The Canadian Association for the Advancement of Music & The Arts (CAAMA)
and TuneCore Announce Partnership
The Canadian Association for the Advancement of Music & The Arts (CAAMA)
has teamed up with TuneCore, the global leader in digital music distribution. The partnership provides CAAMA members as well as all Canadian independent artists the opportunity to have their music on the shelves of iTunes, AmazonMP3 and other top digital stores - while keeping all of their rights and receiving 100% of the revenue from the sale of their music. TuneCore has single handedly changed the music industry by allowing all artists to have a career without being signed by a label - all for a simple flat fee.
“Time and again we have heard from our members that one of their highest priorities is overcoming the challenge of securing worldwide digital distribution,” remarks CAAMA President, Patti-Janetta Baker. “To assist our members in realizing this goal, CAAMA is partnering with a third party provider, TuneCore, to launch Worldwide Digital Distribution (WDD), a service that will allow these artists to make their music available for sale internationally, without having to sign a contract or give up a percentage to a middleman.”
Worldwide Digital Distribution will launch at Canadian Music Week, March 9 through 13 in Toronto. The union between TuneCore and CAAMA, through its association with CMW, is the first time a music conference has provided artists the ability to get global music distribution. Any artist who signs up for a free TuneCore account through one of the five Canadian Music Week-related sites listed below, will receive 20% off distribution of an album, single or ringtone.
TuneCore CEO Jeff Price will lead a panel at the conference titled “How To Outsell A Major Without A Label”, Thursday, March 10th @3:45 p.m. in the Ballroom at the Fairmont Royal York. Panelists include TuneCore Artists Liam Sullivan, Melanie Doane, Mike Gonek (of Nights & Weekends), and Doug Kaye, head of label operations at Average Joe’s Entertainment, as they discuss their success through digital sales. Both Doane and Nights & Weekends are top-selling Toronto artists, having sold 12,160 songs and 9,089 songs respectively to date through TuneCore digital distribution.
Jeff Price is available for interviews.
About TuneCore:
TuneCore Artists have sold over 300 million units generating over $140 million (U.S.) dollars in Gross Music sales. All are welcome to join TuneCore Artists like Drake, Beck, Jay-Z, Aretha Franklin, Keith Richards, Public Enemy, Nine Inch Nails, Ricky Skaggs, Paul Westerberg, MGM Studios, Warren G, Bjork, Moby, High School Musical cast members, Ali Lohan, Cirque Du Soleil, Starbucks and tens
of thousands of others, to get their music distributed, heard, bought, and shared around the world.
About Canadian Music Week:
Canadian Music Week is Canada's leading annual entertainment event dedicated to the expression and growth of the country's music, media and entertainment industries. Combining four information-intensive conferences; a trade exposition; a film festival; four awards shows and the nation's largest New Music Festival - Canadian Music Fest - CMW spans a five-day period from March 9 to March 13, 2011 at the Fairmont Royal York Hotel and various downtown Toronto venues, attracting participants from across the globe. For more information, visit http://www.cmw.net/.
About CAAMA:
The Canadian Association for the Advancement of Music & the Arts (CAAMA) is a national organization representing the interests of artists and SMEs in Canada’s music and entertainment businesses. CAAMA provides access to industry leaders, key buyers and timely information on developing trends, technologies and emerging markets. CAAMA empowers its members with the critical tools to facilitate growth and success in today’s digital economy while fostering international trade relationships and initiatives. For more information, visit http://www.caama.org/.
For CAAMA/Canadian Music Week information, please contact:
Planet3 Communications: Piera Savage/Joanne Smale
T: 647.346.4101 E: http://www.blogger.com/mc/compose?to=info@planet3com.net
Bessie Bullard - Communications Director
T: 905.858.4747 E: http://www.blogger.com/mc/compose?to=bessie@cmw.net
