In addition to its distribution services, the platform offers publishing and licensing deals. TuneCore is one of the top 3 digital distributors and was founded in 2005 in Brooklyn, New York, by former indie label executive Jeff Price. The two companies’ services intersect notably via their SIGNED BY program, which has enabled more than 300 artists to be signed to Believe after being spotted on TuneCore. TuneCore has been owned by French company Believe Digital since 2015. In addition to its primary service, the platform has been offering online publishing and synchronization contracts since 2011, to help the rights owners of broadcast tracks receive royalties from their distribution by third parties, particularly in the audiovisual sector (television, video games, commercials, etc.). They were seduced by Jeff Price’s founding idea of changing the way royalties were split between artists and record companies so that artists received a higher proportion than before). TuneCore is perceived as an intermediary that opened up digital distribution by making it accessible to all, but also less expensive for the big artists: its first customer was the singer from the Pixies, then other big names like Mick Jagger and Drake started to use it. By way of a reflection of its meteoric rise: 10% of the tracks distributed on iTunes in 2012 in the US were distributed by TuneCore. His goal is to allow artists to “do it all themselves” – ie, without the producers – and distribute their music mainly on streaming platforms. The company was founded in 2005 in Brooklyn, New York, by American and former independent-label manager Jeff Price. We tell you about its birth, its modus operandi and the cost of its services. Second in a series highlighting digital distribution services, this article focuses on TuneCore, a distributor dedicated to self-produced artists, which is one of the biggest intermediaries in the market, along with DistroKid and CD Baby.

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