TuneCore is excited to announce that we’ve officially partnered with Internet Radio powerhouse Pandora! Pandora became a household name for music lovers in the United States, New Zealand and Australia as a revolutionary source for music discovery and carefully curated radio stations based on the artists its users love. Now, they’ve launched their brand new […]
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Streaming Is On The Rise Across All International Markets BROOKLYN, NEW YORK – December 13, 2016 – TuneCore, the leading digital music distribution and publishing administration service provider, caps off a strong year of sustained and international growth with the announcement today of TuneCore Italy – the service provider’s fourth launch in the European market […]
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[Editors Note: This blog was written by Rich Nardo. Rich is a freelance writer and editor, and is the co-founder of 24West a full-service creative agency focusing on music and tech.] I came of age in the world of independent music at a time when the key to launching a new band was a successful […]
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[Editors Note: This article was written by Anthony Cerullo and originally appeared on the Sonicbids Blog.] It’s a quiet Thursday night, and you’ve just gotten home from a long day of giving music lessons. Now that the distractions of the day have dissipated, it’s just you and your thoughts. Yes, those pesky thoughts that bounce off […]
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By James Murphy So as technology seems to be making more and more of an impact on the music industry everyday, more and more online opportunities are popping up for musicians everyday. Attempting to make it easier and easier for artists and independent musicians to do many things. The main one that springs to mind […]
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Written By James Murphy So the time has come. You’re ready to record, but how do you prepare for working in a professional studio environment, and also working with an audio engineer or producer, who’s essentially going to rip your performance apart and analyse it from every angle ready for recording. It’s such a big […]
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After years of legal disputes, German royalty collection society GEMA has finally reached a licensing agreement with YouTube. Through this agreement, songwriters and artists registered with GEMA are now able to get paid for the use of copyrighted works on the video platform. Back in 2009, a contract between the digital video giant and GEMA came to a […]
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From his 8 million streams on Spotify and an exploding social media presence, singer/songwriter and indie folk artist Ziggy Alberts has been on a roll. The Byron Bay-based musician has released two full lengths and dropped his latest EP, Four Feet in the Forest, in May of 2016. A shining example of a TuneCore Artist, Alberts […]
View PostBy Jacqueline Rosokoff The best part about distributing your music is seeing it go live in the digital stores, right? So there’s nothing worse than completing distribution, only to find that the stores didn’t accept your music because of some text formatting issues. To make this process go smoothly and avoid distribution hiccups, we’ve put […]
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Op-Ed piece by Kevin Cornell If your music is only available on SoundCloud, you should see iTunes, Spotify, and Deezer as parallel avenues of promotion for your latest projects. If you’ve distributed to these stores and haven’t uploaded to SoundCloud yet, now’s the time to jump on it. Think of it like you would think of your social media […]
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