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Sony Connect

How does Sony Connect sell my music?

IMPORTANT: Sony Connect announced that they will be closing their digital music store at a yet to be determined date in 2008 and that as of September 1, 2007 they will no longer be taking submissions. Sony will continue to produce royalty reports and pay the regular, agreed-upon pay rate (see below) for all sales, past, present and future.

Sony Connect is a service offered by Sony that lets people download and listen to your music as permanent digital downloads (no streaming is offered) that the customer owns and uses in the Fixed Pay Rate Permanent Digital Download model. Customers can purchase songs individually for a per-song price, or customers can buy albums whole, getting every song on that album for one set price. However, this isn’t always the case. See below for EXCEPTIONS.

Most often, Sony Connect sells individual songs at $0.99 each. Most often, albums are sold for either the sum of all the songs on the album (for albums with ten or less songs), or for a single set price of $9.99 for albums over ten songs. See below for EXCEPTIONS.

For example, if your album has five songs, a Sony Connect customer can either buy the songs individually for $0.99 or the whole album for 5 x $0.99 = $4.95. If you had another album with 12 songs, a Sony Connect customer can either buy the songs individually for $0.99 or the whole album for $9.99.

EXCEPTIONS: Sony Connect (and all other digital retailers, for that matter) reserves the right to sell music any way they want and at any price they want. When your songs or albums sell, you will always receive the required amount, but Sony Connect can sell your music for a penny, a million dollars or anything in between. Sony Connect reserves the right to make a song “purchasable only with the album.” That is, no button would be placed next to the song itself, no option to download it on its own would be available to the customer, solely at their own discretion. Sometimes they do it to long songs (presumably because a 73-minute song would be too much of a bargain for just $0.99, since that’s a whole album’s worth of music on a single song). Sometimes they do it to very short songs (presumably because $0.99 is too much for a 10-second song). Sometimes they simply adjust the price. However they decide, TuneC has no say in the matter, and neither do our patrons. Regardless, once a song or an album sells, you will be paid the required amount the moment they send the money. There is no withholding of any sort, not from Sony Connect, not from TuneC.

Remember, only albums can be set to sell in stores/services, not individual songs. All songs are grouped into albums, and however the album is set to sell, so will all the songs on that album.

What do I get paid when my songs or albums sell from Sony Connect?

When an individual song or album sells from Sony Connect, you get a fixed “pay rate,” the same pay rate for all independent record labels. (Click for more information about the Fixed Pay Rate Permanent Download model). Remember, only Sony Connect can set the sale price, but no matter what they sell that song or album for, you always get the current pay rate. Even if they want to have a discount, say, offering its customers your songs for a penny each, you still get the full pay rate every time one of your songs or albums sell.

HOW MUCH IS THE PAY RATE?

TuneC takes none of the money from the sale of your music. You get it all. For Sony Connect, you receive $0.70 per song sold individually.

Albums are sold in two possible ways:

• Albums under 11 songs are priced by the song. To calculate how much you would receive from the sale of an album with less than 11 songs, multiply the number of songs by $0.70.
• For albums with 11 songs or more sold in their entirety, you receive $7.00. <