By the end of this year, the TuneCore Artist catalog will have earned over $30,000,000.
This means that there is a song selling by a TuneCore Artist on iTunes every second.
Currently, TuneCore distributes between 150 – 250 releases a day.
I went head to head with Jeff Price, President of TuneCore, to find out how he created the world’s largest distributor of music in only four years.
“Music distribution is what we do, and we do it better than anyone else”, Jeff started. “We are the first place music stores come to get the music and we pride ourselves on this. When we launched four years ago, we got to change the world: For the first time in the history of the music industry, anyone could ‘sign themselves’ and get worldwide distribution of their music while keeping all their rights and 100% of the money from the sale of their music. That was a game changing paradigm then – and still is today!”
TuneCore recently announced a partnership with Universal Distribution (Interscope, Universal Republic, Island Def Jam, Motown, Geffen and more), bridging the independent music market with the most sought-after music catalog in the world.
“This was a deal I did solely to provide artists with more options.” Jeff comments. “In a nutshell, in addition to regular old TuneCore.com, we will also be hosting and serving websites for Universal labels that provide artists with distribution while taking none of the artists’ rights or revenues. If an Artist chooses to get their distribution via one of the label portal sites (as opposed to TuneCore.com), they will have a direct line into that label. This means the label will be aware of you, have heard your music, be up to speed on the success you are having, etc. The label can reach out to you to offer more marketing, promotion, physical distribution and anything else. If they do, the artist can choose to talk with them, tell them no, tell them yes, tell them they will get back to them or simply decide to continue to do what they had been doing to that point in time. All the options. No strings.”
From physical distribution via 215 Guitar Center stores to media widgets that distribute TuneCore customers’ content across the social web, TuneCore has made a name for itself by providing dozens of opportunities centered on the most accessible and competitive music distribution model of our time: Flat Fee. No Commission.
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