Jamendo is a music website and open community of independent artists and music lovers. It makes itself "the world's largest digital music service for free".
Jamendo was originally introduced as a service to release music under a Creative Commons license. Until October 2015, Jamendo no longer advertises its music as Creative Commons but rather "free download/free download" for personal use. Jamendo's goal is to connect musicians and music lovers from around the world, and to unite independent music communities around the world, creating an experience and value around it.
At Jamendo's center is an economic model that provides free music downloads to web users, while at the same time providing revenue opportunities for artists through commercial use, through the music licensing platform Jamendo License that sells licenses for music sync and background music.
Based in Luxembourg, the website has a 3 million member community.
By the end of 2013, this catalog offers over 400,000 songs by 30,000 artists from 150 countries. Starting January 2015, Jamendo's page shows the number of 460,000 songs available, and a total of 250 million downloads since the platform's launch.
In December 2016, 40,000 artists from 150 countries trust Jamendo, sharing more than half a million songs to stream and download for free. The site is available in 8 languages: English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Polish, Russian and Portuguese
The name "Jamendo" is a portmanteau derived from a combination of two music terms: "jam session" and "crescendo".
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History
Jamendo S.A., originally created under the name Peermajor SARL in 2004, was launched in January 2005. Funded in June 2007 by Mangrove Capital Partners, a Skype investor. Starting in January 2007, Jamendo tested an advertising revenue-sharing program which was later canceled. In December 2007, the second version of the website was launched, offering new designs and new functions. On June 18, 2008, this platform exceeded 10,000 album achievements.
At the end of 2008 Jamendo launched Jamendo PRO, a music licensing platform for commercial use, making Jamendo music available for synchronization of audiovisual projects (movies, TVs, advertisements, web & company videos, video games, apps, etc.) and as background music on public places (shops, restaurants, hotels, etc.).
June 2009 saw the release of Jamendo's first mobile app for Android and iOS. In the same month, Jamendo and CTO founder Sylvain Zimmer received the Young Entrepreneur Award of the Year in Luxembourg. In December 2009, a partnership was made with Deezer, giving Jamendo artists the opportunity to release their music on Deezer as well.
Jamendo faced financial difficulties in early 2010 and started looking for investors. Stability returned when MusicMatic (now Storever), a Brussels-based company specialized in music solutions for businesses and public places, entered the capital Jamendo.
In August 2011, Jamendo obtained the label "PUR" from the French authority HADOPI, which was updated the following year.
On April 24, 2012, the third version of the website was launched. It offers a new design, new functionality that allows more artist promotions, ten new genre-specific radio channels, etc.
On December 8, 2014, Jamendo PRO changed to Jamendo License, showing a completely changed version of their commercial services.
Until October 2015, Jamendo officially became Jamendo Music, demonstrating his willingness to clearly distinguish two parts of the company (Jamendo Music and Jamendo Licensing). Jamendo Music intends to provide music for personal use only, and Jamendo Licensing is a market where anyone can sell and buy music, whether it is for multimedia projects (television, movies, commercials, video production..) or as background music for space commercial.
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Share music for free
Jamendo offers artists the opportunity to publish their music for free under the Creative Commons license (as well as the Free Art License in the past). In order to avoid contractual litigation, artists joining Jamendo can not be enrolled in any rights-gathering society, such as GEMA in Germany, SGAE in Spain, or SACEM in France. More flexibility is observed in other collecting societies, recognizing music under a Creative Commons license during excluded commercial use. This is especially true for SACEM in France. In the United States, ASCAP and BMI even recognize the use of Jamendo by their registered artist.
Each artist has a profile featuring uploaded albums and singles, along with artist information. This profile is managed by the artist, with access to features and tools such as stats, notifications about interactions with music, fan messaging, etc.
Use of website
Users can listen to MP3 encoded audio files (96 kbit/s) and download in MP3 (192kbit/s) and Ogg Vorbis format. Listen and download free, unlimited and no ads.
Each user has a personal account where additional features are available, for example, create playlists, store their favorite songs and albums, become artist enthusiasts, share on social networks, review songs or albums, and follow their favorite artists. The website also promotes new music through editorial feeds on the homepage, along with top graphics and genre-specific radio channels. Search engines allow users to search for a particular artist or title, but also search by tag, selected by artists to describe their song (genre, instrument, mood, theme, etc.). Jamendo is integrated in media players such as VLC media player, Songbird, Clementine and Amarok 2. It integrates into Rhythmbox from 0.9.6 to 2.9x versions, then deleted for technical reasons, but the library can be accessed from the Grilo Rhilo plugin. Jamendo is not integrated into Banshee by default, but can be integrated with a plugin.
Business model
According to an article on the Jamendo business model, the use of Jamendo's voluntary donation is the first serious attempt at file-sharing sites to provide a way to directly pay for the artist. In 2007, Jamendo provided a revenue-sharing model for artists.
In 2016, Jamendo earns $ 1 Million for independent artists, with only a share of every income and leaving a fair share to the rights holders (up to 65%).
Jamendo works with Storever (formerly MusicMatic) to offer music solutions for chain stores and public places.
Jamendo License
The Jamendo License Service is an intermediary between artists and third parties who wish to use the music in their projects. Under the CC Plus concept, licenses are granted primarily for use not covered by the Creative Commons license. Jamendo Artists are free to opt-out of services, which gives them a fair share of all revenue generated by their licenses sold on platforms (up to 65%). This section is determined by several factors, such as contract type, sales amount, and so on.
Jamendo licenses answer various needs in music licensing: The catalog offers low-cost music licenses for synchronization in audiovisual projects (advertising, movies, television, video games, mobile apps, YouTube videos, etc.), while In-Store offers background music solutions for space commercial (shops, shops, hotels, restaurants, etc.).
References
External links
- Official website
- Jamendo's publishing catalog on MusicBrainz
- Jamendo # hot100 Charts
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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