Comments on: RouteNote is a no money up front way to iTunes.

By: signal31

signal31 — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 22:38:29 +0000

There’s only one RouteNote, Steven. I recommend readers search Google for routenote reviews and have a glance through the first couple of pages. Were you actually concerned for your customers, you would have personally addressed the issues rather than let James act as your front man. RouteNote has left a bad taste in the mouth of this particular artist, and I have no hesitation in warning my colleagues away from your service. No amount of backpedalling or denial on your part will resolve these issues, bud.

By: Steven Finch

Steven Finch — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 11:22:31 +0000

Im the CEO at RouteNote and I think you must be mistaking our company for a different one. For my full business history please take a look at my Linkedin profile http://uk.linkedin.com/in/stevenfinch. RouteNote has been growing rapidly and we have a strong fulltime and recruiting at the moment.

By: Simon NYC

Simon NYC — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 09:14:24 +0000

I could talk all day about how much of a rip off routenote are, but i wont.
They have 2 staff, a bedroom office and the WORST website and upload process i have ever seen.
And they spend all their time lurking around forums. Do the math. 2 staff, 1 of them spends all day lurking on forums writing about themselves , u have no chance of getting support
i look edup the CEO and his last business went bankrupt. This cant be too far behind
I remove ALL of my music

By: Oliver Chesler

Oliver Chesler — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 22:36:53 +0000

I’m not sure. Is it difficult to get a direct deal with Beatport these days? That’s what I did but it was early on and I had a decent size catalog.

By: BSM (Anarchy Audio Digital)

BSM (Anarchy Audio Digital) — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 21:12:05 +0000

Just like to say i’m very happy with the service i get from Routenote, i do have 1 question though, do you think Routenote will ever distribute to Beatport?

By: Svend

Svend — Fri, 04 May 2012 06:48:55 +0000

Routenote do not even have more than 2 staff. I swear it is always the same person answering the phone, doing support and it takes so long for them to get back.

The only time i got a reply was when i publicly complained on twitter, then they were very quick.
I am sorry but they should not be called a music company, they do not know music, they spend all the time writing horrible blogs about music, complaining or whatever to get traffic, but they know nothing. I ask about PRS, they cant tell me about it, i will never use routenote again, their poor service and you have to EARN FIFTY DOLLARS before getting paid. And they want to take 15% of royalties. How can i earn that much from a release?
Bad service, someone should expose this company. they talk of improvements?
Here is an idea, take some staff on and actually have a customer support

By: GigaWear

GigaWear — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 15:39:50 +0000

Guys. I would ditch RouteNote and go with the companies below:

- CD Baby
- TuneCore (Their sales system just WORKS!)
- Venzo Music (They can put your music on iTunes for free too + iPhone apps!)
- Zimbalam
- IODA

By: Fabrizio

Fabrizio — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 12:15:29 +0000

this is my experience with Routenote>
In July 2010 I released 2 EPs of songs on ITunes through a digital distributor called Routenote
http://itunes.apple.com/gb/artist/the-brixton-hill-billies/id381813748
which is offering a good deal where they upload your music and they keep 10%from the royalties received
So I went for it but I noticed that on the account ,where I was login in, some songs wheren-t showing up on the sale statistics.
After lots of Emails and phone calls more than an year later they finally rectified the problem.
Then I found out from a friend of mine that one of my tracks where at position 27 on the Itunes chart in Luxembourg http://www.music-chart.info/Luxembourg/archive/genre/6/Country/2011/03/28#27
with a total of 11 appearances on the top 100.
One of the tracks that weren-t showing up on the the Routenote account was the same track that was on the charts…strange.
Today to my account the total of my royalties is 14 $ since the release date.
I have tried to raise the issue with Routenote but they says that everything is correct.
I contacted the PRS and MCPS (I am a member) but they weren-t helpful at all and completely useless.
Musicians Union is a total farce.
I don-t know how can you find out exactly how many sales I had on Itunes and there is like a wall of silence when it comes to transparency on ITunes sales.
If anyone know any way to audit Routenote or Itunes please let me know or anyone that could help me to resolve this issue.
I am sure there are a lot of indipendent artists out there on the same situation and It would be good to expose all those companies that are legally ripping them off only because they know that they can not afford a music lawyer .
Kind Regards

By: Signal31

Signal31 — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 00:45:09 +0000

(Artist formerly known as THoK.)

Steve: The question remains: for whom is the RouteNote service second to none? Your users, or yourselves? Under the name THoK, my music had not appeared on any music services. It’s cool that *some* music is appearing on iTunes within days, unfortunately, when RouteNote’s service is inconsistent to the point that you’re disappointing some users while impressing others, you’re limiting your overall income potential. Perhaps this is the point. I’m suspecting the difference is between whether or not artists desire(d) the free or paid service.

James apologised, and noted to me in email that he had “personally” seen my albums off twice to reach retailer. As he also added, “There has obviously been a fundamental issue that we have not been able to
address here, but I will having a serious look into what’s gone wrong.”

RouteNote placed no apparent effort into distributing my music regardless of how many inquiries I sent over the course of six months, but was extremely quick in removing it from your service upon my request. I’ve directed artists to alternate resources for publishing their music since.

By: George

George — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 18:09:37 +0000

I’ve had many, many problems with routenote, although it’s true they have improved recently. I am still somewhat skeptical though about their sales reporting. Does anyone know how to audit them?