Timeline For Facebook Band Pages - Tips And Best Practices For Artists

Facebook band page admins can now switch to the new Timeline for Pages design and have an optional 30 day period to curate before Timeline is forcibly pushed to them on March 30th.

While features that have been the holy grail of page design so far simply disappear (like using music apps as landing pages), the new Timeline offers various new features to present and promote artists.


Be it the Timeline cover, a 851 x 315 pixel banner across the top of your page, the fan-friendly service to send direct, private messages to artists or the Pinned Posts (select to pin one of your best new or old posts to the top left spot of the Timeline feed for seven days at a time) - especially multi-page admins will have to spend a great deal of work in gaining knowledge and preparing their pages for publishing. 

Many people in the music biz have been caught off guard by Facebook's shift (like we here at FA), new possibilities and chances just begin to unfold, tips and Best Practices are posted by the hour. 

We have compiled the most important info on general Timeline for Pages features and the special use for artists to date. You better begin to deal with it right now! Relevant new posts will be added regularly.

Timeline For Pages In General
TechCrunch - How To Use Facebook Timeline For Brand Pages: New Feature Details
TechCrunch - Facebook Opens Timeline To All Biz Pages
HubSpot - The Complete Guide to Setting Up the New Facebook Page Design
All Facebook - 7 Crucial Things About Timeline For Facebook Pages

Artist Specific
Hypebot - Facebook Announces Major Band Page Changes
RootMusic - Best Practices for Facebook Timeline Pages
ReverbNation - Facebook Timeline for Pages: What Does It Mean For You
Music Think Tank - Musician's Arsenal: Killer Apps, Tools & Sites - Facebook's Timeline
Hypebot - Top Musician App Providers Respond To Major Facebook Band Page Changes

FYI - The FA Weekly News Recap 01/30/2012

FYI  

- The FA Weekly News Recap -  

01/30/2012 

Get all the latest news around our Featured Artists and read FA's recent blog posts on music and music biz!


The Featured Artists: 

AUTOMATIC SELF DESTRUCT 
- New show announced: 04/14/2012 Hagen, GER  
- Next show: 03/30/2012 Herten, GER 

EXUMER 
- Trailer and artwork for upcoming album 'Fire & Damnation' launched
- New cover pictures album uploaded 
- Exumer are looking for videos from their show at Thrasho de Mayo IV in Los Angeles 2009. If you can help, please get in touch.

FINAL DEPRAVITY 
- Dennis Baron played live with Harasai, Alex Voß with ErzfeinT
- 'Those were the days...' New album with early band pictures uploaded

GLORYFUL 
- Recordings For Debut Album Scheduled
- New series of promo pictures uploaded
- Pictures and review (German language) of Essen show online

HARASAI 
- Pictures and review (German language) of Essen show online
- Next show: 02/25/2012 WinterNachtsTraum Festival, Arnsberg (GER)

KILLUSTRATIONS
- The artwork for the upcoming Davidian album 'Our Fear Is Their Force' was designed by Killustrations. Download the free song 'Behind An Angelic Smile' at this location.

NIGHT IN GALES
- Next show: 02/24/2012 WinterNachtsTraum Festival, Arnsberg (GER)

THE VERY END 
- Pictures from Battles Vol. 9 Festival by Jörg Müller (the-pit.de)
- 'A Hole In The Sun' #5 On The History Of Metal's 2011 Groove Metal Video Top 10
- Next show: 02/25/2012 WinterNachtsTraum Festival, Arnsberg (GER)


The FA Blog:

- EXUMER Launch Video Trailer And Artwork Of Upcoming New Album 'Fire & Damnation' 
- OVERKILL - New Album Title 'The Electric Age' And Cover Artwork Unveiled
- New Series Announced: The Rock Star Branding Podcast
- THE VERY END - 'A Hole In The Sun' #5 On The History Of Metal's 2011 Groove Metal Video Top 10
- MYSTERIA Metal Kneipe Schliesst Die Pforten, Abschlussparty Am 27./28.01.
- FALLEN FATE To Premiere 'Origin Of Sin' Video Clip On January 28
See the 'Origin Of Clip' video at this location
- GLORYFUL - Recordings For Debut Album Scheduled, New Promo Pics Reveiled
- THE MUSIC BIZ WEEKLY PODCAST - Hisham Dahud Talks About Music Marketing With BitTorrent

Listen to the Featured Artists while reading:

FYI - The FA Weekly News Recap 01/22/2012

FYI  

- The FA Weekly News Recap -  

01/22/2012 

Get all the latest news around our Featured Artists and read FA's recent blog posts on music and music biz!


The Featured Artists: 

AUTOMATIC SELF DESTRUCT 
- New show announced: 03/30/2012 Herten, GER 

EXUMER 
- Mem V. Stein video interview on Puerto Rican Rock Spot Plus TV metal show 
- Detailed 'Fire & Damnation' news to be revealed Monday, Jan 23 

FINAL DEPRAVITY 
- Pictures and review (German language) from NRW Underground Metal Fest  

GLORYFUL 
- Next show: 01/28/2012 Turock, Essen 

HARASAI 
- Drum tracks for second album 'Psychotic Kingdom' recorded 
- First ever Harasai guitar cover video 
- Next show: 01/28/2012 Turock, Essen 

KILLUSTRATIONS
- Artworks available on canvas
- Nervecell awarded "All Time Best Selling Metal Band" & "Top 3 Best Selling UAE Artist (International Repertoire)" from Virgin Megastore MENA & Spellbind Records! 'Psychogenocide' artwork by Killustrations

NIGHT IN GALES
- New show announced: 03/30/2012 Duisburg, GER
- Interview the-pit.de  (German langauge)
- Interview firealive.it
- Interview metal-impact.com (English version available)

THE VERY END 
- See live clips from several shows in this YouTube playlist
- Pictures and review (German language) from NRW Underground Metal Fest
- Next shows: 01/27/2012 Neuss, GER / 01/28/2012 Hamburg, GER


The FA Blog:

- Pictures From NRW Underground Metal Fest Online At The-Pit.de
- METAL BLADE RECORDS Streaming New CANNIBAL CORPSE Song
- Music Download And Stream, Neither Black Nor White… The ‘Grey Spot’ Is Taking Over (a guest post by Tommy Morriello, Manager of a.o. Exumer, Onslaught, Gama Bomb) 
- ONSLAUGHT - North America 2012 Tour Blog To Be Hosted By Featured Artists 
Add the new Onslaught Google+ page to your circles!
- ‎"Fünf Bands – Fünf Volltreffer" The-Pit.de Über Das NRW Underground Metal Fest
- KATAKLYSM - 'The Iron Will' DVD Cover Revealed And Video Teaser Posted
- BEYOND THE BLAZE Metal Radio Show - 5th Anniversary Episode Available For Streaming 

Listen to the Featured Artists while reading:

THE BEATLES - ‘ABBEY ROAD’ TOPS 2011 LIST OF BEST-SELLING VINYL ALBUMS

THE BEATLES  

'ABBEY ROAD' TOPS 2011 LIST OF BEST-SELLING VINYL ALBUMS  

By Shauna Wright, 
via ultimateclassicrock.com 

Vinyl aficionados are a special breed. Some feel the medium is the only one that does justice to older recordings, while others enjoy listening to even newer music on actual records instead of more modern CDs or digital formats — and both groups are well-represented in the just-released list of 2011′s top-selling vinyl albums. 


Proving everything old is new again, the Beatles‘ 1969 classic ‘Abbey Road’ moved 41,000 units to take the top spot for the third year in a row — but Adele, last year’s unofficial Queen of All Things Awesome, wasn’t left out of the mix. Her blockbuster album ’21′ made the cut as well. 

Vinyl only accounts for about four percent of total music sales, but the format has been increasingly popular — in 2010, sales rose 14 percent over the previous year, even as music sales overall dropped by the same amount. Indie and classic rock bands tend to own most of the vinyl sales charts, with Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd, Metallica and Bob Dylan fans keeping those artists on many annual best-selling lists. 

According to Nielsen SoundScan, here’s last year’s top ten line-up:

1. The Beatles – ‘Abbey Road’
2. Fleet Foxes – ‘Helplessness Blues’
3. Bon Iver – ‘Bon Iver’
4. Mumford & Sons – ‘Sigh No More’
5. Radiohead – ‘The King of Limbs’
6. Adele – ’21′
7. Bon Iver – ‘For Emma, Forever Ago’
8. Wilco – ‘The Whole Love’
9. The Black Keys – ‘Brothers’
10. The Black Keys – ‘El Camino’