Fan bases Promotion

[hexwind]

Anyone now can promote their musical work and make it spread and reach a great number of audience, which they may turn out to be fans, and obviously this is the way how bands can get bigger, when fans exchange music, promote their fav bands whether by playing their covers, forums or anyhow... but, i was wondering how it works the other way around, how can bands know that they have a huge fan base in a certain part of the world? what if for example in Tunisia,we have a pretty good fan base of Dream Theater and Symphony X and of course Metallica, do these bands know about it? How can fan bases be promoted to bands? is there any way?

 

[cookiecutter]

Probably in a similar way that bands promote themselves. A common thing in the brutal death metal community is to form groups called the abbreviation of their country followed by "DM" (ex: Italian brutal death = ITDM). These groups promote bands they like and form a community. If you wanted you could make a myspace page or a forum for Tunisian Metallica fans and hope that that attracts attention.

 

[hexwind]

yeah but the point is how bands can KNOW that they have a good fan base somewhere.

 

[genocide roach]

i think fans are pretty good about promoting their scenes. check any random big bands myspace. there are tons of comments like "COME TO COLORADO!!! <3 AND KISSES!!!"

eventually, someone takes notice of all the comments and requests
~gR~

 

[mutantllama]

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