1. Submit your CD for review. If we haven’t already seen the CD and confirmed it to be retail ready, you’ll need to send us a copy for review. Legal barcode, professional artwork, spine and shrink-wrap are what define a retail-ready product. Don’t have barcode or shrink-wrap? We can provide these for you for a small fee. Contact info@artist1stop.com for pricing.

2. We’ll contact you. We’ll be in touch to let you know if your product is acceptable for retail distribution, so please make sure your contact info is legible and correct.

3. We’ll send you an Artist1Stop Agreement. This agreement contains three important documents you must complete and return: the Distribution Agreement, the Materials License Agreement and the Artist New Release Form. The Distribution Agreement outlines exactly what services we’ll provide to you and how we’ll provide them. The Materials License Agreement simply confirms that you own the rights to your recordings and allows us to help promote your release. The Artist New Release Form provides us with essential info we need about your title.

4. The Artist (or representative) mails payment, signed agreements and products. In order for us to initiate the set up process we’ll need your payment, signed Artist1Stop Agreements and 5 copies of the title (CD) we’ll be distributing. Four of these CDs will be used to send to our content providers databanks and online retailers and we’ll keep one (CD) with your file. These five are not for sale and have no commercial value. We’ll be in contact with you after we’ve started your product set up process to have you ship your 30 CDs to our warehouse as inventory for order fulfillment (We’ll contact you via e-mail. We’ll only phone you if you do not respond to your e-mail in a timely manner). Please print out and include the packing slip that was sent to you via e-mail from our “Director of Product Setup” with your CDs and only send the CDs to the warehouse fulfillment center after we’ve requested them. (FYI: warehouse fulfillment center address: Synergy Distribution c/o AmeriCDisc, 2360 Pilot Knob Rd., Mendota Heights MN 55120).

5. Confirmation and set up process initialization. The set up process takes 6 to 8 weeks to complete. The reason for this is that we take each title and submit the information to the one-stops to enter into their databases. We also deliver promotional copies and info to our content providers for audio encoding and entry into their databases. Once your title(s) have been submitted in all of the Artist1Stop systems it is available nationally at both online retailers and physical retailers. We’ll send you an e-mail to confirm your product availability once the process is complete.

6. CD Sales and re-ordering. If you promote your music you’ll generate sales. As your inventory begins to sell through stores and online retailers, you’ll be issued an Inventory Request to replenish your title in our warehouse.

7. Payment. The Artist is eligible for payment 90 days after the first month that product has shipped from our warehouse to our accounts. Please refer to the Product Pricing page for more info.