I've been using Pandora and Last.fm for a little while now and enjoy both. I *just* discovered another really interesting site:
http://www.stage.fm/
It's a site with mostly indie music and provides a lot of it to listen to for free (through their music player). Artists can also sell their music on the site and get
100% of the cost. I think this explains the rest:
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The average big label band only keeps less than 1% of their cd sales (sometimes a lot less) To me this seems like a problem. We were trying to solve the problem by letting bands sell through stage.fm and keep 80%, but it just didn't seem to be enough. So we have decided to go out on a limb and let bands sell their songs through stage.fm and keep 100% of the cost of the song. The sites advertising revenue can cover the cost of processing credit cards. We also let bands choose the price, (which is good except everyone thinks they are worth more than they are.. hint.. hint...)
Our hope is that this will encourage more people to sell through stage.fm We are also big fans of free music, so we have made it so that only the free music shows up in the charts, so your best bet is to put up a few freebees to draw people in, then you can sell the rest. (Kind of like the radio singles/cd model) Anyway, as far as I know we are the first ones to do this. At the moment we are sell based on a credit system, however we have plans to move to a strait up purchase system like iTunes. (Also did we mention that we don't have drm.. DRM seems to be quickly going the way of the buffalo, and a lot of people buying songs don't want to have their rights limited in such a way.)
Thanks for everyone support
- Ryan
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EDIT: If you register, you can download 30 free tracks per day in DRM-free mp3 format