[NewMusic] tune core?

[Matt Davignon]

If I'm understanding TuneCore's deal compared to say, CD Baby, (being
a member of neither), here's my comparative analysis based on what
each says their deal is. Let me know if I'm misunderstanding anything
or missing a figure.

Setup:
CD Baby charges $35 one time setup fee per disc, plus $20 if you need
a barcode.

Tunecore charges $.99 "setup fee" per song, plus $.99 per store per
album. (They distribute to 10 different stores, but you can pick which
ones.) I can't tell if the barcode fee is included or additional. If
you have a 10 song album to sell on all 10 stores, that's about $20
setup I believe.


Maintenance/Sales:
CD Baby keeps 9% of all sales.

Tunecore does not take a cut of your sales, but charge $9.98 per album
per year.



So it looks like CD baby is the better deal if there aren't very many
people downloading your music. If your online sales are more than $100
or so per year, it looks like Tunecore would be the better deal,
monetarily. To make it tricky, I don't think either site will be
sending you checks until  your income reaches a certain mark. (CD Baby
says $10.) Also, this doesn't take into account whether the companies
actually behave like they say they will, or how good of a job they'll
do in actually getting it out there. Since Tunecore doesn't make a
commission, I don't imagine they'd get it out there as much as cd
baby.

Matt




On 4/12/07, Cypod <cypod25 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I noticed tunecore in the guitar center catalogue too. Digging into it,
> looks like it costs 99c per service listing and takes a few weeks to go
> live. All in all not a bad deal. i.e. small amount (my estimate ~$5) to get
> your songs in the standard places: itunes, emusic, napster, rhapsidy.
> Shouldn't be too hard to make the money back. The free options that I have
> found so far are myspace, and broadjam, but consumers may be less willing to
> try something new out, instead of a service that they are more comfortable
> with. Lots of sales opportunities, now to come up with some music worth
> selling  repeat customers.
>
> The day of selling a $15 album are over, now each track has to be good so
> that people will download the next. One bad one could make someone less
> likely to want to buy another. Also the first 10 to 30 seconds are now very
> import for getting those undecided downloaders.
>
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> On 4/12/07, amar at ptank.com <amar at ptank.com> wrote:
> >
> > I've been using CDBaby for digital distribution, and I've gotten more $$
> > from them for digital sales than CD sales...
> >
> >
> > > IODA, Seems great so far they do the bulk of the work and it gets
> > > everywhere, but I have not gotten any statements yet and it has been a
> > > few months.
> > >
> > > Damon
> > >
> > >
> > > On Apr 12, 2007, at 1:13 PM, Matthew Goodheart wrote:
> > >
> > >> I looked into that and IODA a while ago: I don't remember specifics,
> > >> but each had advantages depending on what you wanted/were. For example,
> > >> IODA is good if you're a label, but if you're just promoting you own
> > >> work, it didn't work for me so well. I went with CDBaby, which does
> > >> digital as well as physical distribution, and I like them very much. I
> > >> set up a couple albums for digital only distribution through them,
> > >> since they were physically available other places and I didn't want to
> > >> conflict with other physical distributors. And I've made .63¢ already!!
> > >>   I think Raskin uses CDBaby, too.
> > >>
> > >> Good luck
> > >> mg
> > >>
> > >> On Apr 12, 2007, at 12:48 PM, Tom Bickley wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> Hey Kids!
> > >>>
> > >>> Thanks to the latest Guitar Center catalog (which I read only until
> > >>> someone opens a nationwide chain of "Recorder Center"s and sends me
> > >>> their catalog including a fipple flute tuner and chord finder) has a
> > >>> page about TuneCore http://www.tunecore.com It has some interesting
> > >>> aspects, and some problematic ones (of course). Anyone have
> > >>> experience with it?
> > >>>
> > >>> Thanks! Pax, -Tom
> > >>
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