The new year is just around the corner, and we wanted to notify you of some important changes to the MP3.com Artist Services going into effect in January 2003:
Your Monthly Subscription Fee Will be Reduced P4P Promotion Will be Discontinued New Name for the Premium Artist Service and a New Gold Service Artist Cash Program Will be Discontinued Basic (non-Premium) Artist Pages Will Display Three Songs Maximum netCD Program Will be Changed Customer Support has Changed truSONIC Royalty Payments Will Continue Subscription Fee Will be Reduced Payments due after January 15 will automatically be reduced to only $14.99 -- a 25% savings from your current fee. Additionally, as an option to the monthly subscription plan, a new annual subscription plan of only $99.99 per year will be available -- a 58% savings from your current fee.
P4P Promotion Will be Discontinued It's our goal to offer Premium Artists the best service for their money and tools that benefit all members. We realize the P4P promotion is popular, but achieving this goal was getting more difficult given the enormous accounting, engineering, research and fulfillment costs that went into both the P4P promotion and regrettably, the monitoring of individuals gaming the system. We have thus decided to discontinue the P4P promotion on January 15. Learn more.
New Name for the Premium Artist Service and a New Gold Service The Premium Artist Service will be referred to as the Platinum Service. And a new Gold Service will be available for Artists who want fewer Platinum Service benefits for a lower fee of $4.99 a month or $49.99 a year. More details about the new Gold Service will be available January 15.
Artist Cash Program Will be Discontinued Accounting and engineering resource issues associated with the P4P promotion apply also to the Artist Cash program. This has made it necessary for us to discontinue one of our more convenient Artist programs. If you are currently paying for any subscriptions with Artist Cash, please go to your My Account, to easily create an alternate payment method. Learn more.
Basic (non-Premium) Artist Pages Will Display Three Songs Maximum After January 31, only Gold and Platinum Artists can display an unlimited amount of songs on their Artist page. Basic Artists can display a maximum of three songs on their Artist page. On January 31, all Basic Artist pages with four or more songs will automatically default to display the three most recently uploaded songs. However, on the same date, we will add new functionality to the Song Admin that will allow Artists to quickly and easily select the songs they would like displayed. If you have any Basic Artist accounts please keep this in mind. Learn more.
netCD Program Will be Changed Based on consumer feedback to simplify the online shopping experience, starting on January 15 we will discontinue the sale of netCDs as a stand-alone product. Accordingly, the netCD option will be removed from all Artist pages. Please note, My.MP3 account holders purchasing your CDs still will get the netCD version automatically added to their music locker. netCDs purchased prior to January 15 will remain accessible in the music locker as well.
Customer Support Has Changed As previously announced on December 6, 2002, only Premium Artists can receive email support from our Customer Service team. The 48 hours or less response time for Premium Artists is still in place. If you have any Basic Artist accounts please keep this in mind. Learn more.
truSONIC Royalty Payments Will Continue Platinum and Gold Artists with songs active in the truSONIC business music playlists will receive truSONIC royalties.
We're eager to offer new services to help get your music heard by a large, enthusiastic audience. Thanks for your continued membership and making online music promotion the success it is today.