Nokia Launches Independent Artists Club

The Singaporean band Manifesto Mephisto which tops the IAC chart at the moment October 24 - the company Nokia launched the new web-page Independent Artists Club (IAC). A visitor of the site is able to listen to and download free songs and tracks provided by independent artists.

Such musicians play in the indie music stream (it is also called independent music which meand the independence from huge record labels). The site features rock, pop, hip-hop music anf other genres.

The owners of Nokia phones can download up to 10 tacks per month (the owners of Nokia devices will get another bonus when the tracks will be available to download directly on the phones). The ones who want to use the service but don’t have Nokia devices can register on the page and get 5 tracks per month.

At the same time, the users can listen to the unlimited number of tracks online. All of them can be copied without any persecution from the official authorities.

The major goal of IAC is to spread indie music all over the world (but not only inside the local communities). It seems that the Internet and the widely spread AAC/MP3 format serves the goal (the bit rate of the tracks is 128 kbps).

Anyone can listen to the tracks on PCs or players plus they can make a melody a ringtone on their phones.

The site features the “most popular” list and all the registered users can leave comments and evaluate the compositions.

Moreover you can sort the tracks by the number of listenings, genre, country, alphabetically.

By October 24 the page had been used only by the Singaporean musicians and the musicians from the surrounding countries: Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, which explains a great number of the tracks by Asian artists.

At the moment the companies are upgrading the site. By December the artists will be able to upload their tracks (still all the songs will be checked by the independent expert committee).

In the forthcoming three years Nokia is planning to invest $3 million in the project. The musicians, who upload their tracks won’t collect money for it. And this rule is certain.

At the same time the bands which will become popular will be able to sell the tracks at the online Nokia store (which is to open in 2008).

The bands that will be on top of the charts will be able to perform at Nokia IAC shows and thus will earn money.

The creators of the site claim:

“The club of independent artists is the centre of the Asian music. The spirit of independency moves the era of digital art. The site will be a real source of new emotion for the fans of music. And for those who create it – a source of spread and support.”

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