{"id":492,"date":"2009-02-24T20:09:33","date_gmt":"2009-02-24T19:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/?p=492"},"modified":"2022-06-09T12:32:22","modified_gmt":"2022-06-09T11:32:22","slug":"digital-music-distributors-compared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/digital-music-distributors-compared\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Music Distributors Compared"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">We\u2019re aware of the fact that we\u2019re a small company compared to some of our competitors, but our cost to bands is also smaller than most of them. All of our major competitors make a charge for either uploading or hosting your tracks, subscription fees, renewal fees, charges for ISRC codes, different charges based on how many outlets you want your music to appear in, the ways they find of hiding new charges are as innovative as they are various.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">We don\u2019t charge you anything until you start making money. Uploading is free, hosting is free, picking different stores is free, in fact everything is free until you sell your first track, at which point we\u2019ll take 10% of the revenue that comes back. You get to keep 90% of everything we make by working together. Ours isn\u2019t the lowest percentage rate in the market: CDbaby offer 91% to their clients, but their upfront charges mean that not only do you have to get your credit card out of your wallet and pay them before you can hope to see any return from selling your music, but you\u2019re also worse off with them than us until you sell more than ten thousand units. The same is true of Tunecore and Musicadium, and the Orchard never get close, as they take 30% of sales revenue for themselves AND charge you $90 up front.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Here\u2019s a little table showing what you\u2019d pay up front to distribute 2 albums over two years through some of the big distro sites (Musicadium deal in AUD, which I\u2019ve converted at today\u2019s rate of 1.549 to the USD).<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-498 lazyload\" title=\"Music Distribution Companies Compared\" src=\"http:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/distcomp11.jpg\" alt=\"Music Distribution Companies Compared\" width=\"357\" height=\"126\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/distcomp11.jpg 357w, https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/distcomp11-300x105.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\">And here\u2019s another detailing the income you\u2019d get from various levels of sales, again based on distributing 2 albums over 2 years to all the stores RouteNote deals with, with an average per track income of $0.65, which is what you get back from iTunes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-594 aligncenter lazyload\" style=\"margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px;\" title=\"RouteNote is awesome\" src=\"http:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/distntable.jpg\" alt=\"RouteNote is awesome\" width=\"447\" height=\"112\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/distntable.jpg 545w, https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/distntable-300x75.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal<\/w:view> <w:zoom>0<\/w:zoom> <w:punctuationkerning><\/w:punctuationkerning> <w:validateagainstschemas><\/w:validateagainstschemas> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false<\/w:saveifxmlinvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false<\/w:ignoremixedcontent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false<\/w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables><\/w:breakwrappedtables> <w:snaptogridincell><\/w:snaptogridincell> <w:wraptextwithpunct><\/w:wraptextwithpunct> <w:useasianbreakrules><\/w:useasianbreakrules> <w:dontgrowautofit><\/w:dontgrowautofit> <w:usefelayout><\/w:usefelayout> <\/w:compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4<\/w:browserlevel> <\/w:worddocument> <\/xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:latentstyles DefLockedState=\"false\" LatentStyleCount=\"156\"> <\/w:latentstyles> <\/xml><![endif]--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><!--[if gte mso 10]>\n<mce:style><!   \/* Style Definitions *\/  table.MsoNormalTable \t{mso-style-name:\"Table Normal\"; \tmso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; \tmso-tstyle-colband-size:0; \tmso-style-noshow:yes; \tmso-style-parent:\"\"; \tmso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; \tmso-para-margin:0cm; \tmso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; \tmso-pagination:widow-orphan; \tfont-size:10.0pt; \tfont-family:\"Times New Roman\"; \tmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\"; \tmso-ansi-language:#0400; \tmso-fareast-language:#0400; \tmso-bidi-language:#0400;} --><\/p>\n<p><!--[endif]--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">As you get up to the 5k mark, Tunecore begin to pull ahead, it&#8217;s all pretty even around 10,000 and there are undeniable differences in the revenue earned when you get up towards to 30k sales mark, but we\u2019re cheaper all the way up there, and the money will only ever flow one way \u2013 to you \u2013 if you deal with us.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">So why are we better than our competitors? For artists starting out on their own, who want to be in control of their own destinies until they can prove the worth of their music, who don\u2019t want to spend up-front money, and who aren\u2019t realistically looking for sales of thirty thousand records in the first year or two, we are cheaper, quicker and much more interested in the success of our artists, because we\u2019re smaller and our own success is that much more closely linked to that of our musical partners (read some of our testimonials!).<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">We had a response from Musicadium about this post &#8211; querying the way we&#8217;d worked out the fees mentioned. 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