Making Time with iTunes!

As of last week, the amount of time for most TuneCore Artist’s albums, singles, EPs or ringtones to go live on iTunes was less than 24 hours. Even more amazing, on Thursday of last week, we had one TuneCore Artist's release go live on iTunes within 28 minutes of completing checkout.  These incredibly fast live times are happening for the majority of TuneCore Artist releases, our goal is to have them happen for ALL TuneCore Artists releases (and we are working on it!).

In addition to faster live times on iTunes, the new and improved TuneCore delivery system now has TuneCore Artist's releases delivered to iTunes within five minutes twelve seconds of completing checkout – the old TuneCore delivery time had the snail like pace of three to five hours.

TuneCore not only has the highest payout rates and is the most reliable and trusted music distributor in the world for artists, it is also one of the fastest  ways in the world to have music distributed.

When we launched five years ago it took six to eight weeks for releases to go live. I am psyched on how things are progressing!

And on a side note, I am also really excited to say that Demon Hunter is the first TuneCore Artist to have their song available to buy for game play on Rock Band, there are three more bands and songs going live in the next two weeks and another six coming up behind those.

Make certain to keep your eyes peeled on the new store additions – we just added Mog, iLike, European based Tesco and ten more stores via MediaNet.   And if you logged in recently, you might notice Spotify is now available to add as a store (please note, Spotify has not yet launched in the U.S.).

We are also continuing to market and promote TuneCore Artists for features. 

Some recent placements for TuneCore Artists include:

How To Destroy Angels - Featured in iTunes Japan 

Ghost Robot Ninja Bear - Featured in iTunes US New & Noteworthy Alternative section

Beckah Shae - Featured in iTunes US and is now the #3 Inspirational track

Colt Ford  & Brantley Gilbert  - Featured on the iTunes US Country page

Lloyd Banks & Busta Rhymes – Featured on the iTunes Rap/Hip Hop section

Also congratulations to TuneCore Artist Jaron & The Long Road To Love for signing a marketing deal with Universal Republic and selling over 500,000 copies of the single Pray For You in the past eight weeks.

And finally a big congratulations to TuneCore Artist Drake, who some time ago signed a marketing deal with Universal and is expected to  have the  number one album in the country next week! 

Comments

[Andrew Goodwin]

Our album "Bittersweet Horizon" was up the next day after I uploaded it to Tunecore. I checked the date and it apparently was up the same day I uploaded it. It was just so fast I didn't know it. I emailed Tunecore support and starred at it for a while, because 2 years back it took a month to get it on iTunes. That's awesome!
Awake! Awake!

[Jeffrey Winslow]

That's fantastic news. An even bigger benefit to the rapid time-to-release is the ability to much more easily do PR for the release. If you know your album is going to be in stores tomorrow, you can fire off a press release announcing the fact. In the past, we've had to wait for weeks, and hold any press releases until our album has actually gone live, which can be very frustrating. Great job, Tunecore!

[Jack Barakitis]

That explains why an album I submitted yesterday leap frogged over an album I sent last week!

Now for ALL albums to be live by this weekend would be AWESOME. (We are in an Expo in Boston all day Sat).

Thanks TC for your dedication.

[Don]

Great news! Thanks for continuing to excel at what you do, Tunecore !

[Tracy Marlow]

We requested the single to be out on the fourth of july and it happened thanks to Tunecore. Everyone involved in the Hovrment single "Ish" here at T. Marlow Productions would like to thank you for the perfect timing on this one Big shout out to Tunecore see you on the next one.

[Aquannette Chinnery]

My CD titled "Who Is Like Unto You?" made it to Itunes less than half a day after I uploaded it. That was much faster than I expected. Thanks.

[Kinley c/o Elias Defils]

I want to thank Jake who has always promptly responded whenever I needed some assistance! Thank you Tune Core!

[Mona, Manager of Estrellanueva, LLC]

Our mp3's from the My Mother Earth CD landed on itunes and amazon.com in less than a few days.
Thanks Tunecore for making it all possible.