We are excited to be able to offer you a brand new Zimbalam Backstage interface.
The new interface benefits from a new design and a number of new features, designed to make Zimbalam simpler, more intuitive and more enjoyable to use.

The new interface will allow you:

1. To create, edit and upload your releases with a few clicks thanks to the new ‘Manage my releases’ tab.
2. To create and customize the Zimbalam widgets more easily and share them on your social networking sites. (MySpace, Facebook, blogs etc.)
3. To understand the daily, weekly and monthly progression of your sales and analyse your day to day earnings very precisely following each quarter
4. To easily enter all of your information in one place (Banking details, personal information, languages etc.)

Take advantage of America’s biggest music industry extravaganza, SXSW, with a great deal from Zimbalam this March.

Didn’t get a chance to show off your stuff at this year’s SXSW conference? You can still take advantage of the buzz surrounding the event with our SXSW promotion; we are offering all users the chance to release their music for 80% off the normal price until the end of the month, so don’t hang around, release your music today!




Using our special promo code, you can release a single for just $3.99 and an EP or album for just $5.99! a saving of over 80% on the standard prices of $19.99 and $29.99 respectively!


To take advantage of this fantastic offer, simply enter the code SXSW at the validation stage, but hurry, the code is only valid until the 31st of March.


There are no extra or hidden fees, just the standard annual fee, which is applicable from year 2 of your contract and you will earn 100% of all royalties, just as with the standard contract, so what are you waiting for? Upload your release today!

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Zimbalam is now paying artists 100% of the royalties from each release distributed with us.

Even more importantly, it won’t cost you any more to put a release out with Zimbalam!

We are still charging just $19.99 to distribute a single and $29.99 for an EP or album release. But instead of giving us a percentage of each sale we have added a new annual subscription charge of $9.99 for a single or $19.98 for an EP or album which will be deducted from your royalties.

Rather than deduct a percentage of each sale we think it is more beneficial for artists to pay a flat fee for their release and earn 100% of all the money that the release makes. As payment for the annual fee Zimbalam will keep the first $9.99 or $19.98 earned by each release respectively and, once this initial fee has been recouped, we will pay you 100% of the royalties for your release.

This is the fairest solution for artists on the market, as, rather than directly charge your bank account an annual subscription fee like our competitors, we simply deduct from your royalties. We will also not charge you extra if a particular release doesn’t sell well in a particular annual period.

You will only ever have to pay Zimbalam once for our services, any future fees or subscription charges are automatically deducted from your royalties so you don’t need to worry about being charged an arm and a leg for hidden fees and extra services without warning!

For example, if one release only sells a few copies we won’t charge you a full fee to keep it online, in fact we won’t charge your account at all, we will simply keep whatever the release has earned and put the fee back for the next year. This allows you to keep your releases online forever at no additional cost and with no financial risk on your behalf that, with another distributor, would be taken from your account by direct debit, regardless of sales.

Please see the table below for an example of how much better off an artist can be under the new deal if they sell £5,000 worth of an album release:

The new deal will be launched tomorrow for new users and all releases completed as of midnight tonight will be subject to the terms of the new deal. For artists that have already distributed a release with Zimbalam, the deal will remain the same for any release(s) currently online, earning 90% of royalties.

However, anyone wishing to switch a particular release to the new deal, will be switched to the new contract from this point forward. Free of charge.

If you have any questions about the new offer please email us and we will talk you through it.

The new and improved player is now available in your Zimbalam area.

Your Zimbalam area has been updated today with the new player, which has been given a design and functionality overhaul to improve the visual impact and uses of the player for your music!

The new player is the best tool to convert your audience and fanbase into digital customers and can be implemented across all web applications.

The major changes to the player are listed below:


Quicker : the new player is quicker to load and will always display the correct local store link for your fans based on the location of their IP address.

More Practical : The improved player will now display your entire discography in one place, there is no longer any need to embed different players for each individual release.

More Customizable: Pick any background image, you no longer just have the option of using your artwork and there is a huge choice of colors available to suit.

More Complete: Link your player with your social networks and the player will automatically update news, videos and more from your feeds online ; YouTube videos, Twitter feeds, MySpace, Facebook and more …

More Viral: With direct links to the major social networking tools; MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, your fans can link to keep up to date with all your 2.0 activities.

Brand new Facebook Players are now available on your Backstage area..

Designed and built by the Zimbalam team, they are the only player currently compatible with Facebook that features direct purchase links to the major online stores!

To install the application on your profile, a very simple tutorial is available on your Zimbalam Backstage Area.

Check out an example here.

To add the application, please visit : http://apps.facebook.com/zimbalam/