Digital Distributors

CD Baby

Location: Portland, OR 97218-2891
CD Baby is a digital distribution company that offers a wide range of services for musicians looking to publish their work. For the standard pricing of $9.95 per single or $29 per album, CD Baby will publish their client’s music on over 150 streaming services such as Apple Music and Spotify. Working with CD baby will also provide services such as verification with Spotify and Apple Music for artists, access to the “artist support team,” and worldwide CD/vinyl distribution for albums. Additionally, at $29.95 per single or $69 per album, artists can receive the “Pro” package with total monetization through CD Baby’s global royalty services. 

Distrokid

Distrokid is a very cost effective way for independent artists to publish their music. Distrokid’s distribution service costs an annual rate of $19.99 per year for unlimited releases, and there are no additional fees per album/single. Artists keep 100% of earnings paid monthly, and their music is published to Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon, YouTube, Deezer, Instagram, and more.

Reverb Nation

Reverb Nation offers three tiers of memberships ranging from $0-19.95/month. While all tiers allow users to sell music from an artist profile on the Reverb Nation website, only the top “Premium” tier includes distribution services, which allow artists to publish music on major streaming platforms such as iTunes and Spotify. 

TuneCore

Location: Brooklyn, NY 11201
TuneCore will publish music to Spotify, iTunes, Apple Music, Tidal, Google Play, Amazon Music, TikTok, Tencent, and more. Pricing is $29.99 per album (for the first year), $9.99 per single, and $19.99 per ringtone. Artists keep 100% of sales from music they distribute.

The Orchard

Location: New York, 10003
The Orchard delivers to the leading online and mobile digital retailers throughout the world – over 400 and counting. The Orchard helps artists expand their reach and market effectively by using analytics to create successful advertising campaigns and landing pages.

Redeye Distribution

Location: Haw River, NC 27258
Redeye Distribution boasts a huge line-up of labels to their roster, where they handle both the physical and digital distribution for their catalogs. 

Record Union

Location: Stockholm, Sweden, 113 30
Record Union is a global digital distribution service which helps all artists, signed or unsigned, to distribute their music to a large selection of online retail services. Artists upload their music on the Record Union website, and once the relevant information is added to the release, Record Union will publish it to their retail partners. Their partners include music stores (such as iTunes, Amazon Music, Rhapsody, and Beatport), streaming services (such as Spotify, Apple Music, Lala, and Deezer), and many more. Distribution starts at $7 dollars per single, $10 per EP, and $13 per album, with prices increasing depending on the number of streaming services being distributed to.

Song Cast Music

Location: Cuyahoga Falls, OH
Song Cast is a digital distributor which allows artists to keep 100% of their royalties by charging a monthly fee starting at $1.99 instead. Pricing for releases is $19.99 per album or $9.99 per single. Song Cast does not charge annual album renewal fees.

Catapult Digital Music Distribution

Location: Frisco, TX 75034
Catapult Digital Music Distribution is a service which allows musicians to publish their work to over 1,000 music stores/streaming services. Pricing is $25 per album, $9 per single, and $9 per ringtone, as well as 9% of earnings. Additional services include volume discounts and detailed monthly reports. 

DashGo

Location: Santa Monica, CA
DashGo allows artists, labels, and content owners to distribute, promote, and market content across digital stores, social sites, and tastemaker blogs and track the results.

Ditto Music Promotion

Location: Nashville, TN 37212
Ditto works with artists and labels alike to offer a variety of services for digital distribution across all e-stores, streaming services, internet radio sites and more. 

iMusician Digital

iMusician Digital is a swiss based digital distribution company that offers artists a commitment free and easy to use service that spreads music around to over 200 outlets worldwide. Pricing starts around $10 per single, $20 per EP, and $30 per album (exact prices are listed in Euros), with rates increasing based on which plan is chosen. Some plans also have a 15-30% commission.

Indie Power

Indie Power is a marketing resource for independent artists. Indie Power works to do online promotion, creative marketable packaging, print marketing, advertising, event promotion, digital distribution, licensing and business consultation.

LANDR

LANDR is a unique company that offers both mastering and distribution services. LANDR’s mastering service utilizes AI for instant and consistent products. Annual plans range from $48-299 per year. LANDR’s distribution service is offered at three different levels, with annual princes ranging from $0-89 per year. The cheaper plans have per-release fees, as well as commissions ranging from 9-15%.

Spinnup

Spinnup is a straightforward digital distribution service which allows artists to publish singles, EPs, and Albums for annual rates of $9.99/year per single, $19.99/year per EP, and $39.99/year per album. Artists keep 100% of royalties, and Spinnup publishes to over 25 online stores and services. See site for occasional deals/discounts.