You can now buy music on SoundCloud

SoundCloud has launched a caller beta diagnostic that allows artists connected the audio streaming level to sell euphony directly from their profiles, alternatively of diverting fans to acquisition from third-party services similar Bandcamp and Beatport. The diagnostic aims to springiness listeners a amended mode to enactment the musicians down their favourite songs, due to the fact that SoundCloud isn't taking immoderate committee from these income - meaning everything goes straight to the artists.

By comparison, Bandcamp takes a chopped of betwixt 10-15 percent for sales, and artists connected Beatport person astir 50-65 percent of their merchantability price. More than 250,000 artists person linked implicit 2.4 millio …

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