Here at RouteNote we are always trying to improve our digital music distribution service. On Friday we announced the launch of three new partners, Napster, Deezer and Thumbplay. If you are a new artist to RouteNote then you can easily signup to take advantage of these new partners straight away. However, if you are an existing RouteNote artist you need to do the following steps:
- Login and Head to your My Content section
- Select the Edit button for each track you want to add to the new partners (Thumbplay, Napster and Deezer).
- Select the new partners via the Tick boxes (or select all button)
- Hit Save Changes and your Done!!
Here at RouteNote we are always looking to add new partners for all our artists. Stay tuned for even more coming soon!
Good news for all you RouteNote artists out there: today we go live with music distribution to three new music stores – Deezer, Napster and Thumbplay Mobile.
Deezer is a French business, but has agreements with all 4 major labels to stream ad-supported music to their 9 million registered users across 35 different countries. In the three years since its launch, Deezer has been voted the most innovative website of 2007 by readers of 01Net, ahead of both Facebook and Dailymotion. Deezer also won the 2008 Red Herring award, for Europe’s most innovative web companies, among various other awards. The proof of their success is really in the number of people listening to music through their service, which keeps on growing. In addition to their music streaming service, Deezer also offers:
- Access to radio channels: Hip Hop, Rock, Electro, Jazz, Live, French Scene, Disco etc.
- Surfing intelligent online radio
- Information about artists, albums, tracks, introducing subscribers to new music
- Sharing playlists, chat and musical tastes with friends via the community of ‘Deezernautes’
- Watch videos
Napster was the first cat among the digital pigeons with it’s peer to peer service, but they’ve come a long way since their rebellious beginnings, and now their subscription service offers both unlimited streaming and a number of DRM free downloads per month, available online and on smartphones in Europe and the USA.
Thumbplay is the largest mobile content provider in the U.S. Operating both web based and mobile services, including licensed music, video and games. They have deals with all the majors, and several independent labels and artists, and now you can get access to their services through RouteNote. Hundreds of millions of cellphones in the US are waiting to download your music.
To get your music live with these music stores and all our other online music partners, sign up for our music distribution service, and get our new music upload tool. You can have your tracks online in minutes, and earning you money in a matter of weeks.
Emusic has just announced that they’ve licensed not only Warner Music’s catalogue, but that of every one of their associated sub-labels. From their blog:
So — quite a few new arrivals today, eh US members?
Over 10,000 albums, to be precise, a dizzying avalanche of stuff from the Warner Music Group. No matter your taste in music, there’s sure to be something here that appeals to you.
The increased catalogue will hopefully mean more subscribers, which in turn will mean more pairs of ears that can access all the music that RouteNote distributes to them… A small trickle down perhaps, but positive news none the less.
MJ’s life was hardly free of controversy, but it seems that a good deal of weirdness was covered up until he died of Propofol intoxication, allegedly maliciously induced by his doctor. Such malicious intent was not unique; in documents just released by the FBI, a man named Frank Paul Jones claimed to be entitled to half of the ‘Thriller’ singer’s estate (why he was making this claim isn’t exactly clear) and when no one responded to his threats, he said he would target President George Bush Senior [so it was probably becuase he was a loon then...].
The letter said: ‘I’ll commit mass murder at a Michael Jackson concert if necessary, in an attempt to murder Michael, then you will have to deal with my situation in the public.’ [Definitely a loon] “Michael Jackson I will personally attempt to kill, if he doesn’t pay me my money.”
Another letter stated: ‘I decided that because nobody is taking me serious that I am going to Washington to threaten to kill the President of the United States. [And there's the cherry on top]
Why an attempt to murder anyone would possibly encourage them to write you into their inheritance is difficult to fathom, as is how Jackson could engender such hatred in his enfeebled state.
In order to encourage people to get their music online with us, and introduce new potential customers to our service, we thought we’d run a little competition. If you’re a solo musician or you’re in a band that has new music that needs to get out there and selling, all you need to do is add a comment to this blog post with the name of the band or artist and a link to the track that you think is their (or your) best. We’ll keep entries open until the 14th of December, and then we’ll judge all the tracks that have been entered. The top 3 according to our judges will be given completely free distribution to all of our partners stores during 2010 on any new releases they upload to RouteNote. No fees, no subscriptions, no back end cut, no strings – just access to our service completely free until 2011. The top 5 will get a feature and review on our blog, and we’re promoting this competition in collaboration with www.music-news.com, so you can expect to get their attention too. This competition is open only to artists and bands and music not already signed up to RouteNote.
Thanks, and good luck!
RouteNote has been lucky enough to partner with the music streaming service Grooveshark. Grooveshark provide a great user interface which allows listeners from anywhere in the world to stream the music online. RouteNote artists will soon have the option to get their music added to the Grooveshark database. Additionally, Grooveshark artists will now see the exclusive distribution partnership between Grooveshark and RouteNote via their artist platform.
iTunes has announced that they have launched a new store in Mexico. Thus, if you select to have your music distributed via RouteNote and then select the USA store, your music will not only go to the USA but also Canada and now Mexico.
This will be live in the coming weeks.
RouteNote Team
Crenk is growing at a steady pace lately, but we have noticed that a lot of people dont know about our Twitter account. If you are looking to keep up with news here at RouteNote then please follow us on Twitter.
If you have any suggestions on what you would like to see on RouteNote, then just drop us a tweet.
Account: http://twitter.com/routenote
Here at RouteNote Blog we have recently made a lot of changes in terms of design (which I think looks better than before!) and I just want to let everyone know about the new music player we have added in our sidebar. The widget is powered by Soundcloud and looks like this:
We have decided to add featured artists to our sidebar every month to promote some of the great artists using RouteNote. As you can see from the player it plays full tracks and also provides and option for listeners to purchase the tracks via iTunes. Additionally, the player keeps tracks of how many plays that track has received so artists can tell if there receiving some extra exposure. We will be adding 5 tracks a month to the featured artists section and will write a quick preview post here in the blog. If you are interested in being a featured artist then please get in touch and let us know which song you have in mind and why you should be a featured artist.
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