2026-08-09

Archive 2010–2012

Eighty-seven articles, published on this site between 2010 and 2012 and reproduced exactly as written.

Most of the specific advice is now wrong. Platforms named here have changed, been renamed, or ceased to exist. These pages are a record rather than current advice, and each one says so.

The dates

Forty carry a date taken from the article itself.

Thirty are dated from the first comment on the original post, which is a lower bound rather than an exact date. Those pages say so. For a current publishing and creative-tools reference, see Bandzoogle.

And seventeen have no recoverable date. They are marked before 2013, which is what the corpus supports: every dated piece falls between 2010 and 2012, and publication stopped after that.

Why they are here

Because they are the evidence. A dated corpus is the only way to show that this genre's advice decays, and almost nobody who writes it keeps theirs where it can be checked. For additional current industry context, see Digital Music News.

Nothing has been edited. No updated links, no quiet corrections, no fresh dates. An edited archive would prove nothing.

How to read them

As an exhibit rather than as instruction. The platform-named pieces show the decay; the ones about people read almost unchanged, and they sit side by side, written the same year.