TikTok isn’t just somewhere to promote your music. If your songs are properly distributed to TikTok, you can get paid when creators use your music in their videos. For independent artists, that means TikTok can…
Tag: Music Distribution
DistroKid is inexpensive. But it isn’t necessarily the cheapest music distributor for every artist. That’s because “cheap” depends on how much music you release and how much money it earns. DistroKid US pricing currently starts…
The biggest difference between DistroKid and some competing distributors isn’t royalty percentage. It’s who takes the initial financial risk. DistroKid requires an annual subscription. Several alternatives use models where musicians don’t need to maintain the…
Japanese artists and independent record labels no longer need a large budget or a major-label deal to release music around the world. With RouteNote, artists and labels in Japan can distribute music to major streaming…
If you’re looking for a DistroKid alternative with no annual fee, there is another way to distribute your music. RouteNote Free lets independent artists distribute music to major streaming services without paying an upfront subscription…
TikTok has become one of the most important music discovery platforms in the world. Songs can move from relative obscurity to millions of listeners after being featured in a popular TikTok video, trend or challenge.…
Music distributors love talking about what distribution costs. They talk less about what it costs to get your money out. For independent artists, that can matter. A distributor might advertise a cheap annual subscription or…
A common worry among new artists is: “Should I copyright my song before I upload it to Spotify?” Distribution and copyright are two different things. Submitting music through a distributor does not magically create the…
Your music is not only valuable when someone streams it on Spotify or Apple Music. It can also earn money when people use it in videos, Reels, Shorts, posts, livestreams and other social content. For…
Emerging from South Korea’s genre-fluid music scene, Agwi and Suyo return with a bold statement of independence and self-definition. Their latest track “Window” is a powerful genre-bending anthem that fuses trap beats, melodic vocals, and…
