“A welcome help and support to the free thinking independent artists in the industry.” - Ziggy Marley
"With TuneCore, there's no need for record companies anymore. Where the hell were you 20 years ago?" - Ken Goes, Manager of The Pixies
Artist and bands are achieving significant and promotional success under a new paradigm-shifting model created by TuneCore.
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Liam Sullivan – With no label, Liam used TuneCore to get his music into iTunes and sold over 120,000 copies of his songs in less than 86 weeks. He received 100% of the revenue. Liam is a comic actor who writes, produces, directs, edits and stars in his own short films. One of his most popular characters is Kelly, whose “Shoes” video went viral on YouTube and has garnered over 20,000,000 views. Though a popular success on YouTube and MySpace, Sullivan didn’t see a financial return on his work until he used TuneCore to get Kelly’s music onto iTunes. He is now managed by Bill Silva Management and represented by the William Morris agency, is touring on the college circuits, and is in talks with several record labels and TV networks.
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Secondhand Serenade – John Veselly is Secondhand Serenade. John used TuneCore to get his music into iTunes and other digital stores and sold over 200,000 songs in four month. He received 100% of the revenue. At the time, Secondhand Serenade was an unsigned artist with no record label, no press agent, and no radio play. The band used MySpace and MP3 blogs to drive sales. John was subsequently offered multiple record label deals and was able to craft a unique deal on his terms signing to Glassnote Records. Secondhand Serenade, an unsigned artist, No record label, no press agent, no radio play, used TuneCore and sold over 200,000 songs in three months. He received 100% of the revenue. MySpace and MP3 blogs drove the sales. He was offered multiple record label deals – waited and was able to craft a unique deal on his terms signing to Glass Note Records.
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Jeffree Star – Jeffree is a dance music artist. He used TuneCore to deliver a 4 song EP to iTunes. 5 days before he announced its availability, and with no label, no publicist, no tour dates, no radio it went to #1 on the iTunes dance chart and into the iTunes Top 40 most sold albums. He received 100% of the revenue. He is now on the True Colors tour with Cyndi Lauper, Erasure, Dresden Dolls, Debbie Harry and more. He also has a reality show and Makeup Line in the works and is a celebrity Makeup Expert for Life and Style Magazine.
http://www.myspace.com/jeffreestar*
Catherine Feeny, signed to Tallgrass, a small independent London label. She used TuneCore to get her music delivered into iTunes globally and went on to sell over 17,000 songs in three months. She received 100% of the revenue. Via TuneCore, this English based artist sold a significant volume of music in the US. Catherine has gone on to tour with Martha Wainwright, Kelly Jones, Tim Finn, Suzanne Vega, John Prine, Dr John, Ben Taylor, Indigo Girls; Hal and Aberfeldy. Catherine's song 'Mr Blue' is featured in 'Running with Scissors' and an episode of the OC.
http://www.catherinefeeny.com/* In late April of 2006, New York singer songwriter
Jaymay used TuneCore to upload her homemade 5 song EP 'Sea Green, See Blue' to iTunes. Soon thereafter, her EP attained the #1 slot in the iTunes Folk section for both song and album and cracked iTunes’ Top 100 Albums overall- Jaymay has since sold nearly 20,000 songs around the world. Positively impacted by her TuneCore sales, Jaymay’s ability to reach an international audience as an independent artist provided leverage in negotiations when approached by multiple independent and major labels. Jaymay has recently signed with EMI/Heavenly Records in the UK who will release her forthcoming album and additional EP’s worldwide.
http://jaymaymusic.com/ 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.
Unknown artists are launching their careers before they have managers, publicist or record labels and gaining global fame as well as more revenue than they could via the old music industry model.
In addition to unknown artists, known and established artists are also utilizing and embracing the new model created by TuneCore.
Guns ‘n Roses founder and guitarist Izzy Stradlin, with no label, sold his solo albums to Guns ‘n Roses fans across the world from his own home
Ricky Skaggs and Ziggy Marley, with no label, made their music available globally via TuneCore and won GRAMMYS in 2006 for the Best Blue Grass and Best Reggae album of the year
And all of this success while retaining all their rights, getting all of their money in a non-exclusive agreement that can be cancelled at anytime and without signing over rights to their masters.
“With G ’n R I would be onstage in front of 20,000 or 30,000 people playing our songs, but at the same time I would have this piece of work that I’m just dying to get out. This is a way for me to get the music out there — there are zero people between me, my music and the fans”
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Izzy Stradlin [Read the full story
here.]
“With the help of TuneCore my new album ‘Love Everlasting’ is currently number one in my state. TuneCore’s services are unsurpassed I plan to continue working with you guys for a very long time. I thanked you in the album credits so I guess now you will have to buy it to see.”
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Jennifer Deejay “TuneCore has been a blessing the music business has been yearning for. We have several artists in their user friendly system and wouldn't even think of looking for an alternative.” -
Jonathan Klear, Milspro Management, Josh Kelley
