Pandora Comments on New Submission Requirement

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on July 1, 2009 - 9:27am.

San Francisco - Tim Westergren, founder and CEO of streaming music service Pandora, has responded to complaints about the company's new requirement that independent artists first list a CD for sale on Amazon before they are eligible for play on Pandora, Hypebot reports. Westergren chalked the move up to three reasons: "user experience, improving the metadata, and managing submissions." "We are huge believers in not discriminating against aspiring/emerging artists -- 70% of the 75,000 artists in our collection are not on a major label," Westergren told Hypebot. "All we're asking of artists is to make great music, and have it available for easy purchase for Pandora's audience."

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