Online Music Distribution

 

 

One option to sell your music via a online shop. This is an increasingly popular option as it plays on one of the most popular methods of music consumption: downloading. Many record labels have come to accept that downloading will be around for the foreseeable future, so have offered their music for digital download but on their terms.

Anyone can sell their music online, that's the beauty of it. It don't need your own website (Although many artists do choose to use their own site to sell their music), there are many existing site which you can sell your music through.

When looking for a place to sell your music online you should always look around. They all offer different deals and returns, so always look at their terms and conditions. Some offer as much as 70% of the profit back to you (Considering it doesn't cost you anything to put your music on the site in the first place it's all profit). Others offer you a less percentage but may be favourable for another reason (E.G. It may be a more well known site with already loyal customers which may buy your product).

Now it may seem like the best option is to get your music on all sites to reach as many people as possible, but this isn't the case. Many sites have a minimum payment threshold, which means they won't pay you till you have made a certain amount of money. Let's imagine for example the minimum payment threshold was £100 for each of 10 different sites. If you used one of those sites to sell your music and you made £100 you would get paid. Now let's say you used all 10 websites to sell your music and you made £100 across all the sites, you wouldn't have made enough money to withdraw until you made another £90 for each site. This of course isn't ideal as you'd want to withdraw your money as soon as possible.