New York, NY. (Top 40 Charts/ Shore Fire Media) - TuneCore.com - the revolutionary digital distribution company - is taking the headache out of being a musician by offering a numbers of products and services at below market prices. TuneCore has partnered with organizations like Guitar Center, IndieClick, JakPrints, JP Mastering, Berklee College of
Music and Billboard Magazine, thereby becoming a central control center for any working musician, large or small. TuneCore customers can use their balances (money generated from the sale of their music), via a one-click transfer to PayPal, to acquire the other services and products they want:
* Online ad placement via IndieClick.com on influential blogs in genre packages including alt/indie, punk/emo, and urban/hiphop. These packages include a guaranteed number of web impressions from 62,500 to 1/3 of a million.
* Song-by-song mastering from JP Mastering done online.
* 500 7" vinyl records (33 1/3 or 45rpm) from United Pressing Plant - either black or mixed color.
* 500 or 1000 CDs with full art and shrink-wrap.
* 3% back from TuneCore.com with purchase of anything from GuitarCenter.com.
* 1000 vinyl stickers in various shapes and sizes.
* 1000 11" x 17" posters.
* Billboard Musician's Guide as an eBook or hard copy book. The manual includes an A&R directory, touring services, managers, media outlets, and city-by-city listing of clubs, radio, radio stations, and local press.
* 1000 band t-shirts from Fruit-of-the-Loom, Gildan, Hanes or American Apparel.
* A free Music Marketing Lesson from Berklee College of Music via Berklee professor Mike King.
TuneCore.com has changed the 100-year-old rules and model of the music business. It is a low, flat fee service that delivers anyone's music to iTunes, eMusic, Amazonmp3 and many other major download sites while taking no rights and no revenue from the sale of the music. Artists are building careers, selling significant volumes of music and generating revenue while keeping their rights utilizing the new model created by TuneCore. TuneCore has delivered the music of Keith Richards, Bjork, Jay-Z, Public Enemy and thousands of others to the digital download stores.
