But the reality is that the artists who are marketed and promoted well will
be
the ones that sell.

This is going to be be just another retail chain.

Even though my tunes are either now or soon to be up on Rhapsody, Emusic,
AOL-MusicNet, MusicMatch, BuyMusic, AudioLunchbox, the new Napster, and iTunes
(all through CDBaby's efforts in this arena); I have a feeling you're right...
in terms of marketing, it's going to take the $$$ that the majors have to break
through all the noise. I've had varied results from web advertising - some
worthless, some not too bad, none outrageously great; but it'll be interesting
to see if there's any way for an "indie" to break through the clutter on the
sites mentioned above.

NeilH