TuneCore, the music industry model-changing delivery and distribution service, announces today an exclusive promotional partnership with Guitar Center
where, from July 23rd through August 31st, 2007, any customer gets worldwide distribution of their album to iTunes (or any one store they choose) for free with the purchase of Digidesign's 003 Factory, 003 Rack Factory, or 003 Rack.
"For the first time in the history of the music industry," says founder and TuneCore CEO Jeff Price says, "an artist can walk into a retail store with a dream and walk out with not only what they need to create and record but also with worldwide distribution of their music. The barriers and filters have been removed. I can't help but think how unbelievably cool that is. Go back just five years and who would have thought you could walk into a store as an artist and walk out as your own record label?"
The Digidesign 003 family of products lets anyone attain the same high audio production quality as commercial facilities in their own personal or project studio. With an extensive range of audio and MIDI I/O, high-definition audio resolution, industry-standard Pro Tools software, FireWire connectivity, and an unprecedented bundle of powerful software, the 003 family provides everything a musician needs to compose, perform, record, sequence, edit, mix, master, and promote their creations.
Customers who purchase the 003 Factory 003 Rack Factory or 003 Rack, simply follow the redemption instuctions and receive a code that will make any album (up to 5 songs free to any one store of their choice. As always, albums include free UPCs and barcodes and all the additionalbenefits of TuneCore.
"Guitar Center gets vital tools into the hands of musicians," says Guitar Center Vice President of Strategic Business Development Alan Cohen, "and both Pro Tools and TuneCore play a key role in the success of the finished track. Our objective in working with TuneCore is to seamlessly facilitate an artists next step: to distribute a song or album to the most popular digital music stores and through the sale of their music become a professional artist. The continuous and comprehensive approach is the future of music production. Guitar Center is not just providing instruments and gear, but solutions for all stages of the creative and business process."
Complete details about the promotion can be found
here.
About TuneCore: TuneCore.com, the fastest, easiest and cheapest way to get on iTunes and more, has changed the 100-year-old rules and model of the music business. It is a low, flat fee service that delivers music to iTunes, eMusic, Rhapsody and many other major download sites while taking no rights and no revenue from the sale of the music. TuneCore's fees are simply based upon the number songs delivered and the number of digital retailers it will be delivered to. With Nielsen SoundScan already reporting almost 200 million digital units sold this year (and those are just the ones they are counting), it is no wonder that artists are building careers, selling significant volumes of music and generating more revenue than most "signed" artists while keeping their rights utilizing the new model created by TuneCore.
