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Re: Exploring The Digital Music Distribution ‘Jungle’

Mark McDonald — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 21:14:38 -0000

These days I would put my money on JMD Distribution. they're an upstream for majors so they provide the largest distribution range without monthly or annual costs.we keep 100% royalties

They offer lowest cost guarantee and I blelieve the owners are musicians from major labels trying to change the climate of the corporate distributors ie Ditto, Tuncore, Cdbaby..

We've tried most of them in the past with singles and JMD's been by far superior. try this, Call all distributors then call JMD. The customer service will speak for its self
www.jmddistribution.com

Re: Exploring The Digital Music Distribution ‘Jungle’

iuytbvuj — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 15:14:37 -0000

Feiyr.com

I have been with these idiots for a while and i have had nothing but problems... they totally suck!

I released a few tracks and they dont even have them released under 1 artist!
they keep messing my releases up so instead of all tracks apearing under 1 artist in itunes they are split into 3 different variations of the real artist.. pathetic!

I have contacted them so many times about this but as most people have already said, their support really sux... they are a german company so all the support staff have poor english and totally miss the point thats if they can be bothered to reply!!

Its come to the stage now that i have had to give them an ultimatum to either correct the artist name for my tracks, which would take a few seconds or just delete all my releases so I can go to a PROFESSIONAL distribution company.

they had the nerve to reply

"Hello,
everytime you can deleted your bundles and release with the right names. Also feel free to change the distributor when you will, before you must closed your feiyr account and delted all bundles."

not only is this really bad english its bull!.. once you have created an artist and released a bungle YOU CAN NOT EDIT THEM!!!! so i can't do this myself - if i could i would (stupid muppets!)
also to delete a release they have the cheek to charge you something stupid like 30 euros for each bundle / release

I have 7 single releases so thats 210 euros to take my tracks down because of their stupid mistakes!!!

If your looking for digital distributor stay the hell away form these idiots, all they want is your cash!! they have so many hidden fees - they even charge a 3% fee for using paypal lol

Feiyr.com aka dance-all-day.com you suck !!!

I highly suggest you do your own research on any of these companies before signing up

Always, at least!!, do a review search of the company to see what others say

Example: http://www.google.co.uk/#sc...

Good Luck

Re: Exploring The Digital Music Distribution ‘Jungle’

Armin — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 05:40:54 -0000

Great list, thank you so much. Are there even more distributors now?

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S2e — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 08:18:14 -0000

And, after a year and a few months, I have figured out that Reverbnation is a bit of a scam. The fee listed here is wrong because its almost double that amount or 60 bucks annually...however, they not only charge a $50 take down (making your so called one time payment, 50 dollars more than that initial amount spent), there are also fees taken for every transfer of money to your paypal account. Therefore, no matter what at Reverbation, you are spending $110 to set and take down each release. Its not reflected in any of the sign up document and they added it on to the FAQ a few months after I initially signed up...But I was not happy with that system. Forget about the fees, they hardly got our product anywhere that cant be done at any other aggregator and/or distributor. They have great marketing tools but this where and how they scam money from artists. Which sucks because obviously as a young artist, trying to grow in this industry, every penny counts. And, its hard to read thousands of lines of fine print like they have in their FAQ section. The fees they take are very easy to overlook even now...I was honestly shocked a company with so much going them, acts that way towards young bands....as if its not hard enough to break into the marketplace, you have look over your shoulders at your own partner because Reverbnation is not at all forthcoming about these fees....not even remotely...they hide it....and that sucks because I could have gone to every other company, that would and does not act this way towards artists. Most companies do not take advantage of young artists, but this company is a nightmare with regard to digital distribution. I am telling you its a nightmare to deal with their digital services. Its very hard. Let alone you will not get paid on time. Its now 8/11 and I have had money due to me since 8/5. And, they refuse to deal and/or answer to it. Its very hard...and I know they are scheming some way to keep that money...which is incredible to do to young artists in this industry today....

Re: Exploring The Digital Music Distribution ‘Jungle’

iTunes Music Promotion — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 22:27:12 -0000

Thanks for the list! You can also add this one on your list: http://www.musicianpromote....

Re: Exploring The Digital Music Distribution ‘Jungle’

Tom — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 12:41:37 -0000

Excellent article ...is very useful to inform and know how is the management within the music business. I recommend a company called DANCEPHONIC DISTRIBUTION ( http://www.dancephonic.com ) I was pleasantly surprised at the service of this company, provides distribution only top 10 music stores (distributed only to those most sold), has a promotion and mastering service.100% recommend this company.

Re: Exploring The Digital Music Distribution ‘Jungle’

Debbie — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 14:12:16 -0000

Check out Distrophonix: Your music is released in 400+ digital stores
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Promotion of your music, You receive 80% of royalties from the sale of
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pressing, graphic design, etc.
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Re: Exploring The Digital Music Distribution ‘Jungle’

Layla — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 01:48:04 -0000

Check out YouTunez.com. We offer worldwide digital music distribution starting at 1.29 US-$/month, all shops, codes, and free music player included.

http://youtunez.com

Re: Exploring The Digital Music Distribution ‘Jungle’

Bruce — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 20:23:22 -0000

Great article!
Some of the comments below about other services are harsh and... some of them are probably true. Their can be a lot of confusion about what you are getting when you sign up. And even the big distributors that have so much to offer seem to have the blindspot of being unable to react quickly (or communicate directly) if things go wrong.
Oseao.com hasnt had any complaints in our 4 years of catering to DJs world wide. We work with many genres but are about 70% electronic music so we definetely hit all those specialty stores internationally. There no hidden costs and we spend a lot of extra work knowing the people in the industry so we can push good tracks to top 10 store lists, electronic store newsletters and licensing deals. Check us out... and keep writing such great articles. Very informative.
Full disclosure: I am the owner.

Re: Exploring The Digital Music Distribution ‘Jungle’

Reality_107 — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 20:55:13 -0000

Most distributors SAY they give you 100% royalties, but they charge annual maintenance fees which often equates to them keeping 110% of your royalties!... This is a scam that affects small artists worst. www.austepmusic.com.au is relatively new, and mainly focused on helping Australian musicians, but they don't charge annual maintenance fees...

Re: Exploring The Digital Music Distribution ‘Jungle’

DittoMusic — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 17:24:51 -0000

Thanks for the mention of Ditto Music.
As well as considerably lowering our prices to make sure we are the cheapest digital distributor worldwide, we have also added new services for unsigned artists.
We collect PRS royalties for airplay , gigs and television.
We get artists feedback from DJ's, managers, labels, publishers and promoters.
An i personally have enjoyed speaking at events like In The City, Liverpool Sound city and sharing a panel with Microsoft at Go North last week.
I really hope that all of this market competition at the moment will result in a better structure for unsigned artists.

Thanks again for the mention

Lee

www.dittomusic.com

Re: Exploring The Digital Music Distribution ‘Jungle’

Jlasserton — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 22:40:19 -0000

Wow! And I was just looking for one or two to weed through to get my music out. Everyone's comments are super helpful too!

Re: Exploring The Digital Music Distribution ‘Jungle’

Geert Kliphuis, Madrid — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 10:31:49 -0000

Mr Fusiarski, I came across a site called Record Union (Swdeden). How do you rate them?

Re: Exploring The Digital Music Distribution ‘Jungle’

Lee — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 23:08:54 -0000

Thanks for the mention of www.dittomusic.com
We have changed our pricing structure considerably since this was written.
We now simply charge 30p or 45c per store.
We cover hundreds of stores and have great options like setting up your label, claiming back PRS, becoming chart eligible in the UK and Ireland and lots more.

Thanks again for the feedback

Lee

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Don't Ditto — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 15:42:13 -0000

Avoid Ditto Music at all costs!

Ditto music advertised they would release my album to "over 200 stores" within "4-5 weeks". It has been FOUR MONTHS, and so far it is only on iTunes (and that took 6 weeks). It also appears on 4 other stores, but Ditto messed up the track names, so the wrong track plays when you click the one you expect.

I paid £55.00 for this + £24.00 a year subscription. Their Co-Founder has refused my request to cancel the release and release it again with the correct track names, because it would cost him a few pounds. Instead I have waited 4 months while they apparently chase the corrections with 200 stores (actually 5).

I wish I had never heard of Ditto Music. Their bad reputation is well earned. I have reported them to Trading Standards and the Insolvency Service's Companies Investigation Branch. I am pushing for the maximum fine, as they have scuppered my album launch that i worked years towards, completely ruining the creative process for me and losing me many potential sales.

It's not just me. Check Google, or http://www.businessreporter...

Avoid Ditto Music at all costs!

Re: Exploring The Digital Music Distribution ‘Jungle’

Jorge Fusaro — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:21:34 -0000

Hello! I apologize for my comment (a bit off topic on this post, which by the ways is really helpful). I helped produced an artist last year and before we launched the full-length CD became available online every store in the world!

I am hoping someone in the community can give me some tips to track who pirated the music. I don't know where to begin.

Thank you very much!

Re: Exploring The Digital Music Distribution ‘Jungle’

Mark — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:35:19 -0000

It's a shame that CDBaby's submission service is broken right now and has been broken for 6 weeks. I have been told that it might be up in 4 weeks.

I loved CDBaby for years, and now am reading this article so I can learn which company I'll be switching to - forever.

Re: Exploring The Digital Music Distribution ‘Jungle’

Kiley Thompson — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 10:20:09 -0000

Incredible resource list, as I'm up to my eyeballs with anger with the two digital distributors i work with right now (cdbaby and feiyr). WHATEVER YOU DO, don't use Feiyr's mastering service. You can't download or approve the final result. and with the restructure of cdbaby, i've been waiting two months to have 4 singles released with them (they haven't even put them on their website). Feiyr is extremely quick to post to their exclusive portals, and they report/pay almost immediately. Outside of their portals, i think i paid for nearly 50 sites and 10 have them and are selling them.
weak.
Symphonic looks promising.
Again, thanks for the info.

Re: Exploring The Digital Music Distribution ‘Jungle’

Adrian Fusiarski — Sun, 17 May 2009 15:57:11 -0000

Really appreciate the comments Flemming, certainly helped to fill in some gaps which I will be updating shortly in a bigger round-up.

Many thanks for taking time out to leave feedback!

Adrian

Re: Exploring The Digital Music Distribution ‘Jungle’

Flemming Kjer — Sun, 17 May 2009 15:35:51 -0000

Hey Adrian,

Thanks a lot for including our humble company on your list, and thanks for the input. We can definitely use your comments to improve the information on our website and the structure of it. We certainly do not mean to scare off visitors - in fact, we might want to consider leaving our relatively tiny all-flash site and replace it with an (x)html site.

KJER.com strive to be the preferred business partner to record labels and music production companies worldwide that do not have the time or the resources in-house to take care of the complex digital distribution processes, and therefore have chosen to outsource the administration of their digital music assets.

Before we enter a business relationship we use a quite "analogue" way of discussing whether KJER.com is in fact the right place for the company in question. Consequently, visitors aren't enabled to automatically sign up. We want to be sure that we are the right choice for our clients, and we are only interested in helping the right clients.

In that process, we collaborate with IODA and and we have done that since 2005. Of course! :)
- Please allow me to underline the fact that KJER.com is a B2B company, i.e. we do not assist individual artists.

By-the-way: We help our clients with a lot of other relevant and critical tasks too, e.g. audio and graphics prep work.

Thanks again. Keep up the good work.

All the best,

Flemming Kjer
- director / founder
KJER.com ApS

Re: Exploring The Digital Music Distribution ‘Jungle’

Adrian Fusiarski — Fri, 15 May 2009 13:26:40 -0000

Thanks for the feedback Justin, also much appreciated. I do hope you saw my part 2 update here:
http://buzzsonic.com/2009/0...

There's a part 3 coming up this weekend and I'll be putting all three parts together as a PDF very shortly.

All the best

Adrian

Re: Exploring The Digital Music Distribution ‘Jungle’

Justin Boland — Fri, 15 May 2009 09:35:02 -0000

It's startling to see actual research and content on a music business blog. Thank you for taking the time to do this right, this was something worth printing and taking notes on. Very rare and much appreciated.

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José Luis Zagazeta — Sun, 03 May 2009 13:46:21 -0000

Don't forget to add La Cupula Music, a new Digital Music Aggregator focusing on Spanish Markets with an interesting self-service system www.lacupulamusic.com

Re: Exploring The Digital Music Distribution ‘Jungle’

Steven Finch — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 06:21:15 -0000

Thanks for the mention of RouteNote. We are currently offering artists reach to over 90% of the online music store market, even though we dont deal with Rhapsody and Napster (who are small players currently). Additionally, we will be addding a lot more features in the coming months, as we arent aiming to be your normal digital music distributor, we are aiming to provide artists with the best online music service.

Re: Exploring The Digital Music Distribution ‘Jungle’

Adrian Fusiarski — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 21:10:39 -0000

I think this is something that Derek Sivers had put in motion when he was still at the helm, so was aware of it. Would be interested to know the percentage of download sales vs CD sales on CDBaby nowadays.

And of course I am aware of the CDBaby services as I have used them myself!

Thanks for taking time out to leave your comments here Kevin. Really appreciate you taking the time!
Adrian