Helping You Build Your Vinyl Business
Everything you need as an artist or label to fan fund your next vinyl run, from building your vinyl spec to sale and delivery to your customer and with no upfront costs this means you can focus on making and promoting your music.
Helping You Build Your Vinyl Business
Everything you need as an artist or label to fan fund your next vinyl run, from building your vinyl spec to sale and delivery to your customer and with no upfront costs this means you can focus on making and promoting your music.
How Does it Work?
Getting Started
Sign up to FairSound as an artist or label and build your product spec with our online configurator
Build Your Pack
The completed spec will show how many sales you need to ‘Press On’ with manufacture and the profit you could make beyond that
Pre-order Time
Put your record on sale on our store for 1 month
Final Numbers
After 1 month you choose the quantity of vinyl you press based on pre-orders. If you’ve not reached the Press On point you can still press your vinyl by paying the difference
Record Pressing
Your vinyl goes into production and is delivered direct to your customers in 12 weeks
Extra
If you ordered extra vinyl keep your product on sale online or take the record on tour to sell!
Configurator
Example Profits
Based on our Standard Black Pack.
- Black Disc 140g.
- Printed Colour Centre Labels.
- White Poly-lined Inners.
- Printed 3mm Spine Outer Sleeves.
Get more options like Splatter Disc, Gatefold Sleeves etc with our full vinyl configurator by signing up.
More
Benefits
From
One Solution from start to finish
Everything is carried out in-house from deciding on vinyl spec, to sales, to manufacture to delivery to your fans.
More Sustainability
Less environmental impact and lower costs distributing direct to pre-order customers from the factory.
Save Money
Save on postage and packaging direct from the plant and access our wholesale pressing prices
For the Fans
Backing an Artist
Backing an Artist
When you back a campaign, funds will be taken from your account. Once the Press On Point is reached, manufacturing begins
Support
Support your favourite artists to release their music on vinyl! Each pre-order is one-step closer to funding an entire run of vinyl.
Unsuccessful Campaign
If the campaign is unsuccessful, you will receive a full refund.
Real Life Vinyl
Artists powered by you. Independent artists are facing unprecedented challenges and with your help, you can make having their music pressed to vinyl a reality.
Real World Examples
Emerging Artists
FairSound partnered with Komparrison for the release of their debut EP. It was their first physical release and led to exposure from the likes of BBC Radio 6 Music, BBC News and Gigwise.
With their fanbase growing, they were booked for festivals such as Truck, Y Not and Twisterella, as well as heading out on their headline tours for acclaimed indie promoters This Feeling.
With the profits generated from their FairSound campaign, they were able to fund more merch with their own idiosyncratic designs, which has helped keep the band afloat on the road.
Labels
Legendary Leeds label Dance To The Radio chose to work with FairSound on a 12″ compilation of brand-new artists in autumn 2022.
Originally launched in 2004, DTTR have seen over a million sales on new acts, including platinum-selling The Pigeon Detectives.
Even with their impressive sales history, powering their new vinyl releases through fans meant the label could improve connections with their audience, while pressing the exact number required.
Legacy Artists
DARTZ! released their critically acclaimed debut album ‘This Is My Ship’ in 2007 on CD and digitally. 15 years on, they set up a FairSound project to release the album on vinyl for the first time.
The pre-order campaign was perfect for making sure they pressed the right amount if demand was larger – or smaller! – than expected.
Interest in the band spiked with increases in their social media engagement and streaming numbers, as well as gig offers for the first time in over a decade. Their FairSound campaign also alerted some independent record stores to the vinyl release and a further 250 orders were placed from those outlets.
A Little About FairSound
We understand how expensive vinyl can be and how difficult it is to gauge whether demand is there to justify the upfront cost and triple-figure minimum orders.
FairSound was born out of wanting to support grassroots artists and break down the financial barriers that often comes with ordering vinyl, offering an accessible solution for artists and labels, while simultaneously enabling fans to have a direct impact in bringing records to life.
Be fair, be sound.
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