Posted January 20, 200817 yr This is an interesting piece about independent musicians getting sales via youtube. Credit: myhotmusic.com How to have an iTunes hit the Youtube way. Quietly and without an awful lot of fanfare, there are many independent artists who are selling thousands on iTunes. One such artist is Kelly who has sold 300,000 songs on iTunes. Yes folks, 300,000 songs. Now his video for the single "Shoes" has a total of 40 million views. Amazing. Now you can watch it for yourselves (below). How can you do the same well try the following: 1. Shoot A quirky (c**p) video shot cheaply with a mate's DV camera. 2. Place a direct link to iTunes so that people can impulse buy it. 3. Mash up a mix with a popular hit song or do a cover. 4. Send it out to the media hyping it as a genuine internet hit. 5. Bank your money and ride around in a posh car. 40 million views to 300,000 sales sounds about right. But enough of that now watch the video for yourself. wCF3ywukQYA
January 20, 200817 yr That article forgets a very integral part to Kelly's song/video. The reason for its unprecedented success is solely because it was one of the first original internet-only content made. Before "Shoes", YouTube was only full of lip-sync videos and stuff ripped from TV - after it, that's when we started seeing genuine quality. But that was years ago - since then, the guy who created/plays Kelly has his own TV series on VH1 in America.
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