Fifty100. FIFTY genres + 100 top artists in each genre. Fifty100 is a new-media marketing and digital distribution platform for artists across 10 genres (phase 1 only, with additional genres deploying every 6-8 weeks). So don’t blink.

With Fifty100 there will be no more guesswork. No more sinking into the digital labyrinth. If you’re an artist, you’re where you want to be: front and center. If you’re a fan, all of your favorite artists are where you want them: front and center. We want everyone to hear our artists sing out – and we believe they should get paid while doing it.

• A 75% split to our 25% commission on all your revenue.
• You retain ownership of all music, photos, video in a non-exclusive agreement.
• Marketing support: Fifty100 will re-invest 30% of its 25% back into your marketing (trackable within your control panel).
• The ability to network with other artists in your genre and access combined target audiences.
• Optimum accessibility to fans in a global community through our unique interface and hover button function.
• Cutting edge online tools to virally connect with your fans and other artists to help maximize your market reach.
• The ability to disseminate any information about yourself quickly to your fans with the click of a button.
• Monetization of your own ad spaces where sponsors advertise in your microsite resulting in you earning revenue.
• Completely transparent real-time statistical reports including revenue from singles, EPs & albums; fan purchases and buyer identification; most popular tracks played and downloaded; fan demographic overviews; video plays; and sponsor ad clicks with sponsor ad space revenue.
• Digital flier spaces where you can promote your gigs and events to the Fifty100 community.
• Additional marketing arms for you where fans are given a 10% monetary commission to promote and sell your music at no loss to you.

In your artist microsites we give you multiple revenue streams and a plethora of cutting edge marketing tools to virally connect to your fans.

But the money flow doesn’t end there, folks!

If you’re a fan, you create a page and get to put a few dollar bills in your pocket from your 10% commission from tracks other fans purchase from you via our nifty online tools. Everyone gets a piece of the pie…

• A free profile page with incredible interactive tools.
• Complete access to Indie artists across multiple genres and beyond in one special network completely dedicated to music.
• The ability to make a commission when a friend of yours buys a track through your efforts of promoting your favorite artists. These efforts include purchases from newsfeeds, email notifications, or from your Fifty100 embeddable radio player.
• A simple navigational environment to find artist and other fan info and activities.
• State of the art viral tools that bring you closer to your friends and your favorite artists, and them closer to you.
• In depth viral tools that allow you to connect with other fans to discover new music, share tracks, and show your activity involving your favorite artists.
• The ability to carry an embeddable radio player of your favorite Fifty100 artists with you to place on other networks, where music purchases from the player yield you a commission.
• Complete statistical reports of all tracks downloaded, shared, and placed in your radio player.
• General stats including profile views, total friends and artists, and ways to filter each.
• Shared profile information that includes genres you are a part of, instruments you play, and your current mood.
• Revenue reports of fan-purchased music from you and who these fans are.
• Two calendars: a personal calendar for your and your friends’ events, and an artist calendar with all of your favorite artist event information (which can be added to your personal calendar).
• Easy access to all Fifty100 artists and ways to discover new music on every page.
• A music library where you can control and filter all aspects of your music (including tracks from your radio player), and download your purchased music at anytime.
• Up-to-the-minute activity of all your favorite artists and friends.
• Many other sophisticated tools found in the social network arena.

Didn’t think you could have that much fun listening to your favorite artists AND get paid while doing it? We didn’t either until we realized that this is what music fans have been demanding. More exposure to independent artists with the viral tools to connect.

And it’s leading to a transformation of the music industry…

Marlon Ray (CEO, President/Fifty100) The Vision. Fifty100 founder/creator and overall entrepreneurial maverick with an eye for new media trends and business partnerships.

John Pascual (CTO, Vice President/Fifty100) Vision and Technology. Fifty100 founder/creator and tech wizard responsible for bringing the site from concept to digital manifestation together with an amazing technical team.

Cazembe Abena (Dir. Genre and A&R/Fifty100) The Music. Able to discover the best and brightest new artists in one single sound to expand the genres for worldwide music aficionados.

Megan Karasch (Attorney & Associate Dir. Genre Dev.) The Law. Fifty100’s head attorney who keeps us out of trouble. Nothing gets past her. And when she’s not studying the law, Megan scours the globe for the latest unsigned talent.

Catalina Guirado-Cheadle (Exec. Media & Artist Relations) The Facilitator. Classically trained violinist, model, former Universal  Publishing Singer Songwriter, TV personality, former SVP Artist liaison of LP33.tv and former A&R screener all wrapped into one. No wonder she's so respected in the Indie Rock scene. Facilitates key business relationships to help put Fifty100 on the map worldwide.

Itai Shapira (Artists & Relations Executive) The Encyclopedia. World ethnomusicologist extraordinaire. Our resident encyclopedia for music beyond the US borders, forming key partnerships in a single phone call.

Jeremy Tarr (Editor-In-Chief/Covers Magazine) The Content. Fifty100’s Covers Magazine head who somehow always finds new ways to make artists look good and get them noticed.

Marisa Lynch (Creative Director/Covers Magazine) The Photos. Covers Magazine’s Creative Director makes sure that when an artist shows up in the magazine, they look their best. And they always do.

Jordan Whitley (Features Editor/Covers Magazine) The Words. For those of you who don’t know what a magazine is, it’s not just for looking at, it’s for reading too. And Covers Magazine’s Features Editor makes sure it’s an enjoyable read.

In addition to the core team, we also have a great team of business heads from The Business Store Limited (Management Consulting Company to Fifty100, LLC) helping us make sure there’s always food on the table.

Paul W. Speary (Global Strategy and Marketing) The Strategy, The Numbers, and The Marketing. Fifty100’s Head of Global Strategy and Marketing has a plan for bringing Fifty100 to the world. Look out, here we come!

Angela Cruz (Marketing Consultant) The Message. How did you find out about us? Fifty100’s Marketing Consultant probably had something to do with it – she gets the word out and keeps everybody talking.

David Richmond (Business Consultant) The Business. With his finger on the pulse of the social networking and digital music industries, Fifty100’s resident business consultant keeps Fifty100 in the know and keeps us ahead of the rest.

So, here’s a toast to the thousands of talented music artists who have toured and toiled through unpaid gigs and smoke-filled empty clubs… from the new Glitch-Tech kid, to the veteran of the six-string, to the cummerbund-wearing Mel Torme crooner…

Here’s a toast to the brightest artists never heard…

Yet.