Routenote.com: Online Music Distribution Service

The Internet has changed a large number of industries and market segments, and music distribution is no exception. Album sales are dropping year after year, and online music sharing or market places like iTunes are prospering.

For a normal band or independent artist, however, it could become cumbersome to discover all the right places and strategies to promote and sell music online. In order to solve this problem, there are some companies appearing to bridge the gap between not so tech-savvy music artists and the myriad of online opportunities available for them.

RouteNote is one of them. The promise is to promote and sell the music of independent artists through online partnerships. What they want in return? 10% of the sales revenues. Here is a quote from the about page:

Onsite, artists can upload tracks to the RouteNote catalogue and enter into a non exclusive agreement permitting us to distribute their music to a worldwide audience in a matter of moments. They then select partnered retail outlets that they wish their music to be available through (e.g. Napster, Snocap, Samsung Mobile) and within moments their songs are earning money as part of a world wide, web wide, distribution network. Our rates for providing a distribution service are currently the best in the market, and our ever expanding catalogue gives us increasing muscle with which to negotiate deals from which everyone, artists, clients and distribution partners included will all benefit.

Should the idea work, it would be pretty compelling to music artists that wants to get started online.

Daniel Scocco on May 23, 2008 Subscribe to our RSS Feed

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5 Responses to “Routenote.com: Online Music Distribution Service”

Jimmy Rogers on May 26th, 2008 8:06 pm

Hey, I think there’s small typo:
“The Internet has changed a large name of industries”
Did you mean “number” instead of “name”?

Just noticed it…
Daniel Scocco on May 26th, 2008 8:13 pm

Thanks for the heads up, just fixed it.
Steven Finch on May 27th, 2008 10:52 am

So apart from a typo there has been no real discussion on RouteNote.com. Has anyone had the chance to look at the service?
Jimmie Vestal on June 27th, 2008 9:50 pm

I’ve signed up with RouteNote and have been uploading my tracks.

Only takes two minutes or less for each song. I’m using Roadrunner, so maybe that’s the reason my 320 Kbps MP3 audio filles are uploading so fast.

They encouraged me to apply for ISRCs for my tracks and I had the info in one week from the RIAA.

I’ve did make one big goof. I uploaded a track that already had an assigned ISRC as a result of it being distributed through CD Baby.

I’m sure RouteNote will remove the track for me. As of this posting, there is no option for an artist or band to delete a audio track once it has been uploaded.
Steven Finch on July 4th, 2008 12:54 pm

@Jimmie Thanks for signing up to our service. With regards to the CDBaby track it will eventually get removed from our service.

With regards to an option for artists to delete an audio track, it is currently not an option in the site, because it may already have been uploaded to our partners sites. If you can please send an email via the site of which track you want to remove, we will remove it for you.