Publish your songs on iTunes with a click of a mouse.

I had a great chat with Jeff Price, the CEO of Tunecore. It was out of desperation for a client that drove me to find Jeff and the ultimate music distribution solution. To me it was absolute insanity to charge music artists a percentage of their royalties just for distributing their content.

It seemed the market has not caught up with reality. Distributing the content should be a low fixed fee per song for storage and distribution to the online stores. Marketing and selling an artist’s songs should be a separate fee as a percentage of sales.

Jeff, a record producer of 20+ years also saw the label/artist fee relationship had not evolved as quickly as the digital delivery model had. In short, fees were too high for the new reality in the music industry. Over 400,000 songs delivered for Tunecore clients to date, I see a very bright future for this clean digital music franchise.

How does it work?

TuneCore has arrangements with leading digital music retailers that let us place your music in their online stores and subscription services. You get 100% of the money that your music earns from digital distribution and you keep 100% of the rights to your music.

What’s it cost?

TuneCore charges $0.99 per track, $0.99 per store per album, and $19.98 per album per year storage and maintenance. If you want demographic sales reports, it’s a couple bucks extra. That is it. No hidden fees and no hooks. I love this concept and will actually be using the service myself for a project we are doing. Please check out www.tunecore.com and listen to the audio interview.

16 minute audio (Yes It is that good!)