ReverbNation

Been to Number #1 on charts 1 a couple times in Nashville music demographic, it did nothing for advancing me as an artist, writer, network songs or contacts., no emails, no phone calls, other than other artist posting on RN.

I have had some serious play / hit numbers on a couple songs, and made like $4. The one good thing, you are able to post work on Spotify, which is real. Not going away and its easier to say to people... look us up on spotify

It may be another platform to promote music, but it almost seems unknown. To those that know about it, they kind of use it. Sure. Reach like minded musicians. However, if you should pay for a crowd review, be ready for biased "unbiased" opinions. We are a metal band, and submitted to metal reviews, and of our 13 songs, only two "made the cut". We accept that. Not everyone likes it. What we don't accept, is all, not some, but all of the negative reviews (scores 1-4) were from people not in our demographic. They are listeners of top 40 music, and their comments had to do with "it not being my style" or "sounds too heavy for my tastes". For people who listen to metal and rock, our average was an 8.5. Hmmm... weird. Reverb nation, waste of money in promotions. Put your money into Facebook bumps, YouTube, or hell, just buy stickers and post em on lamp posts. Then you'll reach the "same target audience"

Don't spend money on "promotion". The only people who go there are other bands!

The free service is good for posting songs for Facebook friends. As for paid services - they adhere to the Levi Strauss paradigm - few prospectors ever find gold, but they all want pants!

Why two stars? Because they let you post low-rez songs online for free. The other three missing stars are for the age-old scam of selling fake hope to the hopeful. No one will ever see your $#*! but your friends and other wannabee success stories.

I have tried for more than a year to update a digital release distributed through Reverbnation without success. It shouldn't be hard for them to follow-up a service you've paid for.

The site reminds me of Acidplanet. Its pretty easy to set everything up, but from there your on your own. If you can market yourself than you may have better luck. Where do you go from there with it, dont know. I like the updates when your page is viewed or your someone fans you, but that's it. I can say my "fans honestly all care about my music. The crowd review seems off to me. Every reviewer sounded like Simon Cowell from American Idol.

HOW TO DEAL WITH NEGATIVE REVIEWS WHEN IT COMES TO YOUR MUSIC:
As a top ranking pop artist when it comes to negative reviews on my music, I know I am not alone. Many of the music superstars in today's music faced very negative reviews from the public during their inception. But with help from the record companies who had faith in them, they have become multi million dollar world famous superstars. Rumor is that Rod Stewart got a lot of negative reviews on his music during his inception. But now almost everyone I know likes his music. I worked all day to create the song with the richest synthesizer quality so why would it get bad reviews. What the heck? Maybe Santa Maria which really emphasizes Spanish or Latin turned people off. With a bit of racism in this country. Songs with Spanish titles don't tend to do very well in the mainstream music market and can be controversial. Maybe it was something else. I know through live performance, social media interaction and through the music industry there are an awful lot of people who love my music. Hundreds of thousands to be exact. At number 3 on the Pop music charts in Salt Lake City and 14 in the Western United States, somebody likes it. Salt Lake City a city of about 7 million, it is hard to achieve that level of recognition. But I have worked hard and have used the internet as a vehicle to rapidly spread my popularity. I recorded at Spirit West Studios where Barry Manilow and Snoop Dog also recorded. The family who owns the studio thoroughly enjoyed working with my music and are a permanent part of my fanbase. I know I am at home in their recording studio anytime. They were responsible for doing the music of the 2002 winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City. In fact of the hundreds of thousands of people who like my music, I've only met 3 people that didn't like my music. Plus the obvious novices on Reverbnation. And that's ok because my fanbase is worldwide. I was writing music long before Reverbnation ever existed and before there was an internet as a kid. I have spent hundreds of hours in session with a professional voice trainer as I stretched myself to the professional limit. I was a member of Sonicbids for a long time but finally cancelled my artist membership because Sonicbids is a spreading cancer some say and they are right. Serious artists like myself don't have time for this kind of nonsense, we're in it for the long haul. Profiteering off the backs of improvised artists who can't ever get ahead because the company intentionally pits against their music. But when people at Reverbnation give my music nothing but negative bias reviews when I pay for reviews I know I have been scammed. Because actual fans never heard my music in the paid review and it was obviously office staff or other artists who reviewed my music, not actual music fans who are crazy about my music. Hate to say it but my music should have easily scored at 8.5 or above in the reviews because there are very few artists who can compete with my level of world class quality. I know this from experience and extensive research, as I'm always researching the industry. Some promoters have said they are intimidated by my level of professionalism. This ruins the good faith I had in Reverbnation and makes false advertising seem apparent after I have had a profile on this spot for over a half a decade. Obviously these people are in love with hard rock music, on drugs or something. They wouldn't give Lady Gaga a good score. I fear Reverbnation is following in the same footsteps as Sonicbids and will also sink their boat like Sonicbids did if Reverbnation does not quickly change its way. There are to many artists and not enough fans on Reverbnation. I think I will cancel my paid membership go back to the free forever membership and sign on with a site like Airplay direct where radio promoters would bend over backwards to have my world class music on their radio rotation. Reverbnation, where they Never answer the telephone. There is almost no clear line of communication with promoters. Not a good thing. In a real professional music world, communication between artist and promoter and face to face teamwork is frequent. With three decades of expertise in the music business I can tell you dishonest people don't last for long in this business. My understanding is Sonicbids had to file for bankruptcy and they can no longer afford to have a call center. So contact is by email only. People who want my money answer their phones and can reflect a good score on the Better Business bureau without a paid membership. They will also make a sincere effort to secure me a good record deal. I've seen numberous companies sink the ship in this business because they cannot learn the one lesson. Honesty is the best policy. Those who don't play by those rules in this industry sink fast. I'm just saying Reverbnation needs to straighten up their act or learn the hard way. That said I'm going to join a site where their actually serious about promoting my music. Because I know I have what it takes to make it big.

I am constantly dissappointed in the user interface. The processes are not intuitive and the error messages are so vague, as are the ways to fix any errors.
Seemingly simple tasks just take forever.

I am not sure what they really are offering artist. Anyone can google "submit music" and find plenty of places to submit their music to free. When you use the email venue feature nobody opens it unless they are familiar with you and have booked you before, and in that case you don't need to contact them through the site.

When I first registered I did so as a "Studio" then found out I couldn't upload music unless I made an artist account as well. I did so & they kept pushing to promote my music. So, I signed up for the free trial. I then cancelled the trial within the given time frame. Well, apparently it "didn't go through" so I was charged $35. I was "credited" the $35 to use only on reverb nation. I highly disapprove of this website! It's not only a waste of time & effort but they steal your money! DON"T USE REVERBNATION!

Greetings: To whom it May Concern:

A company without loyalty to its longtime customers and neglects service issues, make it difficult for reciprocal communication cannot survive. I recently paid for 2 campaign promotion for a single track of a scheduled CD release.> the track was to be the cornerstone of my promotional efforts. I paid $49.00 for one promo. And $70.00 for the second one, I quickly discovered the track according to Reverbnation was corrupt only after I discovered the track could not be played on my profile page or the promotion campaign which is ludicrous. After several e-mails, back and forth explaining and re-explaining the track didnt work. They got back to me to inform me the seven-day promo had ended and theyd fix the corrupt track. They posted an announcement that my song Wastin' My Time had charted at #9 in the Bronx NYC's 2nd largest borough. How could this be? I wondered, the track I was promoting could not be heard the entire duration of the promo campaign. I cancelled the 2nd campaign and I will cancel my Reverbnation account if they do not fix and show "Good Faith in their dealings with me as an artist and longtime customer /producer. I will also use my influence to assure that the Federal Trade Commission, Social Media outlets, BBB and New Yorks Local Musicians 802 AFM receive a detailed composite including my story and that of dozens of others posted here that corroborate my experience with Reverbnation.

Dennis Day Reverbnation artist,
President D-Day Media Group Inc.

This is of NO BENEFIT to any musician songwriter performing artist other than getting your stuff seen and heard by others just like you that are looking for the same exposure you were looking for. So it is a inward circle. This is not a valuable promotional tool. Take a look at any of the acts/talent reverb page and you will find that the overwhelming majority of any one acts fans or any one that has interacted with this act/talent on their particular site will be primarily other musicians songwriters etc. This may make you feel good about yourself but it does nothing for the promotion of you product. FB and a web site with a little creative work on your part will do far more for you especially if you are a performing artist. I personally am part of a group that has a fair amount of success in our region of the country and I can honestly say that Reverbnation has done absolutely nothing of any benefit as for bringing me a larger fan base other than other musicians. Bar owners and other regional venues and event promoters may have a reverb page but even they see just how un effective it is and they stop interacting with it. I am not telling you not to join Revebrnation just understand what it is and what it won't and can't do for you

This site has great widgets that you can use on your own site, or does a decent job presenting your material if you don't have your own site, but when it comes to paid services is a ripoff. First, if you sign up for something that auto-renews, and you cancel mid-month, they stop the services right then instead of giving you the full month's worth that you paid for. Second, the opportunities seem to only ever go people who have done whatever they've done to accumulate ridiculous amounts of fans and there's no guarantee the promoters ever actually listen to your material when you submit. So, have an account there but don't bother to pay for services.

This company does not have a phone number to contact them directly. They do have a feedback bar that after you offer feedback they tell you you are not who you say you are because they do not recognize your password! Its bad enough you are already logged into your admin panel with the same password, so your in your site already, but they still say you are not who you say you are! So they're asking for feedback they wont let you give them! WHAT A JOKE THESE PEOPLE ARE! Its all good unless you have something to say.