How To Get Your Music On Spotify, iTunes, Apple Music (DistroKid Tutorial)

[creativesauce]

Hi folks! Getting your songs released to Spotify, iTunes, Apple Music, Amazon, Google Play etc - can seem pretty daunting. However, it’s actually VERY easy (and cheap). So I made a video to show you how

WATCH HERE: https://youtu.be/cBZwBnXskK8

[BertKoor]

Is there a text version?
I'm allergic to videos, don't like making notes, reading is easier to follow steps and click links.

[thecontrolcentre]

I use Emubands to distribute my music ... it covers Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon etc

https://www.emubands.com/

Easy, simple registration with a one-off payment per release. You keep 100% of your royalties.

[debra1rlo]

I don't want my music on Spotify because they don't tend to pay up unless you lawyer up. Luckily, some "kind soul" put all my music up there without my permission to save me the trouble.

[music-artwork]

Here are the 10 most popular distributors:
CD Baby, Distrokid, ReverbNation, LANDR, Tunecore, RouteNote, OneRPM, Ditto Music, Fresh Tunes, Musicinfo

Each service is unique, so you should try to learn more info before picking one. The procedure is not very difficult, you just need to have time (not to do it in a hurry) in order everything to be ok.

Streaming makes more money than physical CDs, digital downloads, and licensing deals combined. It is believed that streaming will continue to increase over the next 10 years, leaving only a 5% or less to physical music sales.

[Mushy Mushy]

Streaming makes more money than physical CDs, digital downloads, and licensing deals combined.

Source? A relatively famous artist this week told me his 42m streams on Spotify only equated to $2k.

[music-artwork]

I read that in this article

https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/20/1788 ... ry-revenue

[music-artwork]

Streaming makes more money than physical CDs, digital downloads, and licensing deals combined.

Source? A relatively famous artist this week told me his 42m streams on Spotify only equated to $2k.

I read that in this article
https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/20/1788 ... y-revenue

[Mushy Mushy]

Streaming makes more money than physical CDs, digital downloads, and licensing deals combined.

Source? A relatively famous artist this week told me his 42m streams on Spotify only equated to $2k.

I read that in this article
https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/20/1788 ... y-revenue

That’s money paid to Spotify, it doesn’t discuss what portion of that goes back to the artist. So as I said, streaming is rubbish from an artist perspective.

[Distorted Horizon]

One sold track gives me around 0,84€
Around 100 streams is... 0,15€? Or 0,30€.. Something like that.

So I'd be happy if everyone who likes my tracks, bought a copy

[DJ Warmonger]

I don't want my music on Spotify because they don't tend to pay up unless you lawyer up. Luckily, some "kind soul" put all my music up there without my permission to save me the trouble.

You can reclaim your Spotify profile. https://artists.spotify.com/

Anyway, the money is transferred to labels first.

[music-artwork]

Streaming makes more money than physical CDs, digital downloads, and licensing deals combined.

Source? A relatively famous artist this week told me his 42m streams on Spotify only equated to $2k.

I read that in this article
https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/20/1788 ... y-revenue

That’s money paid to Spotify, it doesn’t discuss what portion of that goes back to the artist. So as I said, streaming is rubbish from an artist perspective.

You are right. Yes, the truth is that you must have a huge number of streams in order to get some money...

[Vortifex]

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[telecode]

Streaming makes more money than physical CDs, digital downloads, and licensing deals combined.

Source? A relatively famous artist this week told me his 42m streams on Spotify only equated to $2k.

Yeah. I would be interested in seeing the source for that claim as well. My understanding of the current Spotify system is, you make a little more than from YouTube but it's still peanuts compared to Bandcamp.

There is this cellist, Zoe Keating, that like to tweets about and rant how little she makes from royalties. It was interesting following her for a while but then it got stale seeing the same tweets over and over.

[Mushy Mushy]

Portishead's Geoff Barrow has revealed he earned just $2,500 from 34 million streams of his music. The British took to his Twitter account to blast Apple, YouTube, Spotify and “especially” his label Universal Music for “selling our music so cheaply.”

https://www.billboard.com/articles/news ... on-streams