Which Company do you use for releasing your music

[gunnar]

Hello forum,
i have released music on cdbaby years ago.

cdbaby was sold years ago, i do not longer like their unpersonal
promotion mails.

which music services do you use to release your music?

and how much does it cost?

hoping for your input and opinions,
all the best

[gunnar]

nobody sells music anymore?

[sleepcircle]

a lot of people use bandcamp

[DJ Warmonger]

which music services do you use to release your music?

and how much does it cost?

If you need to pay to release your music, then I've got no tips for you

I just send singles to labels with proven position on scene. I say "scene" and not "market", as there's pretty much no market anyway

[lfm]

I think you should register by a publisher of some sort - so if anybody is picking up on a song/music you did, and record it, you have that on record - and get royalty for that.

A publisher take maybe 30% of income, but it also make it interesting for them to have your music played. Some publishers specialize in film/tv/commercials, others in other areas. So don't go by any publisher, they might not cover the field your music can be used. I've seen tables where a publisher check the main fields they operate in.

And publisher see to you are registered at those parties that check what is played on radio etc. In sweden there is one major player STIM that track what is played on radio and make deals for that etc. So a publisher in sweden see to that your music is registered by STIM.

Cover bands pay to STIM for songs they cover publicly etc. That is what should happend anyway. In real - the arranger that hire you to play on a club or a concert are those that pay the fees usually. This apart from what the band/artist is payed for performance.

How it's done can be different in different countries due to legislation.

So there are many ways to get kick-back on what you did. If you do vocals, or as musician, composing or producing etc.

[foosnark]

Bandcamp, DistroKid.

I can't say the results have been great, especially from streaming. Instead I am paid in the smiles of millions of maybe a dozen? adoring fans other nerds.

[gunnar]

Thank you for your input guys.

I will investigate more...

[benheman]

I'm sure you could try ITUNES or SPOTIFY

[an-electric-heart]

I recently posted something similar. I was asking if it's possible to avoid going through one of these companies all together... apparently not. You can't get on itunes, Spotify and so on without one.

But yeah, next time, I'll probably go through Bandcamp & Distrokid.

As I said in my post, I too have been using CDBaby, but they did a couple of things I didn't like. Most notably I opted out of Youtube distribution... but they put it on Youtube anyway, and then hit all my Youtube videos with copyright claims. So basically, if you opt out of Youtube, you're really just opting out of "getting paid for Youtube"... they still want to get paid for Youtube streams. And that lead to another problem I hadn't thought of. I'm involved in film as well, one of my songs was in the running to be used in movie tailor... can't happen, CDBaby will slap them with a copyright claim.
CDBaby say "You keep the rights to your music", and maybe technically you do, but when using them, you're very much agreeing to give them a slice of all your royalties, even stuff they didn't distribute.

[gunnar]

wow!

cdbaby was supposed to be very cool.

derek sold it years ago and now it turns into something.....

it looks like the cakes gets smaller and smaller.

on the other side spotify had sales of 3 bíllion dollars last year.

i have to check out distrokid and bandcamp if i keep my rights and how much it costs...

[thecontrolcentre]

Another happy Bandcamper here ...