How To Sell Your Music Tracks on Online Stores Such As iTunes.
Sun 9 December 2007
02:31pm
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As you may of seen I recently released my first ever EP called
So I skipped the whole getting signed to a label thing and thought to myself about what a label actually does for a musician today in the age of the internet and realised that the only thing a label does for you today is to promote your music (And it looks like they sometimes do a bad job at that too) and then take a large cut of any royalties. So I decided I’m going do this myself and release my tracks digitally on-line via the now many Mp3 stores such as iTunes.
So I went along to the mp3 stores web sites, went to their FAQs and looked for the question “I am a musician, how do I sell my music in this store”. Only to see the answer at all of these sites to be along the lines of “we only accept bands/musicians who are established/signed to a label” or that “you’ve got to fill out this hefty long form and then wait months” (With the possibility of not being accepted and I’ve even heard of people not even getting a reply just to say they are not accepted)
Surely this has got to be easier and that’s when I came across
So with my three Mp3 files and a cover I knocked up in GIMP (A free picture manipulation program), I applied to TuneCore to release my tracks on iTunes, Amazon, Napster, Rhapsody, eMusic, and GroupieTunes on December 3rd. I uploaded my files and cover, paid the sum of $32 (about £16), they said that it would take about 6-8 weeks and so I sat back and waited.
As I post this my EP is still in the processing stage but I decided to write this post as I am pleased to say that all my tracks have appeared on both
There may be some other companies that offer the same services as TuneCore, but obviously I can’t comment on them because I haven’t used them. I’m going to be using TuneCore again definately. The only thing left to do is to promote my tracks to get some interest, which is probably where I am going to struggle so if anyone has any great ideas on how to do this I would love to hear them and if anyone has had anything to add about TuneCore, I would love to hear it especially any success stories.
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