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Instrumentalists - selling from download sites?

Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 6:06 am
by andrew206
Hey - are there any instrumental composers selling any of your work from download sites? Tunecore.com is making a big pitch through music stores to have people sign up with them; they then place your music in multiple download stores. Has anyone had success or experience selling downloads? Any opinions on Tunecore or on any particular stores or sites?Thanks a bunch - Andrew

Re: Instrumentalists - selling from download sites

Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 1:00 pm
by mer
I sell through CDBaby, who also do digital sales at iTunes and many more. You can compare the prices and see which method would be more beneficial. But I trust CDBaby quite alot, and also have my website hosting with them (HostBaby.com). And yes I have only instrumentals... Looking at Tunecore it looks like the number of digital sales would need to be higher in order to overcome the ongoing $19.98 per year "storage" fee. Frankly I don't sell all that much, but I do sell more digital than actual CDs, so CDBaby works well for me...--Mer

Re: Instrumentalists - selling from download sites

Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 5:55 am
by andrew206
Thanks very much, Mer. Lotta good info there. I'm going to dig into CDBaby and may have more questions for you in the future. Good luck to you and thanx again- Andrew