Company:Musicadium
Type | Private |
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Industry | Music |
Founder | Kley McPherson, Adam Martin |
Headquarters | Brisbane , Australia |
Area served | World Wide |
Website | musicadium.com |
Musicadium was a global digital music and video distribution service that operated between 2006 and mid-2010, based in Brisbane, Australia , until they were bought out by Valleyarm.
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History and Overview
After initially taking 9% of its customer's sales royalties as per the traditional digital music distribution, Musicadium moved to a 100% royalties returned to the artist model in December 2007. Musicadium artists retained all rights, copyright or masters to their music and the distribution deal is non-exclusive.[7]
As of July 8, 2010, Musicadium announced that Musicadium's catalogue would be acquired by Valleyarm.[8] Valleyarm will continue to provide artists and labels DIY digital distribution services, but also access to hundreds of new stores, publishing and sub-publishing avenues, and touring and marketing opportunities.
Notable Artists
Musicadium distributed many well-known artists such as:
- Doug Anthony All Stars
- Seth Sentry
- Hungry Kids of Hungary
- Scott Edgar and the Universe
- Ted Egan
- Gotye
- Kisschasy
- Clare Bowditch
- Southern Sons
- ARIAs Awards
- Dragon (band)
References
- ↑ "Musicadium and Griffith University Online Marketing Research Paper: examined online activity in relation to royalty returns.". http://musicadium.com/online-marketing-research-paper.
- ↑ "Business Matters: Spotify, Best Online Marketing Practices, Musicadium". http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/content_display/industry/e3i84436228620cd549f483fbea9be36e56.
- ↑ "White Noise @ Brisbane’s "The Edge"". http://whothehell.net/archives/7521.
- ↑ "BIG SOUND: Music Industry Summit & Showcase 2008". http://www.qmusic.com.au/bigsound2008/index.cfm?action=dsp_forum&ID=221&contentID=320.
- ↑ "Q Song Music Awards 2009 New Music/Experimental Category Award". http://www.qmusic.com.au/qsong/2009/index.cfm?action=dsp_category&categoryID=72&contentID=415.
- ↑ "Q Song Music Awards 2009 Pop Category Award". http://www.qmusic.com.au/qsong/2009/index.cfm?action=dsp_category&categoryID=80&contentID=423.
- ↑ "Musicadium Digital Distribution Agreement" (PDF). 2010. http://musicadium.com/images/stories/docs/agreement.pdf.
- ↑ "Important: Musicadium now Valleyarm". http://www.musicadium.com/.
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