Is it odd that I'm getting money from only 1 streaming service?
- KVRAF
- 14141 posts since 20 Nov, 2003 from Lost and Spaced
You people who get your stuff distributed. I have my stuff through Distrokid and it's on at least 10 platforms, but when I go and see if any royalties come in, only Pandora is paying out. Id this an anomaly or what? Just curious.
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- KVRian
- 1311 posts since 29 Sep, 2012 from Minnesota
I've never even heard of most of the ones they distribute to and I'm sure I'm not the only one.
Pandora dominates the market in the USA.
Pandora dominates the market in the USA.
- KVRer
- 2 posts since 14 Dec, 2023 from UK
Hi, I am a long time producer/dj with several chart releases under my belt. I am signed with a well known publisher and have been released since the mid 1990s on Vinyl, CD, Tape and been included in several motion pictures soundtracks. It is a fact, when you sign up for online distribution services that the single most important thing is to get a written contract from them prior to you uploading anything to them with the correct percentages Granted you want to be paid for the releases distribution, and, a promise to pay. If you do not do this, you will be ripped off and not paid.
I didn't eat it. Dev did. 
- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 14141 posts since 20 Nov, 2003 from Lost and Spaced
I found out from scrutinizing it that Itunes and Amazon has a 2 to 3 month delay, for some reason. That's the catch. 100% royalties when a service pays 1 1/3 of a cent per stream, so 1000 streams wouldn net you a whopping $1.33, yet there's a $1.07 fee tacked on to transfer that to an account. You'll never get rich but maybe you can be infamous.