For budding artists, the digital distribution has become a must in order to reach out the potential fans. Your visibility grows vehemently with a smart distribution where your music will be heard by many ears as possible. It also helps you receive remuneration for your music.

digital distribution is how the music gets delivered to the listener. Earlier, the distributors entered into an agreement with the record labels in order to sell it to stores but with the advent of the digital distribution, all of it has been changed since there is a cut in the middle man. This allows the artists to distribute the music directly to the online store where they can keep 100% of the royalties.

But how does the music distribution work in the present market?

The main aim of digital distribution is to get your music on Spotify, iTunes, Google Play and many other streaming platforms and other digital music stores. You can think of them like a digital record shop where once the music is in it, people can not only stream it but also download it and buy the music. In exchange of this, the artists receive royalties which depend on how and where the user has heard your music. Similar to traditional record stores, digital stores can receive music from digital distribution companies. But the only difference is that instead of shipping boxes of vinyl every week, digital distributors can deliver digital music to the famous music stores. Digital distribution has changed everything so much that what used to take weeks or months of the manufacturing and shipping and upfront cost, now it has become all simple in just a few clicks.

It can also be said that the traditional means of distributing the records in stores and then people buying it through promotion still exists to some extent. But the role of record labels and distributors has been changed dramatically. The uplift on internet has changed the way people listen to music. People are spending more time online and less and less on physical music.

Moreover, the energy and resource of physical distribution are for the top-selling records only. If smaller brands sign it, they get trapped in the exclusive agreement which further hinders their success. It is for this reason that digital distribution is the smart way where records can be out easily and the full rights can be kept by the musician. In this context, Sugo Music Group is one of the best music distributors in California.

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Facebook aims to set up a system of digital payments in at least ten countries within the first quarter of the following year.

The relevant negotiations are conducted with large American financial institutions and with cryptocurrency exchanges, including one created by Marc Zuckerberg's "sworn" enemies, the Winklevoss twin brothers , once co-founders of Facebook.

A secretive Facebook unit has been working for over a year to create the new currency (referred to as GlobalCoin within the company), which can be used by more than two billion users to send money to each other, as well as to buy things not only on Facebook and its subsidiaries (Instagram, WhatApp), but also in various other online and physical stores, according to the Financial Times, the BBC and other crypto news sources .

Facebook is expected to reveal more details this summer and already Zuckerberg has discussed with the Governor of the Bank of England Mark Carney the opportunities and dangers of such a cryptocurrency. He has also asked for advice from US Treasury officials, while he has made contacts with money carriers like Western Union, seeking easier and cheap ways for his users to transfer money without a bank account is being mediated.

The Facebook initiative (the relevant project bears the Project Libra code) is expected to bring the banks into competition, as it will reduce the cost of transferring money. Facebook is already in contact with e-commerce companies to accept the new currency for online transactions.

Cryptocurrencies (with the most famous Bitcoin ) are based on blockchain technology. Because they have been criticized as a speculation vehicle, Facebook reportedly will seek to anchor their new currency in a "basket" of established currencies (dollar, euro, yen, etc.) in order to prevent sudden fluctuations in market value.

A decade ago Facebook had created the virtual currency called Facebook Credits , an experiment that received an odd end after almost two years, as it showed no interest to users. Now it's hoping for something better.

The big question is whether users-consumers will trust Facebook enough to accept to exchange their money with their digital currency, so that they can deal with it now.

From another point of view though, investigations initiated by the authorities in Europe and the US on Facebook's cryptocurrency, Libra, have caused concern to the other companies that are cooperating with Mark Zuckerberg on this project.

Some of them even consider stopping co-operation for Libra, according to unnamed sources of the companies that spoke to the "Financial Times". The Libra Association, Facebook's partnership for cryptocurrency, has 28 members including Visa, Mastercard, Uber, Spotify and its subsidiary, Calibra. All companies have made a non-binding agreement to invest in this effort of more than 10 billion Dollars.

Since last week, the European Commission has put on the microscope the plans of Facebook to present its own cryptocurrency, Libra, to see if the whole project is a monopoly practice. The EU is concerned that the Libra will create "possible restrictions on competition" from the information to be exchanged and the use of consumer data by the company, according to a European Commission document received in its possession Bloomberg.

It is estimated that today about 30 million people use cryptocurrencies.