Sure it may feel good to say go buy my album on iTunes but the truth is nobody is buying your album, not because it isn’t good, but because nobody knows about it.Īnd it’s financially impossible for you to market your album to the masses. Meaning you don’t have a music video with over 1 million real views, there’s no point putting your music for sale. So basically if your music is not getting any traction. Just to make things even more depressing, 32% of songs on iTunes sold only one copy! That’s it 1 sale: a lot of proud moms.īut let’s look on the bright side, streaming is rapidly growing and has surpassed 229.5 million listeners worldwide.

So the chances of you selling more than 100 copies is very slim.

In fact it is likely, you will make more from people streaming your songs than you will on iTunes as the majority of albums on iTunes don’t get bought.īet you didn’t know that 94% of songs on iTunes (that’s about 7.5 million songs) sold less than 100 copies? But before we begin let’s ask ourselves a more philosophical question: Should I Even Sell My Album?įor most musicians all that will matter is iTunes sales, Apple Music and Spotify streams as those will likely provide the lion share of income to unsigned artists. To keep things simple, I’ll compare album and single sale options. Keep in mind, I have used both services for a number of years and know many artists that have used both services and am familiar with the pros and cons. In this post, I will point out in which ways they differ, as well as say which I think is the better choice for you. The thing is these music selling middle-men, differ in many ways. If CDBaby say charges $49 to sell your music and Tunecore charged $38 to sell your music, most budget conscious musicians would probably choose Tunecore.

I don’t think it’s an accident that companies like CDBaby and Tunecore make their pricing so confusing.

Tunecore spotify for artists