CD Baby
Income
Best Music Distribution Companies in 2024 – Full Comparison Chart
This is the most comprehensive digital music distribution review comparison between Amuse, AWAL, CD Baby, DistroKid, Ditto Music, LANDR, TuneCore, Songtradr, and more.
Podcasts
How Admin Publishing Works, Sync Deals, Social Media Marketing (Ari Q&A Part 7)
This week Ari answers more of your questions! If you’d like to submit to our next round of questions, please sign up to our email list.
Spotify
Spotify Opens Up ‘Discovery Mode’ Wide Enabling Artists To Get More Listeners and Streams – For a Cost
Discovery Mode is basically a program where Spotify will help get you more listeners by inserting your songs into other artists’ radio stations and general “autoplay” sessions - for an additional commission. More on the commission part in a minute.
Royalties
How Much Each Distributor Pays For Spotify and Apple Music
All streams are not treated equally.
How much Spotify and Apple Music pay for a stream varies on many factors. There are around 800 different pay rates for each stream on Spotify. Some of the variables include: Country/Territory of the listener
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Income
Songtrust vs. Sentric vs. TuneCore Publishing
Which admin publishing company will work best for you: Sentric, TuneCore Publishing, or Songtrust?
Spotify
Spotify Removed Your Music, Now What?
Over the weekend, Spotify decided to do a major purge of songs they believe had 'fraudulent streams.' Tens of thousands of songs disappeared from the platform.
Latest News
Can The Music Industry Be a Safe Place?
This week, Ari is joined by Katie Tucker, Founder of Sharp Edges Records, to discuss advocacy and inclusion in the music industry.