Valleyarm is a music industry company that specialises in digital distribution, publishing and online marketing of music and video content. The company’s head quarters is located in Melbourne, with offices in Berlin, Brisbane and New York and partners based in China, Japan, Fiji, South Africa, England and Jordan.

As being a digital distributor, Valleyarm works largely with independent musical artists and record labels to make content available online through various international digital music stores including iTunes, Nokia , Amazon MP3, Telstra Bigpond and Chinese bilingual digital music store Wawawa. For their digital distribution services, Valleyarm uses a flat-fee business model for its distribution, unique to the Asia-Pacific region. On September 16 of 2010, it was announced that Valleyarm had been elected full APRA and AMCOS membership.

As well as digital distribution, Valleyarm also represents some signed artists as a sub publisher to collect royalties and clear digital rights from publishing around the world. The company also has several artists under their Supported-Managed model, in which selected artists get support similar to what record labels provide. Current artists include Taxiride’s Jason Singh and Jupiters Menace.

Valleyarm also offer a Digisingle product, which is an alternative to the CD single. Notable Australian artists Skybombers

Skybombers

Skybombers is a rock band from Melbourne. They were formed as Collusion by Scotch College students Hugh Gurney, Ravi Sharma, Scott McMurtrie and Sam Bethune. They later changed to Skybombers, a name inspired by an icy-pole. Their placing a demo song "It Goes Off" on MySpace brought them their first...

 and Jason Singh of Taxiride

Taxiride

Taxiride is an Australian rock band. Formed in 1997, the band consists of lead singer Jason Singh, guitarists Dan Hall and Tim Wild, and drummer Sean McLeod....

 have both released Digisingles.

It has been noted that Valleyarm representatives attend some of the world biggest music conferences such as South by Southwest

South by Southwest

South by Southwest is an Austin, Texas based company dedicated to planning conferences, trade shows, festivals and other events. Their current roster of annual events include: SXSW Music, SXSW Film, SXSW Interactive, SXSWedu, and SXSWeco and take place every spring in Austin, Texas, United States...

, Canadian Music Week

Canadian Music Week

Canadian Music Week is an industry conference and music festival held over four days in various venues throughout Toronto, Ontario, Canada.-History:...

, Music Matters, Face the Music, Amsterdam Dance Event, Tokyo International Music Market, MIDEM and others, and are often invited as panelists and speakers. The company frequently puts together conference samplers and iTunes only compilations as well.

Notable Valleyarm Artists/Labels

• Powderfinger

Powderfinger

Powderfinger was an Australian rock band that formed in Brisbane in 1989. From 1992 until their breakup the band lineup consisted of vocalist Bernard Fanning, guitarists Darren Middleton and Ian Haug, bassist John Collins, and drummer Jon Coghill....

 

• Gotye

Gotye

Wouter "Wally" De Backer , also known professionally by his stage name Gotye , is a Belgian-Australian multi-instrumental musician and singer-songwriter. He has released three studio albums independently and one remix album featuring remixes of tracks from his first two albums...

• Kisschasy

• Birds of Tokyo

Birds of Tokyo

Birds of Tokyo is a four-piece alternative rock band from Perth, Western Australia. Their debut album Day One, gained them domestic success with it reaching No. 3 on the AIR Independent Album charts, spending a total of 36 consecutive weeks in the top 10.In 2008, the band released Universes,...

• Clare Bowditch

• Paul Dempsey

• Stick To The Shallows

• Little Birdy

• Silverchair

Silverchair

Silverchair were an Australian rock band, which formed in 1992 as Innocent Criminals in Merewether, Newcastle with the line-up of Ben Gillies on drums, Chris Joannou on bass guitar and Daniel Johns on vocals and guitars. The group got their big break in mid-1994 when they won a national demo...

• Kasey Chambers

Kasey Chambers

Kasey Chambers is an Australian country singer-songwriter. She is the daughter of steel guitar player Bill Chambers, and the sister of musician and producer Nash Chambers.-Solo success:...

• Beasts of Bourbon

Beasts of Bourbon

Beasts of Bourbon was an Australian alternative rock band formed in 1983, with a line-up that has changed as the band splintered and reformed several times - Beginnings :...

 

• Seth Sentry

Seth Sentry

Seth Sentry is an Australian hip hop artist from Melbourne. He is best known for his track "The Waitress Song", which received significant national airplay on Triple J.-Biography:...

 

• Twelve Foot Ninja

Twelve Foot Ninja

Twelve Foot Ninja is an alternative rock band formed in 2008 in Melbourne, Victoria. The band consists of Kin , Russ , Stevic and Damon ....

• Peter Pan

• Liberation Records

• Major Label

• Possum Records

Notable Valleyarm Stores/Partners

• iTunes

ITunes

iTunes is a media player computer program, used for playing, downloading, and organizing digital music and video files on desktop computers. It can also manage contents on iPod, iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad....

• eMusic

EMusic

eMusic is an online music and audiobook store that operates by subscription. It is headquartered in New York City with an office in London and owned by Dimensional Associates. As of September 2008 eMusic has over 400,000 subscribers....

• Amazon MP3

• Vodafone

Vodafone

Vodafone Group Plc is a global telecommunications company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the world's largest mobile telecommunications company measured by revenues and the world's second-largest measured by subscribers , with around 341 million proportionate subscribers as of...

• Beatport

Beatport

Beatport is an online music store specializing in electronic dance music and culture. Beatport is a privately held company owned and operated by Beatport LLC and based in Denver, Colorado.-History:...

• Shazam

• HMV Digital