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.…
(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.…
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.…
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.…
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.…
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.…
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.…
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.…
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.…
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.…