Eps 3: Henry gets mad and tells everybody that his brain is not like a supercomputer when music distributors cost money or they take weeks to get your music to streaming services or radio stations
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Amuse is a music distribution company that allows musicians and bands to get their music in digital service providers, such as Apple Music, Spotify, Tidal, TikTok, Deezer, and others. By uploading your music on DistroKid, you will be able to get your music distributed in digital service providers like Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, Deezer, Tidal, and more. For $19 a year, you get unlimited distribution for your music, as well as loads of benefits such as access to licensing opportunities and detailed analytics reports.
At $20 a month, the Premium Membership gives musicians access to two disclosure packages a year, access to music industry top platforms, plus countless other services such as custom websites, performance opportunities, and more. Loudr is the only one free for getting unlimited music on iTunes. DistroKid is one of the ONLY music distributing companies that does not charge any fees or commissions .
If you are doing well, you can expect to get a nice royalty for your music, if not, you may find yourself feeling kinda invisible to AWAL. You can release your music with ONErpm for free, but ONErpm takes a 15% fee from your royalties.
Look, if you understand the economics of digital goods, you will soon realize there are places where it makes sense to go for free. In fact, we were pretty specific about explaining that the entire purpose of understanding the economics behind free is to enable you to see when using free is not appropriate. That a lot of startups are unsure about when it is appropriate to use free is not an opprobrium of free as pricing.
Having a product befree for consumers does not mean that people are simply not going to engage with it. It is only if you are stopping at the zero, and you are not following through, you can potentially argue that free-to-use business models are not getting customers to commit. While you might gain tens of thousands of users, chances are that these users are not likely ever to consider paying you, since you by definition attracted people looking for free things.
All the examples here are cases of companies using free stuff to get people, then selling that attention back to advertisers. Typically, you re allowed to whitelist your channels by most YouTube monetization companies .
Most musicians would like the way that iMusician is cheap, however, given the way that some people have been upset about using the service, there seems to be a bit of a risk involved in spreading via them. It is also important to note that the company does not distribute through hundreds of music stores, as its competitors do.
All the distribution companies claim the numbers are fluctuating this heavily, as a lot of outlets are sub-distributors who will ship your music to stores that are partners of theirs. While some of the companies we are profiling here are mostly focused on music distribution, it is only one of many services that ReverbNation offers musicians, ranging from music promotion, to creating a press kit, to creating brand websites. Louder Distribution is mostly aimed at covering artists so they can easily get their music onto iTunes.
For $24.99 per year, Horus Music gives artists unlimited digital distribution, a playlist submission service, and access to Asian markets, which is a unique resource becoming increasingly essential.
If multiple artists are creating a song together and all artists are due a royalty on downloads, they can all sign Loudr accounts, and Loudr pays the appropriate percentages to each artist.
Some companies provide instant gratification songs which customers can receive as soon as they pre-order an album. AWAL has made partnerships with virtually all of the companies in the industry for its one-click mastering service. I love how Spinnup is a company driven by the community, and has programs in which they work with underprivileged kids, giving them studio time, pairing them up with mentors, and helping them distribute their music. With a free distribution service and services aimed at getting music sent out on the biggest platforms in the industry in 24 hours, many musicians are going to consider Freshtunes as a risk that is well worth taking.