Timeless Music Company

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Timeless Music Company is an Australian independent music label that was founded by John Evans and Marko Srdanov-Miletic. The music label is involved in both physical and digital distribution, licensing, publishing, synchronisation and online retail. They provide music fans access to classics from all eras including rare recordings from the 1920s, 30s and 40s to present-day acts. [1]

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Digital distribution

Timeless Music is a digital aggregator and has direct agreements with digital music outlets such as iTunes, Amazon mp3 and Australia’s telecommunications company Telstra - Bigpond Music. The company has created its own digital department for direct ingestion into these online stores. [2]

iTunes Store digital media store

The iTunes Store is a software-based online digital media store operated by Apple Inc. that opened on April 28, 2003, as a result of Steve Jobs' push to open a digital marketplace for music. As of January 2017, iTunes offered over 35-40 million songs, 2.2 million apps, 25,000 TV shows, and 65,000 films. When it opened, it was the only legal digital catalog of music to offer songs from all five major record labels. As of June 2013, iTunes Store possessed 575 million active user accounts, and served over 315 million mobile devices, including Apple Watches, iPods, iPhones, Apple TV and iPads.

Telstra Corporation Limited is Australia's largest telecommunications company which builds and operates telecommunications networks and markets voice, mobile, internet access, pay television and other products and services.

Licensing and synchronisation

The company has an extensive catalogue available for licensing world-wide and are involved in catalogue licensing opportunities for the Australasian and New Zealand markets via physical and digital avenues. Signed artists with Timeless Music also have their music exposed to possible synchronisation deals.

Publishing

Timeless Music has their publishing administered by Big Jo-ke Music publishing. Big Jo-ke was founded by Ken Harding and John Evans in 1993.

Online retail

The company has its own retail arm, https://timelessmusic.com.au/shop, that sells CDs and promotes its own artists and catalogue.

Studio and mastering

Timeless Music also owns a post-production services company called DCDM which handles all aspects of production including audio mastering, DVD authoring, CD and DVD duplication, replication, graphic design, promotional mail outs and distribution. [3]

References

  1. "Australian Music Labels". bigpondmusic.com. Bigpond Music. 2009.
  2. "Collaborates with iTunes". ecmta.org. ECMTA. 2010.
  3. "CMAA Resources". country.com.au. Country Music Association of Australia. 2010.