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A few days overdue, but nonetheless finally ready for prime time! We’ve been putting together something quite special at Revolver Towers for a while now, and we can finally unveil what we’ve been so excited about: our artists’ music can now be sold in more than 300 of the most prominent download stores worldwide.
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On Monday the 6th of June, Apple’s keynote at their World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC 2011) had many positive things to announce: OSX Lion, with its $24.99 price tag, vast array of new and improved features and cloud download to Macs (ala Steam); iOS version 5 for mobile devices, and their revamped mobileMe cloud service – dubbed iCloud – to complement them all.
Of all the features introduced, most are unremarkable or arguably not very innovative. If anything, they are just an amalgamation of features previously available elsewhere, except now in an Apple-mandated, fully synchronised, pain-free fashion. All you need to enjoy? An Apple device.
However, the real announcement (the one occupying most of the acres of print and online coverage, and the one also keeping the independent music sector on tenterhooks) has been Apple’s music service. Precious little was revealed prior to the WWDC keynote (in typical Apple fashion), but the real kicker from Steve Jobs came with the traditional ‘One More Thing’ announcement… iTunes Match. Click to read the full rundown from the event and understand why Apple’s new cloud-based music subscription service might not be without its problems.
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A few days overdue, but nonetheless finally ready for prime time! We’ve been putting together something quite special at Revolver Towers for a while now, and we can finally unveil what we’ve been so excited about: our artists’ music can now be sold in more than 300 of the most prominent download stores worldwide.
TuneCore runs a well-written blog on which they recently published an article about the myriad of complexities – licensing, copyrights, mechanicals, effective distribution of earnings – facing music stores (and artists) in the digital era. If you’re not familiar with just how complex the situation is today, it’s well worth a read.
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A few days overdue, but nonetheless finally ready for prime time! We’ve been putting together something quite special at Revolver Towers for a while now, and we can finally unveil what we’ve been so excited about: our artists’ music can now be sold in more than 300 of the most prominent download stores worldwide.
Ah, Spotify. The company that first irked, then courted the major labels. Since 2008, it’s gone through some fairly seismic changes — leading the way with premium tiers and gradually eliminating the free-for-all ‘freemium’ tier which resulted in almost every man and his dog having a Spotify account.
However, as royalty payments have increased, Daniel Ek’s company has been forced to reduce the amount of money it allows to leave its coffers, a sure sign that the intrusive interstitial advertising hasn’t proved as effective as they’d liked…
TuneCore runs a well-written blog on which they recently published an article about the myriad of complexities – licensing, copyrights, mechanicals, effective distribution of earnings – facing music stores (and artists) in the digital era. If you’re not familiar with just how complex the situation is today, it’s well worth a read.
