How to Get Your Music on Pandora: Enter the Meatspace

How to Get Your Music on Pandora: Enter the Meatspace

It’s nice to get tweets and emails like, “Hey Mike, I was on Pandora, and you came up! That’s cool!” True, it’s cool that people get to listen. For Pandora, that’s a “satisfied customer.” For me, that’s also a “satisfied customer.” Hell, for the CUSTOMER, that’s a “satisfied customer.” I love nothing more than when everybody wins.

But honestly, I wasn’t 100% sure how songs (including mine) get on Pandora, so I poked around. (BTW, if this is boring industry stuff, I found a picture of a righteous pony. Here ya go. Sweet, right?)

1) Anyway, in order to be on Pandora, you need to be selling PHYSICAL copies via AMAZON. (http://help.pandora.com/customer/portal/articles/24802-information-for-artists-submitting-to-pandora) Why? No clue. My guess? Something to do with metadata, or paperwork, or authentication or something Pandora is farming out. Whatever. I have plenty to say about that, but I’ve deleted it.

OK, so I kept going. How do you sell physical copies of a CD on Amazon, in order to get on Pandora?

2) To sell physical copies via Amazon (by my research, anyway): $29.95 per year plus a 55% standard commission
http://advantage.amazon.com/gp/vendor/public/join-advantage-music

2.5) You can, if you like, press CDs specifically to sell on Amazon so that you can get music on Pandora. http://www.amazon.com/gp/seller-account/mm-product-page.html?topic=200354370

I’ve decided just to give the facts, without editorializing. Hope I’ve saved some of you some time.

Best,

M

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