Thumbplay is currently offering an exclusive selection of tracks from Bob Dylan’s bootlet collection: The Bootleg Series Vol. 9 – The Witmark Demos. All Blackberry smartphone users will be able to listen to 15 previously unreleased recordings from the new album, but only until Thursday September 30.
Users can access these exclusive tracks by searching for the Thumbplay app on their device or by going to their website.
Disclosure: Thumbplay is one of our partners here at RouteNote.
It has never been so easy for bands to sell ringtones created from their tracks. Most services require no up front costs or long term commitments. Most bands feel that ringtones are pointless and that the market itself is in decline, but in fact there is still plenty of money to be made.
Thumbplay (who is partnered with RouteNote) has one of the best free music ringtones services available. Thumbplay’s Open platform allows artists to signup for free and create mobile content from their music. Thumbplay open is completely free for artists to use and will allow them to sell ringtones to 100 million US Verizon Wireless subscribers. For more information check out the Thumbplay Open website.
Music subscription services are still yet to prove themselves in the market, but I really think they are the future of music online. Rdio is a very new player to this market, but they have already been making quite a huge stir. Rdio was co-founded by serial entrepreneurs Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, who previously started Skype, Kazaa and Joost.
Rdio is set to launch into an invitation only beta later this week, but only in the USA. Rdio is a streaming based cloud music service by which users will be able to access a library of millions of songs for a flat monthly fee. Desktop and mobile access via iPhones and BlackBerrys costs $10 monthly, while desktop-only customers pay $5.
There are already a lot of players in this space, such as MOG (in the USA) and Spotify (in Europe), Thumbplay (USA) and Rhapsody (USA). A lot of people are betting that this will be the type of music service that will win out in the end, but I think there are already to many players in this market and I think it is going to be a winners market (only a couple will survive).
Disclosure: Spotify, Thumbplay and MOG are all RouteNote partners. We hope Rdio will also be a partner very soon!
Thumbplay has just launched its Thumbplay Music streaming service iPhone application. Thumbplay previously launched their Blackberry application back in March and Android earlier this month. The Thumbplay mobile application rollout is now complete.
The Thumbplay iPhone application allows users to listen to on-demand albums and singles and create playlists which are available cross platforms. Users will have free access to the application if they already have a Thumbplay paid accout.
Disclosure: Thumbplay is a partner with RouteNote and you can get your music onto their application via the RouteNote service.
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.
We7 boss Steve Purdham revealed on-stage at MidemNet that the streaming music firm will launch its premium offering on 1 February.
The company has announced more details:
- Unlimited stream access to more than 4 million songs – £4.99 a month, no ads.
- Premium Plus includes the above plus mobile access with iPhone and Android apps – £9.99 per month
“The new premium services are about choice for the consumer,” “In the new digital music economy there is no single business model that fits all. That is why we give consumers the ability to listen to great music how they want, where they want and at a price they are prepared to pay.” says CEO Steve Purdham.
We7 are going to just compete head on with Spotify in the UK market. Im not exactly too sure this is a good idea. I dont really understand why We7 didnt just focus on becoming more of an international online music streaming site. We7 is very popular here in the UK, but they are still a long way behind in other markets. Maybe they are trying to run before they can walk. However, I understand that they feel they need to launch such a service as other competitors such as Spotify, Grooveshark, Thumbplay and MOG, move into this market.
