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Artist FAQ:
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How Can I Win $10,000 CASH?
What is the New Business Model?
What is a Social Enterprise?
Who Has Ownership of the Music?
How Do I(the Artist) Get Paid and How Often?
What Do I(the Artist) Get?
Can I(the Artist) See All Transactions Relating to My Music?
How Do I Submit My Music?
What If I Have Other Contracts?
Can I Set a Minimum rate?
Still Not Sure?
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How Can I Win $10,000 CASH?
The top selling artist at the end of the campaign will be awarded $10,000 (CAD)
CASH as a token of our appreciation and as our way to say Thank-you! Top selling
artist is determined by: The most number of songs sold, whether sold as part of an album or as individual
songs. For example, an album sold containing 10 songs would mean 10 songs towards
the calculation of songs sold.
TIPS and TRICKS:
- Is iTunes costing you $10,000? Although we do no enforce exclusivity, consider whether
the few additional albums you sold on iTunes (or other sites) may have cost you the $10,000 if those albums were sold on PWYWO.
- Buy download cards from us and distribute at your concerts and events.
- Offer download cards with every admission.
- Be creative and think out of the box to encourage album sale, e.g. house concerts, get your church, school, or business to help
- Use the campaign and the idea of helping homeless youths to offer fans another reason to support you, e.g. organize a fundraiser
- Work with us. We will be hosting concerts regularly and other activities to promote sales. Those who work closely with PWYWO
will benefit the most.
- Partner up with other artists
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What is the New Business Model?
Pay What You Want Online is in the midst of rebranding to "Pay WHO You Want Online" and will declare itself as a social enterprise. Starting
January 23rd, 2010, we will offer an additional level to the pay what you want model, and that is the "Who".
PWYWO challenges fans to not only be well informed before you purchase music, but
for them to consciously make a change by choosing
to download music from an organization that is fighting for change. To the fans, PWYWO offers transparency, awareness on
social issues, absolute control and choice. Fans select a rate they wish to contribute.
This rate is then broken down so fans can see exactly where their money is going
and how much of it. Regardless of what rate the fans choose to pay for a song or
album, the artists are guaranteed a fair base rate; PWYWO takes a small fee to cover
the administrative costs; the remainder is allotted to a cause by default. Based
on where their values rest at that time, the fans have the option to add the remainder
to the artist’s portion, leave it for the social initiative, or contribute to both.
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What is a Social Enterprise?
We are rebranding to become a social enterprise and building community
support right into our business model. Our mission is to raise awareness and
funds for the rightful shareholders of the company: the artist, and the community. Our first initiative will be to raise $100,000 for
www.urbanex.org and www.sketch.ca to support homeless youth and youth at
risk, while helping artists to sell as many albums as possible!
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Who Has Ownership of the Music?
As an artist you need to be and can be in control of how your music is released and most importantly be paid fairly for it. When you contract with us, YOU, as the artist, retain full rights to your music. We do not claim rights to or ownership
of your material.
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How Do I(the Artist) Get Paid and How Often?
For every transaction, artists can be paid in the following ways:
1) BASE amounts of:
- base flat amount of $7.50 for ANY rate selected at $10.99 or above (e.g. $7.50 for an album sold at $10.99) OR
- 65% when the selected rate is $10.98 or under (e.g. $7.13 for an album sold at $10.98). This is the same for both songs and albums.
2) Regardless of the rate fans pay there will always be an amount that will be available for the fans to choose to add
to your base amount, to donate to the cause, or to split between you, the artist and the community cause.
3) In addition, PWYWO also pays 11% of our admin fees to royalties such as SOCAN/CMRRA/SODRAC
which they distribute to artists and the appropriate parties registered with them
At the end of every quarter we will calculate and pay you your quarter's earnings if it is $50 or more. If less,it will be carried over to the next quarter. Payments will be made by cheque and should arrive in the mail within 90 days of the last day of that pay quarter, or paypal (for international artists). We would love to make payments happen more quickly but
there are sometimes delays as we respond to and
ensure all royalty fees (e.g.
through SOCAN and CSI) are paid out properly.
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What Do I(the Artist) Get?
When you contract with us, as the artist you will gain the following benefits:
- A potential to win $10,000 (CAD) Cash!!!
- This guaranteed base amount is very competitive compared to other sites
- Your fans will probably always be your fans and will most likely contribute the additional amount to you. There will always be this choice
- You will benefit from additional album sales, AND helping people in need at the same time
- Your willingness to participate in a mission to support community causes will increase credibility in the
eyes of the public
- PWYWO also pays 11% of our admin fees to royalties such as SOCAN/CMRRA/SODRAC which is then paid out to the artists. Therefore, you
could potentially earn more from royalties we pay out.
- The opportunity to have your music heard and sold World Wide
- You will earn equal to or higher than industry rate for every sale of your song(s) or album(s)
- You retain all rights to your songs and albums, while contracted with us and even after the contract is ended.
- The opportunity to perform at one of our PWYWO concerts Canada wide. We will be
holding concerts throughout the year and will select from our roster of musicians.
Through our concerts you will get more visibility throughout all of Canada,
get more practice doing live performances, earn some money (most if not all of our
concerts will be paid performances), and it will be a way to promote your music
and draw people to purchase your music from the website
- Radio play. We have partnerships with many radio stations, including time alloted
specifically for the music of artists on PWYWO
- Free promo!!! We will help to market and promote artists on radio shows, print ads, on movie screens, internet links, performances, festivals and much more which artists can benefit from at no extra charge.
- With connections to producers, record labels, venue owners, radio, we will help to get your music heard.
- You have full control over your account. Upload and manage your songs and albums
whenever you wish. Then, track and monitor your progress using the tools and charts we provide.
- Have the opportunity to be featured and promoted in our "Featured Artist" section.
- NO setup fees
- NO administration fees
- NO registration fees
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Can I(the Artist) See All Transactions Relating to My Music?
Yes. Once you have been accepted to distribute your music on PWYWO, you will receive a userid and login which will enable you to sign in to your private artists page.
You have full control over your account. Upload and manage your songs and albums
whenever you wish. Browse the transactions and view them in detail. As an added bonus, you will be able to use our tools and charts to compare and track your continued success.
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How Do I Submit My Music?
There are several ways to submit your work to us for review. You can send it by postal mail, email it to us, or upload your best three songs to us. If sending by postal
mail, the following items MUST be submitted in order for your music to be reviewed and considered for distribution:
- An MP3 copy of your song or album
- Files should be a bit rate of between 128kbps to 192kbps, or no more than 10MB per
file. Larger files may take longer for fans to download which may become frustrating.
- If submitting an album, please include your contact person's name, band name, album
name and list the song names.
- An album cover image
- A profile image
- A half a page bio about yourself/your band or your song/album
- Name, address, email address and phone where you can be reached.
You will receive an email within 30 days of receipt with further instructions once your submission has been accepted.
Note, we thank everyone for your submissions but we will only contact those artists whose music have been selected.
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What If I Have Other Contracts?
No problem! As long as your contracts do not conflict or restrict you from pursuing other opportunities, you are free to do what you want. So, review your contracts, then submit your work to us.
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Can I(The Artist) Set a Minimum?
Minimum amounts are set automatically: $7.00/album and $0.99/song. Artists have
the ability to set their own recommended amounts for every album.
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Still Not Sure?
- Check out this link and read how Radiohead sold more of their album "In Rainbows" by 1) offering downloads over CDs 2) offering
the downloads at a pay what you want rate 3) eliminating the record label.
- The pay what you want model has also proven to work on our site. Fans are generally choosing to pay $9.99 to $19.99 per album.
Ready to begin? Submit your music here.
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