Making Money With a Music Blog

[Sindre]

Hi,

So I have this weird idea, and I've had it for a while now.. About starting a blog about my passion: Trance music. The blog would be quite simple, I would just write about a track I like and maybe post videos from YouTube, etc. Basically just sharing what I like. Hoping to build anticipation among my readers about what I'll write about next, etc. Attract people with the same or similar taste in music.

I've been blogging about personal development for over a year and been doing pretty well with that. So this would be a sideproject (at least at first). The reason I would like to try this is simply because I know I'm really passionate about it, maybe even more than the personal development-stuff I've been writing about. I'm not planning to write deep and long articles, but simply let the focus be on the music itself, describing it with a few words, why I like it, what I like in it, etc.

But I have a feeling that maybe it would be a hard blog to monetize. So does anyone here know about music blogs that are making money? It would be a great inspiration to me.

Perhaps I should mention... That I actually released an album with selv-composed trance music on it, in 2007. It's on iTunes and CDBaby++. So the idea to promote the album through my blog has already crossed my mind. And maybe even better - if I release new albums in the future, perhaps I could build up anticipation about the release and sell lots of CD's... If only I get the attention I'm hoping for with this relatively tight niche blog...

Thoughts anyone?

[AfteraDream]

Well, definitely start it! Write reviews of albums and maybe in the future you will be an authority in this topic, record companies will send you albums themselves to review You will a way to monetize it one way or another I believe. Just start it. And the idea with album is also good!

Cheers