Reap Music is a service that allows you, as a musician, to:

• Sell your music directly from their own website, whether it is a simple page on MySpace, Facebook, or a custom designed site. No technical skills are necessary, other than the ability to copy and paste some HTML code that we provide.
• Get your music promoted cost effectively and efficiently (the cheapest promotion package is FREE!). It's all very well putting up a website to show off your work, but how do you actually attract customers to it? We promote your music through various online channels including Internet radio. We aim to ensure that your music is promoted only to those who are most likely to appreciate it.

More features will be added soon.
Our number one aim is to ensure that musicians get the biggest share of revenue possible from their work.

Simple. Just complete the registration form. We'll then send you a confirmation message by email. You can be registered and ready to go in less than 30 seconds!

Yes, absolutely. This is both a legal requirement and a condition of using our service.
You must either own, or have full rights to distribute and sell your music. Note that, even if you performed the music yourself, if you did not compose / write the material yourself, you may still be required to pay royalties to the composers / writers of the music.
Reap Music aims to ensure that all recording artists reap their due rewards. We do not condone music piracy in any form whatsoever.

After you have registered and confirmed your email address, you can login to the site using your email address and password.
Once logged in, you will see a link to "Create a new album..." on the left side of the window, under "My Albums".
Clicking this link will take you to the album editor, which will give you step-by-step instructions on how to upload your music and arrange tracks into the desired order.

After you have registered, uploaded your music and created one or more albums, you are ready to start selling your music.
To do this, we'll give you some HTML code that you can copy and paste into a page on your own artist / band website. Whenever customers visit your site, they will see your album actually displayed within the page. They will be able to preview and purchase either the whole album, or individual music tracks (songs). Customers pay for the music using their credit cards, and then they are taken to a page that will allow them to download the music they have purchased.

Reap Music does not support music piracy in any form whatsoever. No music will be distributed from our servers, except to those customers who have paid for it.
However, we do believe in upholding the fair usage rights of music consumers. Once the customer has it, they are free to make backup copies, burn an audio CD and listen to it on a portable music player (such as an iPod).
We distribute music in the popular MP3 format, and do not use systems such as Digital Rights Management (DRM) to prevent further copying. We believe that DRM only serves to restrict the ability of your customers to enjoy your music by limiting the ways in which they can choose to listen to it. Furthermore, most online music stores these days, such as iTunes (Apple) and Amazon Music are now either moving away from DRM or have abandoned it completely. CDs have been sold for years without any form of rights management, and we don't see why downloaded music should be more restrictive. DRM has totally failed in preventing music piracy.
The solution to music piracy is simple: Keep producing great music, to make sure your fans keep coming back for more!

This depends on which of our promotion packages you choose.
Basically, we guarantee to get your music directly into the ears of those who are most likely to appreciate it. If they like what they hear, we will make it very easy for them to buy it.
For example, if you choose the free promotion package, then we'll make your music available to listeners of Last.fm. If a listener likes your music, they can then simply click on the "buy" button, which appears on the page in Last.fm when your music is playing, and they will then immediately be taken to your website (to the page that you pasted your album's HTML code into) where they can make their purchase.
So, even with the basic package, we get your music "out there" to the relevant audience, and also guide them back to your site and through the whole purchase. You can track every sale as they happen, by logging in and clicking on "My Transactions".
With the more advanced packages you get more promotion, with guaranteed airplay through a number of channels, which currently include Last.fm and Jango. And we are continuously expanding the range of promotional channels that you can use, providing more and more opportunities for your music to reach new audiences.

Registering and uploading your music is FREE. You get:

• UNLIMITED storage for all of your music tracks (songs)
• UNLIMITED number of albums
• UNLIMITED number of artists / bands / orchestras

We charge a commission equal to 30% of each sale made. You keep the rest.
If you wish, you may choose to invest in one of our more advanced promotional packages. These carry a monthly fee, which will be shown to you before you sign up for the package. This fee will be charged to your PayPal or credit card account.

We'll make regular payments directly into your PayPal account.
To make this possible, you'll need to give us the email address that your PayPal account is registered to. Note that this will only allow us to deposit funds into your PayPal account, and not withdraw funds or charge you anything. Please DO NOT disclose your PayPal account password to anyone, including us.
To do this, log in to the Reap Music website and click on "My Account". Here, you will see a tab named "Edit", and under that, another tab named "Remittances". Click on this tab, and enter your PayPal email address into the field marked "PayPal Account Email". Make sure you click on the "Save" button, to send this information to us.
Each month, usually on around the first working day, we will check to see if your total sales balance has reached $100 (U.S. currency). If it does, then we will deposit your total sales amount minus our 30% commission into your PayPal account. No charge will be made for this process.

Great! We'd love to hear from you. Just complete our contact form and we'll get back to you as soon as possible.