Read more about the article Best Music Distributors – Top 10

Best Music Distributors – Top 10

In this article, we discuss the best music distributors for electronic music. What Is Music Distribution? The term "distribution" refers to the process of getting your albums into stores. You only make money on what you sell with a distribution deal, and your label is in charge of production and promotion. You get to keep everything if you make a lot of money. However, if you lose a lot of money on the record, you are solely responsible for the losses. This entails collecting music from the artist and delivering it to the customer. This can be accomplished physically, digitally, or through a combination of the two. The distribution of CDs, vinyl records, and cassette tapes is referred to as physical music distribution. CD Baby CD Baby, Inc. is an online distributor of independent music. As of March 2022, CD Baby is still offering distribution services to artists, despite closing its music store in March 2020 with the statement, "CD Baby retired the music store in March of 2020 in order to place its focus entirely on the tools and services that are most meaningful to musicians today and tomorrow." As of May 2019, more than 650,000 artists and nine million tracks were available through more than 100 digital services and platforms worldwide, making CD Baby the only digital aggregator to hold top preferred partner status with both Spotify and Apple Music. Official Website: CD Baby TuneCore Founded in 2005, TuneCore is an online service for publishing, distributing, and licensing digital music. The possibility to sell and stream music through online stores like iTunes, Deezer, Spotify, Amazon Music,…

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Music Licensing and Distribution

In this article, we will discuss the difference between music licensing and distribution. W What Is Licencing? hat Is Licensing? When another company, usually a record label or a distributor, buys the rights to an album from you, this is known as licensing. They pay you a certain amount and then assume responsibility for functioning as the album's label in the territory for which they licensed the album. Let's imagine you're a record label situated in the United Kingdom with an album that you'd like to release in France. The album is then licensed to a French label. They now have the right to market the album in France through their label. They are in charge of the album's production, promotion, and distribution in their own nation. If they make a lot of money selling it, they keep all of the profits; you don't make any money beyond your licensing cost. If they lose money on the record, that's their loss as well; regardless of the CD's performance or sales, you keep your licensing fee. What Is Distribution? The term "distribution" refers to the process of getting your albums into stores. You only make money on what you sell with a distribution deal, and your label is in charge of production and promotion. You get to keep everything if you make a lot of money. However, if you lose a lot of money on the record, you are solely responsible for the losses. This entails collecting music from the artist and delivering it to the customer. This can be accomplished physically, digitally, or through a combination of…