AWAL

The function of AWAL is logical and simple. Large record companies have direct deals with iTunes and other digital stores, however these stores cannot deal directly with the hundreds of thousands of small labels and independent artists who want to sell their music online. Consequently AWAL acts as a conduit, uploading and encoding the music into the stores then accounting to and paying its clients.

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TUNECORE

If you make music and you have mp3 files that you wish you could distribute via the big digital distributing channels, I am happy to tell you not to wish anymore, because you can! And you want to hear another good thing? They will not ask you for anything. No charge, no rights, no copyrights and no masters... Everything that is sold will get back to you. Interested? Click on the link below.

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CD BABY

A solution for independent or unsigned bands to distribute their music. The principle is simple: preview any track, or all of them, of an album, if you like it you can either decide to buy the CD (physical copy), download the whole album in mp3 files, or select which track you want to buy. Anyone can put their music on this distribution channel. CD Baby will take a part of the sale, the rest will go directly to the artist. Every CD will cost you a $35 fee though. But it has never been so easy to distribute music!

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DROPLIFTING

Droplifting is a method of distribution that is interesting for new artists who don't want to wait until they have a record contract or a distribution deal.

It basically means that you go into a large cd retail store and put your own cd's in the racks. Then you wait until someone discovers it and tries to buy it, from then it's not sure what is going to happen...

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