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Anything as long as you have the rights to sell it!

As soon as you upload your music and create the link, then it’s active. We only deactivate links if sales for the last six months are less than our threshold (£20) – this is so we can free up space on our server and make it faster for everyone using the site.

You can only upload compressed music files – MP3, WMA, AAC.

Yes, although you must have the songwriters permission to sell their songs. You will be responsible for any payments to the original songwriters.

Yes, and this is something we encourage! For us, artwork is part of the music. Try and include a tracklisting with your artwork as well. Artwork can be in any of the usual file types

As soon as you’ve uploaded your music, we will send you a link for you to add to your own website/MySpace/email to fans etc. Once you have this link, your fans can start downloading your music straight away.

You can see how many sales you’ve made and the balance of your account at any time by checking the statement section of your account. Your statement is updated after each transaction.

Yes. BigSong are simply helping you to get your music to your fans. You own the songs at all stages. You can take the link from your website and close your account at any time.

You own the copyrights to the songs, so you’re free to do whatever you like with the recordings. If the label doesn’t want to use BigSong, then you’re free to take the link down. However, several record labels like our service, so you may find that they want you to keep reaching your fans through BigSong.

Unfortunately not at the minute. There’s a lot of rules surrounding what can and can’t be considered for the charts, and to stick to these rules would mean that BigSong can’t be as flexible as we like.

To set up an account and upload your music is absolutely free! There are no set up costs and no monthly fees. We then pay you all the money you earn from each transaction less our commission (20%) which goes towards our bank and PayPal fees.

You can charge whatever you like! Although we currently have a minimum price as follows:
UK Pounds: 50p
Euros: 50c
US Dollars: 50c
to make sure that we cover all our bank charges.

You receive whatever price you’ve stated less a 20% handling charge, again, this is so that we can cover all our bank charges. We will pay you once a month, either direct to your bank or PayPal account or we’ll send you a cheque. This is subject to our minimum payment amount (currently £20/€20/$20)

As you are selling your music directly to your fans, you control what you sell to your fans and at what price. iTunes and other similar services make you sell music on their terms. You also receive more per sale than you would with any other website because you’re cutting out the middle man.

You have full control over your music, so you can change details at any time via your account.