Welcome! You won't be disappointed.
It's easy to switch to DistroKid. Here's how:
- Upload your releases to DistroKid
- The next day, go to your old distributor and remove those releases
DistroKid is fast, so there's a chance that your albums will appear twice in streaming services before your old distributor takes them down. This brief overlap is okay.
Here's more info on how long it takes for releases to go live via DistroKid.
Maintaining Play Counts and Playlists
To ensure that services (especially Spotify) try to maintain play counts or playlists that your music is on, make sure to use the exact same metadata (song titles, album title, ISRCs, etc.) and audio files you used with your old distributor when uploading to DistroKid. We can't guarantee that these play counts and playlist placements are maintained because the process is out of our hands, but that's generally how it works. Note that you may lose reviews in iTunes and Amazon.
Here's more info on using your own ISRC codes.
What Else is in DistroKid?
Here are some of the many other benefits you'll find at DistroKid:
- Automatic revenue splits - just tell us who to pay, and how much to pay them. We'll do the rest.
- HyperFollow - you'll have a pre-save marketing page within minutes of uploading your music. Once your release goes live on all services, we'll add links to the same page automatically.
- Lyrics support - add lyrics to your songs, and we'll send them to services for you.
- Global timed release dates - your release will go live at the exact same time everywhere on Spotify
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And more - Click the DistroKid Features Menu in the upper right
to see all of the Goodies DistroKid has to offer!
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