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GroupieTunes

How does GroupieTunes sell my music?

There are three ways GroupieTunes can sell your music:

• Ringtones: Your fans visit the GroupieTunes site and purchase a 30 second portion (or less) of your music to hear over their phone when it rings (if the ring lasts longer than 30 seconds, the ringtone loops).
• Downloads to Computer: Your fans visit the GroupieTunes or Music.com site (more coming soon) and purchase an entire song as a digital download to your computer, the same way most other digital delivery stores sell music.
• Downloads to Mobile Digital Devices with DUAL DELIVERY to Computer: Your fans visit the GroupieTunes or Music.com (with more coming) and purchase your music as a permanent digital download (the entire song), to a mobile device and the entire song is ALSO delivered to their computer at no extra charge.

What do I get paid when songs sell from GroupieTunes?

RINGTONES

GroupieTunes currently partners with these cellular phone providers:

• Cingular/AT&T
• T-Mobile
• Sprint/NEXTEL

Unfortunately, at the moment, people on the Verizon or other networks will be unable to purchase your music through GroupieTunes with their phones. GroupieTunes tells us they expect to add Verizon back into their lineup as soon as possible.

Each time a GroupieTunes customer purchases your music as a ringtone, you get a payment. It starts at a base level for each cellular service (see the table below) and climbs proportionally, depending on how much GroupieTunes sold the music for.

For songs sold individually as through GroupieTunes as ringtones at the standard price of $2.49 (U.S. Dollars), you receive the following:

Sometimes, GroupieTunes will sell a song for greater than $2.49 (U.S. Dollars). If that happens, you’ll get more in the same proportion as the base pay rate for each cellular service (see table above). As always, TuneC takes NONE of this, it all goes to you.

EXAMPLES

Say a fan purchased a song of yours from GroupieTunes for the normal base price of $2.49 (U.S. Dollars) to their cell phone that happens to be on the T-Mobile network. You would get the base pay rate of $0.54. But if GroupieTunes had priced your song for $4.98 and it sold on the T-Mobile network, you would get $1.08, which is twice the pay rate, because the song sold for twice the base rate.

Say a fan purchased a song of yours from GroupieTunes for the normal base price of $2.49 (U.S. Dollars) to their cell phone that happens to be on the Cingular/AT&T network. You would get the base pay rate of $0.71. But if GroupieTunes had priced your song for $3.74 and it sold on the Cingular/AT&T network, you would get $1.06, which is 1.5 times the pay rate, because the song sold for 1.5 times the base rate.

DOWNLOADS TO COMPUTER

Each time a GroupieTunes customer purchases your music as a download to their computer (from the GroupieTunes or Music.com site, or any new stores that may be added later), you get a payment.

For songs sold individually as a download to computer, you receive $0.71 (U.S. Dollars).

DOWNLOADS TO MOBILE DEVICES WITH DUAL DELIVERY TO COMPUTER

When your fans purchase a song for download to their mobile device, they get the FREE option to have that song downloaded to their computer as well: this is called “dual delivery.”

Each time a GroupieTunes customer purchases your music as a download to their computer (from the GroupieTunes or Music.com site, or any new stores that may be added later), you get a payment.

For songs sold individually as a download to mobile device with dual delivery to computer, you receive $0.71 (U.S. Dollars).

IMPORTANT: When you choose to have your music for sale with GroupieTunes, it will automatically be included for sale at Music.com and any other stores or services that could be added in the future. Please be certain you control worldwide rights and you are comfortable being in these other stores when you select GroupieTunes.

IMPORTANT: GroupieTunes cannot accept any music with explicit lyrics. If any of the songs on your album have explicit lyrics or content, no songs from that album can be delivered to GroupieTunes. This restriction is set not by GroupieTunes itself, but by the telephone carriers, who monitor this policy strictly and will remove any content they wish at any time, without discrimination.

For example, if you mark any song on your album as explicit, the entire album (all songs on the album) will be marked explicit and will be delivered to all the stores you chose except GroupieTunes. At the stores, your album will be marked “explicit,” but it will not be sent to GroupieTunes at all. If you know your album contains explicit lyrics, please do not select GroupieTunes as a destination store.

IMPORTANT: Your display page on GroupieTunes will have a space for band photo, for a listing of a home city and for a short biography. Although TuneC cannot supply this information right now, you can contact GroupieTunes on your own and get set up with a GroupieTunes “artist account”, so that you can supply a band photo, bio and city of origin yourself! To get set up on GroupieTunes, please wrote customerservice@groupietunes.com or call 1 (888) 760-9977 .

Once you have been set up by GroupieTunes with one of their “artist accounts,” you’ll even be able to check your sales! NOTE: Please remember that GroupieTunes only sends out earnings 45 days after the end of the month in which the sale took place. So even though you can see your sales results on the GroupieTunes sites, you won’t have access to your earnings until they appear on your TuneC My Discography page. As always, the moment the revenue gets to us, it goes right into your My Account page where you can request any or all of it, any time, day or night.

IMPORTANT: GroupieTunes has its own unique way to display music: as a single list, not separated or grouped into albums. All of your songs will be listed on a single page, as a single list. Please be aware this could cause confusion and choose accordingly. In the near future, GroupieTunes hopes to provide a more traditional organization, but until then, there is no way to group your music into albums. Thank you for understanding.