How to Build a Music Web Site That Sells: 500+ Secrets to Online Stardom

by Mihkel Raud

You can be a best-selling pop act without being signed to a major record label. Selling thousands of CDs and downloads on the Internet is easier than ever - if you know what you are doing.
"How to Build a Music Web Site That Sells" is the ultimate step-by-step guide to the best-kept secrets of selling more CDs and downloads than most independent musicians can think of. Now in it's 9th edition, the book has helped and inspired thousands of musicians to build web sites that sell a steady number of CDs and downloads every single day.

"Wow, Wow, WOW! This is the most on-the-money best laid-out easy and entertaining incredibly informative absolutely accurate and insightful book I have ever seen on the subject of promoting your music online. And I have read EVERY book on the subject since 1994! Wow!"
Derek Sivers

Founder, CD Baby and Hostbaby


"How to Build a Music Web Site That Sells" is truly remarkable. It's a detailed, well thought-out, market-tested book dedicated purely to creating an effective web site for selling music. Even I, as someone who markets music on the Internet for a living, found some good stuff I hadn't seriously considered before. I highly recommend this book to any musician who would like to turn their web site into a more effective CD sales tool."
David Nevue

Founder of the Music Biz Academy and author of 'How to Promote Your Music Successfully on the Internet"

"Mihkel Raud has written a fantastic e-book about how to sell product from an artist's website. I highly recommend that you give it a read through as you'll find a lot of helpful tips in there (I've read it through myself and was very impressed). If you're not selling as many CDs from your website as you'd like, his techniques can really help you out."
Jodi Krangle

Muse's Muse Internet Marketing Services

74 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 22, 2015

About the author

Mihkel Raud (sündinud 18. jaanuaril 1969 Tallinnas) on eesti laulja, kitarrist, telesaatejuht ja kirjanik. Peamiselt muusikuks peetav Raud on mänginud kitarri ansamblites Golem, Metallist, Ba-Bach ja Mr. Lawrence. Praegu mängib ta kitarri (juba 26ndat aastat) ansamblis Singer Vinger ning Lenna, millega Raud liitus 2011. aasta oktoobris.

Lapsena mängis ta filmides “Keskpäev“ (1981) ja “Nukitsamees“ (1980). Ta oli üks kohtunikest saates “Eesti otsib superstaari“. Neljapäeva õhtuti intervjueeris ta nädala põnevamaid persoone TV3 jutusaates “Kolmeraudne“.

24. oktoobril 2008 ilmus tema autobiograafia „Musta pori näkku“. Teost on saatnud ülisuur müügiedu – seda on trükitud ühtekokku kuus tiraazhi (35 500 eksemplari). 2010 märtsis ilmus põnevusromaan “Sinine on sinu taevas“, mille soomekeelne tõlge “Sininen on sinun taivaasi” jõudis lugejateni 2011. aasta oktoobris.18. jaanuaril 2012. esietendus Von Krahli Teatris Mihkel Raua debüütnäidend “Järgmine voor”.

1. märtsil 2015 valiti Mihkel Raud 3229 häälega Riigikokku.