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FREE DIGITAL DISTRIBUTIONS WITH eMusic
eMusic is one of the distributors our clients enjoy having their music submitted to by us.See the list of our digital distributors
eMusic
How does eMusic sell my music?
eMusic is a service that lets people download music (no streaming is offered) on a pre-buy model. eMusic’s customers sign up at one of three different pre-buy rates which sets how many songs they can download each month. eMusic currently offers:
- eMusic Free Trial Period: 25 free downloads
- eMusic Basic: 30 songs per month for $9.99, which comes to $0.33 a song
- eMusic Plus: 50 songs per month for $14.99, which comes to $0.30 a song
- eMusic Premium: 75 songs per month for $19.99, which comes to $0.27 a song
IMPORTANT: Anyone can sign up for eMusic and get 25 free downloads. If a customer downloads your music as one or more of these 25 free downloads, you will not get any payment for them–it’s considered promotional. This is an eMusic policy. If you do not like the idea of people downloading your music for free, please do not choose eMusic as one of your digital distribution stores.
Once an eMusic customer signs up and passes the free trial period, they have one month to download any 30, 50 or 75 songs they want. At the end of the month, any songs not downloaded expire. For Example, if, by the last day of their month, an eMusic Basic customer downloaded only 23 of their 30 pre-bought songs, the eight "leftovers" expire and the customer has to buy another 30 (or more) songs in order to download more music.
For a complete description of the eMusic service, we suggest you read the eMusic FAQ.
IMPORTANT: eMusic now distributes in the United States, the United Kingdom and Europe, but may add more countries at any time. For the moment, you MUST have worldwide rights to your music before you select to have it available in eMusic. In the near future, TuneCore will offer you the ability to control what parts of the world you make your music available in.
What do I get paid when songs or albums sell from eMusic?
eMusic works on a Subscription Pay Rate Permanent Download model, so the Pay Rate varies depending on how much money eMusic made in pre-sales each pay period. eMusic calculates how many songs were downloaded and how much money was made in the same three month period. This rate changes from month to month based on how many songs are downloaded and if customers that pre-paid for their songs downloaded everything they pre-bought.
To get the per-song Pay Rate, eMusic divides the amount of money made by the number of songs downloaded. This sets the Pay Rate for each song downloaded. From this Pay Rate, eMusic then deducts out Allowed Expenses (these are not negotiable and are the same Allowed Expenses deducted from all other labels and artists working with eMusic). Of what remains, you get 60%, and that sum is delivered to you by TuneCore. As always, TuneCore takes nothing, passing all of your money on to you.
For Example: Say, in the months of January, February, March there were a total of 1,000,000 songs downloaded from eMusic by all customers downloading all songs. Imagine in those same months eMusic took in $250,000 in digital download pre-pay revenue. That makes each individual download worth $0.25.
From this $0.25, eMusic then deducts expenses (credit card processing fees, bandwidth, other expenses). For this example, let’s say the expenses come to $0.05 per song. This is subtracted from the $0.25 per song, leaving $0.20.
From this remaining $0.20, 60% goes to you. So in this example, you would make $0.12 per song bought: $0.12 is the Subscription Permanent Download Pay Rate for this store in this period. If you had forty downloads from eMusic in this period, you’d make 40 x $0.12 = $4.80 (U.S.), and as always, TuneCore takes nothing, 100% of that money goes to you.
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