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Re: How To Get Your Music Distributed on iTunes (And Keep Most Of The Money)

Adrian Fusiarski — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 15:05:07 -0000

This piece is from 2008 so long due an update! But thanks for the prod Chris, am actually updating my roundup of every digital distributor on the planet as we speak! Hopefully up by the end of the week. Cheers mate
Adrian

Re: How To Get Your Music Distributed on iTunes (And Keep Most Of The Money)

CD Baby — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 14:21:28 -0000

A small correction: You actually can decide which stores your music gets sent to with CD Baby. We've always had that feature.

Tunecore now charges a 49 dollar a year fee. CD Baby does not charge yearly fees.

We also just added a free music store feature so you can sell music on Facebook as well as your own website.

(Any artists thinking of switching to CD Baby can get half-off their submission fees here:
http://cdbabylovesyoumore.com)

You can learn more about what we offer here:

Sell on iTunes, Amazon, Facebook and many more with CD Baby

Chris B

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: 10 ‘New Music Industry’ PDFs That’ll Make You An Expert

MusoMecca — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 09:34:22 -0000

Hi Adrian

Great stuff here. I have been following you for ages on twitter and have you on my google reader. Your constantly giving great content and post so for that i thank you!

Can't believe i only just come across this.

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?

Re: Exploring The Digital Music Distribution ‘Jungle’

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: How To Press Up a Vinyl Record and Add Instant Kudos to Your Release

iTunes Music Promotion — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 00:09:32 -0000

Now I'm getting more ideas. I'll use it on my collection of vinyl.

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

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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: 200+ Music Industry, Marketing, Social Media and Tech Blogs That’ll Make You A Media Whore!

Adrian Fusiarski — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 03:12:17 -0000

Yeah, am actually in the process of updating everything on the site actually, new look already up so its looking better :-) But yeah, a list of updates coming, finally! Thanks Chris

Re: 200+ Music Industry, Marketing, Social Media and Tech Blogs That’ll Make You A Media Whore!

Chris B. — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 20:27:23 -0000

Yo adrian you should definitely update this list! such a great resource, it would be even better if you included my blog ... :D

Chris

Re: Buzzsonic Twitter Daily Digest for 2010-12-14

Adrian Fusiarski — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 09:55:18 -0000

You're welcome Chris! Keep that content coming and I'll keep linking to it :-)

Re: Buzzsonic Twitter Daily Digest for 2010-12-14

Chris B. — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 09:41:58 -0000

Made your list twice, today! Haha. Nice. Thanks for sharing, Adrian.

Re: The Ultimate Digital Music Distribution Round-Up (Part Trois)

Screamwaves — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 09:12:17 -0000

I have to say that i have used Kisumusik, and the people there are really helpful and nice to work with...
100% recomended

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: Coldplay Meet Jay-Z In Mixtape Mash-up

Adrian Fusiarski — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 11:39:59 -0000

And more OnCue goodies here!
http://eclecticeavesdroppin...

Re: Coldplay Meet Jay-Z In Mixtape Mash-up

Adrian Fusiarski — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 11:36:58 -0000

Just checking out OnCue who has a sample from Cuey Sings The Blues up for free download at Bandcamp here:http://oncue.bandcamp.com/a... Thanks Jon !

Re: Coldplay Meet Jay-Z In Mixtape Mash-up

MicControl.com — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 09:00:41 -0000

Terry Urban and Mick Boogie definitely know their stuff...

You should take a listen to Brooklyn-based hiphop artist OnCue, who is releasing his upcoming mixtape Cuey Sings The Blues in association with Terry Urban and Mick Boogie.

Re: The Buzzsonic.com Ultimate Guide to Digital Music Distribution, Extra

Adrian Fusiarski — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 09:28:30 -0000

Thanks Wesley, am 'remixing' it a little and going to post it as a Google Doc so people can contribute also to keep it up to date. Thanks for taking time out to comment :-)

Re: The Buzzsonic.com Ultimate Guide to Digital Music Distribution, Extra

Wesley Verhoeve — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 18:15:01 -0000

Really great on pulling this all together

Re: The Buzzsonic.com Ultimate Guide to Digital Music Distribution, Extra

Wesley Verhoeve — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 18:14:11 -0000

Great work on this!