Tidy Trax (Virtually) Abandons The High Street

Hard house specialises Tidy Trax are to start selling two tracks per month exclusively through their website and limiting High Street record shop sales to just one track a month, they announced this week.

"The way people buy their music is changing, increasingly DJs and dance fans prefer to buy their music via the web as they find it much quicker, easier and cheaper," said Richard Skaife from Tidy, explaining the move.

"The great thing about Internet music shopping which appeals to dance fans is new releases can be bought anytime of the day or night without having to waste valuable mixing time with a trip down to the high-street," he suggested.


Tidy's site already attracts over 30,000 unique visitors to their site each month, and with the UK singles market continuing to shrink dramatically, the move is a significant one for the future of music retailing. Richard Skaife also stressed they'll be making a "bigger announcement' about the site in the near future.

"The rapid increase in MP3 and hard copy online music sales coupled together with a worldwide base of Tidy Trax fans means the Internet is going to be playing a major part the label's future over the next 12 months," he said.
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