The Future of Music
Many musicians play their hearts out in small clubs for years in hopes of getting heard by someone who can help them get picked up onto a label to distribute their music.
What is the need for a distribution company when you can just upload your songs onto some website and just sell it (or give it away for free) to anyone who wants to hear it?
Now iTunes and Rhapsody are giving the artist a direct way to sell their music. This website will upload your music onto the web and you still retain all rights and ownership to your music. Plus you get 100% of the profits. The fee to use this service is really small which makes it worth a try.
There is so much potential for changing the music industry now that many people have switched over to buying music over the internet. Some people worry about what the power of the internet will do to many industries - such as film, television, music - and I want to remind them that many industries have come and gone. At different points of history different forms of entertainment ruled and were quickly taken over by others. Think of gladiators, on stage plays, operas, silent films, radio broadcasts. They all may still be around in some form today - but they will never be at the height they were once at. Expect some changes in our generation - who knows what the future can bring.
What is the need for a distribution company when you can just upload your songs onto some website and just sell it (or give it away for free) to anyone who wants to hear it?
Now iTunes and Rhapsody are giving the artist a direct way to sell their music. This website will upload your music onto the web and you still retain all rights and ownership to your music. Plus you get 100% of the profits. The fee to use this service is really small which makes it worth a try.
There is so much potential for changing the music industry now that many people have switched over to buying music over the internet. Some people worry about what the power of the internet will do to many industries - such as film, television, music - and I want to remind them that many industries have come and gone. At different points of history different forms of entertainment ruled and were quickly taken over by others. Think of gladiators, on stage plays, operas, silent films, radio broadcasts. They all may still be around in some form today - but they will never be at the height they were once at. Expect some changes in our generation - who knows what the future can bring.
Labels: Music
posted by Shawn at 12:31 PM
1 Comments:
thanks for the info shawn, i looked at the website, and they sure do make promises, but read the fine print, they make money, and lots of it...
They pay you a flat fee per song or album, everytime it sells. And they dont tell you what that amount is, they say legally they can't but it's comparable to what you would get in the industry (with no middle man that means they are taking a hefty cut). They also state that most songs sell for $0.99 each, so your guaranteed that you will make much less than that a song, plus if you have over 10 songs per album and someone buys the album you only get paid for the 10 songs.
They try to make it ok by saying that if the song sells for $0.01 you still get the same fee. You also dont know what the flat fee is until you actually sell a song, then it shows up on your account.
Besides those odd details I think it's a great way for artists to get heard! I'll be posting my friend frank padron's stuff up soon, right now i'm working on developing his website, which is going to be so awesome, www.frankpadron.com - we have a temp page up right now with a short clip of one of his songs.
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