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Indie Music Business: Independent Music Distribution
 

Independent Music Distribution

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For decades, major labels have controlled traditional distribution channels, controlling both the exposure of their musicians and their percentage of the profits to sometimes as low as 10% of the after tax profits. Now with the advancement of MP3 technologies and the internet, musicians and labels have the ability to distribute their music through the same channels. Liger Indie Music Distribution distributes non-major label music throughout the world, in more than 50 countries representing every music genre. 

When distributing with Liger Indie Music Distribution, you enjoy:

Digital Music Distribution

Liger Indie Music Distribution supplies your music to nearly every major digital music service provider through its relationships with its music distribution partners. This gives musicians and labels the ability to reach music listeners through means that otherwise wouldn't be reached.

Global Exposure

Liger Indie Music Distribution uses its unique music distribution partnerships to give your music global exposure. Music of all genres have huge fan bases in areas around the world.  From Japan to Germany to Iceland and Chile, Liger Indie Music Distribution can give you the ability to reach a diverse range of music lovers.  This ability to reach music lovers throughout the world will offer you the chance to reach fan bases otherwise non-existent to you and your music.

What we do for you

  • Liger Indie Music Distribution or its music distribution partners will encode your CD and digitally deliver your music to such online music distributors such as:  Apple iTunes, Rhapsody, Yahoo Music, and others.
  • Liger Indie Music Distribution is dedicated to selling your CD's.
  • We provide you with sound clips, links back to your website, reviews, and all the text and descriptions you need.
  • We give you a website address, Liger Indie Music Distribution/yourname.  Your fans will be able to buy your CD's by visiting that page. 
  • We put your music in our galleries and search engines at LigerMusic.com which receives hundreds of hits every day from fans who are looking for new independent musicians to listen to and buy.
  • We accept all credit card orders for your CD's online and ship CD's to the buyers right away.

Working with Liger Indie Music Distribution Saves Time and Money

Most independent labels find the necessary time, money and technological expertise makes it prohibitive to do their own digital distribution. Some of the many advantages of using Liger Indie Music Distribution as your digital distributor:

  • Avoid costly legal fees associated with negotiating deals with multiple online music download stores.
  • You will enjoy better terms from online music retailers
  • Liger Indie Music Distribution takes care of all the digital encoding and delivery, customized so each music download service can simply plug it to their inventory system.
  • Liger Indie Music Distribution stays on top of all the latest developments in digital music, keeping track of new online download services and online music promotion opportunities, so you don't need to.
  • All your accounting from the various music stores is reported to you quarterly, mailing you one check and one summary statement.

Liger Indie Music Distribution Offers A Non-Exclusive Agreement

  • Your agreement is non-exclusive.  Thus, you retain the right to distribute your music to anyone outside of Liger Indie Music Distribution's music distribution partners.
  • When you distribute through Liger Indie Music Distribution, you retain full ownership and rights to your recordings.
  • You are free to distribute your music to any outlets outside of Liger Indie Music Distribution's music distribution partners.  Thus, there can not be more then one distributor providing the same music to the same retailer or digital music service.
  • Retailers will normally remove a musician's songs completely if there are two distributors sending the same music to them.  The retailer will not sell you're your music until you've decided which retailer will have exclusive rights to that retailer.  This will clearly hurt your business opportunities. 
  • It is best to assure you have only one source distributing to a retailer.
  • Liger Indie Music Distribution was formed to ensure that its musicians and labels will not be held back from other opportunities to grow!

 

 

   

 

 

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