The sell-straight-to-fans service from independent download outfit 7Digital, Indiestore, celebrated its second birthday yesterday, and released a load of stats about the service to date, including the fact it now enables 50,000 unsigned and independent artists to sell their music online.
7Digital indiestore Project Manager Tejas Mistry told CMU: "7digital indiestore has gone from strength-to-strength since we launched two years ago, providing a powerful, flexible and cost-effective platform for unsigned and independent artists to sell DRM free MP3 music to a worldwide audience. The message is clear to new bands that you can now get your music heard in new ways and reach new audiences without the need for huge marketing budgets previously associated with the music industry. indiestore bands are promoted alongside big name acts such as Kylie and Madonna on 7digital.com also, which significantly increases their exposure and reach".