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Digital
TuneCore confirms new agreement with Amazon
By CMU Editorial | Published on Monday 30 April 2012
TuneCore has reached an agreement with Amazon, and artists represented by the US-based digital distributor will now return to the online retailer’s MP3 store in Europe.
As previously reported, music distributed by TuneCore disappeared off Amazon MP3 in Europe in late January after the retail firm failed to renew its licensing deal with the distributor. TuneCore claimed that there had been problems with getting payments from Amazon under its previous agreement with the retailer, and that it was insisting those issues be addressed before signing a new deal. Despite accusing the web giant of “heavy handed tactics”, TuneCore bosses always said they were confident issues could be addressed.
And seemingly they have been, though details of the new agreement between the distributor and Amazon MP3 store, and how they addressed past problems, are not clear. Archive content represented by TuneCore will reappear on Amazon over the next month, while new releases will go live on schedule.
