Which Digital Distributor to use to put original music on Spotify, etc.?

August 26, 2019 8:22 PM

If you want your very own original music to appear on Spotify, iTunes, et al, I gather that the standard way to accomplish this is to go through a Digital Distributor--CD Baby, or Distrokid, or (numerous other examples). If anybody has experience dealing with these distributors, and wants to recommend me one, or warn me away from one, or has related advice about putting their music on these services, I'd be delighted to hear it.
posted by Sing Or Swim to Media & Arts (4 answers total)

I've good luck with DistroKid. I pay the $25 per year, and I've done two albums through them. Everything works as advertised. You get VERY detailed stats on where your money comes from. It lags a couple months from the bigger stores, so I haven't seen any stats from the album I put out five weeks ago.

Customer service has been great. I had a typo (ugh!) in a song title and they were able to push the correction to all the services within a day.

I also use BandCamp, which has been equally good to use.
posted by jonathanhughes at 8:46 PM on August 26, 2019

I have used cdbaby for my one single. Easy to setup, but I honestly haven’t been very active with it. My single shows up on all of the major streamers and mp3 purchase sites.

Watching this as I am curious as to whatever else is available for some upcoming projects.
posted by kabong the wiser at 7:02 AM on August 27, 2019

Seconding Distrokid. The publishing experience is well thought out and easy to use, the ability to see and track your money is indeed nice.
posted by jeremias at 12:52 PM on August 27, 2019

Just tried Landr because I released a cover song, and they didn't charge extra for covers. No complaints so far, and the customer service has been excellent.
posted by lemonshush at 2:34 PM on August 27, 2019