Extraplay.com Heralds Online Music Revolution for Music Makers and Music Buyers

Extraplay.com Heralds Online Music Revolution for Music Makers and Music Buyers

MANCHESTER, England, May 22/PRNewswire/ -- New music online store extraplay.com is offering a new concept in the music industry that benefits both music makers and music download consumers worldwide.

For musicians, artists, bands and record labels, extraplay.com gives them powerful and ultimate control of the way their music is priced, packaged, bundled and sold worldwide, all of which they can change in seconds.

For the first time, musicians and record labels can upload Singles, EPs, albums and one-off unique compilations, as well as reporting sales minute by minute and seeing them live. This means no more waiting for quarterly sales reports to see how sales are moving.

For consumers besides its download facilities, extraplay.com has created an innovative global music super portal where at the click of a mouse music fans can be in direct contact with each other, their favourite bands, top venues and even the music industry itself.

Equally an artist, band or record label with a new release, or special compilation offer, can announce this news in seconds. All music on the site can be searched and filtered easily by those hungry for new talent and sound. Then it's a matter of sitting back while the samples, or full versions, are played back to back before selections are placed into the musical shopping basket.

So, what's new then? We've already got iTunes.

This music download store's features go well beyond the boundaries of iTunes and other popular download stores. Here music makers, Artists, Bands and Record Labels can...

- Upload their music directly to the sales system, and be selling in minutes not weeks.

- Set and adjust the price of all their music according to demand in seconds.

- Expect a higher net return on their music sales than on any other download store.

- For goodwill and promotion. Donate to, and cross promote with charities.

- Offer free songs on promotion, pricing them later.

- Compile songs to Albums matching physical CDs on sale.

- Compile brand new Special Compilation mixtures of songs not available on CD.

- Create promotional "Specials" and "Limited Offer" music bundles.

- Announce the news of Special music bundles in seconds using the feature "Plugger"

- Set songs "Play only" "Free download" or for "Sale".

- Samples can be played from the site, and Full Versions downloaded when sold.

- See download sales live from the site, no waiting for sales reports.

- Create, manage and control their own unique profile and its content.

- Grow and directly email their fan base, and all other site members.

- Take full control of all their online music sales and its promotion.

From the music buyer's perspective, there are also features going well beyond the boundaries of iTunes. Music buyers can...

- Find music easily using powerful search features.

- Play lists of music back to back from their searches of genre and even "sounds like".

- Also support charities when buying songs showing the "Music4Charity" logo.

- Buy and check out with one single basket of music by various artists and bands.

- Email their favourite artists, bands, and all other members of the site.

- Create their own personal web site adding photos, interests, and text.

- Build their own community, inviting music fans, friends and even artists to join them.

The site charts music automatically every week by download sales of Singles, Albums, Free Downloads and Plays. All those categories of music charts are also selectable by Country, Genre and even a mixture of both.

The new charts are media catching attention, and extraplay.com are already in licensing talks with radio stations to play the cream of these charts weekly.

Nicholas Cope of extraplay.com says: "if you're serious about selling music, extraplay.com will seriously help you do it. Make sure this site is on your music distribution and sales list. If you're serious about playing great music, extraplay.com will seriously help you download it."

Extraplay.com

Web: www.extraplay.com

Source: Extraplay.com

Nicholas Cope, Tel: +44-(0)845-094-3616, Email: info@extraplay.com

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Profile: International Entertainment