Again, you made a point very clear in your blog regarding 10% share. If someone is selling millions then fair enough try something else or if its for an independent artist selling small to moderate number I still think Routenote may be the option. I will see how my experience with TuneCore will be and will probably try routenote for my upcoming album.

Any thoughts?

just thought I would correct you on Musicadium’s single pricing. We now have a single price – which is $59.00 AUD + GST = $64.90 AUD

Cheers
Tim

100 sales
tunecore = £49.00 – £16.23 = £32.77
routnote = £49.00 – 10% = £44.10

200 sales
tunecore = £98.00 – £16.23 = £81.77
routnote = £98.00 – 10% = £88.20

300 sales
tunecore = £147.00 – £16.23 = £130.77
routnote = 147.00 – 10% = 132.30

400 sales
tunecore = £196.00 – 16.23 = £179.77
routnote = 196.00 – 10% = 176.40

SO AS YOU CAN SEE IF YOU SELL LESS THEN 400 SONGS A YEAR ON ITUNES THEN ROUTNOTE IS FOR YOU, BUT IF YOU SELL MORE THEN 400 (and not 10′000 as stated by routenote) then your better of with tunecore..

LETS COMPARE JUST 1000 SONGS SOLD….!

TUNECORE £490 – 16.23 = £473.77
ROUTNOTE £490 – 10% = £441.00

a loss of £32.77 in other words you loose 52 DOLLARS per 1000 sales if you went with routnote…

so if your going to bring a single out and expect to sell less then 400 then routnote is for you, but if your serious about selling music and expect to sell more then 400 from your single then tunecore is the best way.

Lets say you sell 200 tracks per year at $1.00 (which in reality its more like $0.60 retained for the artist at most).

Tunecore = $25.95 (but I think its more for an album) – sales of $200 = Total = $ 174.05

RouteNote = $0 costs. $200 sales – Artist keeps 90% = $180.00 retained.

i will be paying tunecore $19.95 a year for my album, but if i was to pay them 10% i would be paying out more, so people do not believe the hype, you only loose money if your music sells less then 100 tracks (tracks not albums), and if they do not you should not be trying to sell music.

I too am interested in which ones inlcude Spotify.

Thanks!
Robert

FIrst off, thanks a ton for responding to my comment. I think you might well be right in terms of widgets. It’s a science to get them right, and perhaps it’s better we let distributors do what they do best and leave widget designs to developers etc., rather than make some half-baked widgets oneself and drive up the overall costs and fees.

Also, I’m very excited to see what some of the stores you plan on working with will be. I would like to point out that I did not claim that “a larger proportion of electronic music is sold through [boutique online retailers] than the mainstream stores like iTunes.

Instead, I wrote:

“Artists who can get their music into small boutique mp3 retail outlets ought to fare well.” Over 60% of my digital sales are through itunes, and most of the rest comes via name-your-own-price models with bandcamp.com.

I am under no illusions regarding iTunes’ importance, but I do believe that the often quoted 88% market share is somewhat distorted by major label artists, and that were independent artists able to sell their music via high-quality boutique stores, that iTunes’ share would end up somewhat closer to 50-70%.

Anyhow, best of luck with everything, and I’ll be certain to keep checking in with routenote.

Cheerio,
Mark