclusive industry news, artist interviews, and access to the Supernova.com artist network. Supernova.com’s music experts also use these music, photo and video sharing features to help find the hottest new acts on the music scene.
Over at RouteNote (a free digital music distribution service) they have started to offer some of their artists live session videos via bittorrent sites. RouteNote has partned with Mininova to provide their content on the Mininova platform for all users to download for free.
At RouteNote the belief is that bittorrent clients provide a great access to millions of viewers every month. With major labels currently fighting sites like The Pirate Bay over copyright issues, it is good to see that RouteNote is adopting this technology and trying to find ways for it to help spread the word of their artists and music.
My belief is that bittorrent trackers arent going to go away any time soon, and that the technology has great benefits and sometimes you just have to think outside the box to find revenues streams. Music on the internet is currently quite a complex market and in the future I think that download sales arent going to be a key revenue stream, and more sites will appear that have advertising models such as Spotify and Imeem. The era of CDs and albums are over, artists will have to produce great tracks not albums and then promote these either as paid downloads or for mass adoption which makes money in other forms.
RouteNote downloads can be found at Mininova.
Disclosure: Im CEO of Insomnia Ltd which ownes RouteNote
