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RSS Jan 7, 2025 11:47pm · Payusnomind
Sonomo Review: A New Way for Artists to Fund Their Music
What Is Sonomo? Sonomo is part music distributor, part royalty marketplace, and part trading platform. It allows independent artists to raise money by selling shares of their future royalty earnings. Unlike traditional loans or label advances, there's no interest, no recoupment, and no credit score needed. Investors buy royalty shares based on streaming data and future potential, and those shares can be traded, like stocks. This flips the script.…
RSS Jan 7, 2025 11:45pm · Payusnomind
BeatBread Review: BeatBread Review: You Pay More Than You Get, Every Time
BeatBread pitches itself as a modern funding option for independent artists: no labels, no credit checks, just cash based on your past earnings. Sounds good, right? Sort of. What you’re really getting is a loan, and a pretty expensive one, based on what your catalog already earns. It's the equivalent of "let me borrow $200 today and I'll give you $250 when I get paid at the end of the week."  Let’s dig in.…
RSS Jan 7, 2025 11:43pm · Payusnomind
Credit Cards: A Flexible Funding Option for Music Professionals
Credit cards are one of the easiest ways for artists and labels to access funding, but also one of the riskiest if you’re not intentional. In this post, part of our Funding for Music Professionals series, we break down how credit cards actually work, the pros and cons, how to use them without drowning in interest, and when they’re worth it. How You Qualify Getting a credit card is easier than securing a business loan.…
RSS Jan 7, 2025 11:31pm · Payusnomind
Business Loans: A Path to Growth for Music Recording Artists and Labels
Business loans are like that quiet producer in the back of the studio, you don’t see them, but they’re making everything happen. For music professionals, they can fund the next album, studio upgrade, or marketing campaign. But they can also sneak in costs and credit hits.…
RSS Nov 3, 2024 12:43pm · Payusnomind
Symphonic Distribution Review 2025: Pricing, Features & Everything You Need to Know
Top Reason to Choose Symphonic Music Distribution  Symphonic specializes in EDM and related genres. It's the best choice if you make that style of music because it has the most extensive library of stores for genres in that wheelhouse.   Things of note Take Downs Symphonic charges a $20 fee per song it has to remove due to accusations of streaming fraud, copyright infringement, or any other violation.…
RSS Oct 4, 2024 2:47pm · Payusnomind
Chartmob.net & The Dangerous New Way Playlisting Scams Are Targeting Artists + What It Expose About Efforts to Curb Streaming Fraud
What Is Chartmob.net? Chartmob.net could be the most dangerous playlisting scheme I’ve ever seen. Normally, artists get solicitations for streaming scams in Instagram DMs and comments on posts that say things like "hot track, promote it on ’scam playlist USA" or something like that. An artist has to take the initiative of using the service. In the case of Chartmob, that pesky layer of friction called consent is thrown out the window.…
RSS Sep 21, 2024 3:46am · Payusnomind
Landr Review 2025: Pricing, Features & Everything You Need to Know
Landr Discount 20% Off Top Reasons to Choose Landr Bundles Landr bundles audio mastering, plugins, samples, digital audio workstations, and live video collaboration in plans starting at Studio Essential. It’s a unique offer you won’t find with any other distributor.…
RSS Sep 21, 2024 3:29am · Payusnomind
Comprehensive CD Baby Review 2024: Pricing, Features & Everything You Need to Know
Top Reason to Choose CD Baby Music stays in stores. Unlimited distribution for a flat annual fee sounds great, but you’re renting distribution. If the day ever comes when you can’t afford to pay rent, your music gets evicted from all stores. That threat is always there as long as your distribution is on a subscription. The pricing makes it seem like an afterthought.…
RSS Sep 21, 2024 3:24am · Payusnomind
SoundCloud Pro Review 2025: Pricing, Features & Everything You Need to Know
(window.humixPlayers = window.humixPlayers || []).push({target: document.currentScript}); Top Reason to Choose Soundcloud Discovery and increased rates SoundCloud promises to deliver your first 100 streams through an algorithmic boost that will land your track in the music recommendations of its users. It’s like Spotify’s Discovery Mode but without any requirements other than distributing music through SoundCloud.…
RSS Sep 21, 2024 3:11am · Payusnomind
RouteNote Review 2025: Pricing, Features & Everything You Need to Know
Top Reason to Choose RouteNote Free distribution RouteNote, outside of SoundOn, might be the only music distribution company with a revenue share model where artists aren’t required to pay an upfront fee per release or an annual fee for unlimited. As noted, there’s also SoundOn but the difference between the two, among other things is the KYC requirement.…
RSS Sep 21, 2024 2:30am · Payusnomind
SoundOn Review 2025: Pricing, Features & Everything You Need to Know
Top Reasons to Choose SoundOn Distribution Discovery Artists sign up for digital distribution with dreams of earning money from their music, but before that happens, the music needs to be heard. Often, the music doesn't get heard, and artists end up paying annual fees for distribution while recouping less than zero percent of the cost.…
RSS Sep 21, 2024 2:24am · Payusnomind
Venice Music Review 2025: Pricing, Features & Everything You Need to Know
Venice Musci 25% Off Top Reasons to Choose Venice Distribution Community The music business is a business of relationships. Everyone I know who has experienced great success has done so due to their relationships. It's the friends they have, their relatives, their coworkers, collaborators, and associates.…
RSS Sep 21, 2024 2:13am · Payusnomind
Record Union Review 2025: Pricing, Features & Everything You Need to Know
Top Reason to Choose Record Union Customer support Record Union has a live chat system where you can communicate with reps at any time and get almost instant feedback. It's subject to their availability, but from my experience, they're pretty available, and if they don't respond instantly, they follow up by email quickly. We're talking about actual people here who understand the service.…
RSS Sep 21, 2024 2:04am · Payusnomind
Emubands Review 2025: Pricing, Features & Everything You Need to Know
Top Reason to Choose Emubands Customer Support Personal customer support through email, live chat, and phone. Pro users are assigned a personal account manager to guide them through their release. Unfortunately, this isn’t extended to non-Pro users. Keep your music in stores You can pay once and keep your music in stores without sacrificing a percentage of revenue. The catch is that you’re provided with limited features.…
RSS Sep 21, 2024 1:57am · Payusnomind
Amuse Distribution Review 2025: Pricing, Features & Everything You Need to Know
Top Reason to Choose Amuse Distribution  Keep your music in stores. Amuse allows artists to keep their music in stores even if they cancel their subscription by imposing a 25% revenue share; artists keep 75%. This addresses the concern artists have about what will happen to their music if they can no longer afford to pay. Previously, Amuse's documentation alluded to the idea but didn't provide anything definitive.…
RSS Sep 21, 2024 1:50am · Payusnomind
Too Lost Distribution Review 2025: Pricing, Features & Everything You Need to Know
Top Reason to Choose Too Lost Distribution Music stays in stores. If you cancel or discontinue payment to Too Lost distribution, your music won’t be removed from stores. Instead, Too Lost will take 15% of the revenue it generates allowing you to continue to earn and keep it available to fans everywhere.…
RSS Sep 21, 2024 1:12am · Payusnomind
Tunecore Review 2024: Pricing, Features & Everything You Need to Know
Top Reason to Choose Tunecore Music Distribution  Tunecore New Artist Plan  Tunecore’s New Artist plan offers free distribution of unlimited releases to all Social platforms such as TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube without any upfront cost. What you pay is 20% of the revenue generated by those sources. This tier doesn’t allow you to distribute music to stores like Spotify, Apple Music, etc.…