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Something's always happening at TuneCore. Check this page frequently for news, updates, new features, important messages, offers, hints, press releases and much more.
Here they are in chronological order, starting with the most recent:
- OVER $6,750,000 Earned by TuneCore Customers Since May 2006
- TuneCore Video is LIVE!
- TuneCore Delivers to Amazon MP3
- lTuneCore interviews Ray Manzarek of The Doors and Bal
- BPM & TuneCore Custom iMix, with 25 Free Tracks
- TuneCore in the Wall Street Journal
- Ringtones Of Every Song Now Available on Multiple Cell Phone Carriers via Groupie Tunes!
- Free 28 pg PDF Marketing Booklet
- MacWorld Article about TuneCore
- Listen to the TuneCore podcast - an interview with Izzy Stradlin from Guns N Roses
- EQ Magazine Spreads the Signal About TuneCore
- ...more coming soon!
OVER $6,750,000 Earned by TuneCore Customers Since May 2006
To date, TuneCore artists and labels have earned over $6,000,000 in music sales from iTunes, Rhapsody, eMusic, MusicNet, Napster, GroupieTunes and Sony Connect. During the months of March 2006 through February, 2008, thousands of TuneCore albums went live, earning millions of dollars for our customers. As always, TuneCore takes no back end cut from these sales and all the money goes to the customer! And it's only going to get better as more digital stores are added, earning TuneCore customers even more money. As always, the information is available to see and all the money is available to take as soon as the information is received from the stores and services - they usually send it 45 days after the end of the each month.
If you have any questions about this don't hesitate to email support@tunecore.com
Back to topTuneCore Video is LIVE!
TuneCore Video can now deliver your music videos to iTunes. Music videos, concert videos, very short to very long, TuneCore Video will put them up on iTunes where your fans can buy them. As always, you keep 100% of the earnings, you give up NO rights, you keep all your masters.
Read all about it at http://www.tunecore.com/index/faq#Video and get started any time by clicking "My Videography" from the top of any TuneCore page once you've logged into your free TuneCore account.
Back to topTuneCore Delivers to Amazon MP3
Important news! TuneCore now has digital music distribution to its newest retail partner, Amazon MP3, the digital music store in the Amazon.com family!
Just log in here and go to your My Discography page. Add Amazon MP3 to any of your existing albums with the Edit Your Album link, then click the Manage Stores link. For new albums, simply select it from the list of stores. The price is only $0.99, one time, same as all our digital retail partners.
Stay tuned for more!
Back to toplTuneCore interviews Ray Manzarek of The Doors and Bal
In this 3rd installment of the TuneCore podcast series, I (Tai) had the amazing opportunity to talk in-depth with both Ray and Bal about the music industry, tips for musicians, making their album together, as well as some great stories from the days of The Doors. Visit the TuneCore blog TuneCorner to listen to the interview along with a taste of the song, "Shinjuku Nights," from the album Atonal Head.
Back to topBPM & TuneCore Custom iMix, with 25 Free Tracks
BPM Magazine has teamed up with TuneCore to offer you a free iTunes iMix of 25 dance and electronica songs. The songs and artists were hand-picked by BPM exclusively from customers that have used TuneCore.
Click http://www.bpmmagazine.net/campaign.aspx to visit the BPM website, where you'll find easy instructions on how to download the mix from iTunes.
Featured artists include:
- Toktok Vs. Soffy O
- Smith & Mighty
- Nerk & Dirk Leyers
- Like a Tim
- Romanowski
- The Horrorist
- Arthur Oskan
- Black Market Robot
- Caused by Defect
- Jamika
- Milton Jackson
- Brett Johnson Ft. Dave Barker
- Lismore
- Ray Manzarek & Bal
TuneCore in the Wall Street Journal
TuneCore was featured in the April 12, 2007, edition of Wall Street Journal. Staff reporter Ethan Smith writes a glowing profile and shows the business world just how remarkable our success has been.
Read it for free here:
http://www.startupjournal.com/howto/successstories/20070412-smith.html
Back to topRingtones Of Every Song Now Available on Multiple Cell Phone Carriers via Groupie Tunes!
Via the newly added GroupieTunes store, TuneCore customers can now have every one of their songs made available to multiple cell carriers for fans to purchase as true-tone ringtones. At the Groupie Tunes website, a fan can choose the exact section of the song they would like as a ring tone. In addition, TuneCore customers that choose to have their albums delivered to Groupie Tunes will also have their songs available to buy as a permanent digital download at Music.com.
GroupieTunes has their own unique ways of distributing music, so everyone should read about them in our FAQ. Take a look here.
Back to topFree 28 pg PDF Marketing Booklet
FREE .PDF Download of the TuneCore Music Industry Survival Manual: How To Market, Promote and Make Money from Your Music While Keeping Your Rights.
To download the FREE .PDF booklet, click here.
Back to topMacWorld Article about TuneCore
Here's a fantastic article about TuneCore on MacWorld:
http://playlistmag.com/news/2007/03/15/tunecore/index.php
Back to topListen to the TuneCore podcast - an interview with Izzy Stradlin from Guns N Roses
The founder of spinART Records and TuneCore talks about: What the music industry is, how - despite technological changes - artists are still getting gouged and finally, the way things should work - plus Birdmonster.
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EQ Magazine Spreads the Signal About TuneCore
Here's a wonderful article in this month's EQ Magazine that has a lot to say about TuneCore, all of it crystal clear:
Click here to read the EQ Magazine article about TuneCore
Back to top...more coming soon!