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View Comments 25 June 2007

TuneCore is a music distribution service that gets your music (even cover versions) for sale on iTunes, eMusic, Rhapsody and more without asking for your rights or taking any money from the sale of your music. You get all the money and keep all your rights! Simply upload your art and songs, pick the stores to deliver to and youâ€™re done. Clearly, TuneCore is in it for the good of the artist. And what better way to support that- than hosting contests that can really change the life of a struggling band for the better! Check out the contest below!

Upload Your Music and Hit the Road
TuneCore wants to see you make it big. As part of our ongoing efforts to aid in your success, we’ve teamed up with Guitar Center to offer you a COMPLETE TOUR KIT that includes:
An ’07 Ford Econoline Van
$5000 cash
Apple MacBook computer
One year of Internet access
$500 gas card
A case of ramen noodles
That’s right, we said ramen noodles.
To enter, bands can go to http://www.guitarcenter.com/winavan/entry.cfm during the month of June, 2007, and submit the following information:
How your band could benefit from a sweet new van
Your best tour story or best tour story of the future
10 things your band would always have in the van
The dedication of your band members to its craft
Just imagine what YOUR band could do with a new van and a chunk of cash. The world might never be the same.
Click on the picture for all the details!

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I signed up to Tunecore last year and because I'm a newbie in music, totally independent and with very little marketing budget I was naive enough to think that I would be able to increase my unexistent audience via Tunecore. Wrong. Not a problem because my music isn't necessarily very good either but when I tried to remove my songs and my name from Tunecore after realising that I had made a mistake, they cancelled my account but didn't remove my tracks, in fact, they distributed my tracks to a number of other pay sites. My music is available for free from my website and I think it is presumptuous to think that I should be charging money for tracks that are unreleased, unmastered and full of frequency soups and if I ever thought the opposite when I signed up to Tunecore, then I was totally wrong and take it all back. So I've contacted them again to remove my tracks from their site although this time I'm asking for their head office address as I need to do this in writing. In short: it wasn't good for me either. I am fortunate enough to realise this mistake early in my career...
Mr Big

They guy above is exactly right. They are scammers and once they see someone start to do well they will just quit talking to you, or worse yet the CEO himself hung up on me because he was ask to point out things in the disclosure. He froze up because he knew he was wrong so just hung up.

I will be spreading the word.
TuneCored

TuneCore is a scam - they owe me $28,000 in royalties and have not paid one penny. Arrogant enough to reply 'If you want to file a lawsuit.. go ahead' because they know i will have to travel from CA to NY multiple times to appear in court, etc. For more details check the tunecore forums, I am posting the entire discussion there.
TuneCored

Just to notify everyone that TuneCore has performed a breach of contract. I am owed $28,000 in royalties - and they have not paid a single cent. It is more than 17 days since the issue was supposed to be 'fixed'. Their response - "If you want to file a lawsuit, go ahead, we cannot stop you"

Of course, TuneCore is out to waste my time and money by having to file a lawsuit against them in NY, but I have to do this and spread the message. If anyone is serious about their music, do not do business with TuneCore. If you are an indie artist making $20 a month, they will pay you on time, but the minute you get higher sales (because of marketing, promotion, etc) their system has 'glitches'.