Recording artists and labels have another way to sell their music: by embedding a Kazzong widget on MySpace, fan pages, or anywhere else HTML is used. Thanks to a new Facebook app, the widgets can now be embedded there as well.
All songs are in the DRM-Free MP3 format at 192 Kbps (slightly lower for variable bit rate files), and each widget can include up to 200 songs. Artists and labels can set their own prices, get real time statistics on sales. They can also choose to have "Kazzong Sales Partners" work to promote and sell their music on social networks, for a 3 percent piece of the action.
Here’s how the revenue split breaks down for a typical deal:
– Sales tax: 19 percent (the company is based in Munich [updated], Germany)
– Payment, order handling, customer care: 14 percent
– Licensing the MP3 codec: 2 percent
– Royalty collection society: 0.13 EUR
– Hosting, traffic, development: 8 percent
– 85 percent of the remaining earnings (only 0.35 EUR for a 0.79 EUR song) goes to the artist or label, and 15 percent goes to Kazzong.
Here’s what the sales widget looks like:
(I’m Planet Vegas.)
