Recently the popular music service iLike has teamed with TuneCore in order to help artists promote their music and even more receive small royalties when other sites stream their music. What unsigned artist should do in exchange for this service is pay a flat fee to Tunecore and by doing so they will get back what is truthfully theirs when sites like Rhapsody.com, Amazon MP3 or iTunes distributes their music. The rising music artists will pay differently according to how many songs they are wanting to promote, prices varying from 1 song to an entire album.

The prices are quite affordable and when thinking that this is a very efficient way of promoting your music it, generally, pays off. Artists will have to pay a $9.99 fee for singles or, if they want to promote a full album of 5 songs, a total of $28.89. The costs for promoting an album include sending the respective songs on iTunes US, Canada and Japan stores, Rhapsody.com and first’s year maintenance. This was the next logical step to be taken by iLike and TuneCore, as iLike was already well know for promoting unsigned artists on different social networks, like facebook and hi5. Now, iLike is using its platform and in cooperation with TuneCore it offers the possibility to artists to actually sell their music.

This is a big step for the online world, in general, and specifically for what copyright actually stands for. Also, this gives competition in the music world a serious energy boosts as small bands have the chance to challenge, musically, big names in the music industry.