How does DistroKid make money?

As an artist, you can't simply upload your music to Spotify. In order to release your music on Spotify, you'll either have to send your music to a label or you can use a so-called aggregate service. Let's first see why it's a good idea to put your music out on Spotify if you haven't already.

​Friday stands out as the ideal release day in the music industry to launch a single. This practice is more than just a trend among popular artists; it's a strategic choice aligned with industry standards. Billboard, a key player in chart rankings, tracks music sales from Friday to Thursday each week. By releasing your single on a Friday, you maximize its exposure on streaming services, ensuring it is tracked for the full seven-day period. This timing can significantly enhance your single's potential to climb the charts and gain widespread attention, aligning with peak listener activity and industry reporting cycles.

It really depends on the artist. In order to make good money as an artist you need high quality music as well as a solid marketing strategy. Once you have great music it’s important to figure out the best way to generate money from your music. You can either live performances or you could try to sell music and make money of the royalties of your music.

You can sell your music online for free on House of Tracks, a leading online music store and platform. This would be a good option if you want to sell music online along with the rights of the music. This can earn you from up to €199 to €999 per track. As you can imagine, this is a great way to earn money with the tracks you compose but can’t find an actual use for.

It’s difficult to determine exactly how often you should drop new music. It really depends on your goals. To make a name for yourself it’s advised to regularly drop new music. So about every 3 - 6 weeks would be a great number. However you have to decide what is possible in your personal situation.

Normally an EP is considered a product that contains 4 to 6 songs. The total duration of the product should be 30 minutes or less. An album is most of the time more than 6 songs and the total duration is over 30 minutes. There are EP’s that have less than four tracks, this happens a lot in the electronic music scene.

Most musicians sell their music on online platforms nowadays, creating a musicians marketplace for various genres and styles. Whenever you have composed music, you should distribute it either through a record label or through an aggregate service. They will make sure your music will be available in major music stores like Beatport, for instance. This is how musicians sell their music today, and some even turn to options like ghost producers, who can make varying amounts of money depending on the project.

LANDR Distribution distributes your music on all major streaming platforms, including Spotify, iTunes, Apple Music Tidal Deezer and Pandora. LANDR simplifies the distribution process with the easy-to-use release builder.

 
Easily go from studio to streaming and share your music with the world which makes it easier for musicians of any level to distribute their productions at an affordable price point without having to spend hours uploading or maintaining complicated playlist associations in order to get a return on their investment

TuneCore is an online distribution service for independent artists, who are frustrated with the low payouts from music streaming services like Spotify and Pandora. TuneCore provides a lot of advantages over other distributors in that they have a lower cost associated with their annual subscription fee along with retaining 100% royalties on sales revenue as opposed to 50%. Additionally, TuneCore helps distribute digital music efficiently.

People nowadays are constantly looking for new ways to listen and share music, so it is helpful if you can use different formats. For example: streaming providers like Pandora or Spotify let people find specific songs they want without having downloaded anything first; iTunes offers explicit versions of the albums as well as unlimited skips in their radio stations (where a person may pick up an album later); SoundCloud has millions of tracks that one could download onto your hard drive after becoming a paid member with access to all the features offered by this site.