How To Sell Your Music On iTunes Using Tunecore
Posted on April 26, 2007 by Eric Hebert
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Okay, so you’ve gotten the band together, have some original music written and recorded, and are ready to start selling your music. Now, you can obviously go through with the traditional methods of finding a CD manufacturing company, getting them printed and labeled and packaged and shipped and distributed -uhh! That’s gonna take a lot of time and even more money.
The way to do it in the 21st century is to go digital! That means getting your music listed on iTunes, Napster, Rhapsody, eMusic, and any other music service you can get your hands on.
Believe it or not, it’s not as easy as picking up the phone and making a phone call. Most of these services require you to fill a boatload of paperwork out in order to get your music listed with their service. Now, your a musician and need to focus on your music, not the paperwork. That’s where our friends at Tunecore come into play.
Tunecore
Tunecore takes the workload out of getting your music into the hottest online music portals out there. With Tunecore, you can get your music on each of these popular music selling websites, without the hassle of all the paperwork.
iTunes US, Canada, UK, Australia, and Japan
Rhapsody
Napster
eMusic
Music Net
Sony Connect
If you’ve never heard of Musicnet, they distribute music to these other music services:
Y!Music
Urge
Virgin Digital
Music Gremlin
Ctrax
iMesh
Here’s a quick rundown of how the service works:
1. Sign Up for a free account
2. After approval, you can begin to add an album under “My Discography”.
3. Enter your Band’s name and Album details.
4. Determine if the album has more than one artist or band.
5. Let Tuncore know if the album contains explicit lyrics.
6. Choose two categories that your music will fit into.
7. Pick which music stores you want to sell your music.
8. Add additional information, such as liner notes, a UPC code (Tunecore will handle this if you do not already have one!), or the date you want your music to go live.
* It will take 6-8 weeks for Tuncore to get your songs online
9. Choose your artwork (600×600).
10. Add track/song information, including ISRC codes, which Tunecore can provide.
11. Confirm and Upload music!
Pretty simple process to get your music out there! Tuncore has also partnered with traditional CD manufacturers, t-shirt companies, and offers other services to get your music out there.
So how much does it cost to do all this?
Okay, so you want to use their basic service to get your songs on iTunes.
$.99 Per song (one time charge)
$.99 Per album (one time charge)
$9.98 Per album, per year
You keep all your rights.
You own your recordings.
You get all the money.
No contracts.
A dream come true to musicians out there. Stay tuned as I dig deeper into Tunecore as I use it to promote my own band in the near future.
Did I mention my band? Stay tuned for more info on that exciting project as well…
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Thanks for the kind words! If you have any questions, feel free to write me. As you can see, I love to check out the Web and explore what’s going on.
–Peter
peter@tunecore.com
I am glad you got hooked up with these guys. They really seem to have it together. What a great tool to have in your toolkit.
Me too. The day I upload my own music to this service will be a great day in history!
Concerning the list that states prices .99 cent per song and .99 cents per album, does that mean that the customer pays .99 cents per album and I get .99 cents. What do I have to pay for services. Also, canI sell just 1 song? a single release?
Debbie Tucker
Debra,
The prices are the fees the artist pays Tunecore to get their music on each music site. The customer then pays what each service normally charges, whether it be per song or monthly subscription.
So you want to release only a single? Then You would pay Tunecore $.99 for the song, another $.99 for the “album”, and then $10 a year to keep your music hosted. So it costs you like $12 to get a song on iTunes which you could theoretically make millions off of. Not a bad deal, huh?
Thanks for the write up! I’m the Marketing Manager on TuneCore and I also wanted to say thanks for using our services! Also thought you and your readers might be interested in this…. TuneCore is teaming up with Guitar Center to do a contest we’re opening up to indie artists across the country. It’s kinda cool - the winning band gets a tour van, lots of cash and a case of ramen to boot! Let me know if you need any more info - details are below. Thanks!
-Mary
In a Band? Win a Van!
Upload Your Music And Hit The Road
TuneCore In Collaboration With Its Strategic Partner Guitar Center To Give Away Complete Tour Kit: ‘07 Ford Econoline, $5000 Cash, Apple Macbook, Year Of Internet Access, $500 Gas Card And Case Of Ramen Noodles
TuneCore, which allows musicians to quickly, cheaply and easily upload their music to iTunes, Rhapsody, Napster and eMusic and many more understands the necessity of touring and the resources needed to go on tour.
To enter, bands can go to http://www.guitarcenter.com/winavan during the month of June and submit the following information:
• How your band could benefit from a new ride
• Your best tour story or best tour story of the future
• 10 things your band would always have in the van
• The dedication of your band members to its craft
Mary Barbour
TuneCore
Marketing Manager
20 Jay St. Suite 7A
Brooklyn, NY 11201
mary@tunecore.com
IS BILLY THE RETURN OF R&B AND SOUL ON ITUNES
I want to get my music onto the net.
From the UK it seems difficult to go directly through Myspace, so, I’m interested in your ideas.
However, I only have 4 songs at present, and, with demand, may wish to add more in due course.
How much does it cost ME to pay You per track, please! I wish to sell the tracks download to the end user for $0.99 per time.
regards
Jeff
regards
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I want to sign up with you to put my music on itunes and others. I have a CD with 12 songs. Please get back with me when you can so I can sign up and get started.Thank you for your time
and hospitality. God Bless
Sincerely Gregory Ray
Why would you do this when you could get cdbaby.com to do the same thing for a ONE TIME FEE of $35. No yearly obligation. Sounds like a rip off to me. Plus cdbaby has more outlets. Search Type L anywhere and u shall see. Hope I saved you some dough peeps. later.
waiting for moderation huh? what happened to freedom of speech?
I am aware that CDBaby does assist in digital distribution, and will look into this in more detail. And don’t give me that “freedom of speech” bullshit - the Net is full of bullshit spammers who want to drop meaningless spam comments in my posts and moderation keeps the site clean (with some help from Akismet!)
Your voice has been spoken.
CD Baby does take a 9% cut of the loot, and if you blow up, that can equal some change. They do have more outlets though, so we’ll be doing a pros/cons feature soon…
This service rocks! One of the coolest I’ve seen in a while
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Great way to distribute….
We average 2000 plays a day!
www.myspace.com/bcmgworldwide
Bank City Music Group (BCMG)
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Great job on this list. I market rights for a bunch of very technical stuff and now we market artists rights from songs we use on our new media campaigns. I was looking for a way to get a couple of artists out fast and cheap on the biggest e-tailer’s to leverage the free buzz from our sites that use their songs. The CoreTune site is a portal and is brutal to navigate, the FAQ page made my eyes bleed! The service looks great however. Your checklist was really clear. Many thanks.