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Distribution
By distribution we mean websites that allow you to sell your music. One website, MusicFreedom.com, is also listed in the Music Site section since it's function overlaps the two categories.
1) CD Baby
Cost $35 US to sign-up, $4 US per CD sold. It is a bit expensive BUT you don't have to worry about shipping, packaging, and all the other headaches if you were to do it
yourself. Also, all sales are reportable to SoundScan meaning that if your CD does phenomenally well it could chart.
The coolest part of the deal, once your CD is setup you can opt into their digital distribution service for no further cost. They distribute your CD into a plethora of online music sites including the defacto industry standard - Apple's ITunes. CD Baby then takes 9% of earnings sold through these avenues. So if Apple pays you $0.63 per song sold, CD Baby would take $0.057 and you'd earn $0.573. Not bad especially given the headache it would take to get your music listed on 48 (and counting) different music sites. I figure the more places your music is available, the better your exposure, and the more chance you have of making a sale. The best radio promo in the world will amount to nothing if people don't know where to buy your music. The only catch to all of this is that you MUST have a finished CD to sign up. That said, the CD could be a CD ROM.
2) Music Freedom
Sell your mp3's, you earn 50% of the profit from the sale. I'm now less pumped about this site. Why? It is struggling in terms of an active viewership that exists
beyond the artists themselves. The earnings you make per song sale (approximately $0.45 per song) is much less than what you would earn from a sale through ITunes even AFTER
CD Baby takes it's cut. Finally, the site has become a popularity contest. The musicians that do well on the charts are the ones that post in the forums a lot,
post insincere comments on other artists bios (hey - your music is awesome) so that they get comments/ratings/song plays in return. Long story short, the charts, in my humble opinion, do not
reflect artistic merit but 'marketing spam' tactics by the artists of musicfreedom. Go and check the charts out yourself and see if you agree or disagree...maybe I'm just cynical.