By the end of 2007, TuneCore customers will have made over four million dollars from the sale of their music, revenue that would not have existed without the innovative company. TuneCore allows anyone with internet access to release his music worldwide via the iTunes Store, Amazonmp3, eMusic, Rhapsody, Napster and other digital download stores. TuneCore's customers range from bedroom enthusiasts to genre-defining platinum stars and Rock and Roll Hall of Famers; in recent months, Jay-Z, Public Enemy, Queens of the Stone Age and Keith Richards have all used the service.
On December 11, TuneCore delivered Keith Richards' "Run Rudolph Run" to the iTunes store. The single was originally releases in 1978 and is backed with "Pressure Drop" by Keith Richards and Toots & The Maytals. It is available here:
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=268841384&s=1
43441TuneCore.com, the new music delivery and distribution service has changed the 100-year-old rules and model of the music business. It is a low, flat fee service that delivers anyone's 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.
