Record Union and Meteli.net promotion partnership
Record Union are very pleased to announce that we will be working with leading Finnish download store and music information service Meteli.net to support independent artists in Finland and elsewhere. We will continue to deliver content to Meteli.net via our agreement with 24/7 Entertainment, but we will now work closely with Meteli.net to actively promote this music via their service.
Meteli.net is not only a download store, but features information on artists,albums, music venues, cities, songs, a current news service, a 5-channel streaming radio as well as concert, festivals and club calendars for Finland. With our distribution platform, their retail store and promotion channels, we are looking forward to what we can accomplish together in the name of independent music.
You can read the press release here.
Tags: collaboration, meteli, meteli.net, partnership, Promotion advice, record union
October 27th, 2009 at 4:28 am
Are you sure you are in it for helping artists distribute their music over the internet, or are you just in it to become another RIAA or Atlantic whore that rapes the artists from what is truly theirs? Artists don’t need you. the resources are out there for them to do it themselves. The problem for organizations like you is that you haven’t waken up to the fact that we live in a new generation of global digital possibilities, and you haven’t let go of the old business model of what the music business was years ago. The fact is, is that artists really don’t need you anymore. All you can offer them is more exposure but at a price that makes you no better than any record label or the RIAA. When are people like you going to finally wake up and get yourself a different business model that works instead of stealing everything that pure art has to offer. …..and let them get the windfall for it instead of you? We don’t need fancy studios to produce our sound anymore, the software industry offers just about anything infinitely better than what could ever be imagined, and the open source software industry provides that software for free! We Don’t need you to produce, or distribute. the internet is global. Listeners don’t need a CD in their hands to enjoy the music anymore, its just a file….a digital file formatted to reproduce music for listener’s pleasure. What is that worth to the listener? what ever he or she is willing to pay for it. Not what you say its worth. The market determines that. And in my opinion, no artist needs you to suck what ever few pennies the true artist deserves so that you can make your buck off the back of their creativity! I think what pisses Music Lords like you is that pure artists and musicians not only really don’t need you anymore, but listeners don’t either. They know what they like and they know what they want to listen to, and you can not dictate that…..like they did in the 60’s, 70’s, 80’s and 90’s. The Internet is open to all. Its not a closed society. Its a different world out here now, and it just pisses you off that you can be bypassed. Find a different vocation will you? or just become a musician yourself and produce something creative instead of trying to suck the creativity out of someone else for profit.
October 27th, 2009 at 11:28 am
@Muzikjock
Hi, thanks for posting your interesting views here on the blog. However, i think you may have slightly misunderstood what Record Union are doing. If you will allow me, i will clarify a few points about our service.
Firstly, artist who distribute their music with us maintain all the ownership rights to their music, and their agreement with Record Union is non binding, meaning they can opt out of our service whenever they like free of charge. Artist can still sell music from their own website, give it away for free or do pretty much whatever they like with it. We just help them get on music stores and streaming services.
Our bussiness model which you mention is in fact quite new, and i dont think can be compared to traditional distribution models. We offer a simple and cost effective way for artist to self-publish their music online. Instead of independent artists/labels chasing individual deals with music stores and streaming services, they can upload their music on Record Union and we will help them get on a large selection of them. Many of these services dont actually have the structure in place to recieve music from individual artists, which is where we come in. In this way, we at least think we provide them with a good distribution tool.
As a byproduct of helping new independent and unsigned music make its way onto all these music services around the world, we also in help in increasing the diversity of music which is available out there. Combine this with the promotion possibilities the internet offers, which you rightly say are open to all, this actually goes against the selective and exclusive mass marketing techniques which are sometimes associated with major labels.
We believe creativity, diversity and self determination. By helping artist take advantage of the new distribution possibilities the internet offers, we want to empower artists and enable them to reach out with their music globally.
I hope this helps you understand a little more about what we do and what we stand for. If you would like to know more about our service, then please do get in touch with us.
all the best,
Fredrik and the Record Union team
October 27th, 2009 at 2:11 pm
I thank you for clearing all that up. I am very strong in my stance on these things. It really makes me angry what the Industry is doing. And its not in the interests of artists who made the music, its because the heavy weights know their business model is dying, and they are pulling all the stops out to suck as much money out of everyone they can. This witch hunt for illegal downloaders is their last attempt to do so. The fact is, if they were really that concerned about people stealing the music they claim is theirs, they could have used drms to protect their music. product keys and drms have existed for years. The heavy weights just got caught with their pants down, and figured out that they could better intimidate, and make more money on the back end by suing everyone and their grandmother, instead of protecting their files on the front end. I am so out on all of this madness. Its crazy. And you can thank Metalica for for starting all this witch hunt with their law suit against napster. No one said anything about me in the 70’s taking my friend’s albums and putting them on tape for myself and others. That wasn’t even an issue back then. Like i said , if they were at all worried about their precious intellectual property they would have protected it with drms. Product keys existed almost since windows was, so there was no excuse for the starting of this witch hunt. I blame them and their business model, not for those who found a way around it. Don”t get me wrong, I love the contribution that Metalica made to the music collective, but it was stupid going after Napster, they would have better spent their money going after the ones who they invested their money in to protect their investment……the record label who printed their shit up! They had little regard for anything but themselves. Record labels didn’t get in on it till they saw that it was cutting in on their bread an butter. It wasn’t to protect the artists. And this is what I never understood, why would Metalica go after someone creative enough to find a way to share files, when the company who was sucking their blood was the one with little disregard for their interests, and the ones that put out their music without any protection, yet they defended them? total madness I say,….total madness. Hopefully the old business model will die a final death, the madness can stop, and music will breathe a new life with a different model that works instead of the same ol crap. The old business model deserves to die, it sucked the artists so dry that it took the life of some of the most innovative artists known today. If it wasn’t for The buddy hollies, Jimi Hendrix’s etc of yesterday, none of these youngbloods we have today would even exist. Finally maybe The one’s of today can have a chance to do it better, and with more options than they did then, and reap more to themselves for their efforts, and rightfully so. After all if it wasn’t for Jimi Hendrix’s talent, Reprise records would have had nothing to make money with. And I think his managers had more to do with his death than Jimi’s own addictions. just my two cents.
October 27th, 2009 at 3:24 pm
@muzikjock
No worries. I understand your frustration with the old label structure, and agree that it is time to develop it or move beyond what it has previously represented for many.
I also share your enthusiasm about the new possibilities which now exist for musicians in the online environment. The path is still rocky and many challenges present themselves, but it seems undeniable that digital mediums and advances in technology have enabled an increased number of musicians and bands to become more autonomous in how they go about creating and developing their music.
With all the new models and services popping up, lets hope that we can build on this keep this new found autonomy by developing a sustainable environment where musicians and their music can flourish. Record Union will contribute to this by ambitiously pursuing our mission to democratize the access to digital distribution and enable all artists to sell their musc on online stores and streaming services globally.
Again, thanks for your insights and expressing your views here on the blog.
//Fredrik
October 27th, 2009 at 9:52 pm
Fred,
I wont take up anymore of your time. you answer with incredible integrity and I appreciate it. hopefully our dialogue will answer what others question. certainly you have answered mine.
again thanks and good luck
October 27th, 2009 at 11:49 pm
cheers, and dont mention it. it is always great to hear from people who are passionate about music voicing their views. lets look toward a bright future!