In the digital age, a professional website is a must-have for musicians, bands, and artists. It's your digital home, the place where fans can discover your music, learn about upcoming shows, buy your merch, and connect with you.
A well-designed website also lends credibility to your music career. It shows that you're serious about your craft and gives industry professionals like record labels, booking agents, and music journalists a central place to find everything they need to know about your band.
But how do you create a free music website? And why should you even make a website as a musician? In this article, we review what you should look for in a band website and what's the best platform for musicians.
While there are many general website builders out there (e.g., Wix, WordPress, and Squarespace), you want to ensure that you're using a platform that is tailored to the needs of bands and musicians. When building a music website, you should try to include most of the following:
Combining most of these sections above into your home page (on your domain name) allows you to showcase your music in a professional way. While there are 1000s of musicians with amazing home pages, one of our favorite examples is that of artist and rapper Harry Mack:
For most bands, we recommend also looking at your artistic inspirations to see their "dot com" home pages as well to help inspire you to get started with fonts and themes that make sense for your band.
Creating a website might seem like a daunting task if you don't have any coding knowledge, but with today's website builders, it's easier than ever. Here are a few popular tools that we recommend:
Both tools make band website design easy, allowing you to create a stunning website with many different templates. Both allow you to upload your band logo, choose your fonts, pick a color scheme, edit CSS, and take full control of your brand with a custom domain name. Both platforms also allow you to embed your SoundCloud tracks, sell digital downloads, and are natively optimized for SEO to help fans discover your music.
We recommend that both aspiring and professional musicians try out both Fourthwall and Bandzoogle to decide which is the best musician website for you to build your home page.
There are no monthly fees, no upfront costs, and no contracts to use Fourthwall. You set your prices and choose your own margins. Here is how our pricing and splits work when you sell:
Additionally, all US-based credit card transactions have an added 2.9% + $0.30 payment processing fee (same as Shopify). Fees vary for PayPal and other providers. Learn more.
Product costs are listed directly in our product catalog.
If a t-shirt is listed in our catalog at a $10 cost, we will automatically deduct that amount from your profits whenever you make a sale. You can sell products for any price you want.
For example, if you sell the shirt for $22, you'll make $12 in profit on each unit sold. If you sell it for $50, then you'll make $40 in profit on each unit sold.
Yes! Fourthwall works with manufacturing & fulfillment partners around the globe in the US, UK, EU, Canada, Mexico, Australia, and Japan.
Shipping rates are dynamically determined by the size of package and destination. We work with most major carriers and pass through the true cost of shipping. That means that you can offer low-cost, fast shipping to your fans. Most items have a delivery window of 5-8 days.
Be sure to browse our product catalog to find products that are fulfilled out of your target regions to provide the fastest & cheapest shipping for your community.
Fourthwall operates as the "Merchant of Record", which means that we're responsible for handling all sales taxes. This includes nexus registration, collecting sales tax, and remitting this to US states & other countries.
That way you can focus on designing products and promoting your shop, not taxes.
Yes. You can connect a custom domain or subdomain on Fourthwall. Learn More.
If you need help finding an artist or designer, check out our design community.
This is a vetted network of exceptional designers that can help you make great quality designs for your audience. We also recommend tools like Canva or Kittl.
Yes. For any product from our product catalog, we'll handle all customer support for you.
From answering general order questions to making address changes, our team is there to ensure that your buyers are treated with the same level of care that you would personally give them. We have a 12-hour or less average reply time, including nights and weekends.
For any items that you source on your own and ship from home, however, you'll need to do customer support.
Yes! Over 200,000 sellers use Fourthwall to power their storefronts. This includes creators, podcasters, artists, musicians, startups, non-profits, and more.
Get inspired and browse all examples sites.
Fourthwall supports many free integrations, including:
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