For this Christmas we at finetunes have prepared a very special give-away for the finetunes download shop customers: The finetunes advent calendar on Twitter! What is this? Well, first off, this advent calendar is a digital one, only available on the internet and you cannot put it on the wall. But: It's way better than your ordinary advent calendar, since it does not contain cheap chocolate but some of the greatest music just released, 24 songs in total. And yes, there will be some Christmas songs. But only the good ones. Trust us.
So, every day from December 1st to 24th at 12:00 CET, we open one little wicket for you and give away one song. For free! No costs! At no charge! Gratis! Para nada! You only have to be fast, because every free song is limited to 50 downloads. The deep link plus a voucher code is sent via www.twitter.com/finetunes_shop.
Just collect these wonderful songs and on Christmas Eve, you'll have a very special Christmas collection (also works as a last minute gift, by the way). Have fun! Merry Christmas!
your finetunes team
The finetunes advent calendar - how to get the tracks:
finetunes press release | 20.10.2009
Hamburg-based digital distributor and service provider finetunes has signed a comprehensive cooperation deal with US-based mobile media service, Didiom. With immediate effect, users of the Didiom service are able to purchase songs by top-class artists such as Moderat, Cassius, Lee Everton and from world-respected labels such as Pacha Recordings, Honest Jon's and Asphalt Tango.
Didiom is a groundbreaking service which offers a unique combination of allowing users to stream their own music to mobile phone, combined with an on-device download store. The Didiom application scans the user's computer for music and playlists, streaming the content to the user's mobile phone via a secure connection. In addition, the Didiom download store offers more than 1.5 million songs as MP3 downloads to mobile and to the computer. With its innovative price structure, the Didiom store is the only service in the world that allows people to name their own price for music downloads. The application is available for free from BlackBerry's app store.
finetunes is looking for a logo for our new PromoTool! And now its your turn! Be creative and send us your ideas and layouts! The winner gets a reward of 600€ and also the places from 2 to 4 are rewarded with a € 50 voucher card for the finetunes.net download store!
Deadline is October, 8th. You will find the exact terms for participation and the graphical specifications for the logo on www.talentarena.com!
What are you waiting for? We look forward to your ideas!
As you certainly have noticed, the finetunes team is currently on the road to promote our brand new webtools to you. The first date last week parallel to the A-2-N in Berlin in the 4010 Store was well visited and a lot of our label and business partners took the chance to get to know the new tools and answer their questions.
finetunes Roadshow in Hamburg on Wednesday, September 23, at Hamburger Botschaft
On September 23rd in the Hamburger Botschaft (Sternstr. 67, 20357 HH) there will be both a political panel, discussing the idea of a cultural flatrate with politicians, as also a presentation of our latest webtools. Thereby the new sales trend feature of the accounting tool Sales Master will be introduced, which allows you to check your iTunes sales on a daily basis. Further the new audio-uploading tool, the Content Hub, will be presented. And last but not least the PromoTool including the Promo Admin.
Location: Hamburger Botschaft, Sternstraße 67, 20357 Hamburg
Here's the Hamburg Roadshow schedule...
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finetunes is joining its new worldwide distribution partner Pacha Recordings, along with many other finetunes label partners, at the Ibiza-based International Music Summit from June 27-29.
As leaders in the field of digital distribution for electronic labels, finetunes MD Oke Goettlich and export co-ordinator Phil Darimont will be on-hand at IMS to provide digital market intelligence for finetunes’ existing labels partners, as well as potential new labels and services.
2009 has already seen finetunes launch an exclusive world-wide distribution relationship with Ibiza-based label Pacha Recordings. House music label Pacha Recordings is one of the biggest and most celebrated names in dance music. Pacha’s legendary network of franchise clubs throughout the world has helped turn it into an iconic clubbing brand. But surprisingly, the twin-cherries powerhouse has never offered the label's catalogue digitally, until now.
The first 2009 „Hamburger Musik Forum's“ round table presented by the VUT Nord on the 2nd of Febuary dealt with the actual situation of physical music distribution. Participants of the panel discussion was, beneath Jochen Richert (Soulfood), Michael Ratelbeck (mconnexion), Dirk Mahlstedt (edel) and Günther Buskies (Tapete Records) Oke Göttlich (finetunes) in his function as a representative of digital distribution. Insolvencies like Neuton or Pinnacle do not only strike the physical distribution sector. Associated Labels find their economic existence more and more influenced and endangered by the situation of physical distribution. Despite the low-spirited situation, the participant's opinion during the panel discussion was to push forward quality and to create awareness around their releases. The customer/fan should experience high-quality products which create buying incitements through additional value. Therefore Oke Göttlich mentions that music downloads are still seen as competition for the physical product instead of being used as an independent and additional channel of distribution.
finetunes press release | 16/01/2009
finetunes signs licensing agreement with Deezer
Hamburg and Paris – 16/01/2009
On-demand streaming service Deezer has signed a licensing agreement with digital distributor finetunes.
Under the agreement, the French company will in future make available on its service the new releases and catalogue of all labels digitally distributed by finetunes. Deezer users will have access to leading record labels and artists including Record Makers (Sébastien Tellier), Cocoon Recordings (Sven Väth) and Honest Jon’s (Tony Allen).
finetunes press release | 13/01/2009
Honest Jon's Records chooses finetunes as exclusive digital distribution partner
Honest Jon's Records and the Hamburg-based digital distributor finetunes have signed an exclusive, world-wide distribution agreement.
World music label Honest Jon’s is a co-venture between the famous London record store Honest Jon’s and Blur and Gorillaz frontman Damon Albarn. All Honest Jon's digital releases by artists including Tony Allen, Elmore Judd, Simone White and Moondog will in future be distributed and marketed world-wide by finetunes.
David Balfour, finetunes’ UK representative, says: "Honest Jon's is a dream label for us - it has an amazing catalogue, an impressive release schedule, but most importantly a hard-earned reputation for quality and individualism. We're delighted to be working with Mark Ainley and his team to develop the label's profile in the digital space and spread its music to new and existing fans."
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finetunes strikes agreement with X5 Music
Digital distribution and service company X5 Music Group and finetunes, one of Europe's leading independent digital distributors for audio and video contents, have signed a distribution agreement. finetunes will in future provide X5 with technical solutions for encoding digital music and delivering X5 content to digital stores.
X5 Music Group CEO Johan Lagerlöf commented: “For us the co-operation with finetunes is a perfect match. They have a deep knowledge and broad network within the digital marketplace and this partnership will be an effective way to optimize our delivery process."
Torben Storjohann, Head of Encoding and Deliveries at finetunes, adds: “X5 Music Group can now take advantage of the possibilities offered by finetunes in the best way possible: not only will we prepare their content for delivery to their existing network, but finetunes can also expand their means of exploitation by adding our own extensive delivery network.”
