The Industry

10 Questions to Ask When Selecting a Digital Music Distributor

When it comes to choosing a digital music distributor to get your music on sites like iTunes, Amazon MP3 and Spotify, you want to feel confident in your choice. If music is important to you, you want to know who’s handling your music assets, the quality of the service and the value you’re getting for the distribution fees you’re paying.

Here are 10 questions you should ask any digital music distributor before you entrust your music to them. Choosing the right distributor is just as crucial as picking the right guitar (or microphone or drum set or, well, you get the point)…

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Be Part of the Efficacy Series: Tell Your Story

Music industry publicist Fiona Bloom who runs the agency The Bloom Effect (and works with musicians like TuneCore Artist Avery*Sunshine), has a developed a very cool series called “Efficacy,” focused on telling artists’ stories.  Each webisode is created and edited by the undiscovered artist/creative type featured, and is intended to capture his or her interests outside of music.

There are 117 episodes so far, including one featuring TuneCore Artist Soul Khan, with new episodes premiering every Tuesday on YouTube.

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Find out how to submit to be featured…

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TuneCore Announces New Partnerships with Gracenote and Shazam

Partners’ Music Identification Technology Expands TuneCore Artists’ Reach

New York, NY,  July 18, 2013

TuneCore, the premier digital music distributor, announced today partnerships with two of the world leaders in music identification technology – Gracenote and Shazam. TuneCore Artists will now have the option to add their music to Gracenote and Shazam music registries, which will audio fingerprint their music. This will greatly increase the artists’ exposure to more consumers who are looking to discover new music, by providing information such as artist name, track title, and links to purchase the song…

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Get Out of Your House & Into Theirs – Booking a House Concert Tour

By Mikey Wax

Hey TuneCore friends – My name is Mikey Wax, and I’m a singer/songwriter from Long Island, NY. I’ve released two full length albums, and have been successfully touring for the past few years. After releasing my first album at the end of ’08, I built a small but promising fan base through word-of-mouth on social media sites. From that, I was able to sign with a small booking agency at the time who got me on a couple tours, but the relationship wasn’t right and soon parted ways. That’s when I was forced to think outside-the-box and find other ways to gain more fans.  It turns out that losing my agent was actually one of the best things for moving my career forward, as it was then that I came up with the idea of booking house concerts…

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New TuneCore Summer Compilation Album – Submit Your Music Now!

Last summer we created a TuneCore Artist Compilation 25 Songs of Summer to get the word out about TuneCore Artists and help generate new fans.  This year we want to continue with the summer tradition.  Introducing our newest compilation: 25 Songs of Summer 2013.

Past TuneCore promotional compilation albums have seen over 300,000 downloads, and they consistently rank in the Top 10 for free albums on Amazon MP3 U.S. around their release dates.

Being a featured artist on a TuneCore compilation album is a unique opportunity to find new fans who may not know your music.

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Sync & Master Licensing: How We're Pitching Your Compositions

By Pete Rogers
Creative, TuneCore Music Publishing Administration

As the music industry continues to evolve, synch licensing has become an increasingly vital revenue stream for musicians.  For this reason, we’re now making your administered compositions available to music supervisors for worldwide licensing opportunities (if the recording of the composition is also distributed by TuneCore).  The newly created Synch website lets supervisors and executives search by artist, genre, keyword and iTunes sales rank on a private, invite-only basis…

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TuneCore Artists Shatter Records: Over $300 Million in Artist Earnings

We’re not even halfway through 2013 and already TuneCore Artists have been breaking incredible records.  In the first 5 months of 2013, we’ve seen that artist earnings have grown by 20%, exceeding $300 million dollars since TuneCore launched in 2006.

We’ve also seen a 67% increase in TuneCore Artist downloads and streams, resulting in 3 billion (yes, billion!) units downloaded and streamed during this same period.

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