SoundClick

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SoundClick is a music website. Among SoundClick's features are The First Internet Charts (compiled in various genres from streamed plays and hot votes), message boards (including forums for artists to get their music reviewed), promotional tools, and ecommerce for digital singles and albums, in MP3 format.

[edit] History

Soundclick was founded in 1997 during the early days of MP3 file sharing. SoundClick ran a close second to MP3.com in popularity in the early days, and accepted a number of former MP3.com artists when MP3.com closed their doors to independent artists.

Unlike Napster or Kazaa, only original underground songs that are posted by indie bands are allowed on the site: exceptions include authorized remixes of popular songs, which tend to top the Soundclick charts. Recently, Soundclick has been cracking down on unauthorized cover versions, although many people still post unauthorized covers. A disturbing trend is people uploading the *original* versions of songs and passing them off as their own; such a practice leads to account deletion and/or permanant banning by administrators.

[edit] Notable artists who use Soundclick

Ricky Lee Phelps, former lead singer of The Kentucky Headhunters, also has a page on SoundClick, as does country singer Jessica Andrews. Several artists who have achieved mainstream success also have Soundclick accounts including hip-hop pioneers De La Soul (click here), hard bop pianist Horace Silver (click here), experimental electronica group Fear 2 Stop [1] , political punk metal band Inner Surge (click here), and techno superstar Moby (click here).