Here at RouteNote we were lucky enough to get some great press over the weekend from Digital Noise. Digital Noise is a digital music news site from CNet (owners of Download.com, TV.com and more).
CD Baby and Tunecore already offer digital distribution through iTunes and other stores, but both of them charge you money whether you make a sale or not. In contrast, U.K.-based RouteNote charges you nothing until you make a sale, at which point they take a 10 percent cut of whatever the store pays out.
Specifics: CDBaby charges you a one-time set-up fee of $35 (which covers setting up a store for physical CDs as well), then takes 9 percent of digital download revenues. TuneCore, which does digital distribution only (no CDs) charges you $20 a year for each album they stock, but takes no cut. So on a straight numbers basis, RouteNote’s a better deal than CD Baby for digital-only distribution, and a better deal than TuneCore if you expect to sell low volumes of downloads. Of course, there are a lot of other factors to consider, like customer service and speed of submission to iTunes and the other stores, but RouteNote looks like it’s worth checking out.
You can check out the full article here.
We’ve been featured on the DailyBits blog – here’s what they said:
Routenote.com: Online Music Distribution Service
The Internet has changed a large number of industries and market segments, and music distribution is no exception. Album sales are dropping year after year, and online music sharing or market places like iTunes are prospering.
For a normal band or independent artist, however, it could become cumbersome to discover all the right places and strategies to promote and sell music online. In order to solve this problem, there are some companies appearing to bridge the gap between not so tech-savvy music artists and the myriad of online opportunities available for them.
RouteNote is one of them. The promise is to promote and sell the music of independent artists through online partnerships. What they want in return? 10% of the sales revenues. Here is a quote from the about page:
Onsite, artists can upload tracks to the RouteNote catalogue and enter into a non exclusive agreement permitting us to distribute their music to a worldwide audience in a matter of moments. They then select partnered retail outlets that they wish their music to be available through (e.g. Napster, Snocap, Samsung Mobile) and within moments their songs are earning money as part of a world wide, web wide, distribution network. Our rates for providing a distribution service are currently the best in the market, and our ever expanding catalogue gives us increasing muscle with which to negotiate deals from which everyone, artists, clients and distribution partners included will all benefit.
Should the idea work, it would be pretty compelling to music artists that wants to get started online.
Link: http://www.dailybits.com/routenotecom-online-music-distribution-service/
RouteNote is an online music distribution site that gives music artists a way to promote their work online to a large worldwide audience in a matter of moments. This is a great service for music artists looking to get exposure to their work on the web.
There is a very popular shift to buying music online, as well as having music artists promote themselves independently through online and mobile music outlets. RouteNote was created to take advantage of this shift by offering music artists a way to easily promote their work. Also, considering that RouteNote is partnered with some of the largest retailers on the web, music artists will get “massive and immediate availability for their tracks.”
Here is a little bit about RouteNote and how their service works:
Onsite, artists can upload tracks to the RouteNote catalogue and enter into a non exclusive agreement permitting us to distribute their music to a worldwide audience in a matter of moments. They then select partnered retail outlets that they wish their music to be available through (e.g. Napster, Snocap, Samsung Mobile) and within moments their songs are earning money as part of a world wide, web wide, distribution network.
RouteNote- Music Distribution Service Helping Artists with Self-Publication
After you sign-up with RouteNote, which is absolutely free, you will be offered the following:
- Worldwide Exposure
- Receive 90% from All Download Sale
- Signing Up Wont Stop You From Signing With a Record Label
- Forward Looking Partnerships and Marketing Expertise
So, if you are an artist that is looking for a way to get your music out to the ever growing online market, then you should go check out RouteNote and see what all they have to offer. If you have used RouteNote please post a comment letting us know what you think about their service.
Link: http://technewssource.net/2008/04/21/routenote-music-distribution-service-helping-artists-with-self-publication/
We’ve been added (a little while ago) to Tech Crunch’s list of internet companies, take a looksee…
Link: http://www.crunchbase.com/company/routenote
Nick Bailey (Shore Fire Media) and Kandia Crazy Horse (Bluegum journalist) dropped a short intro before opening up to questions – top tips for artists starting out were to consider getting a booking agent before anything else and play gigs as much as possible (but remember to tour smart!), and to realise that the press guys want to hear your stuff. Be brief, friendly and don’t hassle them too much. If they like your stuff they’ll write about you, if they don’t then pestering them is only going to piss them off.
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