Distributor TuneCore Sings Digital Music’s Praises

“Unit sales are up, not down — that means people are buying more music, not less,” says Jeff Page, chief executive of digital music distributor TuneCore, in an interview with the Los Angeles Times. TuneCore’s business model is accordingly looking up: the company charges a flat fee to send song and album files to digital retail, as opposed to the conventional practice of taking a percentage of sales. Since the company’s 2005 founding, TuneCore has grown to distribute as many as 30,000 songs each week, from both aspiring and established artists, to the likes of iTunes, Amazon.com’s MP3 store and Microsoft’s Zune service.