Guides

Music distribution: guides and tools

Music distribution is how your songs get onto Spotify, Apple Music and every other store, and you need a distributor to do it. They differ a lot in price, in what they take from your royalties and in how they treat you when something goes wrong. Start with the calculator to see what each would cost you for how often you release and what you earn, then read the profile of any you’re considering. If your music is already out, the how-tos cover uploading, switching distributors and the codes every release needs. Everything here sticks to published prices and documented problems, not marketing.

Work out your costs

Distributor profiles

Head to head

How-tos