January 2011
16 posts
Pre album
Before you publish an official / new album, you can upload a pre album in fanatic.fm and attract sponsors for your official album.
By doing this, musicians can kill two birds with one stone: 1) start marketing of new album even before the album is released, 2) attract financial supporters for a new album.
When an official album is released and the music is played with sponsor’s contents,...
5%
Yes, 5%. 5% of the total revenue is donated to charities in fanatic.fm.
How it works:
If Apple sponsors Coldplay’s next album and Coldplay chooses ‘Nothing but nets’ for charity partner, for instance, then 5% of the total sponsorship amount from Apple is donated to ‘Nothing but nets’ under the name of Coldplay. Fans contribute to this by listening to sponsored...
HOW TO: Get sponsorship on fanatic.fm
Sign up as a musician
Verify your email: Sponsorship request and other important updates are sent to your email. So email verification is important process in fanatic.
Edit your profile
Choose your album type (Pre vs. Official): You can attract sponsors even before when you release an official album. Upload pre album - the showcase of your upcoming album- first and get the commitment...
Empowering the future of Cambodia
The Cambodian Kids Foundation is a not for profit organisation and a registered Cambodian NGO. Our foundation aims to educate and empower the people of Cambodia through a number of projects that ensure maximum sustainability and success.
In particular our foundation looks to the future and the creation of a better Cambodia for its people. We believe that in order to change the future for the...
WatchLike this, musicians and fans can embed fanatic player on their social media and become a publisher of the sponsored music.
We are not..
We are not a music service.
We are not an Ad-backed music streaming service.
We are not a music branding agency.
fanatic.fm is a platform where musicians can publish a new album with sponsorships from brands they select.
Monetizing music streaming
Your music has been played 1 million times in MySpace? Great..But how much did you earn from it? Was it promotional purpose? Then was it really helpful in boosting your revenue in iTunes or CD sales?
More and more people enjoy music streaming from web, mobile devices. And more and more artists communicate directly with their fans using social media. What’s your plan to cope with these...
Four missions
Fair compensation for musicians
Emotional/engaging branding tool for sponsors
Social fund-raising for charities
Free/fair music listening for fans
Sponsorship request
Sponsorship request in fanatic.fm is more like friendship request in facebook.
Musicians can browse sponsors and invite them for your album.
Sponsors also can browse musicians and suggest sponsorship.
Both have rights to accept or decline. Sponsorship is made only when both agrees.
Musicians: You will be approached by different brands for sponsorship and you have freedom to choose amongst...
Revenue split
Musicians:
70% of the total sponsorship revenue
less 2.5% (Donation to charities that musicians themselves select)
= 67.5% of total revenue
fanatic.fm
30% of the total sponsorship revenue
less 2.5% of donation (along with musicians)
= 27.5% of total revenue
Charities get 5% in total (2.5% from musician + 2.5% from fanatic.fm)
Cost Per Music Play (CPMP)
fanatic.fm brings new revenue model for musicians & pricing structure for sponsors: Cost Per Music Play.
Musicians can set the value (CPMP) when they publish an album on fanatic.fm. For example, one musician set the value as $0.01 per music play. If her music is played 100,000 times, then her gross revenue will be $1,000 ($0.01 * 100,000). The CPMP for exclusive sponsorship can be higher than...
Publishing your album with sponsorships
fanatic.fm provides an opportunity to showcase your music to diverse brands for sponsorship opportunities.
To be qualified for uploading music, you need to have every right necessary for using your music (including musical composition and recording) including but not limited to:
Rights necessary for publicly performing your music on the web either independently or as embedded in videos (the...
WatchFrench-American multi-instrumentalist and stunning vocalist Sydney Wayser has emerged with her sophomore album The Colorful, a more lighthearted follow-up to 2007’s The Silent Parade. Where The Silent Parade leaned towards the dark and melancholic, The Colorful presents a collection of songs decorated with the playfulness of toy instruments while maintaining 22-year-old Wayser’s sense of intimate...
Music that changes the world?
What does music do for you?
At fanatic.fm, musicians, brands and fans unite to create music that changes the world. Here’s how it works:
A rock band is about to drop their new album online, but they can’t find a way to directly monetize music listening. The band doesn’t want to charge fans and it definitely doesn’t want to sell out to annoying corporations.
That’s where fanatic.fm comes in....