This is good to know! 🙏

Loads of videos of people complaining about late payments

Yeah. I got a few cover on there. Got to pay a few bucks/year per song. Starts to hurt big if you don't sell a ton of them. There is a thing called "we are the hits" which covers KZfaq vid copyrights. Maybe you could connect that to your website for some sales? ?

Distrokid just did the same to me with my lastest single. I requested support from them and they haven't responded. I contacted Spotify directly and they basically gave me the middle finger. The rep was really rude. So I decided to remove my music catalog from Spotify. Also looking for another Distributor because Distrokid won't stand behind the artist.

update ?

@@victorsmith6429 I transferred all my self releases to amuse. No issues yet. But something interesting. I logged into my song stats account went to a link called submit hub. Long story short I saw songs on playlists that were tagged as warning or something to that extent. Basically potential fraudulent activity all around a couple listed names or owners of those playlists. I contacted Spotify artist support. I was all motivated to share this info because we get accused with no means Of proving innocence. They threaten to take down our music. We say but we are innocent. How do I prove this. Anyways. Spotify said they do not handle one on one cases. I responded. That’s a shame but I’m not surprised. It just proves the rumors that. You guys are the fraud. The ones making false accusations. You guys are music communists. And most of us do not have the funds to drag you through court. I honestly wish people would drop their Spotify accounts so this company goes broke. Or a powerful legal team hears us and is will to do a class action lawsuit and expose these music criminals.

@@victorsmith6429 I transferred all my self releases to amuse. No issues yet. But something interesting. I logged into my song stats account went to a link called submit hub. Long story short I saw songs on playlists that were tagged as warning or something to that extent. Basically potential fraudulent activity all around a couple listed names or owners of those playlists. I contacted Spotify artist support. I was all motivated to share this info because we get accused with no means Of proving innocence. They threaten to take down our music. We say but we are innocent. How do I prove this. Anyways. Spotify said they do not handle one on one cases. I responded. That’s a shame but I’m not surprised. It just proves the rumors that. You guys are the fraud. The ones making false accusations. You guys are music communists. And most of us do not have the funds to drag you through court. I honestly wish people would drop their Spotify accounts so this company goes broke. Or a powerful legal team hears us and is will to do a class action lawsuit and expose these music criminals. I’m done releasing through public distributors. If a label doesn’t pick up a song. I drop it on SoundCloud for the fans and move on

I like both Distrokid and CD Baby personally. The difference is do you want a subscription service or would you rather pay per release? Gotta see which option works best for you

@amirkhostavan I'm about to release an album and I will be putting out a lot more music, so I assume subscription service would make more sense. Thanks for the reply, man. 👊🏼

Good luck with the album release!@@gospelinsanity

@amirkhostavan Thanks, bro! 🫡

I used to love Distro but I will no longer distribute with them. As of late 2023, they will ban your music if you use any kind of spotify promotion service! TuneCore is awful. I don't know how but they are somehow stealing royalties. I have a song with them that has thousands of plays on Spotify and thousands more on KZfaq and have not earned even $1.00. I know that I won't earn a lot with that number of streams but based on distributing with other services like CDBaby and Distro, I have earned at least $40 with each of them. I am interested to give Landr a try but that price point is high.

Unfortunately I don't think so

As soon as you release a single track through any of these platforms, it is assigned a upc and isrc code and a topic channel will be automatically generated. Furthermore you can then claim it and become an authorised official channel so all further releases resulted to your artist page will be added to both your page and the topic page. At least that is how it works both with CD Baby and Distro Kid, I cannot speak for the others as I do not know.

@@Ecstasio unfortunately I use TuneCore and they don't offer the official artist channel anymore, it's "under improvement" and it's been for months... I don't see it's coming back anytime soon... Such a nightmare, any alternatives?

@@Ecstasio you are correct but normally you have to have a certain number of releases distributed through a KZfaq music partner that can be found in KZfaq Services Directory for Music Partners

Well, it takes long time, 3 weeks and so.. And depending on the problem, they can fix some stuff. They are however unable to fix my KZfaq artist channel.