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TuneCore Experience Music: Free Music Samplers

Download Free Experience Music samplers showcasing 2010 songs from TuneCore Artists.

Click on the the 8 different genres from Rock to Country below to download.

Pop

Experience Music: A TuneCore 2010 Pop Sampler

If You're a Bird - The Scene Aesthetic, Tap The Phone - Francis and the Lights, There Is Only Time - Waves on Waves, How Do We Know - Katie Costello, Static Waves (Feat. Katie Herzig) - Andrew Belle, Dreams Like Oceans - Meg & Dia, The Beat - Ben Rector, Replaceable - My Dear Disco, Party On - Blood on the Dance Floor, Combat Chitchat - nickasaur!, Magic - Rabbit!, Came Out of a Lady - Rubblebucket, Probably True - Young Romans, Worth Waiting For - Beckah Shae, Gravity - Lucy Schwartz

SoundCheck: Holiday Music

What has sold? What is the best cover song?

SoundCheck: Are 360 Deals Good for Artists?

Are you signed with a label or music marketing company? What deals work for you

TuneCore Artists Charting on iTunes

The iTunes Charts are fluid and always changing but at Noon September 15, the following TuneCore titles were charting on iTunes Album Charts. 

Below are Artist, Chart, and chart position.

Top 200 Albums: The Open Sea (Ari Hest & Rosi Golan) 136, Green River Ordinance198 

Smackdown: Artists deserve to earn money from their recordings

Recently TuneCore Artist Mike Lombardo recorded an extremely honest, insightful, informative video “smackdown” in response to an article posted on a blog called

“Filesharing Will Go Down in History As the Greatest Thing Ever to Happen to Music”

New Music Tuesdays

The music industry has established Tuesday as street date for releases. It's the day that promotions begin around the new music put in the racks at physical record stores. Music can be made available in online stores virtually any day, but for the most part they still follow the same Tuesday new release day schedule for their promotions. Do you release your music on Tuesdays, ASAP, or around a promotion or event you've created?

Ziggy Marley: Wild and Free - by Jacqueline Rosokoff

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Jacqueline Rosokoff is a member of the TuneCore Artist Support Team and of the Doctor Uke & Daughters band.

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A TuneCore Artist since early 2006, Ziggy Marley is back with a new single, Africa Land, in honor of the 2010 FIFA World Cup. I had the chance to chat with him about the new release that is close to his heart, and his thoughts on how focusing on single releases and offering free downloads is helping him get his music, and message, out to more listeners than ever.

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.

Touring Logistics – Quick Tips and Advice by Jake Hartsfield

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Jake Hartsfield is a songwriter, producer, touring sound engineer and a member of the TuneCore Marketing Team.

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Been planning for your first big tour? Or your second, or third? Tour managing can be a lot of work – especially if you are responsible for an entire band. You have to think about routing, advancing shows, traveling arrangements, transporting gear, and how to pack. Here is a helpful guide to planning for a tour that will get you started – or at least thinking along the right lines.

Routing

When booking a tour, you want to try to route your trip so that you have the least amount of driving between gigs as possible. A good fluid tour with minimal transit time can help save on gas money and be much more manageable, especially if you don’t have a designated tour driver who can drive through the night.

Charting the Un-Charted

The New TuneCore Charts by Jeff Price

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Today TuneCore launched two TuneCore charts

The TuneCore Top 20 Artist Chart

The TuneCore Top 20 Songs Chart

The charts are compiled from the iTunes daily trend reports. As we get more daily sales information from additional stores, we will include these sales numbers in the charts.

The TuneCore Top 20 Artist Chart adds together the number of albums, ringtones and singles sold to come up with the ranking

The TuneCore Top 20 Song Chart lists the best selling individual songs.