Taken right from the Jamendo Personal Statement:A non-exclusive platform: you remain the owner of your music, and you can still distribute it by any other means at your disposal. jamendo has a strong commitment of complementarity with traditional practices like CD sales.
A zero-cost platform: there is no fee for artists using our service. We provide hosting for free. P2P distribution keeps our costs at a very low level. We just include some non-intrusive advertising on the website and in streamed music to make our platform sustainable.
A free platform: you can stop the distribution of your music on jamendo at any time. Publishing music on jamendo does not forbid you to sign a future exclusive contract with a records company.
A music community that provides a percentage of add revenue to artists that facilitate heavier traffic to the site. If you are big on music communities and want to actively help artists generate money, this site promotes do it yourself rather than a traditional Myspace or Purevolume which boast potentiall record industry attention. Unfortunately, until sites like Jamendo have enough reach, their will be few incentives for bands to sign up.
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Hi from Luxembourg !
Thanks for the review of Jamendo.
Jamendo is really about long tail, there's no promise of big revenue or being notorious. It's mainly about sharing and getting a few bucks.
And it works pretty well, we've just crossed the millionth bittorrent album !
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Laurent
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