Dance Music Business Resource

Mpeg download sites

Give away your tracks : Its the new radio.
You will get more gigs if your music is in everybody's iPod. You will make more money from gigs than from selling records.



Directory of download sites :

http://directory.google.com/Top/Arts/Music/Sound_Files/MP3/Downloads/


A good list of free download sites :

http://www.ghacks.net/2005/12/03/free-music-list-december-2005/


Companies that work with indie labels to get the music into iTunes, ringtones etc.

http://tunecore.com
Only $8-14 a year to get you on iTunes/Napster/etc. and you keep all the sales.

http://broadjam.com
Broadjam let's you keep 80 cents a song. Free basic artist hosting.



http://cdbaby.net/dd
CDBaby will be the middle man between you and iTunes.

http://www.irisdistribution.com/
One of the first companies to get electronic indie labels onto iTunes.

http://www.digitalrightsagency.com/


Places for artists to put up their music for good promotion :

http://music.download.com/