TuneCore

TuneCore

TuneCore is a digital music distribution service founded in 2005. TuneCore principally offers musicians and other rights holders to place their music into such as iTunes, Rhapsody, AmazonMP3, eMusic and others for sale. TuneCore also offers other goods and services to the music community, including sales of equipment and expertise. TuneCore differs from traditional digital music distribution by taking no percentage of its customers' sales and asking for none of their rights, copyright or masters nor requiring exclusivity.

History and overview

The company's stated mission is to open the channels of music distribution to all. This position has garnered them some media attention, such as ABC's "World News Tonight" [cite web
url=http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=1533847
title=TuneCore and the Music Revolution (video)
accessdate=2006-08-04] , United Kingdom's The Daily Mirror [cite web
url=http://www.mirror.co.uk/webandgadgets/iblog/tm_objectid=16631728%26method=full%26siteid=94762-name_page.html |title=DOES TUNECORE SOUND THE END FOR LABELS?
accessdate=2006-08-03] and pitchforkmedia.com. [cite web
url=http://pitchforkmedia.com/page/news/2006/4/13/TuneCore_Helps_Indie_Acts_Go_Digital_for_Cheap#36208
title=TuneCore Helps Indie Acts Go Digital for Cheap|accessdate=2006-08-03] TuneCore's first customer was Frank Black, lead singer of the Pixies [cite web
url=http://www.spin.com/features/news/2006/01/060119_tunecore/
title="SPIN Magazine: New Service Brings iTunes to Indie Artists
accessdate=2006-08-11] . More recently, TuneCore achieved passing media attention when the company was tapped by Nine Inch Nails to deliver the music from their album, "Ghosts I-IV", to the Amazon MP3 store. [Harding, Cortney and Jonathan Cohen (March 2, 2008). " [http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003718389|New Nine Inch Nails Album Hits The Web] ". "Billboard". Retrieved on March 10, 2008.]

TuneCore is based in Brooklyn, NY, and is doing business within the larger company, YourTunes, Inc. Jeff Price is President, CEO and Chairperson of the Board, and co-founder, along with Peter Wells (SVP Operations, Sales, Customer Advocate) and Gary Burke (Chief Technology Officer). Ewald Christians is Chief Operations Officer, and Laurelin Outman is the SVP of Customer Support. Financial analyst and consultant Gian Caterine and Guitar Center SVP of Strategic Business Development Alan Cohen sit on the Board of Directors.In December 2006, music instrument and equipment retailer Guitar Center bought a majority stake in TuneCore, giving the company access to the music retailer's customers. [Lazarowitz, Elizabeth (November 26 2007). " [http://www.nydailynews.com/money/2007/11/26/2007-11-26_brooklynbased_web_business_helps_sell_mu.html Brooklyn-based Web business helps sell music in the digital world] ". "Daily News". Retrieved on November 27 2007.]

Top Artists

Tunecore releases several monthly newsletters which contain top artists. Top artists that have re-occurred are:

*MGMT
*Eric Huthinson
*Sean Dempsey
*Jay-Z
*Jeffree Star

References

External links

* [http://www.tunecore.com TuneCore Website]
* [http://emusician.com/tutorials/qa_jeff_price/ Electronic Musician interview with CEO Jeff Price]


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