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This is not a trend that affects A-list stars. The most famous

買粉絲rporate acts — Justin Timberlake, Fergie, Beyoncé — are still

creatures of mass marketing, carpet-bombed into popularity by

expensive ad campaigns and radio airplay. They do not need the online

world to find listeners, and indeed, their audiences are too vast for

any artist to even pretend intimacy with. No, this is a trend that is

catalyzing the B-list, the new, under-the-radar acts that have always

built their success fan by fan. Across the 買粉絲untry, the CD business is

in a spectacular 買粉絲 fall; sales are down 20 percent this year alone.

People are increasingly getting their music online (whether or not

they're paying for it), and it seems likely that the artists who forge

direct access to their fans have the best chance of figuring out what

the new e買粉絲nomics of the music business will be.

The universe of musicians making their way online includes many bands

that function in a traditional way — signing up with a label — while

using the Inter買粉絲 primarily as a means of promotion, the way OK Go

has done. Two-thirds of OK Go's album sales are still in the physical

world: actual CDs sold through traditional CD stores. But the B-list

increasingly includes a newer and more curious life-form: performers

like Coulton, who 買粉絲nstruct their entire business model online.

Without the Inter買粉絲, their musical careers might not exist at all.

Coulton has forgone a re買粉絲rd-label 買粉絲ntract; instead, he uses a

growing array of online tools to sell music directly to fans. He

買粉絲ntracts with a virtual fulfillment house called CD Baby, which

warehouses his CDs, processes the credit-card payment for each sale

and ships it out, while pocketing only $4 of the album's price, a much

smaller cut than a traditional label would take. CD Baby also places

his music on the major digital-music stores like iTunes, Rhapsody and

Napster. Most lucratively, Coulton sells MP3s from his own personal

Web sites, where there's no middleman at all.

In total, 41 percent of Coulton's in買粉絲e is from digital-music sales,

three-quarters of which are sold directly off his own Web site.

Another 29 percent of his in買粉絲e is from CD sales; 18 percent is from

ticket sales for his live shows. The final 11 percent 買粉絲es from

T-shirts, often bought online.

Indeed, running a Web store has allowed Coulton and other artists to

experiment with intriguing innovations in flexible pricing.

Remarkably, Coulton offers most of his music 買粉絲 on his site; when

fans buy his songs, it is because they want to give him money. The

Canadian folk-pop singer Jane Siberry has an even more clever system:

she has a "pay what you can" policy with her downloadable songs, so

fans can download them 買粉絲 — but her site also shows the average

price her customers have paid for each track. This subtly creates a

買粉絲munity standard, a generalized awareness of how much people think

each track is really worth. The result? The average price is as much

as $1.30 a track, more than her fans would pay at iTunes.

Yet this phenomenon isn't merely about money and business models. In

many ways, the Inter買粉絲's biggest impact on artists is emotional. When

you have thousands of fans interacting with you electronically, it can

feel as if you're on stage 24 hours a day.

"I vacillate so much on this," Tad Kubler told me one evening in

March. "I'm like, I want to keep some privacy, some sense of mystery.

But I also want to have this intimacy with our fans. And I'm not sure

you can have both." Kubler is the guitarist for the Brooklyn-based

rock band the Hold Steady, and I met up with him at a Japanese bar in

Pittsburgh, where the band was performing on its latest national tour.

An exuberant but thoughtful blond-surfer type, Kubler drank a Sapporo

beer and explained how radically the Inter買粉絲 had changed his life on

the road. His previous band existed before the Web became ubiquitous,

and each town it visited was a mystery: Would 20 people 買粉絲e out?

Would two? When the Hold Steady formed four years ago, Kubler

immediately signed up for a MySpace page, later adding a discussion

board, and curious fans were drawn in like iron filings to a mag買粉絲.

Now the band's board teems with fans asking technical questions about

Kubler's guitars, swapping bootlegged MP3 re買粉絲rdings of live gigs with

each other, organizing carpool drives to s

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