How I Get My Music on Spotify, iTunes, Amazon, Deezer etc.

For some reason it took me a long time to learn how easy it was to get your music on major online music distributors like Spotify, iTunes, Apple Music, Amazon, Deezer, Google Play, Pandora, Tidal, Napster and more. I had heard of services where you could pay a fee for every song/album you wanted to upload, but that seemed too expensive (it was like $20/song or $50/album). Maybe for an artist with a following its a no-brainer, but for a small artist that wants a public face for their music it doesn't financially make sense.

To me having your music on these stores is the single best entry to getting people to listen to your stuff. If you only put your music on your website, Bandcamp, or god-forbid Soundcloud, then when someone asks to hear your music you have to send them a direct link or write something down for them to find you. If you're on all the major stores you can just say "look up my name on your favorite music site". It gives you a little bit of professionalism in an industry where so many small artists don't care about professionalism.

I personally use Distrokid to distribute my music under a label deal. Their cheapest option for only 1 artists or band is $19.99/year to upload unlimited songs to every major online store. UNLIMITED! Since I have the Label option I pay $79.99/year to have up to 5 artists all with unlimited music. At rates this cheap you'd have to be a fool not to put your music out there.

Isn't their little logo adorable?

There are some important things you point out about what Distrokid offers, and what it doesn't. This is a subscription service, so if at any point you cancel all of your music will be taken down. You can opt to pay a one-time fee to keep your music permanently on the store, but I don't see a need for that unless I was retiring and wanted to cancel my account but leave my top albums up there forever as a legacy.

You get to keep 100% of all profits generated from sales/streams. Of course the individual stores take their share of the cut, but Distrokid doesn't take anything other than your subscription fee. For Spotify you even get an Artist account so you can manage your profile and set featured songs - and for iTunes you can set your band logo. If you email customer service you can get them to help you set up your store pages on other sites as well!

If all of this sounds great to you, as a customer of Distrokid they have given me a discount referral link - this will save you 7% off of your plan if you sign up. Click here to visit Distrokid and join me on Spotify, iTunes, Apple Music, Amazon, Google Music, Deezer, Napster, Pandora, Tidal, ClaroMusica, Saavn, Anghami, KKBox, MediaNet, and 150+ smaller outlets.