Slicethepie: Investing And Sampling Music

This is the first of our series on applications for music artists. To see a primer on the topic, there is our previous post, Web 2.0 For Musicians and Music Professionals.

Musicians need more than just a place to post songs - they need to connect to professionals and music lovers alike, while increasing their visibility to labels and business opportunities. Slicethepie aims for just that, giving users a chance to sample artists, connect to music professionals, and invest in them.

Broken into tabs, Slicethepie has an easy to understand interface, and uncommon features. Based on the idea that investment will bring the best of the network to the light, Slicethepie offers a chance for users to invest (minimum of 1 pound) and help the band put out a record. In exchange for your support users that invest will get a free music track or a free album and your name on the sleeve at a a higher donation level.

The benefit of this is depends on who you are; listeners get to listen to up-and-coming bands (and contribute), bands get exposed (they can upload up to 10 songs) and can get user feedback, and scouts can see new rising talent, tested by users in Slicethepie. Users that want to predict the success of a band can “buy a contract,” a vote of confidence in the band’s sales, under the trading tab, potentially making money on the success of their tracks.

As one might expect, there is a wide variety of music in Slicethepie, and listeners (and scouts) can search by an equally wide selection of genres (unusual genres as “screamo” come to mind). Some are underrepresented - there were no tracks in “comedy” - but Slicethepie is unique way to get feedback and exposure. To find this or other applications like it, there is the Listio search: music+business.

Previously in this series: Web 2.0 For Musicians and Music Professionals
Next in this series: Indaba: Collaborative Music Application

Application: SliceThePie
Listio Profile: http://www.listio.com/web20/app/SliceThePie/
Website: http://www.slicethepie.com

Slicethepie.com is a website designed to earn money for musicians in an attempt to finance their upcoming album. You can finance songs, you can scout songs or you can submit your music if your an artist. If you want to review songs then you can simply listen to songs and get paid .20 - .50 for each... Learn more

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