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New Facebook App From Ditto Music Enables Free Distribution To Spotify

image from www.google.comA new Facebook app, just launched by flat fee digital music distributor Ditto Music, enables artists to get their music onto Spotify at no cost.  Mmusicians can submit tracks to the distributor, and if the user shares the app with three Facebook friends, Ditto will register the track with Spotify at no cost. The more friends they sign-up, the faster they get music on Spotify.

"It's giving the artists a cost effective way to get their music out there," says Lee Parsons, the CEO of Nashville based Ditto. "It's helping us to spread the word about the great service we have to offer. So we see this as a real win, win situation."

Ditto Music may be better know in the UK than the U.S. Their the distributor logged 11 UK top 40 singles with unsigned artists. According to the company, 30,000 artists worldwide now use Ditto for distribution to Spotify, iTunes, Rhapsody, Zune, Amazon and almost 200 others. Clients range from up-and-coming indie artists Ed Sheeran and Maverick Sabre, to established names like Paul Mccartney, Suzi Quatro and Prince.

Bruce Houghton on 04/04/2012 in Social Media | Permalink | Comments (8)
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  1. Isn’t there other companies out there that already offers a no upfront cost to Spotify? Like RouteNote? or Venzo Music?

  3. It seems that the artist gets their music up for free.. which is great.. but the company keeps all your royalties.. Can someone say Ripoff!

  5. Considering that distribution is a parasitical activity (unless P&D or an advance it involved)how can it be offered in a sustainable model free.
    Supplier=content must get paid, distributor=parasite gets paid from sales unless they just bill supplier for warehousing each month E or Retailer sells it to Fans. That pays for it. Someone has to pay for it let alone the website, code, hosting *.*
    Name one industry that has free distribution the only thing that comes close is spam.
    BTW don’t look at mergers that are happening in real distribution and the emergence of the Clicks and Bricks distro solution that IOHO will be ubiquitous by the end of this year.

  6. I take it you think that giving music for free is wrong as well then?
    The loyalty of our customers at Ditto Music constantly astounds me and why should they not be rewarded for virally promoting our service to their friends?
    I’m proud of the app. You can get free music distribution just for sending the app to friends. We offer lots off different services, distribution is a small part and this is a great introduction to what we can offer.
    I dont think i need to preach the importance or effectiveness of the freemium model here as this site is full of entrepreneurs who know these lessons well.
    Hope everyone enjoys using the app.
    Lee Parsons
    CEO
    Ditto Music

  7. I distributed two CDs through DittoMusic. At first, the service was great, but now I can’t get a simple reply to an email. The artists I submitted wanted to see facts and figures of their sales, and Ditto will not even let me login to the account I created.
    Not sure about using this service.

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