Add your music to the iTunes music store

[BevvyB]

To have your music added to the iTunes Music Store, contact Apple via email at: indies@apple.com

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93191

[smoothmoniker]

I'll be interested to see if they really respond to indies. Could be a huge missing link in the commercial emergence of indie labels. In-site shopping charts that link to Itunes? how hip would that be?

-sm

[BevvyB]

Apple is in the process of launching new applications and marketing tools for its iTunes Music Store that aim to make it easier for record labels and artists to sell and promote music on the service. According to Billboard Bulletin (paid subscription required), Apple is preparing an application called iTunes Producer, which will help labels submit content for inclusion in the store. The free software, expected to be released on October 31 in a beta version, allows users to encode their music (enter album, song and artwork information) and send the files directly to Apple. Billboard also says that Apple has brokered an arrangement with Google in which the search engine is offering a reduced advertising rate to labels that promote iTunes. And, as previously reported, Apple has posted the iTunes Link Maker, which allows Web site operators to generate direct links to the iTunes store

[tom_c]

Originally posted by BevvyB
Pick any number between 1 and 100. Ok, now add 28. Now, multiply by 6, subtract 3, divide by 3, take away the number you first thought of plus 3 and add 8. Now, take away the number you first thought of and subtract 1. Now multiply by 7. Your answer was 426.

Close! Good afternoon wake up though, doing that in your head...

The iTunes thing would be great.

have fun everyone, :-)
Tom

[cebolao]

why only usa?

[smoothmoniker]

I'm guessing 2 reasons:

1. Credit card fraud. There is still a much higher incidence of fraudulent charges from international accounts than from domestic.

2. Most contracts (publishing, distribution, artist) have specific clauses for international distribution that are different than for domestic distribution. They are probably still trying to parse those contracts in the context of online distribution.

For example, as a producer, I get 1/2 my normal royalty rate for units sold outside the US, due to the cost of international shipping, marketting, etc. With iTunes, none of that exists. Should I still take a 50% pay cut because someone's IP originated in Belgium instead of Arizona?

-sm