Get Your Music Heard By 50 Cent’s Label, Thanks to SoundCloud & Ning Brenna Ehrlich 14 days ago by Brenna Ehrlich 4 111Share email share Share 111 email share Thanks to Ning’s recent integration with SoundCloud, musicians can now submit their songs to ThisIs50.com, the Ning community dedicated to 50 Cent’s G-Unit Records, for a chance to be featured on the site. Ning announced last week a new intregation with SoundCloud that lets users feature customizable music players on their pages, access previously uploaded SoundCloud files and review uploaded tracks from members before posting. Thisis50.com is taking full advantage of the latter feature with Independent Fridays, a new contest that asks indie (unsigned) artists to submit their songs via SoundCloud for the chance to be seen by G-Unit A&Rs. The best song will be featured on Thisis50.com every week. According to Jonathan Hull, director of strategic relationships of Ning, Thisis50.com is one of the most popular Ning networks. “It’s become a really, really relevant news source and entertainment source for hip-hop,” he says. Corentin Villemeur, new media director of G-Unit Records, says that the site started as merely a fan community for 50 Cent, but now it’s much more about hip-hop culture — about 50% of users call themselves rappers. “Every member on the site works hard to be seen and get some shine in the community,” Villemeur says. This new venture should yield said shine. According to Villemeur, getting signed by G-Unit is not the end goal, but it is a possibility. The first round yielded around 1,500 submissions, and the winning song, “Get Paper,” has been listened to more than 8,000 times. (We’ve embedded it below.) “I was surprised by the quality of the songs we received. We have a lot of wannabe rockers on the site, and we’re impressed by the quality of the songs we’ve seen,” Villemeur says. Find more music like this on ThisIs50.com Photo courtesy of Flickr, Alyssa Tomfohrde Print Story Email Story Topics to follow * Music Music 22 followers Follow * Ning Ning 0 followers Follow * 50 Cent 50 Cent 0 followers Follow * Social media Social media 258 followers Follow * Soundcloud Soundcloud 1 follower Follow * g-Unit-records g-Unit-records 0 followers Follow For more Media coverage * Follow Mashable Media * Become a fan on Facebook * Subscribe to the Media channel * Download our free apps for Android, Mac, iPhone and iPad More Stories in Media 1. The Oscars & Social Media by the Numbers The Oscars & Social Media by the Numbers 7 2. Sony Music Wants YOU: To Help Create Michael Jackson’s New Video Sony Music Wants YOU: To Help Create Michael Jackson’s New Video 11 Top Related Stories 1. 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Thanks to Ning’s recent integration with SoundCloud, musicians can now submit their songs to ThisIs50.com, the Ning community dedicated to 50 Cent’s G-Unit Records, for a chance to be featured on the site.

Ning announced last week a new intregation with SoundCloud that lets users feature customizable music players on their pages, access previously uploaded SoundCloud files and review uploaded tracks from members before posting.

Thisis50.com is taking full advantage of the latter feature with Independent Fridays, a new contest that asks indie (unsigned) artists to submit their songs via SoundCloud for the chance to be seen by G-Unit A&Rs. The best song will be featured on Thisis50.com every week.

According to Jonathan Hull, director of strategic relationships of Ning, Thisis50.com is one of the most popular Ning networks. “It’s become a really, really relevant news source and entertainment source for hip-hop,” he says.

Corentin Villemeur, new media director of G-Unit Records, says that the site started as merely a fan community for 50 Cent, but now it’s much more about hip-hop culture — about 50% of users call themselves rappers.

“Every member on the site works hard to be seen and get some shine in the community,” Villemeur says. This new venture should yield said shine. According to Villemeur, getting signed by G-Unit is not the end goal, but it is a possibility.

The first round yielded around 1,500 submissions, and the winning song, “Get Paper,” has been listened to more than 8,000 times. (We’ve embedded it below.)

“I was surprised by the quality of the songs we received. We have a lot of wannabe rockers on the site, and we’re impressed by the quality of the songs we’ve seen,” Villemeur says.