This is an important point. Larger sites/distributors often use smaller distributors they trust to act as gatekeepers. Way back before the Distributor Apocalypse of the past few years, Dietrich Schoenemann at SG (Now Complete) Distribution picked up my two records, and the majority of his sales were to other distributors. So a completely unknown label, with mostly unknown artists, was able to be in European distributor catalogs and Watts, based on Dietrich selling it to him.
I never had huge sales, but Ben Sims played one of my records a lot back in 2001, and you can still get the records in Europe. One guy in a crappy building in Brooklyn had a really long reach. The moral being, when finding a distributor, ask the smaller distros if they have ongoing relationships with bigger distros. You could end up in the catalogs of distributors who would ignore you if you went to them directly. On 7/27/07, J.T. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > We applied to Beatport directly and they totally ignored us -- only when we > signed on with a > third party digital distrib did we get on, and it seems some distribs have > more clout than others
