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WHAT IS TOPTEMPO.com ALL ABOUT?
  • HISTORY
    TOPTEMPO.com was created in the year 2000 to promote the #1 roster for David Blumberg on mp3.com. Mr. Blumberg has mainly concentrated on independent artists, as well as artists in search of contracts. TOPTEMPO.com has featured many artists in many genres for their content on mp3.com.

    Since mp3.com was aquired by a bigger company and stopped to to focus on the independent artist, many sites were explored by many artists from the ex-roster of Mr. Blumberg. None of those sites has turned out to become what mp3.com used to be.

    Since internet bandwidth became more affordable, we decided to redevelop TOPTEMPO.com to provide all the great features that made mp3.com so great.

    ** Mr. Blumberg is not participating in TOPTEMPO.com currently. **

  • WHAT ARE WE ABOUT?
    We are all about:
    - Providing a service to the independent artist to make music available in mp3 format for download and/or purchase.
    - SAVING THE ARTIST MONEY
    - and to DEVELOP AS MANY QUALITY SERVICES AS POSSIBLE.
    - to SERVE the Independent Artists.
    - to SERVE the site visitors.
    - to PROTECT PERSONAL DATA.
    - to TO KEEP THE SITE SECURE, POPUP-FREE and SPAM-FREE.

    We intend to do the very best to ensure that both artists and site visitors have a quality experience.

  • CONTINUOUS DEVELOPMENT
    Artists
    We are now able to provide the artist with an artist page and space for 10 songs for free. Songs have to be encoded in mp3 format before upload. The artist can:

    - set a price per song and a 300K clip for the visitor to listen to. A buyer will have to agree to the Download Agreement to ensure that the song will be purchased for personal use only.
    - Offer a song for free download with no validation. This will require no signup from site visitors.
    - Offer the song for free download enforceable with a Download Agreement. The Download Agreement requires a site visitor to sign up and requires a valid email adress, which will set a browser cookie and allow the visitor to download songs.
    - Make a song unavailable. This is almost equal to a delete, but the song will remain on the site, and can be made active at any time.

    Site Visitors
    - Can find music on charts by genre.
    - Get free downloads.
    - Get a "MY SONGS" area for purchased songs.
    - Get a "COMPILATIONS" area to set up compilations of free downloadable content, which could contain music of various artists.

  • THE ARTIST AGREEMENT
    The Artist Agreement is set up to ensure that the artist will ALWAYS REMAIN THE OWNER OF HIS/HER MUSIC. We have contracted Rod Underhill, one of the original co-founders of mp3.com, to write the Artist Agreement. Rod is a specialist in copyrights and music, and is still a crusader for independent artists.

  • THE BOTTOMLINE
    To us, it is an honor to serve you. We are building TOPTEMPO.com to be the place, which we would have wanted for our own music. We understand the many concerns you have in uploading your music to be available online. We do not take our responsibilities lightly in our efforts to serve the independent musician, as well as site visitors.

    Sincerely
    TOPTEMPO.com Management


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