Who needs a record label? Submit your own music to the iTMS with Tunecore

Are you a musician with some tracks that deserve their time in the iTMS spotlight? No one's promising you'll make the Top Songs list, but Tunecore can at least help you take a shot.

While Apple offers an online application through which you can ask them to 'consider your music for the iTMS,' Tunecore (notice the hip 'beta' marking) can actually submit your music to not only the iTMS, but Rhapsody, MusicNet and Napster too. They offer what I would consider a reasonable one-time fee structure (meaning: the don't take a % of each song/album sale), and they can add your music to a number of international stores (not just the U.S.) with 'more coming soon!' One last feature to note about their service which might be music to indie musicians' ears: you keep all the rights and ownership of your music, i.e. - Tunecore a middle-man who actually remains a middle-man.

This sounds like a great service. I hope more musicians can use it to hop on the digital distribution bandwagon.

[thanks Andre Dupont!]

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The Mixer Man Funky House Twisted Disco

Hi, im a uk producer/remixer

and im finding it very hard to get my music released, i have all the music skills i need to remix peoples songs and write & produced peoples music but still no luck.

you can vist my website for some audio sample demos & a full track by me THE MIXER MAN

http://www.freewebs.com/musicisthefruitoflife/

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May 19 2006 at 11:54 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Peter Wells

We hope to be one link in the chain that leads there, Stealth.

And we're shortly going to announce something that brings us even closer. Stay tuned. :)

--Peter

Peter Wells
TuneCore.com
peter@tunecore.com

April 27 2006 at 11:28 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Stealth43

Congrats Peter. What would be really nice is if we could completely free ourselves from the obsolete and archaic music distribution methods used now. I would feel far better knowing that an artist was getting the majority of my dollars rather than a greedy record company...

April 26 2006 at 9:50 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Andy

I submitted my band's songs through Tunecore and it was a very smooth process. The only problem is that once it leaves their hands, it's up to iTunes or whoever to put it on their site. It's been about 2-3 months now and neither Rhapsody, Napster, or MusicNet have added us. iTunes didn't take very long at all (which isn't surprising since they're the only ones that know what they're doing).

April 25 2006 at 3:42 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Tony Scida

CDBaby can also get your music on those services, and I thought I read something somewhere that MP3tunes.com can as well. It's great to see more and more options out there for independant artists.

April 25 2006 at 1:28 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Peter Wells

We're trying to make a difference. Thanks for the kind words. If anyone has questions, feel free to drop me a line. We've got a lot of happy customers so far, and with luck, more to come!

--Peter

Peter Wells
TuneCore.com

April 25 2006 at 12:53 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

S-M

There's a great audio interview with the CEO of Tunecore here:

http://75minutes.com/podcast/15-minutes-w-tune-cores-jeff-price/
or in iTunes:
http://www.75minutes.com/itunes

April 25 2006 at 12:09 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

deadlyhifi

This sounds like an excellent service and will surely get the 'behind the times' major lables to take note. Maybe not; they just seem to continue with their head in the sand.

April 25 2006 at 11:50 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

tundraboy

Amateur musicians take heart! If Brandon Adamson (check out his cover of Heart and Soul at iTMS) can publish on iTunes surely you can too.

April 25 2006 at 11:21 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply