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Music Distribution
How
and Where to Distribute
Your
Independent Music on the Internet.
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To Distribute
Your Digital Music
via iTunes,
Rhapsody, Napster, MusicNet
and more, the Music Biz Academy Recommends....
CD Baby No
Monthly Fees, No Runaround.
Just Way Cool.
and now FREE
DIGITAL MUSIC DISTRIBUTION
CDBaby
was started in 1997 by Derek
Sivers, a musician just like
yourself who just wanted an
efficient way to sell his music
on the web. Today, just a few
years later, CDBaby is the 2nd
largest seller of independent
CDs on the Internet, 2nd only
to Amazon.com! Boasting nearly
190,000 artists,
CD Baby is the best organized,
most talked about hosting
solution for musicians who want
to sell their music on the Internet.
According to the latest posted
stats (as of this writing),
CDBaby has sold nearly 3.5
million
CDs online to customers and
paid out over $50 million
dollars
to independent musicians! That
alone should be motivation enough
for you to sign
up. There is a one-time,
$35 setup fee (per CD) to join
the service, however, from that
fee CDBaby creates an elegant
web page for you that has everything
you need. You don’t even have
to upload your MP3 files to
make your music available for
streaming. CDBaby will do it all for you
- just send them your CDs, and
they'll take care of everything
else. Once you start selling
CDs, CDBaby takes just $4 from
each CD sold via their web site.
You keep the rest. CDBaby also
keeps your CDs in its warehouse,
so they handle all the shipping
details, and when your stock
gets low, CDBaby contacts you
to request more. In
additional to all this, CDBaby
is your connection to digital
music distribution. If you
spend any time on the Internet
at all, you can’t help but be
familiar with the iTunes
Music Store as well as Listen.com’s
Rhapsody service. Once you’re a
member of CDBaby you can elect
to make your music available
to these services, as well as
eMusic, AOL's MusicNet, MusicMatch,
the new Napster and
dozens more. CDBaby will take
your CD, digitally encodes it,
and submit it to these services for
no additional setup fee. They
take just 9% off the
top of any incoming income from
any digitial distribution sales
you make. I really have to congratulate
Derek Sivers and the whole CDBaby
staff. They've done a simply
wonderful job, and are representing
independent musicians so very
well. This is one baby you don’t
want to throw out with the bath
water. Updated 07/19/2007.
Sign
up for CD Baby now.
The
Podsafe Music Network
Podcasting is all the rage on the Internet right now
and one of the many challenges facing podcasters today
(and there are millions of them) is finding royalty-free music to use in their
programs.
Enter the Podsafe Music Network (PMN). Podcasters can go to this web site to
find music to use in their programs that is guaranteed to be free of licensing
restrictions. Here’s where you enter the picture – if you sign up
for the PMN, you can make your music available to thousands of podcasters all in
one place. While this means you are giving your music away for free use, the
exposure potential is very good. If you have already been offering fans and
visitors to your web site a few free music downloads to hook them on your music,
you might as well make those available for use here as well. Added 3/31/2006.
 Stretch
the Skies
STS distribution is
non-exclusive, and once you
sign up, your music will
instantly be
available in several online stores. You can also create buy button links on
your web site to let STS handle
your credit card
processing for you. You can use this same technology to
sell
your CDs from third party sites such as MySpace.com or from your emails. If
you have a barcode for your
product, all sales are automatically reported to
Nielsen SoundScan. Finally, you can use this same buy button system to sell merchandise like t-shirts
and hats! Submission to iTunes
via STS is available as well.
If your music does well via
online sales, STS distribution increases to
conventional store placement through FYE, Coconuts, Strawberries,
Wherehouse Music, and others. Updated 03/06/2006.
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