Amie Street

Amie Street

Amie Street is an independent music distributor. Artists can post songs for paid download and the price per song scales with popularity. Amie Street got a lot of attention and press during the Eliot Spitzer prostitution scandal... [more]

Amie Street is an independent music distributor. Artists can post songs for paid download and the price per song scales with popularity.

Amie Street got a lot of attention and press during the Eliot Spitzer prostitution scandal because Ashley Dupre, the call girl in the scandal, was also a musician who posted songs on AmieStreet.com.

If you love indi music, check out Amie Street.

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Online music startup Amie Street has raised $3.9 million in Series B funding led by Deep Fork Capital, which included the conversion of a bridge note issued previously by the investment firm. Three undisclosed investors also participated in the round. Amie Street raised an undisclosed amount of series A funding in 2007 from Amazon. Amie Street’s co-founder and CEO Joshua Boltuch tells us that the funds will be used towards new product development but remained mum about the nature of what the startup will be developing. Amie Street, which allows allows artists to upload their music for promotion and sale, recently announced several music ... Read Full Story
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Sony Music Entertainment's catalog is coming to indie music retail site Amie Street , in the New York-based start-up's first major label deal. But here's the catch: Sony's catalog will not be participating in the "dynamic pricing" model that's been Amie Street's trademark--unpopular songs are the cheapest, and the price rises as a song is downloaded more. Instead, Sony songs will be available for a flat 69 cents, 99 cents, or $1.29 based on popularity. "It wasn't a hard decision for us," Amie Street co-founder Josh Boltuch told CNET News. "This isn't affecting all the other dynamically priced music on the site." He noted ... Read Full Story
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Amie Street , the online music startup as raised $3.9 Million in its B round. The round was led by  Deep Fork Capital along with participation from other investors whose names remain undisclosed. The funds will be utilized to refine the product and develop new products. Users of the startups promote their  music using its platform and the startup had earlier signed a key deal with Sony Music, which isn’t surprising given that it has more than 1.5 million titles available for downloading. Tags: amie street , funding Related posts Zendesk bags $6 Million in Series B (0) YuMe grabs raises another $2.9 Million ... Read Full Story
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Amie Street, an online music store that prices songs in a dynamic way, has raised $3.9 million in a second round of funding. The company introduces new songs as free downloads and then raises the price as the songs are downloaded more often. As such, the site has been a distribution channel for independent artists. Deep Fork Capital was the lead investor. It converted a note from an existing bridge round and provided additional capital. The other three investors were not disclosed. Joshua Boltuch told GigaOm that the funding was not a “down round” compared to its first round of funding in 2007. Amazon.com, ... Read Full Story
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Amie Street always made sense to me. The idea is to show demand for music via variable pricing. Songs start off free and move up in price (up to 98 cents) as more people buy them. I first wrote about them in 2006 when the founders were still living in a dorm at Brown University. In 2007 Amazon invested in the company. Big labels have mostly shied away from Amie Street, although they’ve had success with independent labels , and there are more than 1.5 millions songs on the site. Today, though, the company is announcing their first deal with a major label, Sony. ... Read Full Story
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Digital music retailer Amie Street has raised $3.9 million in a round of funding, according to an SEC filing. Amie Street prices its catalog of more than one million songs based on their popularity; tracks start out free and then cap out at 98 cents as more Amie Street users download them. Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) led a first-round investment in Amie Street two years ago. Last October, when the Amie Street website got a facelift, the company...  
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In their own words...from the About Us section of amiestreet.com:

Amie Street is the most fun way to discover and buy music online because we have a social network that facilitates music discovery and because we price music right - all songs start free and rise in price the more they are purchased. Our dynamic prices allow fans to buy music without breaking the bank and they serve as a useful tool for finding great music.

We know music is social, and finding new music needs to be fun. Music discovery is best served by communication between people, so we reward fans when they recommend songs to their friends by giving them credit to buy more music. Whether you spend two minutes or two hours on Amie Street you are connected to a world of music lovers discovering new music together.

We support our artists by giving them 70% of song sales and never taking ownership of their creative work. We want all artists on Amie Street to be successful and we believe that our unique marketplace will accomplish this goal to a degree never achieved before.
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