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# 5 Tips For Getting Bloggers Interested In Your Music
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/5-tips-for-getting-bloggers-interested-in-your-music/
- Published: 2016-12-15T11:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2016-12-15T11:00:00.000Z
- Description: As mainstream music publications become increasingly less important for artists' visibility, music blogs have become the new driving force behind connect a new artist with potential fans. Here we examine. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2016/12/5-tips-for-getting-bloggers-intereste
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- Tags: DIY Advice & Tips, Music Business, Music Marketing, Songwriting & Music Publishing, Atlanta, Billboard Magazine, Blog, Brooklyn, Extended play, LP record, record label, Record producer, Stereogum, The Rolling Stones, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 10:13

[![5-tips-to-get-bloggers-interested-300x225](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e201b8d246a065970c-150wi "5-tips-to-get-bloggers-interested-300x225")](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e201b8d246a065970c-popup?ref=hypebot.com)As **mainstream music publications** become increasingly **less important** for artists' visibility, **music blogs** have become the new **driving force** behind connect a **new artist with potential fans**. Here we examine some of the ways in which you can **get these bloggers interested in your music**.

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Guest post by **Bobby Owsinski** on **[Music 3.0](http://music3point0.com/2016/12/12/5-tips-bloggers/?ref=hypebot.com)**It used to be that just one good review in a magazine could sell loads of albums. Even a bad review could be really good for business if it was in a publication like **Rolling Stone**. That’s all changed since magazine reviews have become pretty irrelevant as the music world has moved online. Now its the music blogs like **Pitchfork** or **Stereogum** that can make the difference not so much in sales, but visibility to a new audience. Sometimes those larger blogs are tough to break through, but the smaller bloggers still provide more of a one on one chance to state your case.But how do you approach bloggers in the first place? There really is a right and wrong way to do it, and I’m writing from experience when I offer these 5 tips to get a blogger interested enough in what you’re doing to actually post about it.**1\. Read the blog for a while to become familiar with the theme and feel.** You can turn the blogger off completely by sending something cold without knowing the backstory of the blog.**2\. Make some post comments without any overt marketing.** Just try to move the conversation along on a few posts. The idea is for the blogger to recognize you as someone who contributes regularly and adds to the conversation.**3\. Only after the blogger becomes familiar with you is it safe to reach out about what you’re doing.** If you’re a regular reader and contributor, the blogger is much more likely to read a press release or take a listen to your music. **[![Download](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e201b7c8bceabc970b-320wi "Download")](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e201b7c8bceabc970b-popup?ref=hypebot.com)4\. Sometimes asking a question about your project gets a response.** While many bloggers are too busy to answer every email, many go out of their way to accommodate a regular reader and contributor. As a result, it’s perfectly okay to follow up after you’ve sent something to the blogger and there’s a good chance he’ll answer.**5\. Never hard sell, just inform**. Hard sell is a turnoff in general. Don’t do it. It’s okay to state the relevant information, but keep the superlatives like “Best band ever!” out of the equation.As a blogger who gets hit on multiple times per day by PR people, record labels, artists and startups, I can tell you that if you follow these 5 tips, you’ll have a much better chance of getting bloggers to pay attention to you and your music.If you want additional tips and tricks about promoting yourself or your music online, check out my ***[Social Media Promotion for Musicians](http://socialpromoformusicians.com/?ref=hypebot.com)*** book. [You can read excerpts at bobbyowsinski.com](http://www.bobbyowsinski.com/book-excerpts.html?ref=hypebot.com).

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