Tunecore

Just out of curiousity, do any of you have your music on tunecore and are you making money?

Also, If you have done well can you please specify if you had your music mixed/mastered and point me in the direction of preview samples of your music.

Thank you all.

Hey there,

I run a label called 'Subtle Audio' - a Drum & Bass (mostly) project.

Been signed up with Tunecore for nearly 2 years now.

I'm making some money. But not alot.

By the time I covert from US $ to €, a big chuck is taken off (thanks to the current exchange rate).

Having said that, I think it's worth it - and it saves me the hassle of signing up to alot of stores individually.

If you want to check out some of the Subtle Audio tunes - try here : www.myspace.com/subtleaudiorecordings

good few tracks on the player there and on the download store widgets underneath the myspace player too.

  On 12/14/2009 at 5:35 PM, Code said:

Hey there,

 

 

I run a label called 'Subtle Audio' - a Drum & Bass (mostly) project.

 

Been signed up with Tunecore for nearly 2 years now.

 

I'm making some money. But not alot.

 

By the time I covert from US $ to €, a big chuck is taken off (thanks to the current exchange rate).

 

Having said that, I think it's worth it - and it saves me the hassle of signing up to alot of stores individually.

 

 

If you want to check out some of the Subtle Audio tunes - try here : www.myspace.com/subtleaudiorecordings

good few tracks on the player there and on the download store widgets underneath the myspace player too.

not my kind of DnB but i do hope you make many sales and thank you for the reply

  On 12/15/2009 at 3:13 AM, meneedit said:

  On 12/14/2009 at 5:35 PM, Code said:

Hey there,

 

 

I run a label called 'Subtle Audio' - a Drum & Bass (mostly) project.

 

Been signed up with Tunecore for nearly 2 years now.

 

I'm making some money. But not alot.

 

By the time I covert from US $ to €, a big chuck is taken off (thanks to the current exchange rate).

 

Having said that, I think it's worth it - and it saves me the hassle of signing up to alot of stores individually.

 

 

If you want to check out some of the Subtle Audio tunes - try here : www.myspace.com/subtleaudiorecordings

good few tracks on the player there and on the download store widgets underneath the myspace player too.

 

 

not my kind of DnB but i do hope you make many sales and thank you for the reply

No worries !

  On 12/31/2009 at 2:49 PM, Code said:

  On 12/15/2009 at 3:13 AM, meneedit said:

  On 12/14/2009 at 5:35 PM, Code said:

Hey there,

 

 

I run a label called 'Subtle Audio' - a Drum & Bass (mostly) project.

 

Been signed up with Tunecore for nearly 2 years now.

 

I'm making some money. But not alot.

 

By the time I covert from US $ to €, a big chuck is taken off (thanks to the current exchange rate).

 

Having said that, I think it's worth it - and it saves me the hassle of signing up to alot of stores individually.

 

 

If you want to check out some of the Subtle Audio tunes - try here : www.myspace.com/subtleaudiorecordings

good few tracks on the player there and on the download store widgets underneath the myspace player too.

 

 

not my kind of DnB but i do hope you make many sales and thank you for the reply

 

 

No worries !

My label is just now getting into this Tunecore thing. We have put the album by Purse Candy up on amazon and iTunes, and my own remix selection is coming soon. We've gotten some sales, but it's too early to decide if it's profitable (they haven't sent a sales sheet yet so...the number of sales is still unknown to us). Can't wait to find out. Overall, I'd recommend it regardless of profitability just cause it's really really easy, cheap, and- again- much less hassle than doing it yourself.

Mastering varies by release. For the Purse Candy release he took care of mastering on his end. The one that comes out tomorrow I mastered as best I could since it was mostly others remixes of my work. There'll be samples of that at www.unnamedlabel.com tomorrow.

As for the shops though, here's some previews like you asked:

http://www.amazon.com/One-Day-Ill-Look-Back/dp/B002ZQGU9M/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=dmusic&qid=1262279746&sr=8-2

http://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/purse-candy/id344210941

curious about the exact details of tunecore.

1) is the $49.99/album fee for all the stores? or do you have to pay $49.99 for each store? i have a feeling it's the former, but this was not explicitly stated anywhere

2) it would seem the $49.99/fee is yearly as opposed to forever. so you need to make at least that per year if this shall be a black venture and not a red one

3) some of the stores had dire-sounding checkboxes about your tunes being there forever. am i signing away any sort of legal rights by using tunecore??

thx.

When I read the title I thought this was a new genre lol.

  On 9/5/2011 at 4:53 PM, Promo said:

When I read the title I thought this was a new genre lol.

Same here ha

  On 9/5/2011 at 11:28 AM, hahathhat said:

3) some of the stores had dire-sounding checkboxes about your tunes being there forever. am i signing away any sort of legal rights by using tunecore??

You are probably signing away the non-exclusive right to distribute your stuff for the agreed-upon price. If it's going to be in more than one venue it can't be exclusive . . meaning you can still sell it yourself or however you like. It could get weird negotiating this with a label, but I have no experience there.

I've had some modest success with Tunecore, but I still much prefer Bandcamp. For one thing, Bandcamp tells me within seconds of each album purchase, not months. They also tell me who bought each album, and where visitors are coming from. Tunecore's good for exposure in well established online shops, but Bandcamp's amazing. I guess I also fit in better as a reasonably big artist in a small shop than a tiny artist in a massive shop. For the record, I don't work for Bandcamp. ;)

man I need to hook it up with bandcamp. I've got several things I could release.

Nice choons zoe!

(also if the baby my wife is growing right now turns out to be a girl we're naming her zoe. :) We just like the name.)

Carry on.

  On 9/5/2011 at 7:52 PM, Berk said:

  On 9/5/2011 at 4:53 PM, Promo said:

When I read the title I thought this was a new genre lol.

Same here ha

I pictured some sort of movement to take modern electronic conventions & with them replicate the mood of old timey folk music. I would have been all over that

  On 9/13/2011 at 6:10 PM, ZoeB said:

For one thing, Bandcamp tells me within seconds of each album purchase, not months.

well, that's a good point. i tried bandcamp, but for some reason my albums would fail to upload. quite annoying! i gave up on it after having it randomly die 4 or 5 tracks into any album i uploaded.

  On 9/5/2011 at 11:28 AM, hahathhat said:

1) is the $49.99/album fee for all the stores? or do you have to pay $49.99 for each store? i have a feeling it's the former, but this was not explicitly stated anywhere

 

2) it would seem the $49.99/fee is yearly as opposed to forever. so you need to make at least that per year if this shall be a black venture and not a red one

 

3) some of the stores had dire-sounding checkboxes about your tunes being there forever. am i signing away any sort of legal rights by using tunecore??

1. From what I remember, it's $49.99 a year per album, to put it on as many shops as you like out of all the ones they offer. I put one of my albums on almost all of them (it would have been all, but I didn't like the look of some of the licenses some of them were demanding), and as far as I know, I've only been charged $49.99.

2. As far as I know, this is correct, yes. It would appear you get $7 per album unit sold, so you'd need to annually sell at least 8 units of each album, on average, to break even and get into profit. (Needless to say, compared to the capital required to get an initial run of vinyl or CDs pressed up, we're lucky to be living in an age when we can sell a product with pretty much no capital whatsoever because it's no longer tangible.)

3. Asking random people on the Internet probably isn't the best way to get legal advice. I wasn't sure, so didn't tick the boxes for the particular shops I wasn't sure about.

  On 9/13/2011 at 11:20 PM, slightlydrybeans said:

Nice choons zoe!

 

(also if the baby my wife is growing right now turns out to be a girl we're naming her zoe. :) We just like the name.)

Thank you! :D That's so sweet of you to say, on both counts, hehe! ^.^

  On 9/14/2011 at 7:40 AM, hahathhat said:

i tried bandcamp, but for some reason my albums would fail to upload. quite annoying! i gave up on it after having it randomly die 4 or 5 tracks into any album i uploaded.

I completely forgot about this issue I had occasionally, because I keep on forgetting you even can upload (in theory, at least) a whole album at once. I almost always upload a single track at a time, and have never had a problem doing it that way.

do you have to pay for bandcamp actually?

  On 9/14/2011 at 11:21 AM, slightlydrybeans said:

do you have to pay for bandcamp actually?

They take a percentage of sales.