Musician website examples

Ideas

Musician website ideas worth stealing

Seven principles that hold across every site the strongest musicians run.

• 1

  Show fewer pieces than you want to

  A shorter set reads as an edit, and an edit reads as confidence. Everything you add past the strongest work dilutes the work above it.

• 2

  Lead with one strong image, not a menu

  The first screen should show what you make before it asks anyone to choose. A menu is a question. An image is an answer.

• 3

  Put contact one click from everywhere

  Anyone ready to get in touch is ready now, not after three more pages. A contact route in the header and the footer costs nothing and catches everyone.

• 4

  Own the domain

  A name you own moves with you when the platform changes. A name on somebody else's subdomain does not.

• 5

  Name the nav for what a booker needs

  Listen, Shows, Press, Contact. A menu item called Media or More costs you the enquiry, because nobody clicks a word that promises nothing.

• 6

  Lead with the current release, not the full discography

  The back catalogue earns its place one click down, where the people who want it will still find it.

• 7

  Put a player on the first screen that plays in place

  Send someone off to a streaming app and you have handed the next three minutes to somebody else's algorithm.