Comments on: RouteNote: Digital Distribution For Musicians…Free

By: themusicvoid1

themusicvoid1 — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 15:56:00 +0000

The Music Voids speaks to Steven Finch, CEO and Co-Founder of RouteNote, a company offering an alternative and affordable music distribution service to artists.

Read the exclusive Q & A here: http://www.themusicvoid.com/2010/08/exclusive-q...

By: DittoMusic

DittoMusic — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 05:40:51 +0000

Ditto Music specialise in budget digital music distribution, along with providing help with music promotion, collection of royalties and helping artists become chart eligible.
We have already had 7 UK top 40 singles, all with unsigned artists and are always looking for more.
So check us out and i look forward to answering any questions
www.dittomusic.com
lee@dittomusic.com

By: nwgsk

nwgsk — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 18:16:31 +0000

The comments of these were posted pretty long ago, but I think it's still an actual theme to discuss. I really don't know how artists (especially those independent ones) don't realize that being “digitally distributed” means very little for their careers if they don't get promoted in some way. Promissing people that they will gain success if they just get into a digital store (or any other store) is, to say, not fair. As far as I know, none of these companies deal with music marketing, except Watunes in a way, but they ask a great amount of money just to start with, which independent artists usually don't have. iTunes, eMusic, Napster etc. = tons of songs and most of them will never get sold, not because they are not good, but because they are unknown.
Taking 10% of what? Of nothing? Free distribution? To where? To a shelf in a corner of iTunes? You'd better tell artists how to promote themselves. And one digital store is quite enough, nobody needs 50 web store links.

By: Melissa

Melissa — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 03:24:42 +0000

Though RouteNote is fairly new. I don't see how they can compare to companies like TuneCore. Also another company that is rising pretty fast is WaTunes.com which offers free distribution and enables everyone to keep 100% of their profits! I recommend you guys check them out!

By: Melissa

Melissa — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 22:24:42 +0000

By: RouteNote and Our Progressions | RouteNote Blog

RouteNote and Our Progressions | RouteNote Blog — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 12:00:55 +0000

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By: RouteNote

RouteNote — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:19:41 +0000

@Craig Thanks for the great post. It is really much appreciated and always good to hear another persons point of view on our startup.

@Paul and @Kevin Im not really too sure where you got your stats about Indie artists not selling that well on iTunes. Although it is more likely that indie artists will sell better on emusic, the proportions are still very much in favour of iTunes. You have to remember that iTunes has over 80% of the music market and comparing that to eMusic who has only about 7%. Thus, iTunes are building in new products like Genius, which helps their users find more new artists (a music discovery tool).

We understand that CDBaby is not just a digital distributor and therefore they arent really one of our competitors at this stage. We are focused on providing the best Digital distribution service possibly available, then we will look at entending our service and become a more rounded distributor.

By: Online Shopping

Online Shopping — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 02:43:27 +0000

Since its free, it's worth trying! There are only indie artists or there are many other types of genre, singers that we can find?

By: Kevin Breuner

Kevin Breuner — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 22:58:25 +0000

Craig,

The one thing that I think it very important to remember, is that CD Baby is more than just a distributor. We sell thousands of CDs and downloads everyday through our website http://cdbaby.com. Many of these customers don't shop at iTunes or are in parts of the world iTunes does not service. Also, we think it's important to get your music as many places as possible, so iTunes is just on of many digital retailers that we distribute to.

By: Craig (lapp)

Craig (lapp) — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 22:01:54 +0000

Thanks for the heads up Paul. Didn't realize that about audiolife!