I'd say that you basically need to just find a group of people who are into your music, play for those people, treat them good, and let word of mouth do its work. Before you know it, if you're any good, people will be flocking to your local shows. You can branch out to bigger cities that are close enough for your loyal fanbase to travel to see, and as long as you have those people going to see you, those clubs will likely continue to book you because you're getting a pretty good draw, and other people in the bigger cities will come to see you.

It's really all up to chance, but building a small but loyal following and letting that spread like herpes seems to be your best bet without dropping some really serious coin.

Just bend over.

You need to get your name on the internet, make a myspace account, make a facebook page, make a twitter account, make a youtube video and post your video everywhere you can (except here or you will be blocked :D ), post your youtube video as a video response on as much as possible other video's and don't forget to put a link to your facebook/twitter/myspace in the comment section of your video so they can contact you. Other things that you also need to do is to start networking, start making friends on facebook, twitter, myspace, ... . Go to other Band profiles with the same musical interest and react on their profile and become friends with them, they will then come back to your profile and your fame is on the way :)

To find some gigs you need to find as much e-mail adresses as possible, send mails to all the pubs within 50 km, send mails to local radio stations, send mails to everybody who can help you to become famous. And if they don't react in 3 weeks, send the mail again. You can also send letters to all of them (with a cd with some songs on it), when they have a cd in their hands the chance is much bigger that they will listen to it. And the last thing is to hope that they will send something back :)

Name some musicians that have become famous by spamming like an ass.

If you want to become a well known musician you've really got to work for it, play as many gigs in your area as you can, try and get regular gigs in other towns and cities, sell your demos at gigs, busk on the streets if you have to. You don't even need the internet.

Bieber is discovered on youtube? famous enough?
And it can be really difficult to find gigs when you're a little band so internet can be very helpful to find some gigs and fans. But after some time you won't need the internet anymore.

Like everything else in life who you know and a lot of money will increase your chances tremendously. If your a good looking chick who can sing even half way decent then thats half the battle right there. Some work for it, and others have to play the starving musician role while others got connections and money. I dont think theres any set of rules on how you make it big but talent doesnt always guarantee you'll be famous and thats the sad truth of it.

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