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What do CD Baby artists think of http://www.numberone.com? I did the free trial membership for a month and recieved many listens and had about 100 people from around the world sign up for my mailing lists.
So, I let it lapse, where they still have your music up but don't push it or offer you email requests.
I spent the $40.00 dollars for a 6 month full membership, where you can link your CD sales to CD Baby, iTunes, or where ever. T
That was 2 days ago.
According to their stats, I'm getting over 1,000 listens a day, and my mailing list requests are coming in.
I have no sales from them yet but my CD Baby hits have gone up substanually, and I've been contacted by musicians both nationally and abroad about various subjects. But, they've listened to my music.
My site is http://www.numberonemusic.com/dcampco/
This seems like a good thing and worth the money.
The stats are a little hard to believe though.
Please let me know of your expeiriences and why CD Baby artists would or would not support them.
Thanks,
Dave Costarella
Check out all of D.C. & Co's CDs on CD Baby at http://www.cdbaby.com/all/dcandco
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We had a HORRIBLE experience with them.
Yeah, the stats looked good. Our tunes were ranked highly on their webpages. We got some people on the "mailing lists" they provide.
Then, we found it was all a scam. Sometimes, I would write personally the people that signed up on the list, just to point them to our real website or other mailing lists.
Most of those emails bounced... invalid addresses. Some of the people on the other ends had not listened to the music at all. We got several complimenting us on our deft drumwork or our insightful lyrics. Trouble is, we're an acoustic instrumental guitar band.
Many attempts to contact n1m with this info were fruitless. And although I thought we were signing up for a one-month trial, they kept charging us the ten bucks a month, and it took a month or two for us to notice.
I would avoid these people at all costs.
Tim McCaskey
Might Could
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i've been on N1M for 11 weeks only, after the free month i signed up for 6 months ($39,95) and have had a lot of personal feedback. i decided to offer my registered fans a free CD for the first 10 who got back to me with a postal address and received 23 addresses, i don't see how a scam could produce that result! furthermore, i entered the site after joining as a listener and getting to know such cool bands as OHM and others, who seem to sell well, the thing marketing an independent and isn't easy anywhere so until anyone can piont towards a real fullblown miracle i'm staying with N1M
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number one music is a scam!Im still an unsatisfied customer.I was in it for the advertising but instead I received meaningless emails from people that dont even BUY MUSIC!!!Yet they ask you who is your targeted audience.Number one music has numerous artists yet they never link them together they just blast friends after friends at you sometimes they mess up and give you the same friend over and over on your my space!The worst of all is when you try to contact them they never reach you back.Is there really a marketing team?Ima call the better business bureau on this matter because they prey on people who sincerely want to be noticed online.It was an experience for me and I wish I would have listened to you guys
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We've been with NumberOneMusic for about a year, we have over 800 people worldwide with their mailing list, and every time I post a newsletter I get CD Baby dowmloads! We just pay a membership no additional fees and we're very happy! My only complaint would be that sometimes it can be very hard to get onto the site....sorry you've had such a bad experience with them!
http://www.myspace.com/bluejarbelfast
http://cdbaby.com/cd/bluejar
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I've been very happy with Number One Music. Almost 800 hits in two days. Nice reviews which helps to know how to tweak the songs. I have had no problem with customer service at all. I also have had no problem with the emails bouncing. I personally thank each one that signs up and get replies back. So you must have had a bad experience Tim.
Sage
http://www.numberonemusic.com/sagehood
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To me, it seems like NumberOneMusic stats are a pure cheat.
According to them, I have around 500 subscribers & 2000 hits pr.month. It must be a gold promotion...However, I just don't see any positive effects at all - absolutely nothing.
I can't reach my subscribers (like Tim wrote). I don't see that sales or visitors to my websites are increased.
My personal opinion, but I have no belief on NumberOneMusic.
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I believe in this day and age that the digital download market is going to be the way to go, not selling a CD with a lot of songs the public does not want. I think Number One Music is a good testing ground to see how the digital response will be to you music. The public can get the songs they want and nothing else.
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Well, now I have had over 2200 hits in five days and have made friends. The networking is excellent if you use it by writing other artists. I had to reupload a song due to sound quality and lost the reviews which I have posted on
http://www.cdbaby.com/sagehood
and this was such fun. My song Misty Mountain Morning was getting compared to Led Zepplin. What a compliment lol. However, my song was written before LZ and the progression was based on "Old Man" by Neil Young lol, a D tuning.
It has been fun so far. The only political thing I have found with the site is that when you hit the top ten in the voting charts, others come immediately and vote on you songs to .05 lol.
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Yeah, It's a scam.
Despite the ridiculous number of plays we accumulated over a week (close to 2000) and the huge number of emails we received, I have not received a single reply to ANY of the emails I have sent out in reply to our sign ups. I've also been inundated with bands mailing me about mailing lists I did NOT sign up for. I think they just push your plays up, and sign other musicians up for other musicians mailing lists in order for you to think its a credible site and put your credit card details down.
I, for one, won't be.
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Hi Joel,
I still think number one music great. 10,000 hits in 12 days. If I search my name on google, I show up number one in the listings with them. CD Baby does an excellent job too...I show up as number 3. I just hope CD Baby gets out the digital stuff soon lol. This has been a lot of fun.
http://cdbaby.com/sagehood
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Thing is - have you actually sold a CD thanks to Number One? I agree, theyve got good search engine stats, but I don't find that anything they do has made any impression on sales, website visits or anything else. For example, it resets the counter at midnight - ten seconds later, I hit refresh and the top artist in our genre has 400 plays - it all seems a little weird and unrealistic - I think they feed the provider - ie, if you pay, then you're stats are pumped.
But - if its working for you - don;t let me stop you!
www.cdbaby.com/cd/joellightman
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I just signed up with number one music and have personally answered all the requests. i have heard nothing back yet or sold any cd's but its maybe to early for me to tell.
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Hi Terry,
Well I just did my first mail out to my mailing list. I got so many positive responses that really were so nice and inspiring. I tried answering all separately at first too. But it was not until I did the mass mailing from the mailing list that I got personal responses back.
There is nothing like hearing how your music influences them, how they have listened to you over 200 times alone, and how they want to write and jam with you, and more.
I just wish I had more digital distribution. Only out to 4 companies now. I believe a lot of people want to download songs (paid) rather than buy a CD. I could be wrong, but we are on the internet, the one stop shop. They can sit at home and download the song, and voila they have it. No gas, not trips to the store. It's just a very convenient medium.
I would just hang in there because you are being heard.
Don't give up.
Best to you!
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Sage,
One of your first posts says:
"I also have had no problem with the emails bouncing. I personally thank each one that signs up and get replies back."
And then, your last one says:
" I tried answering all separately at first too. But it was not until I did the mass mailing from the mailing list that I got personal responses back."
Why are you talking nonsense? Why lie? What do you have to gain?
One of those statements HAS to be false, I figure its the second one. I just don't understand why you'd have lied in the first one!
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Hey, you say you trust a company that's operated out of Russia? ok.? Dumb..
I'm the number one most listened to and downloaded artist, because they use my fame and singing with Pavarotti to get more people to pay them, it worked well, I can actually e-mail them and tell I don't like a Rap band and the band website is gone in 3 hours, crooked..
wake up, you aren't shit and there are 10 million bands better than you and 7 year artists from Korea that make you all look ill, so the stats are BS...
uh hello, Russia?
it is free for ma and some people do find my free work, but it's a scam 100 percent..
good day
Cdbaby and you're 20 bucks a month is real..
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you're an idiot and yes it did feel good to type this.
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I only heard of Number One Music five minutes ago because they sent an email to me. I've never signed up for their service.
How the hell did they get my email? How did they know I'm a musician? Did they know at all?
I don't trust them.
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hey, i too think this may be a scam BUT alot of the complaints come from the following -
1. no responses come back from personal emails sent to people signing up for a mailing list
2. no actual cd purchases have been made.
first off, there is nothing that can PROVE it is a scam with those 2 accusations. i tend to lean towards the scam side myself but most of my friends are jackasses and NEVER respond to emails sent back to them. i have to actually call or inundate their inbox to get action. second, listening for free is one thing, buying is another. give it time. let's all find out the truth together.
m graven
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Just thought I'd throw my two cents in on NumberOneMusic.com. I've been a member there for about six months, I think. I went for the top level deal... I think it was like $69/yr.
I, too, have had a ton of hits, and now have close to 400 contacts on my email list. Until very recently, I was writing back to each person who signed up, tayloring my comments to hopefully get some level of response. Not much luck. I have had a few people respond, but invariably they send one liner replies, and then that's pretty much it.
I CAN say that I have made at least one REAL, QUALITY contact. As a result of their "10,000" newsletter mailing list (or whatever), I had a singer from England write back. Initially, she only wrote to say it wasn't likely she'd be able to make my gig in San Francisco when she's in England. However, we wound up conversing quite a bit. She was/is very helpful, and I feel like I found a friend and ally in this indie world.
So, take it for what it is. My nearly 100,000 hits at this point doesn't hold a lot of water to me. I haven't had any mass CD sales, or anything like that. But, I do feel like I've grown as a result, and my music is out there.
to check it out, go to: http://www.NumberOneMusic.com/bryanharrisonband
or http://www.CDbaby.com/bryanh
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sorry for my english. we have a great success with numberonemusic.com... they did promotion in U.S.A. for our debut video and it has been added to 48 national and regional programs, as well as MTV2,MTV-U and MTV!
http://www.nexxttheband.com/mtvu.htm
The video has reached 9 position in ifilm.com charts among such big acts like Kylie Minougue, Prodigy, Linkin Park, Bjork...
http://www.nexxttheband.com/ifilm.htm
We have a growing mailing list of almost 30.000 fans... almost 9.000 copies of our EP were shiped in half a year.. my expirience with contacting fans is that you get only 5% of responses from fans.. maybe this is becuase people tired of spam... but when we've asked our fans to vote for my video the result was amazing! I found this topic by searching GOOGLE and feel myself that I must say something regarding NumberOneMusic. Good Luck to you all!
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Interestingly enough... today (7.31.2006) both numberonemusic.com and numberonemusic.net are both unreachable, and are not available through DNS (that is, pings and web browser requests come back with host not found errors).
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My band has been a full member of NM1 for about a year and we started off thinking things were great. We especially like the fact that our email contact list was going global an we could point to certain regions for touring info.
I guess what sealed the deal was the lack of human interaction. Try getting someone on the phone from the corporate group. Good luck.
I really think a very average computer programer figured out a way to create bogus spins and manage a charting system that coincides with the spins.
The people on my email list are invisible as far as getting two way communication. These are suppose to be people that were interested in our tunes but we can even get them to respond to a band email. Not likely.
Beware of sites that have very little human interaction by phone. Computers can be programed to do anything.
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I would be more than happy to submit my feedback from the mailing list at Number One Music. I guess it works for some. Sorry others have not had it.
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Regarding to the numberonemusic.com I think it´s a bit strange as I recently tried to send private messages to my fans. Nobody answered - until I used the mass mailinglist in numberone.
I´ve been in Top 5 list (for the acoustic/rock genre) for a while now but I don´t get any requests and/or preorders of my coming CD (planned to 13 of august) I haven´t sold anything through them either.
As some of my fans and others maybe have read in my homepage I´ve been harassed during a long time so I thought this was just one of all other things happening at first. I am used with psycho mails and imitations of my life and what I´ve written and told others. Of course I can´t understand this in other ways than that some people on the net are trying to blacklist me.
Of course we don´t have any proof against numberone, in all cases not yet anyway but the latest I heard today via phone was that it is several people trying to reach the pages....
Best regards to all
www.numberonemusic.com/sivan
Sivan
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Sage are writing:
"I would be more than happy to submit my feedback from the mailing list at Number One Music. I guess it works for some. Sorry others have not had it."
Well, but why does it work for some and not for others then? Is that fair? And is it strange that people are looking for information when things don´t work out?
To reach the pages seems impossible even to those ones I´ve been in contact with.
Regards,
Sivan
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I had a numberonemusic site for about a month and it was doing very well i thought. I got a few seeingly personal replies from people without the mass mailing on the site, but by putting each person's email as a contact and grouping them all so it was personal from my email. But I also think the stats are ridiculously fake, mainly cause my music sucks, and is a complete joke most of the time. But I really found this topic because I wanted to know if it was just me that noticed - numberonemusic.com no longer exists at the moment...anyone got info on that?
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Scratch that last part...apprently it was just me
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Numberonemusic HAS been offline for 2 days now, it came back on today with NO PICTURES & NO MUSIC available !! here is the SPOOKY BIT my music has had 16 plays so far today, how is this when the music will not play? I am starting to think that the statistics are completey FAKE.
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22 plays so far today! and it still does not play!
hhmmm.
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from very recent observation and experiment, it APPEARS as though the stats are randomly auto generated- NO PROOF, but figures increase whilst doing nothing, then there's no change when tracks are played (or attempted, since nothing is loaded in the players currently)
Anyone got the least idea what's going on there?
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i got this when there was no page coming up
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http://www.numberonemusic.com/
Name Last modified Size Description
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Parent Directory 01-Aug-2006 09:09 -
banner/ 31-Jul-2006 00:18 -
cgi-bin/ 31-Jul-2006 00:18 -
css/ 31-Jul-2006 00:18 -
electro/ 31-Jul-2006 00:18 -
god/ 31-Jul-2006 00:18 -
images/ 31-Jul-2006 00:18 -
includes/ 31-Jul-2006 00:18 -
mp3/ 31-Jul-2006 01:35 -
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and all folders were empty except two which i don't know about cos they needed passwords and usernames to get into- god was one
See also
http://www.ukbands.net/thread.php?id=12147
for more of the same
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From previous internet searches NOM is located in NY. I know they were having bad storms and saw that the parent directory was empty. They must have had a system crash, because the service was back on this morning.
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could be a crash, or reorganisation.
the only thing that's there at the moment is the index with the message
Apache/1.3.36 Server at www.numberonemusic.com Port 80
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Hi Ben and all others.
Ben, your writing:
"But I also think the stats are ridiculously fake, mainly cause my music sucks, and is a complete joke most of the time"
Well, if you own opinion is and will stay like this, close your account within numberonemusic and stop producing music. Thatīs easy.
Every musician express themselfs in lyrics and with their music, all canīt love what youīre doing as the opinions vary a lot.
Some likes the same tralala in the whole song, a good example is this hit "Single" which must be the most uninteresting text/music ever, even though the artist voice is WONDERFUL.
Some likes various and deep texts so the "taste is like the ass - shared"
An example,
I guess some within my closest area dislike my texts, just because they feel themself involved and that I am coming with the truth right into their faces...thatīs healthy, whilst others give me awards..so you see life and the taste is different.
A strong voice, and good music compared with lyrics will make you succeed, and believe in your self man.
Best wishes,
Sivan
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and they still ain't contactable
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My brother signed a mate up for no1 music and before his mate loaded the music up a few days later there was already 50 people signed up to the mailing list without hearing anything. What do u reckon to that?
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HI all,
Registered with other sites? Well, check the results there and divide everything with the total sum, then you can see approximately where you are and what can be close to the truth in stats. Does it matter, I guess it must be easy to see the voting results when they can be able to run the site again.
For me, itīs not so big different as I had very good results in other sites too, so fake? Well, I donīt know but its still strange that fans donīt answer. I am going back to myself, If one of my favourite artists are mailing me, Iīll answer :-)
Letīs see whatīs happening. :-)
Take care all,
Sivan
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to Sivan
following any link to n1m still yields an error page, n1m is still offline. further, n1m remains incommunicado.
But, thanks.
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n1m is back up at this time- some features are not working properly, but the info is there, and the music plays. progress.
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Just got this message from NOM.
Dear Artist/Band,
Due to a hack attempt we had to shut down our servers to prevent any loss of
data. NumberOneMusic.com portal is now back online and welcomes everybody back
on board.
We are terribly sorry, and for this inconvenience we will grant you with a free
15 days full access to your account.
Thank You for understanding,
NumberOneMusic.com Team -Get Maximum Exposure!
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This whole N1Music thing keeps getting weirder. We've been a top artist on their site for about a year, but have (like so many of these other posts) had horrible results with getting personal emails back after the mailing list add. It's great seeing the stats and it's really cool getting mailing list adds from around the world, but it's just too good to be true.
Here are a couple other fishy things I found out today:
1) The address that is given (in New York) is actually the street address for a Mia Mind Music. I called them and asked about Number One Music. They said that they used to be a client about a year ago but since vanished. He said they're a Russian company and have "stolen" their address and have nothing to do with the company.
2) If you search for any of the addresses by running it through myspace, no one shows up. I find it hard to believe that the same people that spend so much time on numberonemusic.com don't have a myspace account.
If anyone has further evidence that N1Music is either a scam or the real deal, please keep the thread going.
Best of luck to all of you.
Matt
Bass, The Days In Between
www.myspace.com/daysinbetween
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| by phil09
on Thursday August 10 2006 @ 10:52AM PDT [ | | |
