Jeff Price
Founder/CEO
TuneCore

Jeff Price founded and launched delivery, distribution and music service company TuneCore in 2006.

Jeff is also co-founder and was GM /President of the New York based independent record label spinART records for nineteen years. spinART was in strategic relationships with Sony, Warner Bros., Sire, Polygram Music Publishing and others and distributed over 190 releases including such band/artist as The Pixies, Ron Sexsmith, The Dears, Frank Black, Nellie McKay, John Doe, Apples In Stereo, Vic Chesnutt, Jason Falkner, Richard Thompson, Echo & The Bunnymen, The Fastbacks, The Church, The Eels, Clem Snide and more. spinART records was the first record label in the music industry to offer its catalog of releases via paid download as mp3s.

From 2004 to Present, Jeff contributed to the founding charter and organization of The American Association of Independent Music (AAIM) – a non profit non-governmental trade organization representing the interests of its independent label members. He is also a sitting member of the AAIM New Media Board.

From 1997 – 2001 Jeff Price worked with EMusic serving first as a consultant, next as interim VP of Content Acquisition and finally as the Senior Director of Music/Business Development. He contributed towards the creation of EMusic’s initial business model, played an active internal team role in EMusic’s successfully completed $30MM private placement in March 1999 and $90MM second round financing in September 1999 and created and implement the first subscription-based music sales and distribution structure.

He has appeared at numerous conferences including CMJ, In The City, WebNYC, ECMA, Midem, Winter Music Conference, New Music Seminar, Billboard Music and Money Symposium, Independent Music Festival, Music Biz 2005, Audio Soft, MP3 Summit, South By South West, Digital Distribution and the Music Industry and countless others as well as teaches occasionally at New York University, Pace University, Berklee College of Music and more.

In addition, he has appeared on Nightline, CNBC, ABC News, CNN, MSNBC, CW11, and has been interviewed and quoted in publications ranging from the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Billboard, Fortune, Spin, Crain’s, London Daily Mirror, NPR, National Geographic, Wired News, Business Week, The Industry Standard, Boston Globe, Stereophile, to Salon.com, ON24.com, ZDnet, and CNET to many others.

He is featured in the book “Off the Charts” – an expose of the music industry. At the request of a congressional panel, he supplied a written deposition in the SEC investigation of Time Warner’s failed acquisition bid of EMI and has provided a witness statement for the SoundExchange arbitration relating to the royalty rate for webcasting.