{"id":84694,"date":"2021-04-07T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/?p=84694"},"modified":"2021-04-07T14:37:44","modified_gmt":"2021-04-07T13:37:44","slug":"how-do-music-distribution-deals-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/how-do-music-distribution-deals-work\/","title":{"rendered":"How do music distribution deals work"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 style=\"user-select: auto;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff; user-select: auto;\">No complicated contracts or signing away the rights and money to major labels. With RouteNote, we&#8217;ve simplified the entire process.<\/span><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Traditionally, getting your music out into the world would require getting discovered by a major label and likely signing away control of your own music to a third-party. RouteNote&#8217;s music distribution is free, simple and available to all artists around the world. Within days, we can publish your music to all major digital stores and streaming services including Spotify, Apple Music, iTunes, YouTube Music, Amazon Music, Deezer, TIDAL <a style=\"user-select: auto;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.routenote.com\/partner\">and many more.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Simply upload your tracks to RouteNote, enter the metadata such as titles and album art, choose the digital stores and countries you want to share you music to, then choose between RouteNote Free and RouteNote Premium. RouteNote Free has no fees or recurring costs, artists keep 85% of the revenue generated. RouteNote Premium costs a small fee and annual cost, artists keep 100% of the revenue generated. Smaller artists love our Free option, while established artists with larger audiences love our Premium model. Ensuring artists always stay in control of their music, you can switch any release between Free and Premium at any time. Once you&#8217;ve sent us you music, our moderation team will get to work ensuring everything&#8217;s looking and sounding great before pushing it to our partner services. The entire process usually takes around a week or two.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On top of music distribution, we also offer many other features to help independent artists grow their audience and earn revenue online, such as social media monetization on <a href=\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/how-to-make-money-on-youtube-with-your-music\/\">YouTube<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/how-to-add-your-music-to-facebook-and-instagram-for-free\/\">Facebook, Instagram<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/how-to-earn-royalties-from-your-existing-music-on-soundcloud-for-free\/\">SoundCloud<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/can-i-add-my-music-to-tiktok-for-free\/\">TikTok<\/a>, as well as free promotional tools on our partner site <a style=\"user-select: auto;\" href=\"https:\/\/push.fm\/\">PUSH.fm<\/a>. Artists always keep 100% of the rights to their music.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No complicated contracts or signing away the rights and money to major labels. With RouteNote, we&#8217;ve simplified the entire process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":84695,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3800],"tags":[24581,24579,24578,19871,24577,128,24575,24580,23],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.4.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>How do music distribution deals work - RouteNote Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/how-do-music-distribution-deals-work\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"How do music distribution deals work - RouteNote Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"No complicated contracts or signing away the rights and money to major labels. With RouteNote, we&#039;ve simplified the entire process.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/how-do-music-distribution-deals-work\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"RouteNote Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-04-07T14:00:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-04-07T13:37:44+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/mari-helin-ilSnKT1IMxE-unsplash-scaled.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"2560\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1706\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Tom Newman\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/#organization\",\"name\":\"RouteNote\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/\",\"sameAs\":[],\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/#logo\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/routenote-logo.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/routenote-logo.jpg\",\"width\":1000,\"height\":1000,\"caption\":\"RouteNote\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/#logo\"}},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/\",\"name\":\"RouteNote Blog\",\"description\":\"The World of Digital Music - Distribution - Stores and Free Music\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/how-do-music-distribution-deals-work\/#primaryimage\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/mari-helin-ilSnKT1IMxE-unsplash-scaled.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/mari-helin-ilSnKT1IMxE-unsplash-scaled.jpg\",\"width\":2560,\"height\":1706,\"caption\":\"Contract\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/how-do-music-distribution-deals-work\/#webpage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/how-do-music-distribution-deals-work\/\",\"name\":\"How do music distribution deals work - RouteNote Blog\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/how-do-music-distribution-deals-work\/#primaryimage\"},\"datePublished\":\"2021-04-07T14:00:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-04-07T13:37:44+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/how-do-music-distribution-deals-work\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/how-do-music-distribution-deals-work\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/how-do-music-distribution-deals-work\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"How do music distribution deals work\"}]},{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/how-do-music-distribution-deals-work\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/how-do-music-distribution-deals-work\/#webpage\"},\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/c60547d8a210a794c037e6b1450a9626\"},\"headline\":\"How do music distribution deals work\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-04-07T14:00:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-04-07T13:37:44+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/how-do-music-distribution-deals-work\/#webpage\"},\"wordCount\":290,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/how-do-music-distribution-deals-work\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/mari-helin-ilSnKT1IMxE-unsplash-scaled.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"cheapest music distribution service\",\"digital music distribution deal\",\"free music distribution deal\",\"free music distribution service\",\"how do distribution deals work\",\"music distribution\",\"music distribution deals\",\"online music distribution deal\",\"routenote\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Support \/ FAQs\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/how-do-music-distribution-deals-work\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/c60547d8a210a794c037e6b1450a9626\",\"name\":\"Tom Newman\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/#personlogo\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5da7d72f206ebde5e8c57869795c438f?s=96&d=blank&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5da7d72f206ebde5e8c57869795c438f?s=96&d=blank&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Tom Newman\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/author\/tom\/\",\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/tomnew1000\/\",\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/tomnewman3\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/author\/tom\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"How do music distribution deals work - RouteNote Blog","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/how-do-music-distribution-deals-work\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"How do music distribution deals work - RouteNote Blog","og_description":"No complicated contracts or signing away the rights and money to major labels. With RouteNote, we've simplified the entire process.","og_url":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/how-do-music-distribution-deals-work\/","og_site_name":"RouteNote Blog","article_published_time":"2021-04-07T14:00:00+00:00","article_modified_time":"2021-04-07T13:37:44+00:00","og_image":[{"width":2560,"height":1706,"url":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/mari-helin-ilSnKT1IMxE-unsplash-scaled.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Tom Newman","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/#organization","name":"RouteNote","url":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/","sameAs":[],"logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/#logo","inLanguage":"en-US","url":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/routenote-logo.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/routenote-logo.jpg","width":1000,"height":1000,"caption":"RouteNote"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/#logo"}},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/","name":"RouteNote Blog","description":"The World of Digital Music - Distribution - Stores and Free Music","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/how-do-music-distribution-deals-work\/#primaryimage","inLanguage":"en-US","url":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/mari-helin-ilSnKT1IMxE-unsplash-scaled.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/mari-helin-ilSnKT1IMxE-unsplash-scaled.jpg","width":2560,"height":1706,"caption":"Contract"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/how-do-music-distribution-deals-work\/#webpage","url":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/how-do-music-distribution-deals-work\/","name":"How do music distribution deals work - RouteNote Blog","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/how-do-music-distribution-deals-work\/#primaryimage"},"datePublished":"2021-04-07T14:00:00+00:00","dateModified":"2021-04-07T13:37:44+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/how-do-music-distribution-deals-work\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/how-do-music-distribution-deals-work\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/how-do-music-distribution-deals-work\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"How do music distribution deals work"}]},{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/how-do-music-distribution-deals-work\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/how-do-music-distribution-deals-work\/#webpage"},"author":{"@id":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/c60547d8a210a794c037e6b1450a9626"},"headline":"How do music distribution deals work","datePublished":"2021-04-07T14:00:00+00:00","dateModified":"2021-04-07T13:37:44+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/how-do-music-distribution-deals-work\/#webpage"},"wordCount":290,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/how-do-music-distribution-deals-work\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/mari-helin-ilSnKT1IMxE-unsplash-scaled.jpg","keywords":["cheapest music distribution service","digital music distribution deal","free music distribution deal","free music distribution service","how do distribution deals work","music distribution","music distribution deals","online music distribution deal","routenote"],"articleSection":["Support \/ FAQs"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/how-do-music-distribution-deals-work\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/c60547d8a210a794c037e6b1450a9626","name":"Tom Newman","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/#personlogo","inLanguage":"en-US","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5da7d72f206ebde5e8c57869795c438f?s=96&d=blank&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5da7d72f206ebde5e8c57869795c438f?s=96&d=blank&r=g","caption":"Tom Newman"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/author\/tom\/","https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/tomnew1000\/","https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/tomnewman3"],"url":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/author\/tom\/"}]}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/mari-helin-ilSnKT1IMxE-unsplash-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84694"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}