DO-IT-YOURSELF DOWNLOADSAs of January 2007, the OCC (UK Official Charts Company) changed their rules to allow download-only sales to count towards the chart. This means that the need to spend for a costly physical release so last century.
• indiestore.com
7digital’s indiestore allows artists to create their own download store, upload their tracks and be ready to make their first sale in less than 15 minutes.
• Chart Reporting
indiestore handles all chart reporting and assigning an ISRC (International Standard Recording Code) to every track. indiestore reports to the charts in the US and 20 other countries.
• indiestore.com player
The flash plug-in (widget) lets users stream & sell tracks through social networking sites, as well as any website you can edit.
• Pre-order sales
The charts look at sales made during the current week (Monday – Sunday). Tracks uploaded by artists to indiestore can have a pre-set release date.
• Multi-format/No DRM
We recommend artists upload a lossless WMA or .WAV files. Tracks are encoded for download at 192kbps. Our clever computers encode the track into multiple formats (MP3, WMA, AAC). Ensuring your music is available to the widest number of fans possible & played on every portable media player.
• Marketing
indiestore artists benefit from marketing and promotional opportunities across the entire 7digital network and affiliate sites. This network includes online music magazines, blogs and partner download sites that feature indiestore artists.
• Bundles
Artists who have uploaded a number of tracks can ‘bundle’ them together as a double-sided single release. This allows a chart-bound single to be sold as part of a single release, with each sale of a bundle counting as one registered sale of the single.