You have successfully started a band and you have some originals. So, you are thinking about recording. Should it be only digital or should you actually manufacture a CD? Should you do just a single or a slew of songs... well, if you are an indie, the blog Coolfer has an interesting post on the digital music trends:
In theory, indie labels should have a great digital album share than a CD share. In the physical world, limited shelf space and challenges with distribution can hamper access to the consumers. It turns out this is exactly the case. Indies have a 28% share of digital album sales, far higher than the 18.8% share they have of CDs.
But indies don't sell single digital tracks as well as they sell digital albums, and not even as well as they sell CDs. The indies' digital track share is only 15.8% There could be a number of reasons for this. The most rational explantion is that indies tend to market their artists around an entire album, not a single. Singles, and the singles chart, is largely the domain of major labels with the resources to make the kind of elaborate videos get considerable airplay, and the means to promote a single to commercial radio. In promoting an album through a single, a label is often promoting just that song, not the artist or the artist's album
Surprise, surprise -- it seems that your music genre also has an impact... read the post to see what genres do better!
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