tunecore.com
Remember when every artist goal was to sign a record deal
with a major label. Now that the technology has changed so has the music
industry and the game as well. Being an
independent artist 10-15 years ago was a major struggle for the artist music to
be heard outside of their community and own city.
That is no more the case with websites and services such as TuneCore. TuneCore is a digital distribution
website that allows independent artist to not only distribute their own music
to the public on major online stores such as iTunes, XBOX Live, Zune, and
Amazon MP3.
By giving independent artist the opportunity to put out an
album, single and ringtone creates a new level playing field from being
mainstream and independent as an artist.
TuneCore acts as a distributor for independent artist. Being
independent now may be easier than ever before. Not having the overhead of a
record deal from one of the major record labels, can allow artist to focus on
what they love and that is making music.
Even though this is not a free service the prices are very
reasonable for independent artist. Distribution cost start out at $9.99 per
year for each single and ringtone and $39.99 for each album. The most important
thing about TuneCore is that as an artist you keep all the rights to your music
and you keep 100% of the royalties.
With perks like that any artist that is independent should
really question, should they stay an independent artist or should they be
hunting that record deal that once was so important? Not to say that as an
artist you should not or would not want to get that record deal, but with
websites like TuneCore it makes it easier for independent artist to stay
independent longer.
