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RouteNote: An Solid Way To Distribute Your Music

For indie artists looking to distribute music via the myriad of online avenues, RouteNote provides a great solution. They will distribute your music to iTunes, AmazonMP3, eMusic, Last.fm, imeem and others, while only charging you a light commission.

It’s a no brainer that your music needs to be easily accessible in the MP3 markets that people are using. While a lot of budget services will offer you download cards to sell, and host your music on their site for you, that’s only going to have as much reach as your own website or gigs give you. If somebody searches iTunes for your band’s name, your music needs to show up. Web presence is critical to the success of the emerging artist, and saturating the web with your music is a first step in gaining popularity.

There are services from DiscMakers and other CD pressing companies that will offer to get your music up as an extension of pressing your CD. The problem with those deals is that they charge you an upfront “set up” fee, just like with pressing a CD. I can’t fault them for that, as it makes sense. From the artist’s perspective though, there’s no guarantee that you’ll ever recoup that money. RouteNote alleviates the stress of the situation by only charging you a commission for the music that is actually sold through them.

You can save a lot of legwork by utilizing services like this, and it makes sense when there are no upfront charges.

Check out RouteNote here.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, February 24th, 2009 at 9:22 pm. It is filed under wires and tagged with amazonmp3, distribution, itunes, promotion, routenote. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.