We’re almost 10 years in the new millenium, look at the music industry and the Internet. It’s uprising digital distribution market is blooming like it has never before; thanks to new technologies with blazing speeds available to your fingertips. You’ve got to be honest, you have atleast copied one MP3 with this technology available at your desktop, didn’t you?

Freaking Wildchild releases will be available in 128kbit MP3 legal downloadable format under the CC+NC-SA and CC+BY-SA license. These shortened tracks with non-intrusive sound-mark will be available for non-commercial usage only! Some mixes will be released under similar formats.

By licensing the song/album you will get access to the full length songs and many extras. This way you’ll get something for your money while getting a free ride of exposure with the artist. Be sure to check out DrumPlugME & SoulXploder MX as downloadables!

Don’t be ashamed, Everyone did it !

Even if you did, don’t be ashamed! Because there are 1001 legal ways to copy MP3’s without hurting the artist one single bit! This because a lot of musicians have chosen to adapt to the new age and rage of on-line distribution. There are already dozens of providers available to distribute and market any type of music towards the wide wide world. Services ranging from simple promotion, music aggragation, physical distribution and more fully focussed towards getting your single or album sold to the common man; this often without signing exclusive deals.

Diverse services available to do your distribution!

Most of these companies will offer you their services against a percentage of your revenue or physical sales. Some will offer different quotes depending on the project. Be sure to checkout the contract before signing away your life towards exclusivity deals; since some could stop you from promoting or distributing your own music to others than their (partner). Digital retailers pay mostly per three months and some will require you to arrange extra paperwork with the IRS for your taxes. Some offer CD-on-demand like CDbaby and createspace.

Some of such services are indiestore.7digital.com, Amazon’s Createspace, Beatport, The Orchard, Snocap, CD Baby, AWAL, Pinnacle Digital, iTunes and many more to get your album around the planet.

This table contains just a sample of services available at time of writing with their comparative features:

Name	service	setup fee	ppr	comments
CDBaby	internet store & physical distribution	$35 for a 10 track CD	9% on-line 4$ per cd	CD’s are distributed to over 2,400 stores in the USA; they sell your physical cd’s
Amazon’s Createspace	Amazon store	free	4.95$ fixed/CDR 15%/per sale via eStore 45%/per sale via Amazon.com	CD’s are real-time produced by Amazon for physical orders; no setup fees and no minimums
7digital	store	pro = 80€	30%, 20% when pro	Free only enables 4 tracks to upload; pro offers 20 tracks + chart eligibility
Snocap	store with widget	free?	0.39$/download >30% retail price or $0.20/per track retails: >$0.10 or 15% of wholesale price	Aggregates directly with Myspace and loads of other web-widget based services
Consolidated Independent	Aggregration	through contact		Aggregates to hunderds of on-line brand-stores;including but not limited to Beatport, iTunes, Amazon, Fnac, Free Record Shop, Virgin, Sony, …
iTunes	download shop	through aggregator only		iPhone, iMac and Apple’s shop no.1
Tunecore	Aggregration	$9.99/yr for a track, $19.98 for an album; $0.99 additionally per aggregated shop		Aggregates towards a handful of on-line stores
Beatport	store	Can be aggregated to through Consolidated Independent and others…
Snocap	store with widget	free?	0.39$/download >30% retail price or $0.20/per track retails: >$0.10 or 15% of wholesale price	Aggregates directly with Myspace and loads of other web-widget based services
INgrooves	Aggregration	through contact		Digital distribution with marketing and licensing services.
AWAL	Aggregration	15% of the sales		iTunes promotion and aggregation to various digital retailers
The Orchard	Aggregration via Internet & Physical distribution	Digital media and brand services

The indie music industry is blooming!

This proves the music market is blooming, full of indie artists waiting to get their work and voice heard! And most important, We, the common people are those who will need this cultural event; not block it.

That’s exactly the reason why Freaking Wildchild releases will be available in 128kbit MP3 legal downloadable format under the CC+BY-SA license. These shortened tracks with non-intrusive sound-mark will be available for non-commercial usage only! By licensing the song/album you will get access to the full length songs and many extras. The physical box has a CD or DVD for Special Editions; all containing a full-colored cd & artwork!

When will the music industry follow?

Now, I’ll hope the music industry will embrace such distribution through the Internet, creating the ability for (new) artists to bloom out their carriere towards the wide wide world because exclusive licensing deals are still forced upon many artists within countries by government supported organizations, created for the common artist, while not accepting the new digital era as a solution for many artists around the block.

Tuning out,

Freaking Wildchild !

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