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January 2010
Promising Newcomers
Gussie Miller
Alex Highton ...
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Bulletproof
Messenger ... 4 Hind ... 6 Fleur Jack ... 20 Slim Void ... 8
In this issue
Editorial 2
Promising Newcomers
Gussie Miller 15
Alex Highton 17
The Comeback 18
Eline Chiara 19
SellaBand News 19
Artist News 23
(Aly Cook, Cubworld, Chris Difford, Kirt, Nemesea,
Kane Sole, Radius, Francis Rodino)
50K MM: Where are you from? 50K MM: How would you describe your music?
Jesse: Bulletproof Messenger is based in Long Island, Jesse: Our music is a powerful concoction of electronic
New York, but our members are from Baltimore – MD, beats/synths, hard rock guitars, catchy melodic vocals.
Long Island – NY, Schenectady – NY, and Erie – PA. We pride ourselves in creating everything from ambient
textures, metal-esque guitars, funk bass grooves, beautiful
50K MM: How would you describe the band in three piano passages, and great memorable vocals – we don’t
words? want to limit ourselves to one specific sound, and with our
Jesse: HARD-ROCK/TECHNOLOGY/GOOFBALLS (not new album “Arm Yourself” we are really starting to be able
necessarily in that order, you might want to put goofballs to branch out into new sounds.
first if you have met us in person.)
50K MM: How did you find the way to Sellaband? How
50K MM: Where are you coming from artistically, what has SellaBand changed your life? What were your
are your influences? experiences on your way to 50k?
Jesse: Our influences are spread across the board. We Jesse: One of my previous bands was actually on
love everything from Celldweller to Depeche Mode to Sellaband and doing quite well when I heard of the
Brand New, Pink Floyd, Sevendust, Lamb of God, website. I got a monthly newsletter from the band after
Killswitch Engage, 311, Glassjaw, CKY, Chili Peppers... the joining Bulletproof Messenger and learned of the whole
list goes on and on. We try to pay tribute a little of each of fan-investor concept. When we signed up on the website,
our influences into our music. it was a pretty big deal for us. We had no idea that things
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would take off like they would. Almost immediately, fans method of getting out there in people’s faces and touring
from all over the world were investing heavily in us. It your ass off.
took off quick! Within the first couple months we were
chosen out of 3,000 acts worldwide to be flown to London, 50K MM: And at last one important thing about you and
England and play a special showcase for Sellaband’s staff your music everyone should know?
and some of the “Believers”. Fans/investors are called Jesse: We would just like to thank everyone who has been
“Believers” on Sellaband. It was really cool to meet some of with us since the beginning. We are still a relatively new
the new fans that were laying their own money down to band, but we have a very loyal fan base. You are all
support our music. We also got to meet the whole priceless to us, and the reason that we are still going.
Sellaband staff who was extremely cool! Not to mention, Don’t get me wrong, we all love music and will be creating
this was our first gig in Europe – an experience we will music for the rest of our lives, but having the fan support
never forget. Things continued to roll along quickly as the that we are lucky enough to have puts a certain bounce in
next few months passed. We reached the $50k budget in our step, to say the least. It really helps us keep motivated
only 7 months, and from there we dove head first into the to continue to push this project forward. We answer all of
writing process. our fan letters/emails. If you want to get in touch with us,
visit www.bulletproofmessenger.net ... And be sure to
check out our new album “Arm Yourself” on iTunes!
www.bulletproofmessenger.net
Buy album here
50K MM: You released your album almost one year ago.
What happened since then?
Jesse: Since the release of our second album “Arm
Yourself”, a lot has happened. One of our members, Voley
Martin, is in the army and had to go to war in Iraq, so he
was “M.I.A.” from the band for the first segment of 2009.
We spent the majority of the year playing around the
Eastern US playing with a fill in guitarist named
Konstantine Sitzanis, getting a feel for the new songs and
making them real tight until Voley returned. In 2009 we
also saw the entry of new drummer Vince Gorski. Now
that we have a solidified lineup, we are planning out our
next touring season. We are still completely independent
though, and searching for management, booking, and
promotion help… so *hint hint* if anyone in those fields
are reading this, haha!
50K MM: What are your plans for 2010 - new album,
touring, ...?
Jesse: 2010 is set for touring. Shows, shows shows! We
are also looking for proper management like I said, but we
will be taking a break from writing for a while. We are
always writing individually, but we have spent so much
time already putting out music that we are going to focus
on the live show aspect and building up our fan base
before we begin working on a new album. The internet is
great for finding and reaching out to new fans, but it’s
obvious to us that you cannot ignore the tried and true
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teaser up at our myspace site. Please have a listen and feel
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slimvoid. These days we're busy rehearsing the album for
our release concert which will take place at 'Blaest' in
Trondheim sometime in March.
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Here is Katie's update on album production:
Over Dec/Jan I've kept busy with gigs and also
putting together demos of all my songs. It's summer
here in NZ at the moment so I've been out in the
garden and spending alot of time with family and
friends. This year is going to be crazy busy so I've
been planning like mad (if you seen my house you'd
laugh at the lists everywhere!!!). I will have a lot
more details about the album for you next month so
keep an eye out! Also if you want to keep up to date
with what I'm doing join my Facebook fan club 4
(really want to get the numbers up hehe!!!).
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Sellaband,
What Will 2010 Bring?
(PS) As an early and optimistic supporter of Sellaband, I it was first developed for use in treating blood pressure
feel confident in saying that I am not alone in wishing a deficiency. In much the same way, The Collaboration
successful and prosperous 2010 to the company and all of Project began as a collaborative effort to raise funding for
my friends, both virtual and physical, associated with the a compilation album of Sellaband artists but has morphed
Dutch crowd-sourcing music website. That said, the past into a clearing house for side projects which are turning
year has brought changes in policy and implementation out collaborative songs and productions by artists, writers
which move me to express concerns of a nature less than and producers from all over the ever shrinking virtual
positive for the first time since I became a supporter, not world. The latest effort includes songs written by Monica
only of the concept itself, but of many aspiring artists on Thomas, Mark Payne, aka Dreb Hacklett of Sheet Metal,
the platform. Casper Van Vulpen, Kostek Andreev and Lille Mulder and
will be available worldwide this spring. Members of The
On a positive note, there are two sub-organizations on the Collaboration Project have joined forces in developing
website which I support and admire very much. The quite an effective production team and it wouldn’t surprise
Dream Team is a group of individual artists organized me to see a successful move toward establishing this team
under the benevolent mentoring of Phil Sommersby. My as an option for other Sellaband artists who may think
good friend Phil offers artists the wisdom gleaned from his that name producers working at a fraction of their normal
years in business outside of the music industry. His “out of fees can insure success. These guys are serious.
the box” thinking has proven to be a valuable resource to
up and coming artists mired in the old school solutions to On the flip side of Sellaband’s 2009, there are three
new wave problems. Marketing and promotion in the developments which I have found to be potentially
music industry is changing at light speed and Phil’s disastrous and which only the loyalty of the old guard
common sense solutions, positivity and sense of old believers can overcome if Sellaband is to continue to
fashioned perseverance have built a successful track become an important force in the evolution of the music
record as no less than five Dreamteamsters have secured industry. In no order of importance, they are:
Sellaband recording budgets during 2009. Regardless of
changes in policy, members of The Dream Team continue 1. The look, construction and functionality of the website.
to use the platform to serve their purposes, maintain a The SAB forums document the disaster and subsequent
positive outlook and reap the rewards of Phil’s sensible eye fixes that have resulted in the present incarnation. Many
over their shoulders. security issues have been satisfactorily addressed and
functionality restored but as the proverbial bell cannot be
The Collaboration Project, under the watchful eye of unrung, the damage to Sellaband’s integrity as a
composer/producer Casper Van Vulpen, is having mixed commerce site could well be beyond estimation.
success in financial terms but if it is indeed “all about the Navigation through the site is less than intuitive, searching
music,” then this project is the Viagra of Sellaband. Most for new music is on a par with browsing through un-
users of the boner-inducing “vitamin V” are not aware that alphabetized record bins and buying the music produced
by Sellaband is nearly impossible for first time visitors to
the site. While Sellaband’s initial priority is to sell parts in
future productions, it seems absurd that albums produced
by Sellaband artists are nearly invisible and difficult to
buy. Yes, there have been answers to these issues but with
all due respect to the tech team working hard to make
sense of it all, the answers haven’t made complete sense in
the real world and Sellaband has not served their own
artists as well as they might or should.
Promising Newcomers
Gussie Miller for Chris Rock¹s CW Television Show, "Everybody Hates
Chris". In addition, I have most recently been composing
music for commercials and film, and my voice can be
50K MM: Who are you, where do you come from,...? heard on Chris Rock¹s feature film, "I Think I Love My
Please tell us something about yourself. Wife".
Gussie: I was born and raised in Columbus, OH. I have (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everybody_Hates_Chris)
family in both New York and New Jersey where I spent
much of my formative years around entertainment people. 50K MM: How did you discover SellaBand?
My Uncle James "Blinky" Miller, was a music professor Gussie: My cousin in Public Enemy keeps me informed of
who first believed in my talent. My Aunt Juanita, who was everything going on with PE. He had reached out to me
also a music teacher, MADE me sing in her church choir, about the power of Sellaband in funding their current
where she was the choir director. project. I checked it out and "fan funding" sounded like a
great idea!
Years later, after I became an adult, I lived with my Uncle
and got to know my second cousin, James Allen, who is The vision for my first solo effort, "Forever Plan", began
one of the S1W in the legendary rap group, Public Enemy. well over 10 years ago. Due to a tough divorce situation
I desired to sing at the Apollo Theatre, so James escorted and spending much of my time and finances fighting for
me to the Apollo to sing at Amateur Night, because he the custodial rights of my children, "Forever Plan" was put
believed so much in my talent. on hold. I also experienced a workplace accident that
pushed back completing "Forever Plan". However many
setbacks I encountered, I never lost sight of where I
wanted to go with this project. The time has come now, to
utilize the power of SAB to finally bring my vision to
fruition!
http://artismusicai.blogspot.com
www.sellaband.com/projects/gussiemiller
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50K MM: Who are you, where do you come from, ...? for which I will be forever grateful. Considering I recorded
Please tell us something about yourself. the songs just for my own amusement, the whole thing
Alex: I was born in Liverpool, lived in London for a few seemed to have taken on a life of its own and I've decided
years, and more recently have moved to the countryside to go with it.
not far from Cambridge. I'd never lived outside the city
before and I was a little bit anxious as to how I would take 50K MM: How did you discovered SellaBand?
to it. Luckily I fell in love with the life, & the village, from Alex: I had heard of the website Slice of the Pie, had a
the moment I arrived. I've two little girls and it's nice to look at it and was a interested. So I started searching
get out into the fields with them, although this last week around for competitors to see what they did. I stumbled
we've been snowed in. across Sellaband and was immediately impressed with the
flexibility of the system. So I thought I'd give it a go.
I love all types of music but the songs for this album seem
to have been pretty heavily influenced by Randy Newman, 50K MM: How are you going to convince people to
Harry Nilsson & David Ackles on one side & NIck Drake, believe (and invest) in you?
Davey Graham, Bert Jansch, John Renbourn on the other. Alex: This is a really hard question and one on which I've
Although I tend to just write whatever comes out and see taken quite a bit of advice in the forum. I thought I may as
what happens. All these songs were written in a bit of a well find out the best way forward from the people who
bubble, I wasn't listening to any new music, which was know the site inside out.
strange for me.
I think the most important thing is the music and I'm
Since I recorded the demo's at home it's been an hoping that people like it enough to invest! I've been
interesting year or so. They've played my songs on the tv getting some great reviews, BBC Introducing Suffolk &
(Hollyoaks), the radio (Tom Robinson's BBC 6 Introducing The Rebel Riffs Music Blog, have both said it's one of their
show, a live session for BBC Suffolk, amongst others), & favourite albums of the year, which considering it's
I've had loads of interest from various different record currently collection of demo's recorded in a shed, I'm
companies. Also the Hollywood actor Ashton Kutcher really proud of. Hopefully this shows the believer's some
stumbled across my music and started supporting me, potential.
which has lead to a lot of interest from all over the world,
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The Comeback
I've tried to make my incentives value for money across
the board, from a 1 part believer upwards. I hadn't really
done this when I first signed up.
50K MM: Who are you, where do you come from, ...?
I'm trying to engage with the community as much as Please tell us something about yourself.
possible, making sure I'm in touch with followers & Kevin: My name is Kevin Storm, and I am one of those
believers & getting involved in the forum (where you can people you heard about. You know, the kind that gives up
find a wealth of information & some really nice people). everything in life to chase a dream, they may or may not
make it. I dont really care. I make my music, I'm telling
On the other hand I'm trying to bring in outside the stories I have to tell in every possible way, be it graphic
investment. I've just signed with a fantastic booking agent novel or music, I just need to get it out of my system.
(BPA Live) and they are starting to get me gigs. At each of
these I'll be giving away cd's for free with information 50K MM: How did you discovered SellaBand?
inside about Sellaband, which I'll also be mentioning Kevin: Not sure actually, but I think the story about
during the gig. people who DON'T know Sellaband is a lot harder to find :)
I've been messaging my myspace fans, contacting my 50K MM: How are you going to convince people to
mailing list, twittering about the site. believe (and invest) in you?
Kevin: I'm not. I have put the project on Sellaband and I
Also hopefully in the near future I'll be lowering my target will answer every question anyone has. I'm far too busy
as well. A producer friend who is currently working on the getting this thing into the world, in the real world. If
Brian Ferry / Roxy Music project, has offered to help me at people believe in me on Sellaband, I will be very grateful,
a massively reduced rate, just waiting for the costs from but I'm not going to push anyone. The product speaks for
him. Recording starts in March, as he's agreed to wait for itself. I'll let people on Sellaband decide what to make of it
his money until I reach target. ;)
I'm working on new material, writing more music,
I'm totally open to ideas as well. So if anyone has any finishing the next graphic novel, let's see how my firstborn
please get in touch alexhightonmusic@googlemail.com. "The Comeback" holds out on it's own , haha.
50K MM: You have raised about 1 % of the budget so far. 50K MM: You have raised about 4 % of the budget so far.
Have you thought about the time after reaching the goal of Have you thought about the time after reaching the goal of
50k yet? What are your plans then? 25k yet? What are your plans then?
Alex: I have no idea how long it will take for me to reach Kevin: well, my goal is 10K, because that's the lowest
target. As I said the album will be recorded anyway in option there was. (50K MM: ehem, sorry for this mistake)
March, however there's no point having an album that no I'm gonna do exactly the same if I reach the goal, as I
one ever hears of. I imagine, even with a reduced target, it would if I don't reach it; make music, draw, write and find
could take some time. I'm in for the long haul! special musicians to collaborate with. The only difference
would be, people would then actually SEE me working my
Once we've raised the money I've very good contacts ass off every day for music, hahaha.
within the industry to work the marketing side for me,
BPA Live are working on Festivals & higher profile gigs. I 50K MM: And last question: How can we support you to
think in the end it will all be down to good old fashioned speed up raising your budget?
hard work. Lots of gigs, lots of promotion. Kevin: Listen. and forget the hype. I make music with my
heart, and so did all the 13 guests. This is a story that
50K MM: And last question: How can we support you to needed to be told for ME. and somehow, everyone I know
speed up raising your budget? seems to understand and feel that. If I can change ONE
Alex: Help me spread the word. I need all the help i can single heart out there with this book, to decide to start
get. There's lots of great artists on Sellaband and I'm pursuing what makes you happy in life, my mission is
honoured to be part of the set up. accomplished. THAT is my 100K goal :)
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Eline Chiara SellaBand News
50K MM: Who are you, where do you come from, ...?
Please tell us something about yourself. (sab) The Christmas Competition has been an exciting
Eline: I am Eline Chiara and I come from a small town in race with three Top ten artists making it to their goal
the Netherlands. Currently I live in the city where I go to before the competition ended. The absolute winner is
college. At the age of 8 I started taking piano lessons. Hind with her album project on nr.1 and her promotion
When I was 12 I started taking singing lessons as well. The project on nr. 2. But because the album project is already
last 2 years I have been very busy writing and recording on target the First prize of $1000 in parts, subscriptions to
my own music. Next to being a singer I am also a Uplaya and Youlicense and top coverage will go to the
songwriter and I write songs for other artists as well. promotion project of Hind. The second prize will go to
Lisa Brokop and Paul Jefferson aka The Jeffersons. Lucky
50K MM: How did you discovered SellaBand? third is Catself who will get $250 in parts and special
Eline: I believe I heard something about Hind on the coverage on the site.
radio or on TV and thought I'd check out this SAB.
The ten fundraising Artists who will make the special
50K MM: How are you going to convince people to SellaBand download album:
believe (and invest) in you? 1) Hind
Eline: That's a pretty hard question. Like all other artists I 2) The Jeffersons
offer a revenue share % and some pretty great incentives, 3) Catself
but I just hope that everyone who enjoys listening to my 4) Aryn Michelle
music and sees how serious I am about this, will start 5) Celeste
'believing' in me. I'm very thankful for those people that 6) Chris Difford
invest in me. 7) Anne Marie Sunshine
8) Mopi
50K MM: You have raised about 2 % of the budget so far. 9) Public Enemy
Have you thought about the time after reaching the goal of 10) The Esoteric Gender
50k yet? What are your plans then?
Eline: But of course, that's what you do it for you, right? I There are Artists who reached their target budget too.
am in contact with some wonderful and talented They will be added as bonus tracks:
musicians and I can't wait to start recording with them. 11) Aly Cook
12) Cubworld
50K MM: And last question: How can we support you to 13) Kane Sole
speed up raising your budget?
Eline: Shamelessly promote me, haha! I can't thank you The exact track listing will be announced shortly.
guys enough!
And the three lucky winners of the SellaBand t-shirt and a
stack of all 35 SellaBand albums are:
Shanna Pedler
liedje
Ton
What are you waiting for? Check out the videos at SAB's
YouTube Channel!!
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Kiwi FM's Fleur Jack - An Artist's Diary (Part 2)
FleurJack introduces NZ SellaBand artists on Kiwi.FM's I.A.N. every Tuesday night at
9.00 p.m. (NZ time) ... exclusively for 50K MUSIC MAG she writes her artist diary
(FJ) Mon 11th Jan. Christmas break, we tried to get everything ready in
I'll start with my SAB journey. I'm sitting on $2080 which December but we wanted the artwork changed last minute
is 10% of my goal and i'm up about $500 since my last which meant we didn't get to the printers on the other side
report which is great progress! of the holidays and as much as I know that it'll all work out
in the end, I can't stop the butterflies!!
Pavlova and The Jandals (one of my bands) had a sold out
Xmas showcase in Auckland City. We played really well, Can't wait to tell you how the tour goes!
made some new fans and impressed old fans with some Wish Me Luck
new tracks that we've been working on. We are recording
this month on the 23rd and 24th and are hoping to record www.sellaband.com/projects/fleurjack
most of a live album and set about releasing it in April this
year.
Press releases have gone out to our database and also all
media (that we can possibly think of) and already we have
been featured on 4 websites. We have 3 radio interviews
lined up for the next couple of days and hopefully that is
just the beginning.
Now 15 and a publishing deal for her songs, along with her
families support to such a degree that they move from
Pennsylvania to outside Nashville. Constantly finding and
playing where she could bring her songs to more people.
Someplace along the way RCA Records talked to her about
a development deal. This deal would have kept her in
development until the ripe old age of 18 thus our now teen
age girl declined. When you have turned your dreams into
a decision you know when to say no and when to say yes.
That yes comes by way of an unemployed record exec who
tells her he wants to sign her but has no label to sign her
to. So what does an unemployed record exec do when a
talented 15 year old says yes to a deal that can't exist. I
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News
Sofa LIVE WEBCAST & food. During this period they try to collect as much money
CHAT .. This is live EVERY as possible for charity. Last year the money went to the
Saturday .. USA 1.00pm Red Cross for fighting Malaria. The University of Haarlem
PST and 4.00pm EST in (Hogeschool InHolland) also had a version of the house of
UK 9.00pm and in Europe glass. A couple of students made a 31 hour radio show
10.00pm and in NZ and (Feelin Radio) without eating anything.The purpose of this
Australia that is a Sunday at 10.00am for NZ and 8.00am show is collect money for the Red Cross.
for Australia .. The site is best viewed in an open source
browser like Fire Fox :) http://go.yaplet.com/?url= Nemesea were invited to come and play a few songs in
http://www.alycook.com/index.php?option=com_content Haarlem. And of course they said yes to this amazing
&view=article&id=47&Itemid=55 - that link takes you to opportunity to contribute. So they came up with some nice
the chat and screen .. ideas to collect some good money for charity.
I will take the Kiwi Sofa in the studio with me when I
travel to record .. so all the sella friends will see the studio
etc. "
Radius
(sab) Dutch rock band Radius will release their first single
of their SellaBand album during the Dutch Music
Cubworld Conference Noorderslag. The single will be included in
hand-outs that will be given away to 3000 visitors during
(sab) He did it! Jacob Kongaika aka Cubworld has raised the conference on the 14th, 15th and 16th of January. For
$15,000 and will hit the studio for the second time their Believers they'll add a link on their website to
through the SellaBand platform. He first raised $50.000 download the singles. Stay tuned for the download link.
in January 2007 and recorded his album Step Lightly The full album is expected to be released in April 2010.
Create Out Loud in New York together with the guys from
Brooklyn Noise Productions. He was the second artist on www.sellaband.com/radius
SellaBand ever to reach the target and now he's the first www.radiusrock.com
artist to raise yet another budget for his second album.
Jake is planning to go more acoustic this time, staying
more true to his musical heart.
If you haven't heard the great music of Cubworld please
Francis Rodino
Francis released a brand new track called "The Other Side"
visit his store and download a free song exclusively for e-team members. He's working with Ruth
Or go to his new profile to congratulate him. Lorenzo, last year's X-Factor finalist, on her upcoming
EMI album (due for March 2010).
Chris Difford And ... his album is now for free for e-team members ... so,
come and join the e-team on www.francisrodino.com.
(sab) Chris Difford has decided to make all parts invested
in The Full English project RECOUPABLE.
This means whatever you have invested, Chris will return
it to you once he starts making money back on sales. Pro-
Kane Sole
(sab) If one man deserves to reach his target then it's our
rata revenue share on profit will follow. friendly singer songwriter Kane Sole from New Zealand.
This is a new way of using the SellaBand platform to the He signed up on SellaBand three days after the launch of
fullest and a great example of artist and fan collaboration. our platform back in 2006 and today he officially closed
Check his profile to read more. his full budget of $15.000. As one of our "founding Artists"
it's needless to say that he holds a special place in our
Kirt hearts here at SellaBand HQ. Kane plans to hit the studio
in February 2010.
Songs from the new album of my band Neon Legion are Well done Kane, you are number 41 to have reached the
streamabe now and the networks are all set up! Check out target!
the newest song "Twin" acoustic version on myspace! Also
new: "Twin" album version and "Wicked Men". And I will try to get him for next issue of 50K MUSIC
http://www.myspace.com/neonlegion MAG!
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Monthly Charts of Truth
(by Thor)
Here's the December edition of the They newly joined in December and
"monthly charts of truth", observing the already reached $7,060, which was
movement in the Top 100 artists. enough for being #3. On #4, there's the
number one finnish artist, Catself, who
Interestingly, the total sum of $67,453 gained $6,170, followed by the two artists Weekly radio
invested is only a little bit less than last
month ($67,895), but with the €/$
who reached their goal, Aly Cook ($5,420)
on #5 and Cubworld ($4,890) on #6.
program with
exchange rate used it would be even more Where's last month's hype artist, Public Sellaband's
than $80,000. The numbers of winners
and loosers are almost equal, there were
Enemy, you might wonder? The $2,250
they gained was only enough for #15. independent
48 artists gaining money, 41 artists loosing
money, 11 didn't move in budget. There are only two bigger losers in
music
December, it's Konstrust (-$1,430), a band
Four artists reached the goal in December, who once had more than $10k, but
it's Hind (€40,000), Aly Cook ($20,000), decided to leave Sellaband. With -$1,290,
News and
Kane Sole and Cubworld ($15,000 each).
As you can see, there was no regular $50k
Seth Warden lost more than 50% of the
budget and has only $1,260 now, from the
Gossip about
artist this month, but a lower goal is $9k they once had in June. It's not Sellaband
possible to be reached. officially announced, but it looks like they
are leaving, too. #3 of the loosing artists is
Calculated back to $, more than 50% of Electric Fence (-$510), a band that Gigs and
the total money spent in December went decided to leave already some months
to Hind: €19,230 for the Hind Album ago. #4 may be an interesting case: Band Events
Project, reaching the €40k goal, and Without Borders lost $300: They were
another €10,010 on the 2nd Phase, the one of the newly introduced custom artists
€30k Hind Promotion Project. The €40k in October, but without activity, being a Song of the
was reached very quickly, officially in 11 'premium' doesn't help much: Their last
days, but that's only part of the truth. seen date is in October, too.
Week
Things go a lot slower for the 2nd Phase,
but still, €10k reached in three weeks is My forecast for January: If nothing
not that bad. unexpected will happen (like a big TV
show for Hind, or another well known TalentCast
These two Hind projects are #1 and #2 of premium artist joining Sellaband), it will
the monthly gainers. On #3, there's be a slow month, with no artist reaching is the passion of 4 people:
another custom artist, The Jeffersons. the goal, and a much lower sum invested.
MissY, Catself (Agnieszka
Holm), John Werkman and
Johan Jongerius who are
Here's the complete Top enthusiastic about the
and Bottom 10: concept of SellaBand
Top 10 Bottom 10
1 Hind Album 19230 9 24-7 Spyz -100
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