IndieRecords: sale and distribution of your music

IndieRecords  let you sell your music right now no matter whether you are number one at music charts or you create music only in your spare time. Whether you can afford big recording studios or you have made your recording in home studio.

IndieRecords —  is the first Russian site created on the analogy of amercian CD Baby that since 1998 helped more than 150.000 musicians to sell their music for more than 40 million US dollars.

IndieRecords is a new opportunity if you think that your music is worth listening to...

Why IndieRecords?

• We will make a web page dedicated to selling your CD on IndieRecords.ru, where you will be able to place your tunes, the information about yourself with the links to your own website, revewis and any other texts.
• We will give you a permanent address on our site through which you will be able to propose your public to buy your music (IndieRecords.ru/your name). Galleries and search engines of the site will allow to find your tunes based on their different characteristics – name of your band or names of your songs, style of music and its character.
• Simple bank transfer or such payment systems as PayPall, WebMoney... and very soon a possibility to pay with VISA, MASTER CARD...will make the purchase of your CD easy from anywhere in the world and will allow to download on-line any chosen composition on MP3 PLAYER, PC or MOBILE PHONE.
• We will inform you with a letter on your e-mail every time your CD is sold and special counters installed on our site will show how many times one or the other tune was downloaded.
• As soon as the number of the musicians that use our site will come up to 1000 — You together with IndieMedia automatically become partners and have a possibility to sell your CDs through such biggest iNet shops as APPLE iTUNES, YAHOO MUSIC, RHAPSODY, NAPSTER, MSN Music...
  

How to sell your music on IndieRecords

• Log in and fill out our form so that we know who you are and that you want your music to be presented on our site.
  
• Send us by post  your 5 CDs (albom or single) to the following address:
  
  «IndieMedia» ltd
  190 000, post box 196
  St.Petersburg, Russia
  
  
• CDs that you can sell through indierecords.ru should just respect the necessary technical qualities that is they should not have any scratched and be playable. Such thing as nice packaging is desirable but not necessary.
  
  
• We will open one of your CDs to digitize your tunes — you do not need to download anything or to do any installation.
• As soon as the total amount of your sold CDs or of your downloaded music will come up to 500 rubles ( or 20 USD) we will pay you your money

What do you need to do so that your music was noticed and bought?

So we need from you the following:

• Short description of the album and style of your music (2,3 sentences)
• Detailed description of the album (normal text presenting your group and your songs that make part of the album) usually such texts are printed on the album’s cover or in promo materials. If it is a simple CD-R, then give us at least the names of the album and the tunes.
• Your group description ( that’s for your web page on indierecords.ru, where you can put any information about yourself, photographs and other, all of these you will be able to edit) and we will publish it in the part called “artist” and will put also a link to your internet site if you have such.
• Price which you wish to get for your music

We take only 90 rubles (~3.5 US dollars) for every compact disc. We will add those 90 rubles to the price that you will announce for your physical CD or 15% on your price for the loaded album or for one or several tunes.

You can send all mentioned above in the attached files to This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it .

If you have your own webpage you can put a link to it on www.indierecords.ru , please also add a short text and our logo on the back cover of your CD and your webpage.

For example: "you can buy this and other albums on http://www.indierecords.ru"

• Only once you pay 999 rubles (39.95 USD)for the installation in our shop every new CD and59 rubles (2,5 )for a tune getting all above mentioned opportiumities ( what you pay for) 
• You pay only once and sell on IndieRecords.ru till you decide yourself you do not want to anymore. We will never tell you that you do not sell enough or that your music is not good enough to be sold. Even if you sell only one CD during 20 years we will be happy to have you on IndieRecords.ru.
• You will get your virtual personal account on   IndieRecords, that will show for how much money we have sold your music. As soon as you accumulate on your account— 500 rubles (or 20 USD)we, on your demand, will send you the money by any available way (how to do it)
• We make payments every monday.

It is easier that you think

• This is totally non-exclusive. We do not ask for any exclusive rights and do not want to. All the rights belong to you and ONLY to you. IndieRecordsis not a record label. We just help you to sell your music. Your are the producer and the manager -You are the BOSS.
• Unlike widely spread practice you can cancel your contract withIndieRecords without any consequence. We will never get in the way of your music career.
• You do not need your CD beautifully manufacturer wrapped. We will sell even home-made CD-R if it is of quality.
• You do not need to upload mp3 files or send us graphics or anything else you do not have.  Just log in, fill out the form and send us your 5CDs. We will do all the rest.