gHacks Technology News | Latest Tech News, Software And Tutorials » bands http://www.ghacks.net A technology news blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 09:52:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Selling music on iTuneshttp://www.ghacks.net/2007/04/10/selling-music-on-itunes/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/04/10/selling-music-on-itunes/#comments Tue, 10 Apr 2007 20:23:12 +0000 Martin Brinkmann http://www.ghacks.net/2007/04/10/selling-music-on-itunes/ The Tunecore online service offers an incredible opportunity for everyone who is creating music. You can use Tunecore to upload your music to their site and publish it at well known online music stores such as Apple iTunes, eMusic, Sony Connect or Rhapsody. It is possible to upload single songs, albums, cover art and everything else that is related to the music. Tunecore gets non exclusive rights to submit the songs and albums to the stores that you selected and to collect the money from the music sales earnings. They have no other rights on the songs such as merchandise rights or master recording copyrights.

tunecoreYou are probably asking how Tunecore is making any money with their service ? This is easy to answer, Tunecore charges fees for certain actions. You do pay a $0.99 per song per album delivery charge and $0.99 a per store/service per album delivery fee. Both are one time fees. There is furthermore a annual $9.98 per album maintenance and service fee. So you can expect to pay $20-$30 for an album in the first year and $10 for all the other years after the first. Not that much if you consider the possibilities.

The process to upload songs to Tunecore is relatively easy:

  1. Start with a free, no-obligation account
  2. Add an album at your My Discography page
  3. Choose your stores. (iTunes etc)
  4. Add album cover art
  5. Add songs
  6. Upload your album
  7. Get your money from your My Account page.

I suggest you take a close look at the faq which answers many questions that you might have right now. It is also possible to get CDs pressed or t-shirts for your band. I really can’t say much about the prices for the CDs, if anyone knows more about this please comment on this. New bands should take a look at the marketing and promotion tips which is a must read if you are serious about using the service.

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