For most of the artists and producers, ultimate goal is to make their music famous. To be able to achieve that, the music needs to reach people all over the world. Now that’s not an easy task to acquire, but thanks to internet it IS very possible. But on the downside, internet has also massively increased the music piracy via illegal music downloads which has almost brought the music industry to it’s knees. Despite the popularity of iTunes and other legal music downloading services alike, masses of people do download their music from P2P file sharing sites.
So, with that being said, why not try to leverage the power of P2P networks to your advantage and promote your music using these file sharing networks? In other words, upload a short preview of your track to a torrent site or other file sharing site. Of course, before doing that, you must make sure you hold all the rights to your track and are allowed to upload it. Also, you must prepare your song first.
- Attach a .txt file in addition to your song itself where you tell people to visit your website for more info about you or your music and pack it with winrar. Or add your website or myspace URL to your song MP3 file info.
- Next, make it as a torrent file (instructions here) and upload to one of the most popular torrent trackers around.
I know some artists do this already and due to it they’re getting more listeners for their music and it has also increased visitor amounts to their website.
Of course, this may be a totally dumb idea and I’m definetely NOT encouraging anyone to hang around on those torrent sites or doing anything illegal. I’m just seeing the P2P networks as a possible channel to promote music for free. 
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