A band from the UK Cling has quickly realised that you can make money by giving away your music at TuneSquare.com.
Their Debut CD Sonic Spells has only been on the site for one week and has already been downloaded over 200 times and generated over $200 for the band.
A spokesperson for the band said "this is quite amazing, to be able to give away your music and still make money. It has inspired us to make our debut CD available as a free download.
There are a few generations out there who have never really paid for music so this is a great way of making our music freely available with a financial reward for us through advertising revenue generated at TuneSquare however it is all about numbers and we have to get a lot of downloads to make it work."
TuneSquare is an ad-supported music download service, somewhere in between the world of P2P sites and paid services like iTunes and Rhapsody.
You visit TuneSquare, browse for songs by category or use the search bar, and begin listening to music. While you listen, a video ad will play. If you like what you hear, you can download the track for free. That's all there is to it.
Cling have a large fan-base and are still in the process of letting everyone know about the exciting new way to get their music free. Susi Lavender from Cling said, "If this way of distributing our music works then we will make all of our tracks (past and future) available as free downloads via TuneSquare."
