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ARTIST INFORMATION & REGISTRATION |
Would you like to sell your CD's on Rootscd.com? Great! It's very easy but please read through the main points below to make sure that your music is suitable for sale here and that you're happy with our terms and conditions. If everything is OK, we look forward to working with you to sell your great music to dedicated roots music buying customers all over the World!
2. What's in it for you?
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Firstly, you're in charge! you decide how much we sell your CD for, we take just £3 from the sale of each CD then pay you 100% of the remaining balance. The majority of our CD's sell for around £9.99 but If you want your release to sell at £4.99 or £14.99 that's no problem, you decide. (£9.99 = approximately $20.00 US & CAN / 13 EUROS / 2000 JP YEN / 21 AU DOLLARS)
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We'll handle the credit card sales, invoices, packaging and post your CD's out for you on the day we receive an order. We'll email you every time you sell a CD and let you know how much you've earned. There's no complicated uploading of images or MP3's, we take care of everything and pay you regularly. Easy!
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We pay you for any money that you've earned from sales on a monthly basis (the first Monday of every month). We pay you via Paypal or in some limited circumstances by cheque (we can only issue cheques in UK Pounds Sterling, if you cannot cash cheques in this currency through your bank then we must pay you via Paypal). Once the money that we pay to you appears in your account (normally just 1-3 days), it's yours to spend!
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Selling your CD's on Rootscd.com is totally non-exclusive, you can withdraw your CD from sale any time that you wish and you can sell your CD's anywhere else that you like!
3. Working hard for you
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Besides everything listed above, we also:
Copy and digitise 1 minute of all the tracks for customers to preview.
We scan your artwork into different sizes and add the album to our web site along with information about your release, a full track listing, press quotes, artist details, links to your web sites and anything else we can think of to help to sell your CD!
Your CD will be available to buy Worldwide, 24/7.
Your release will be highlighted in our "Exciting New Titles" newsletter to our customers and RSS feeds.
We'll also give you a cool link that you can add to your web site to direct your fans to Rootscd.com to buy your CD.
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Rootscd.com offers artists the most cost effective way to gain targeted sales of their music. Getting a great listing for your CDs on our site can be a time-consuming process for us, and we feel £10.00 for as many titles as you like offers fantastic value! We try as hard as we can to keep costs down for independent artists and always will. The fee is a one time only payment, If we sell 5 or 5000 copies of your CD, you only ever pay once.
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You also benefit from listing your CD for sale on a 100% roots specialist site! Your music won't get lost among thousands of classical, metal, pop, or trance releases! Our customers come to us specifically because they're looking to buy the best independent blues, jazz, rockabilly, folk and roots CD's.
4. Is my CD suitable for sale on Rootscd.com?
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More than likely!
Your release must obviously be in the "roots" genre, by that we mean, blues, rockabilly, folk, jazz, etc. Of course there are many, many sub-genres of these categories i.e. swing blues, ragtime, acoustic folk, electric folk, trad jazz etc... there's WAY too many to list! We know that and many artists music has wide ranging and varied elements and influences, that's good!
Maybe your music does fit neatly into the folk or rockabilly sound, maybe it has many different roots ingredients, if any of these are true to you then you belong on Rootscd.com
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If you're not sure if your CD is suitable for sale on Rootscd.com, please feel free to email us for some friendly advice. If possible, please send us a link to your website so we can check you out!
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Please note: We do not sell demos, CD-R's (anything you have duplicated yourself at home), white labels, releases without proper printed inlays. Sorry.
5. Ready to proceed?
ARTISTS & BANDS
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Fill in our Artist Registration Form with details about your CD (the link to open it is at the bottom of this page)
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Pay your one-time-only registration fee (this is only £10 per artist, it lasts forever and is not per CD title!...an artist can register as many titles they like for this one small fee).
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Send us 4 copies of your CD (We'll ask you for more when we sell through).
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We pay you for sales of your CD's every 4 weeks. Easy!
RECORD COMPANIES & DISTRIBUTORS
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We are happy to work directly with record companies and distributors and the registration process is exactly the same as it is for individual artists or bands.
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The registration fee for companies is a one-time-only payment of £30.00. That entitles you to life-long unlimited registrations!
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Please complete the registration form below for each title you would like us to sell for you. The registration fee should be paid after your first title is registered with us. Then send us 4 copies of each CD you register.
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Any questions please just ask!
Happy with everything you've read so far? You have read it haven't you?... OK, simply click the link below to start your registration. The registration form is quite straightforward and you should be able to complete all the sections pretty fast if you have one of your CD's and a biography to hand. Please do not proceed with the registration if you do not agree to our terms and conditions.
You'll need to complete a fresh registration for each different title that that you'd like us to sell. Once you submit your registration form you'll be taken to a final page where you'll find details of how to post your CD's to us.
When we receive your CD's and details we'll contact you to let you know that we have everything and to give you an idea when your CD will be available to buy. Once your listing is complete we'll contact you again to give you a selection of cool links that you can add to your websites so your fans can start buying!
Please note: If you are registering more than one CD, you will need to fill in a fresh registration form for EACH title to ensure that we have the correct information for each CD. You only need to pay your registration fee once!
START ARTIST REGISTRATION! (opens a new window)
Artists & Bands Terms And Conditions Please read!
Any registration questions to Martin at: registrations@rootscd.com
All other enquires to: info@rootscd.com
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