Friend 4 Music | Sell your music directly to your fans

Getting music online with third party music distributors can be difficult and expensive, and artists are beginning to realise that the easiest way to sell their music and retain control over their own product is to sell it directly to fans themselves.

Friend 4 Music provides artists and record labels with a fully customisable online store that protects against digital piracy and plugs straight into existing websites.

Our online store creator is specifically designed for people with no previous experience of web-design. We've ensured it is easy to understand, so that you can create a fully customised store-front in just a few minutes and integrate it seamlessly into your existing website design.

You can then get on with the exciting prospect of selling your own music directly to your fans.

We enable you to sell your music directly to your fans, and we're much cheaper than popular third party music distributors. Our monthly price plans are easy to understand, and there are no hidden costs.

We're also proud to say that, unlike other music distributors who take up to six months to pass on artists' revenues, we pay you at the end of every month.

You can also use your Friend 4 Music account to send promo material to selected industry contacts, DJs and fans.

We embed the promos with high-tech digital watermarks, which protect your content against piracy and can be used by your contacts to review your music and send you their comments.

Knowledge is power. By selling music through your own website you own the information that we collect from your customers, such as their location, gender and age. By building a profile of exactly who is buying your music, you can better target future music releases and live concert dates.

Other third party distributors of digital music don't give you that knowledge or power. We do.

Our watermark process embeds each track with a unique identifier containing information about the music such as the artist and the track name. When a customer purchases the track we instantly embed a second “transactional” watermark with information about the customer.

The track and customer watermarks combine to make every download as unique as a person's DNA, and our tracking software can trace these watermarks anywhere on the internet if tracks are uploaded illegally.

Our service is updated in real-time, which means that you can log on and get a totally up-to-date view of your account, whenever you want.

As our system is web-based, the only thing that you need is connection to the internet, and you can log-on to your secure online account from anywhere in the world.

Customers want to be able to buy all of your products from one place, and other third party distributors of digital music can’t give you that flexibility. The Friend 4 Music online store does.

Our service supports digital music, digital video, digital artwork and your entire physical product range, and we can protect your digital music using our market-leading anti-piracy technology.

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Watermarking Protect content

Our digital transactional watermarking protects you against piracy. We embed each item of digital content you choose to protect with a unique watermark running through its entire length. This means that we can identify your music even if it has been cut or mixed, using as little as 2 seconds of watermarked content.

Sell your music Artists & Labels

Our online store fits seamlessly into your existing website, so that you can sell your digital and physical content direct to your fans. Using your own store gives you full control over your music and the fans’ experience, you also benefit from our market-leading watermarking technology and will receive vital information on your fanbase.

Prices What does it cost?

Our prices are totally transparent and very easy to understand. You pick a monthly price plan that suits your needs and then bolt-on the other services you require, as you require them. In addition, our prices are, on average, 30% cheaper than the most popular worldwide online distributors of digital music.

Anti-piracy Fast detection

We can find content that we have watermarked anywhere on the internet in a matter of hours, and sometimes minutes. Because each purchase made through the store has a unique watermark, we can trace the illegal copy to the individual that purchased the item. A very strong deterrent against piracy.

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Friend 4 Music is a leading innovator and technology provider. We enable ubiquitous computing by giving media and everyday objects a persistent digital identity that computers and other digital devices can "see, hear, understand and react to." With the pervasive computing that Friend 4 Music supports, technology becomes more useful, user interfaces are simplified, and consumers, corporations and governments have easier access to content how, when and where they want it.