DistroKid promotes very fast music distribution and says tracks can reach major platforms such as Spotify in roughly two to three days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But that’s not the same thing as saying every song will be live everywhere within exactly 48 hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Your distributor delivers music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Each DSP then ingests, processes and publishes it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That means Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music and dozens of smaller services may not all go live simultaneously unless you’ve scheduled a future release date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Professional artists should upload important releases weeks rather than days ahead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Why?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Because things go wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
An artist profile might map incorrectly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Metadata could need changing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Artwork could fail requirements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A store might reject something.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You might want to pitch Spotify.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
None of these are problems you want to discover the night before release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
DistroKid currently reserves customised release dates for Musician Plus and Ultimate rather than the basic Musician tier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That’s important if your whole marketing campaign depends on Friday morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For an important single, several weeks of lead time is much safer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For an emergency or low-priority upload, faster distribution may be perfectly adequate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
DistroKid can distribute very quickly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But speed shouldn’t become an excuse for poor planning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The more important your release is, the less you should rely on minimum delivery times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
DistroKid promotes very fast music distribution and says tracks can reach major platforms such as Spotify in roughly two to three days. But that’s not the same thing as saying every song will be live everywhere within exactly 48 hours. Different stores operate differently Your distributor delivers music. Each DSP then ingests, processes and publishes it. That means Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music and dozens of smaller services may not all go live simultaneously unless you’ve scheduled a future release date. Give yourself time Professional artists should upload important releases weeks rather than days ahead. Why? Because things go wrong….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3658,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1378,1635,146,1953],"coauthors":[2],"class_list":["post-3840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-distrokid","tag-music-release","tag-release","tag-songs"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n