Destiny Media Technologies is pleased to announce a new music blog marketing service that allows independent record labels to reach over 2,600 global music blogs with approximately 4,000 unique recipients.
The new service will offer labels the ability to accurately target music blog writers in fourteen separate music genres and deliver to recipients music in a broadcast quality digital format while allowing them to fully access and download the music. The service also allows for full integration into third part reporting, scheduling and fingerprinting systems such as Shazam. Introductory pricing starts at $250 for customers sending just to the blog network and $125 to add to an existing single track release already going to radio.
According to Nielson SoundScan, independent labels represent 9% of physical albums, 15% of digital albums and 16% of digital tracks released in America. Data from Music and Copyright's annual survey shows that globally, independents are responsible for 35% of recorded music and according to Statistica Inc. approximately $360 million of sales in the U.S. during 2024.