I know it seems like a small thing, but DistroKid now lets you edit releases (change song titles, album art, release date, etc.). 💪💪 It used to be you had to delete & re-upload.
Should DistroKid let you order cassette tapes of your music? Nicely packaged with your artwork, inexpensive. For the lols but also maybe your fans want em. Maybe with a player too. Thoughts?
Many artists join DistroKid after leaving shady deals, to avoid stuff like this. We are
@taylorswift13
fans - she doesn’t deserve this headache. ❤️ yall
💚🍗 DistroKid hasn’t raised membership prices, ever. 💚💚Since we started in 2013, it’s been only $19.99/yr. 🔥🔥 With gas & everything else getting mucho expensive, we hope this helps ❤️ (not committing to never raising prices 😂 but no plans to currently 💪💪)
Hey everyone. Good news: Latest Spotify earnings are being released over the next 24-36 hrs. Sorry for the delay. This month's file from Spotify was so big that it took a long time for our system to process. We have a new system launching soon to ensure this doesn't happen again.
In 2013, I sat in front of a blank screen and started programming DistroKid. It took a year to launch & I had no idea if anyone would use it. Every day since, I’m thankful for every artist that’s given us a shot. Thank you so much, you are appreciated and I love you. -DK founder
DistroKid has limited staff between now and Jan 2 due to holidays. Shit may be slower than our normal speedy self. Like replies to customer service n’ whatnot. Sorry in advance! In other news, Happy holidays to you & yours 🎉🎄🌝
Public Service Announcement: If you upload a song, then upload it again but with a different title or artist name, streaming services will reject it. They no longer allow "duplicate audio but with different metadata." Use DistroKid's "edit" button instead, for edits. 🙌
Don’t pay for promo or playlisting services. They use bots to generate fake streams. Streaming services will detect it and remove your music or worse. Regardless of distributor. ❤️ ❤️ hope this is helpful. Stay safe y’all!
Raise your hand if you're guilty of filenames like "song_new_new_reallynew_finalversion_final_new.wav" - it's funny how many song files uploaded to DistroKid are like that 😂 You are not alone.
Working on new thing. Where do people have music? What services are we missing from this list:
Spotify
Apple Music
Google Play
iTunes
Amazon
Beatport
TikTok
YouTube
Pandora
Deezer
Tidal
Napster
iHeartRadio
ClaroMusica
Saavn
Anghami
KKBox
MediaNet
SoundCloud
Bandcamp
DatPiff
Lots of DistroKid folks (and people who work at streaming services too) taking next week off. Or they're technically on the clock but will be slacking off big time 😂 Go easy on us if shit be slow or whatnot. ❤️ you all!! Happy holidays and have a musical & prosperous new year 🎇
DistroKid finally has a "More..." menu. Seems like a small thing, but we used to have all these neat features hidden away in the "settings" page where nobody noticed them... always bugged me. Fixed! 💪❤️ More coming soon.
🚨Announcing! 🍦🍦 Automatic “Recoupments” with splits. 🦞 For example, if one person paid $500 for the music video or beat etc, they can get paid back *first* before rest of the splits kick in 💪💪 Free for DistroKid members, sign in & click “Splits”—enjoy 🏖🏖
Who has a nice looking HyperFollow page that we can use in a new mockup/ad? 💯 I could make a fake one but would be awesome to have some real examples, promoting real artists. 🚀
Are you looking to collaborate with anyone? 🧠 Who (or what skill) are you looking to meet? Thinking of making something to help artists meet each other. 🚀
DistroKid isn’t perfect but most of the time when an artist hates us 😞 it’s cuz of something the streaming services did (we have no control over), a rule that the streaming services have (that we have to comply with), or the artist typed something wrong into the DK upload form😣
🎉 ANNOUNCING! 🦞 Starting today, DistroKid makes it possible for independent artists to get added to Snapchat's music library. 🚀🚀 Only from DistroKid, read more, here:
Happy new year! DistroKid is the result of over 6 years of engineering and learning from everyone who works here—and we are eternally grateful to every artist that uses DistroKid for letting us do what we love. Thank you so much 🙏 ❤️ and also 💪💪. Have an amazing 2020!
Last week I tweeted some shit that I thought was insightful and helpful but instead I got piled-on cancelled & ok boomer’d by like 5,000 people strong twitter mob. 😭 I still love y’all though. (Deleted that tweet w a quickness tho) ❤️❤️
Now, when you have a collab (artist name like "Barn Face and DJ Phonkbone"), DistroKid lets you map each artist to their correct Spotify/Apple pages 🎉 Hope this is helpful..! 🙏🚀🚀
🐪 Announcement! 🐳 Starting today, DistroKid is partnering with Twitch to offer qualifying DistroKid members the opportunity to be considered for the Twitch Affiliate Program 🦞 which lets you make money on Twitch & other things. 👑👑👑 Read more here:
Most people who write into customer service are super nice. But some are really mean (insulting, demanding, threatening, etc). We treat everyone 💯 nice but subconsciously (human nature?) the nice people probably get better service than the mean people. 🤷♀️
Building a thing where you can request feedback on your songs from other members. What questions should we ask?
Examples:
- What do you think of the beginning?
- How does the song make you feel?
- What do you like best about the song?
- What needs improvement?
What else?
Thanks & congrats to every artist who made a free "Sellouts" NFTs on DistroKid last month. All 10,000 NFTs, well, sold out 🎉 and first payments went out today to artists. If you made one, see "Bank" -> "Breakdown by service" -> "Sellouts NFT (Primary Sale)" for free money 🤘💙
Boom! 🤯 DistroKid has partnered with Audiomack 🧠 so you can now distribute directly to Audiomack from DK. 🚀🚀 To connect your Audiomack account, sign into DistroKid & click "Goodies" -> "Streaming Service Things" -> "Connect to Audiomack"
Awkward week to announce a new thing (stay safe all ❤️) but we've been working on it for a while so here goes. DistroKid just launched "music video generator" so you can post your entire song on Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, etc. It's awesome check it out:
Everyone shout out
@Dolby
and
@AppleMusic
for taking care of DistroKid artists. 💯💯 Thanks Dolby and Apple peeps! 🥨🥨 - On behalf of indie artists everywhere 🍒🍒🍒🍒🍒
🎉 New service! Free for DistroKid members 🚀🚀 add your music to Joox, which is the biggest streaming service in Hong Kong, Indonesia, Thailand & more 🌏🌍🌎 Choose "Joox" on the upload form (or for old releases click "Add to more stores")
Announcing DistroLock. It's a free service that helps protect your music against unauthorized leaks. It's basically a blacklist of audio fingerprints that you can add your own music to, so that other people can't upload it. Check it out:
April Spotify payments later than normal this month. We haven’t received payment yet from Spotify, but just sent them a nudge. Spotify made tech changes to the payment system last month which delayed our ability to invoice them. We’re on it & working hard for you as always. 💪
🎉 just added Apple Pay (and Google Pay) to the checkout flow. I know this doesn’t matter if you’re already a member—but this feels big 😂 because we basically haven’t changed the checkout flow since 2013. Never raised prices either 💪💪 and still not.
🐝 Unlimited *VIDEO* distribution: Vevo, Apple Music, Amazon, & Tidal. 🤯 Please try our new thing called DistroVid (with a "V" 🎬 ). Super early beta so pls forgive & reply with any issues 💚 Existing DistroKid members get surprise discount at checkout 🎯
Question for beat makers: Let’s say DistroKid built a site where you can upload beats and then receive 50% of royalties from any track that uses it. Would you also want an up-front fee from anyone who downloads your beat, to weed out people who aren’t serious? How much? Thoughts?
SERIOUS QUESTION. About to launch something that lets fans chat with artists (interface works like Facebook Messenger, kinda). What should the button say? "Chat" seems corny, "Contact Artist" seems to old fashioned, "Conversate" is the best I can do but I don't think it's a word.
Need your help. If you have a good high-energy pop or EDM song, and you're okay with me generating a music video for it (to test a thing), reply with artist name & track name. Thank you!
Hey! We need an example full-length music video(s) to show how DistroVid works, and thought it would be cool to use videos from real artists rather than stock footage 🚀 If you’ve used DistroVid and are ok with us using your video as an example, pls reply with YouTube link. Thx!
🚀🚀Attention audiophiles 🔈 and head-fi 🎧 appreciators. DistroKid can now get your music into the excellent & ultra hi-def Qobuz streaming service. Free for all DistroKid members. Turn your DAC to 192kHz and get uploading. Or add your existing tracks (also free). 💪💪
New! DistroKid now delivers to Yandex, one of the biggest streaming services in Russia 🇷🇺 Free for DistroKid members 🚀🚀 Click "Yandex" for new uploads, or "Add to more stores" for previous uploads 🧦
New! 🚀🚀 DistroKid is a preferred partner for
Facebook’s new "Independent Artist Program," which makes it easy for undistributed artists to make their music available on Stories, IG Reels and more--for free. More info: 🎉
New 🚀🚀 from DistroKid & Spotify: Get your lyrics (synchronized to the music 🤩) into Spotify. 🎤
Lyrics are being rolled out to the Spotify app currently. If you’ve already submitted synched lyrics to DistroKid, then you’ll automatically be included—no action necessary 💪💪❤️
New from DistroKid 🔥🔥 Get your lyrics into TIDAL 🗣🎤🎤 only with DistroKid, free for all DistroKid members. 🦋 If you’ve already provided your lyrics to DistroKid (for Apple, Instagram…) then no additional action necessary 💙💙 🙏
You can now edit the DM button text on HyperFollow pages. And before you say "I don't need a DM button on my HyperFollow page," it's going to be exponentially more useful than the DMs on Twitter/Instagram/etc - trust me! Have I steered you wrong? Cool stuff coming soon. 💪💪
I love y’all but when artists are like “hey can you look into [some issue] with my release?” we need some clue of how to find it - your artist name or release name or some way to look it up. Thank you!