By Ari Herstand
The post below is from TuneCore Artist Ari Herstand. It originally appeared on Ari’s Take.
Musicians who know musicians know that most of them are always broke. Like Ramen broke. PB&J broke. Rice and beans BROKE.
You know who doesn’t know that musicians are broke? Non-musicians. And let’s keep it that way…
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Attention TuneCore Songwriters & Publishers!
We’d like to take the opportunity to highlight the differences between TuneCore Music Publishing Administration and a new service called CD Baby Pro. Here’s a chart to break it down for you:
(Click here for a larger view of the chart below)
Check out this infographic from Sonicbids, showing their picks for the 13 Emerging Bands for 2013.
We love seeing that eight of the bands included have used TuneCore for their digital distribution:
Gold Motel, White Arrows, Tyler Bryant & The Shakedown, Ume, Family of the Year, French Horn Rebellion, G-Eazy, The Giving Tree Band
View PostTuneCore Artists are heating up the late night television airwaves. We put together a calendar showing the artists performing over the next few weeks so you can make sure to tune in…
View PostBy George Howard
Copyright law, which governs much of the music business, attempts to strike a balance between the rights of the creator, and the common good. That is, the law grants copyright holders a set of exclusive rights, but only for a limited time. At the end of that time (currently, seventy years after the death of the last-living author in the US), the work falls out of copyright, and can then be used by anyone; thereby contributing to the common good…
View PostNew iTunes Trend Reports Now Available from the Premiere Digital Music Distributor.
New York, New York, April 16, 2013
TuneCore, the premiere digital music distributor, announced today the launch of its enhanced, web-based iTunes Trend Reporting tool in response to artists’ growing need for more frequent and robust iTunes sales data. The feature-rich reporting tool that supports daily sales data with graphic visualization, replaces static, and weekly CSV-formatted report files that, up to this point, have been the standard among digital music distributors…
View PostLast season on NBC’s The Voice, we were thrilled to see that all three of the top finalists were TuneCore Artists. We had a great time following Cassadee Pope, Terry McDermott and Nicholas David as they gave solid performances week after week.
Season 4 is going on now, with new judges and lots of new TuneCore Artists competing for the big win. After the blind auditions, there are 11 TuneCore Artists spread out over the four teams…
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You can now view your iTunes sales activity even faster after you distribute through TuneCore. Introducing: New DAILY iTunes Trend Reports.
Trend reports show you unofficial sales data of your music on iTunes. We’ve always offered iTunes trend reports, but now they’re even better.
Here’s why:
Now you can use these daily iTunes trend reports to get a good sense of how your music is selling, just 24-48 hours after your release went live iTunes. We’ve included tips below on how you can use this information to help your marketing efforts…
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Attention songwriters! Let TuneCore Music Publishing Administration collect your songwriter & publisher royalties from around the world.
By Jamie Purpora
President TuneCore Music Publishing Administration
I’d like to focus on the sources TuneCore Music Publishing Administration collects from on behalf of you, the songwriter and publisher of your compositions. Your compositions are a separate copyright from the master recording, and in most cases, the royalties from your compositions must be collected independently from any royalties you receive for the distribution of your recordings…
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