DistroKid and Amuse both target independent artists, but their product structures differ in some interesting ways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
DistroKid currently starts at $24.99 per year in the US.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Amuse currently charges $23.99 per year for Artist, $39.99 for Artist Plus and $59.99 for Professional.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Again, entry-level pricing is extremely close.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Amuse currently states that music stays live even when an artist downgrades or cancels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That is a significant contrast with DistroKid’s Leave a Legacy model, where selected releases can be protected through a separate $29\/$49 extra.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For artists thinking decades ahead, this is worth considering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Amuse currently advertises cover-song licensing at $14.99 as a one-time charge per cover.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
DistroKid charges $12 per cover every year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For one cover over one year, DistroKid is cheaper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Over many years, the economics reverse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
DistroKid has a huge installed artist base, a mature upload system and a large ecosystem of utilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Catalogue permanence and some of its fee structures may appeal to artists who dislike recurring release-level costs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
These services are close enough in base price that artists shouldn’t decide based on a few dollars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Look at what happens over five or ten years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Long-term distribution economics are more important than signup pricing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
DistroKid and Amuse both target independent artists, but their product structures differ in some interesting ways. Pricing DistroKid currently starts at $24.99 per year in the US. Amuse currently charges $23.99 per year for Artist, $39.99 for Artist Plus and $59.99 for Professional. Again, entry-level pricing is extremely close. One major difference: what happens when you stop paying? Amuse currently states that music stays live even when an artist downgrades or cancels. That is a significant contrast with DistroKid’s Leave a Legacy model, where selected releases can be protected through a separate $29\/$49 extra. For artists thinking decades ahead, this…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3904,"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":[2382,1396,1378,31],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-amuse","tag-comparison","tag-distrokid","tag-music-distribution"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n