Hi All,

I thought this was sort of interesting, Google Music launched today
and they allow direct signup by artists:

http://music.google.com/artists/

Artists get to name their own prices and setup their own pages.  It's
pretty much the same fees structure as it is for selling apps on the
Android Marketplace, $25 to sign up (one time fee), and 30% of sales
goes to Google.

Anyone have thoughts about fees compared to other services?

Thanks!
steven


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Yes, this is definitely interesting. And the deal seem to be ok.
I guess it will be worth something to be available in the Google shop,
but marketing is of course DIY as long as the artist is not signed to
a record label..
As long as it's not an exclusive deal it should be worth the $25.

One of my master students, Ingebjorg Hagerup, recently did a thesis on
digital distribution.
Even if most of this material is in Norwegian, you might be able to
get something out of the table of distributiors she looked at:
http://urort.nrkp3.no/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/20111102-digital-distribusjon.pdf
Radio documentary available here (also in Norwegian, it's about time
you learn this very useful language...)
http://nl.nrk.no/podkast/aps/8442/nrk_uroert_2011-1103-1236_6345587766.mp3
And her music used to test distribution channels:
http://www.nrk.no/urort/Artist/Ingibjyrg/default.aspx

best
Oeyvind

2011/11/17 John Colgrove :
> The real question for me would be, how does the marketing work? How would
> the artist be able to compete with already established artists? I know
> nothing about services like google music. I'm curious to know what other
> alternatives would be.
>
> ________________________________
> From: Steven Yi 
> To: Csound ; blue users mailing list
> 
> Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2011 6:58 PM
> Subject: [Csnd] Google Music - Artists
>
> Hi All,
>
> I thought this was sort of interesting, Google Music launched today
> and they allow direct signup by artists:
>
> http://music.google.com/artists/
>
> Artists get to name their own prices and setup their own pages.  It's
> pretty much the same fees structure as it is for selling apps on the
> Android Marketplace, $25 to sign up (one time fee), and 30% of sales
> goes to Google.
>
> Anyone have thoughts about fees compared to other services?
>
> Thanks!
> steven
>
>
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Professor of Music Technology
NTNU
7491 Trondheim
Norway


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The Google service is only available to US citizens. Do you know if the 
bandcamp scheme is more international?

Richard Dobson

On 17/11/2011 09:10, Claus Sohn Andersen wrote:
> Knowing Google, I'm guessing this will be very user friendly, and
> combined with the moderate pricing and fairly high share for the artist,
> I think it's definately worth a second look.
>
> Though it may not be a comparable service, I'm a big fan of bandcamp.com
> . For those that arent familiar with it; it's
> basically a hosting service for artists and/or labels, where you get
> your own page, much like myspace, but way better. You can name your own
> price (or let people download your music for free), create whole
> album-downloads (with hidden bonus material), incorporate sale of
> physical copies, embed the player and store functionalities to your own
> website, they have a facebook app that's very easy to use, and best of
> all; there's no sign-up fee, and they only take a 15 % share of your
> revenue. Also, compared to myspace and other similar service, the sound
> quality and site stability is far superior. As far as I know, myspace
> streams at 64 kbps, bandcamp uses 128kbps. Downloaders can choose
> between 320kpbs mp3, flac, wav, Apple lossless and other high quality
> formats.
>


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Yes, as far as I know, there's no restrictions on nationality on bandcamp. I'm based in Norway...

Den 17. nov. 2011 kl. 10.28 skrev Richard Dobson:

> The Google service is only available to US citizens. Do you know if the bandcamp scheme is more international?
> 
> Richard Dobson
> 
> On 17/11/2011 09:10, Claus Sohn Andersen wrote:
>> Knowing Google, I'm guessing this will be very user friendly, and
>> combined with the moderate pricing and fairly high share for the artist,
>> I think it's definately worth a second look.
>> 
>> Though it may not be a comparable service, I'm a big fan of bandcamp.com
>> . For those that arent familiar with it; it's
>> basically a hosting service for artists and/or labels, where you get
>> your own page, much like myspace, but way better. You can name your own
>> price (or let people download your music for free), create whole
>> album-downloads (with hidden bonus material), incorporate sale of
>> physical copies, embed the player and store functionalities to your own
>> website, they have a facebook app that's very easy to use, and best of
>> all; there's no sign-up fee, and they only take a 15 % share of your
>> revenue. Also, compared to myspace and other similar service, the sound
>> quality and site stability is far superior. As far as I know, myspace
>> streams at 64 kbps, bandcamp uses 128kbps. Downloaders can choose
>> between 320kpbs mp3, flac, wav, Apple lossless and other high quality
>> formats.
>> 
> 
> 
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