sell your music on iTunes
Wow, it finally went through after almost 2 months. "Time For a Nap" is now in the iTunes store at this address. It's really there; I checked on mom's laptop since I don't have the iTunes software installed myself. It's too bad I only did one song, but I am uploading the rest now. When these appear, in maybe another two months--Who knows?--I can start marketing and maybe make some sales.
But how many sales does it take? RouteNote states in its FAQs that the minimum balance for payout is $50. So a song is 99 cents and I believe Apple takes 34 cents (ouch), leaving 65. Then RouteNote takes 10% of this net revenue, leaving me with 0.9 * 0.65 = 0.585. I have no idea if the fractional cents are counted and compounded for payout. (There's 9/10 of a cent at gas stations, so it's possible.)
50$ / (0.585 $/sale) = 85.47 sales
Since there is no such thing as a fractional sale, this means the minimum is 86 sales for payout. This isn't too bad, considering I should end up with 22 tracks total, requiring an average of only 4 sales per song. It may require slightly more if the limit per album is $9.99, although only one my two albums is affected by this, and at 12 tracks just barely.
I suggest again that you try uploading your compositions through RouteNote, even if it's just for the novelty of having your music for sale. Be aware that the web form takes a while to fill out, though. They also allow images to go with songs. I noticed that no matter if you choose the single or multiple upload option, there is only one spot to choose an image. I'm not sure what the deal is, and it's possible that I broke protocol for not using the same image for every song on an album, since I didn't consider this at first. On a spur of the moment, I took a few minutes to make an image for United, as you can see from the attachment.
P.S. I had an acronym wrong in the first email (displayed below). It's ISRC, not IRSC. It stands for International Standard Recording Code.
But how many sales does it take? RouteNote states in its FAQs that the minimum balance for payout is $50. So a song is 99 cents and I believe Apple takes 34 cents (ouch), leaving 65. Then RouteNote takes 10% of this net revenue, leaving me with 0.9 * 0.65 = 0.585. I have no idea if the fractional cents are counted and compounded for payout. (There's 9/10 of a cent at gas stations, so it's possible.)
50$ / (0.585 $/sale) = 85.47 sales
Since there is no such thing as a fractional sale, this means the minimum is 86 sales for payout. This isn't too bad, considering I should end up with 22 tracks total, requiring an average of only 4 sales per song. It may require slightly more if the limit per album is $9.99, although only one my two albums is affected by this, and at 12 tracks just barely.
I suggest again that you try uploading your compositions through RouteNote, even if it's just for the novelty of having your music for sale. Be aware that the web form takes a while to fill out, though. They also allow images to go with songs. I noticed that no matter if you choose the single or multiple upload option, there is only one spot to choose an image. I'm not sure what the deal is, and it's possible that I broke protocol for not using the same image for every song on an album, since I didn't consider this at first. On a spur of the moment, I took a few minutes to make an image for United, as you can see from the attachment.
P.S. I had an acronym wrong in the first email (displayed below). It's ISRC, not IRSC. It stands for International Standard Recording Code.
On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 9:37 PM, <vezquex@gmail.com> wrote:
I just uploaded a song to http://routenote.com/ so that they can sell it on iTunes and a couple other sites. RouteNote takes a 10% cut. The song has to be approved first. Sign-up wasn't too hard, but upload took kind of long because of my slow-ass (768k) connection. They won't accept it unless you have an IRSC code, which you're supposed to get from the RIAA. You can get a free one from irsc@riaa.com, but I just made my own by following the pattern (country, label, year, id):
US-VOR-07-00003
Guess we'll see if any money comes out of it!
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