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TuneCore
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| TuneCore has arrangements with leading digital music retailers (itunes, Rhapsody, emusic, napster, Amazon) that lets them place your music in their online stores and subscription services. You get 100% of the money that your music earns from digital distribution. TuneCore charges $0.99 per track, $0.99 per store per album, and $19.98 per album per year storage and maintenance. TuneCore also announced in July 2009 a partnership with Guitar Center and Universal to sell CD's from their artists in over 200 Guitar Center stores. |
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Song Cast Music
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| Song Cast is a world class music distribution service that delivers independent music to the worlds most popular download retailers, including; iTunes, Amazon, Napster, Rhapsody, eMusic and more. Combined with the power and social phenomenon of sites like MySpace, it is no longer necessary to give away your freedom to the labels. With Song Cast, you can start selling your music on major download sites right away, and they will also provide you with customized code to link your MySpace and other websites directly to the stores. Your fans will easily be able to find and purchase your music online. Charge $20 set up fee per album, and $5.99 per month. Get about $6.00 to $7.00 per album and .60 to .70 per song from these sites. Song cast does not take any of the sales. |
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IODA
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| IODA provides any or all of these services to music labels and distributors, video distributors, and artists including: * service, metadata and sales administration in their Rightsholder Dashboard * digital marketing and promotion through tools like Promonet * in-house technology including reporting tools and media delivery systems * collective licensing negotiation with digital content retailers * aggregated royalty collection and payment administration |
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CD Baby
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| CD Baby for $35 per album you get your music set up digitally on itunes, rhapsody, eMusic music and others. They take 9% of the sales and musician gets 91%. They send out $250,000 every Monday to musicians who sold music thru them. In total 111 million has been paid to indie musicians. You can also sell thru their site and set a price and they keep 25% you keep 75%. Lastly, they sell to 2400 retail stores and can distribute your CD's into them. They have a good overview of the program on their site. |
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TuneCore
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| TuneCore has arrangements with leading digital music retailers (itunes, Rhapsody, emusic, napster, Amazon) that lets them place your music in their online stores and subscription services. You get 100% of the money that your music earns from digital distribution. TuneCore charges $0.99 per track, $0.99 per store per album, and $19.98 per album per year storage and maintenance. TuneCore also announced in July 2009 a partnership with Guitar Center and Universal to sell CD's from their artists in over 200 Guitar Center stores. |
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The Orchard
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| The Orchard delivers to the leading online and mobile digital retailers throughout the world – over 400 and counting. |
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Reverb Nation
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| Reverb Nation helps you Sync Your Profile, Spread/Track Your Music, Get on Facebook, Build a Street Team Communicate with Fans and Manage email lists. They have a new service that offers digital distribution to all the key online retailers, digital press kits, and widgets. They also have a program called fair share where you can earn 50% of the ad revenue across all artist pages and based on your sites activity you receive a portion of the revenue. Not all these services are free but some are. |
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Record Union
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| Record Union is a global digital distribution service which helps all artists, signed or unsigned, to distribute their music to a large selection of online retail services. Artists upload their music on the Record Union website, and once the relevant information is added to the release, Record Union will publish it to all of their retail partners. Their partners include music stores (iTunes, Amazon MP3, Rhapsody, Beatport), Streaming Services (Spotify, Lala, Deezer) and mobile services (Nokia Music Store, Sony Ericson PlayNow arena). In total, they have 150 partners and reach over 95% of the global market for digital music. It is free to upload music. They charge $5 for the first time a release generates a sale. After the initial $5 artists receive 85% from their sales. If you don't have a UPC, they will help you get one for $10. |
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Catapult Digital Music Distribution
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| Catapult Distribution offers a service to get your music to all the top digital music stores such as iTunes, Rhapsody, Napster, eMusic, AmazonMP3 and many more. The cost is $25 setup fee per album and artists and labels receive 91% to 95% of the payments received from the various digital stores. They have over 4 million tracks delivered. They have thousands of artists and labels they have distributed. |
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Create Space
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| CreateSpace, a member of the Amazon group of companies, provides one of the easiest and most economical ways to self-distribute your music in CD and MP3 formats on Amazon.com and other channels. There is no membership or album set up fee. They produce the CD's when the customers order them. |
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The Bizmo
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| The Bizmo gets your music on all major digital retailers plus 150 other digital retailers. They charge $19.99 a year which includes UPC code setup and you get 85% of the royalties. You also get daily sales reports and an embeddable retail store for your website. In the retail store you can sell music downloads, video downloads, tickets, merchandise, e-books, sheet music and ringtones. |
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RAWRIP
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| RAWRIP is an on-line distribution company that is free for artists to sign up and upload songs. You get 100% of the sell price that you set and you pay no transaction fee. Labels are welcome and artists retain all rights. |
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DashGo
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DashGo allows artists, labels, and content owners to distribute, promote, and market content across digital stores, social sites, and tastemaker blogs and track the results.
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