ArtistShare is the internet's first commercial

crowdfunding Crowdfunding is the practice of funding a project or venture by raising money from a large number of people, typically via the internet. Crowdfunding is a form of crowdsourcing and Alternative Finance, alternative finance. In 2015, over was rais ...

website.Crowd-Funding 101: What Every Musician Needs for a Successful Campaign It also operates as a

record label A record label, or record company, is a brand or trademark of music recordings and music videos, or the company that owns it. Sometimes, a record label is also a publishing company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the prod ...

and

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for artists which enables them to fund their projects by allowing the general public to directly finance, watch the creative process, and in most cases gain access to extra material from an artist. According to

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, the company's chief executive officer, Brian Camelio, founded ArtistShare in 2000 with the idea that fans would finance production costs for albums sold only on the Internet and Artists also would enjoy much more favourable contract terms. ArtistShare was described in 2005 as a "completely new business model for creative artists" which "benefits both the artist and the fans by financing new and original artistic projects while building a strong and loyal fan base".

History

A United States-based company, ArtistShare (2001) is documented as being the first crowdfunding website followed later by sites such as

Sellaband Sellaband was a music website that allowed artists to raise the money from their fans and the SellaBand community in order to record a professional album. Sellaband used the mechanisms of crowdfunding and was to be seen as a Direct-to-Fan/ fan-f ...

(2006), SliceThePie (2007), IndieGoGo (2008), Spot.us (2008), Pledge Music (2009), and

Kickstarter Kickstarter is an American public benefit corporation based in Brooklyn, New York, that maintains a global crowdfunding platform focused on creativity. The company's stated mission is to "help bring creative projects to life". As of July 2021, K ...

(2009). ArtistShare projects have received 29 Grammy nominations and 10 Grammy awards to date. In 2005, American composer Maria Schneider's ''Concert in the Garden'' became the first album in

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history to win an award without being available in retail stores. The album was ArtistShare's first fan-funded project. Schneider received four nominations that year for the fan-funded album and won the Grammy for ''Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album''. According to ArtistShare.com, ArtistShare artists consist of "some of today's most prestigious artists including Pulitzer prize and Oscar nominated writers, Guggenheim fellowship recipients and NEA Jazz Masters". In May 2013, ArtistShare partnered with

Blue Note Records Blue Note Records is an American jazz record label owned by Universal Music Group and operated under Capitol Music Group. Established in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Max Margulis, it derived its name from the blue notes of jazz and the blues. Or ...

to form a collaboration titled 'Blue Note/ArtistShare'. The Blue Note/ArtistShare collaboration was forged by Brian Camelio,

Bruce Lundvall Bruce Lundvall (September 13, 1935 – May 19, 2015) was an American record company executive, best known for his period as the President and CEO of the Blue Note Label Group, reporting directly to Eric Nicoli, the Chief Executive Officer of EMI ...

, and

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, President of Blue Note Records. In Blue Note's press release about the collaboration, Lundvall, Blue Note Chairman Emeritus, is quoted as saying, "'ArtistShare founder Brian Camelio is a true visionary. I see the ArtistShare business model as a key component of the future music business'"Blue Note Record

Retrieved October 24, 2013 The collaboration will "'essentially serve as a low-risk development arm of the label'" since the recordings will be funded by the fans.

Grammy Awards

* Grammy Award for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album, Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album: ''

Concert in the Garden ''Concert in the Garden'' is the fourth studio album by American jazz composer Maria Schneider. The album was released in 2004 by ArtistShare and won the Grammy Award for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album in 2005. In 2019, the album was selected ...

'' by Maria Schneider (2005); '' The Thompson Fields'' by Maria Schneider (2015) * Best Instrumental Composition: "Into the Light" by

Billy Childs William Edward Childs (born March 8, 1957) is an award-winning American composer, jazz pianist, arranger and conductor from Los Angeles, California, United States. Early life When he was sixteen he attended the Community School of the Performing ...

(2006);Billy Childs at Grammy.co

Retrieved October 8, 2011Billy Childs Discography "Cerulean Skies" by Maria Schneider (2008); "The Path Among the Trees" by Billy Childs (2011);Billy Childs Discography - ''Autumn: In Moving Pictures'' Retrieved October 8, 2011 "How About You" from the ''Gil Evans Project:Centennial'' (2013) * Grammy Award for Best Latin Jazz Album, Best Latin Jazz Album: '' Simpático'' by Brian Lynch and Eddie Palmieri (2007)Brian Lynch at Grammy.co

Retrieved October 8, 2011Brian Lynch Discograph

Retrieved October 8, 2011 * Grammy Award for Best Classical Contemporary Composition, Best Contemporary Classical Composition: ''

Winter Morning Walks ''Winter Morning Walks'' is a studio album by Maria Schneider and Dawn Upshaw. The album won the Grammy Award for Best Classical Contemporary Composition and Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Classical in 2014. Reception Vincent Plush o ...

'', by Maria Schneider (2014) * Best Classical Vocal Solo:

Dawn Upshaw Dawn Upshaw (born July 17, 1960) is an American soprano. She is the recipient of several Grammy Awards and has released a number of Edison Award-winning discs; she performs both opera and art song, and her repertoire spans Baroque to contempor ...

, ''

'' * Best Engineered Album, Classical: ''

Patent dispute

On September 30, 2011,

filed a

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suit against ArtistShare and Fan Funded which owns U.S. patent , "Methods and apparatuses for financing and marketing a creative work". In June 2015, US District Judge Katherine Failla ruled in favor of KickStarter against ArtistShare.

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* {{Authority control Music organizations based in the United States Crowdfunding platforms of the United States Jazz record labels

History

Grammy Awards

Patent dispute

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