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'Rock Band' opens up to indie artists

article published on 20 July, 2009

MTV Games and Harmonix have announced that they plan to start the Rock Band Network next month, which will allow indie musicians to add their music to the popular instrument game. Cnet says that "to program songs for the game, you need a membership to Microsoft's XNA Creators' Club, which was launched a couple years ago to let independent developers create casual games to sell through ... [ read the full article ]

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ROMaster2
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_ 		20. July 2009 @ 01:28 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
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They also get to keep 30 percent of all sales revenue.
For indie artists, they better get enough sales to at least compensate for the money they spend on getting those songs on.

On another note, if there's too many songs then most to all artists won't get noticed at all.
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emugamer
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_ 		20. July 2009 @ 14:18 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
The investment seems minimal. Even if they only pay $49 for 4 months. If they release 5 songs and sell them each for $1.50 to 50 people, they walk away with $112. Not a bad return on the investment, plus they get some exposure to people who might just want to give their song a try.
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ee2skater
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_ 		23. July 2009 @ 15:22 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Would this work for artists who are popular but not popular enough to be in Rock Band? I'm kinda dying to play A Day To Remember on Rock Band..
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