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The company’s Web site now offers online forms LAKE ZURICH, Ill., — TouchTunes Music Corporation, the dominant name in digital-downloading jukeboxes, wants to make it easier for small local labels and unsigned bands or artists to have their music heard on its network of some 16,000 coin-operated jukeboxes in the U.S., Mexico, and Puerto Rico.
The company’s Web site (http://www.touchtunes.com/IntellectualProperty) now offers online forms that artists and labels can fill out and submit electronically to begin the process of getting their music into TouchTunes’ master music library. Prior to this, local bands and labels typically found their way to TouchTunes through a local bar and its jukebox operator. Click on image to visit the website! “This is a streamlined way to help up-and-coming artists and fledgling labels connect with their fans, while making sure that our jukebox operators and their locations have access to all the music their patrons want, including locally popular acts,” says John Perrachon, TouchTunes president and CEO. In addition to gathering basic contact information, the forms seek information to help determine who owns master rights to the recording and publishing rights to the songs, for the purpose of obtaining rights and making royalty payments based on jukebox play. After reviewing the form, TouchTunes contacts the label or artist for additional information. When licensing arrangements have been completed, the artist or label will be asked to submit a physical CD and cover art or their equivalent electronic files. TouchTunes reserves the right to accept or reject any works submitted, company officials say. It takes an estimated three to eight weeks for a song and its graphics to be available for downloading, after TouchTunes receives the online form. There is no cost to the artist or label for having songs added to TouchTunes’ music server, which presently hosts about 600,000 licensed songs. Once a song has been added, it can be downloaded to any TouchTunes machine by the jukebox owner-operator. “The operators have sole discretion over what music is available on each of their jukeboxes,” notes Laurie Hughes, TouchTunes’ vice president for business affairs, music rights, and licenses. “It’s up to the operator, typically in consultation with the bar, restaurant, or other establishment where the jukebox is located.” The originator of and market leader in digital downloading jukeboxes, industry pioneer TouchTunes shipped its first digital jukebox in 1998. Today, the company commands an estimated 75 percent of the North American market for coin-operated digital jukeboxes. A U.S. corporation, TouchTunes’ sales and service headquarters is in Lake Zurich, Illinois, a Chicago suburb, with executive offices in Montreal. |
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