Your DistroKid dashboard is at distrokid.com/mymusic. Log in to your account and you're there.

What's on your dashboard

Your dashboard shows every release you've uploaded to DistroKid, along with each one's current processing status, so you can see where your music is on its way to stores at a glance.

Curious what those statuses mean? Check out How to Check the Status of Your Uploads from Your DistroKid Dashboard.

DistroKid has affiliate and influencer programs that allow individuals to spread the word and earn a commission on every qualifying purchase!

To apply to become a DistroKid affiliate, head to this link.

To apply to become a DistroKid influencer, head to this link.

How to Apply to the Affiliate or Influencer Program

Here are the steps to sign up for either of these programs:

1. Sign up via the affiliate or influencer link.
2. If you're approved, you'll get a unique tracking link.
3. Start promoting DistroKid 🎉
4. You'll earn a commission for every qualifying purchase made through your link.
    

What's the Difference Between a DistroKid Influencer and an Affiliate?

Both affiliates and influencers earn money by spreading the word about DistroKid.

Anyone can apply to become a DistroKid affiliate through our form. If you're approved, you'll get a unique tracking link to earn commissions on qualifying purchases.

DistroKid influencers need to meet some eligibility requirements. Learn more in our influencer application.

What are the Qualifications to be a DistroKid Influencer?

You need to be 18 or older to be a DistroKid influencer. Aside from this, please see our application for the latest other requirements.

What do DistroKid Affiliates and Influencers Earn?

DistroKid affiliates earn a commission for every qualifying purchase made through their link. See our application for all the details.

DistroKid influencers can earn a flat fee and/or a commission. See our application for all the details.

If you'd like to download audio files that you've previously uploaded to DistroKid and the music still live in services, you can download audio files from the album page of the release. If your music has been deleted, you can download your files from your DistroKid Vault.

How to Download Audio Files from the Album Page

Here's how you can download audio files from the album page if the release is still live in services:

1. Head to the album page via your DistroKid dashboard.
2. Scroll down to the "Track list" section of the album page.
3. Click "Download" next to the track(s) you wish to download the files for.

How to Download Files from the DistroKid Vault

Here's how to download your files from the DistroKid Vault at https://distrokid.com/vault:

1. Locate the release you want to download files for.
2. Click the folder for that release.
3. From the list of tracks, click the track you wish to download files for.
4. Click the "Download" button to download the audio file, or right-click the artwork to save the artwork file via your device.

DistroKid is a digital music distribution service that musicians use to put music into online stores and streaming services. As a music aggregator, DistroKid takes an artist's digital music files and metadata to distribute globally on digital music services. These services include iTunes, Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, Amazon, Deezer, Tidal, and many more.

We don't take commission, and offer unlimited uploads for a yearly subscription fee. DistroKid collects earnings for sales and streams in the services you choose to distribute to, and passes 100% of those earnings along to you, minus banking fees and applicable taxes.

We also have a bunch of tools for artists to use that include distribution of music videos, instant mastering, pre-save marketing pages, and much more.

DistroKid offers a variety of subscription plans and extra features to make sure each artist has access to exactly what they need. Your total cost will be the sum of your DistroKid subscription and any of the optional Album Extras and tools that you sign up for.

DistroKid offers multiple subscription plans, ranging from a single artist/band Musician plan, to Ultimate plans for up to 100 artists. Additionally, DistroKid offers optional paid album extras that can be opted into during or after the upload process for a release, and other paid tools for artists like Mixea and Vizy.

To see pricing for the subscriptions DistroKid offers, visit https://distrokid.com/pricing.

To see information on available album extras, check out this article: https://support.distrokid.com/hc/en-us/articles/360013534274.

You can specify for your music to appear in any or all of the following services:

• Spotify
• Apple Music
• iTunes
• Instagram & Facebook
• TikTok
  - Luna
  - Capcut
• YouTube Music
• Amazon.com
• Pandora - For more info, click HERE
• Deezer 
• TIDAL
• iHeartRadio
• Claro Música
• Saavn
• Anghami
• Boomplay
• Snapchat - More info HERE
• NetEase
• Tencent, which includes the following services:
  - QQ Music
  - Kugou Music
  - Kuwo Music
  - WeSing
   
• Pretzel - Beta, More info HERE
• TouchTunes - More info HERE
• Audiomack - More info HERE
• Qobuz
• Joox - More info HERE
• Kuack Media Group - Beta, More info HERE
• Plus many smaller outlets through MediaNet, such as Dubset.

If there's another streaming service you really want your music to be in, let us know and we'll look into adding it!

 

DistroKid does not distribute to Coda Music yet, but we’re working on it! Stay tuned here for an update on how to get your tracks on Coda Music.

Yes—DistroKid accepts music created with AI tools, but there are some rules.

All music uploaded to DistroKid must follow streaming services' content guidelines, whether created with an AI tool or not.

That means:

• You must own the rights. You must own 100% of the rights, including the legal right to distribute music created with any AI tools, samples, lyrics, etc.
• No impersonation. Your music cannot mimic or copy someone else's voice, likeness, or identity without permission.
• No mass-generated spam. Music created solely to game streaming algorithms or flood platforms with generic content violates streaming services' policies.
• No infringement. Your release cannot infringe on anyone else's rights.

Please note that streaming services may reject or remove releases that don't meet their guidelines.

Some of the services DistroKid distributes to only allow users from the platform's local region to view their full music catalogue, and show a limited catalogue if accessed from outside that region. If you search for your release on one of these platforms and do not see it in the search results, it could be due to this restriction.

Services With Limited Catalogues Based on Region

Here's a list of the services that offer limited catalogues if accessed outside of a specific region, and the region they must be accessed from to view the full catalogue:

• Saavn: India, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Bhutan.
• Anghami: Middle East
• Claro Música: Latin America
• NetEase: China
• KKBOX: Taiwan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Japan, and Singapore

It can take several days for albums to be reviewed, approved, and sent to streaming services. 

After that point, your release should go live once ingested by streaming services according to the rough estimates below:

• iTunes/Apple Music: 1-7 days. A very small percentage of albums go through manual review at Apple, which takes an additional 1-2 weeks or so.
• Spotify: 2-5 days
• Amazon: 1-2 days
• YouTube Music: 1-2 days
• Deezer: 1-2 days
• TIDAL: 2 days
• Facebook/Instagram: 1-2 weeks
• TikTok: 1-2 days

• Anghami: 1-5 days (some require manual review by Anghami's team which can take an additional 2-3 days).

   

For many streaming services (iTunes, Amazon, Spotify, and more), we'll detect the moment your album goes live, and send you an email with the link!

Delays are rare, but they do happen, and are typically outside of DistroKid's direct control. If it's important that your album go live in all services on a specific date, we recommend uploading your release in advance using a custom future release date. Please see this article for more information on custom release dates.
 

Cover Songs

If you are uploading a cover song, securing cover song licenses can take up to 14 business days. Releases with cover songs will be submitted as soon as the license is approved by Harry Fox Agency (who handles our cover licenses).
 

Curated Services

Some services curate the music they receive from DistroKid, and have their own processes for accepting that music into their catalog once it is delivered.

For example, Pandora has their own in-house review process to curate content, so we are not able to provide information on how long it takes for releases to be added to Pandora stations (if they are).

Additionally, music sent to Roblox is curated by their team, and sending your music to Roblox does not guarantee that it will go live on their platform. For more information on delivery to Roblox, check out this article.

Amazon also curates music for Prime and Amazon Music Unlimited in Canada. We submit your music, and it may be added if it's deemed suitable. We have no control over their selection process.

Most DistroKid uploads appear worldwide in every country that the streaming services we distribute to support. Note that some services only allow users from the platform's local region to view their full music catalogue, and show a limited catalogue if accessed from outside that region.

Some releases may not be distributed to all countries based on language, explicit content, licensing, and other various issues that are outside of DistroKid's control. For more information, see this article: https://support.distrokid.com/hc/en-us/articles/40475055020307.

If you'd like to exclude your release from specific countries, please see this article: https://support.distrokid.com/hc/en-us/articles/360013648013.

If you plan on uploading a DJ mix or a remix of a song to DistroKid, please note that you will require permission to do so from all concerned parties. It is not possible to upload songs with uncleared samples.

You are welcome to upload remixes of your own work, either remixed by yourself or by another remixing artist. However, if your remix is of another artist's song or contains any part of another artist's original music, streaming services require permission from the original artist.

Uploading a Remix of Your Own Song

If you are uploading a remix of your own song, you do not need to credit yourself as a remixer. You can simply add "Remix" as version information for the track.

To add remix version information on the upload form, use the Add "version" info to song title? section. In this section, select "Other," and enter "Remix."

You should then see a title like this under the "Song title preview" section: YourSongTitle (Remix)

Uploading a Remix of Your Own Song by a Remixing Artist

If you are uploading a remix of your own song by a remixing artist, you will only need to add a collaborator with the "Remixer" role. You will not need to add separate version information for the track.

To add a remixing artist to a track on the upload form, use the Add featured artist to song title section. Once there, select "Yes, add featured artists to track title" and select the "Remixer" artist role in the dropdown menu. Then, enter the Remixing artist's name in the box next to the artist role.

Under the section that says Song title preview: you should see something like this: YourSongTitle (RemixingArtist Remix)

Uploading a Remix of Another Artist's Music

If you are uploading a remix of another artist's music, you must have permission from the original artist to do so.

If you have permission from the original artist to upload your remix of their song, you will need to list the original artist's name in the "Artist/band name" section of the upload form. This will use an artist slot. If you need more artist slots, you can upgrade your plan at https://distrokid.com/plan.

At the track level, you will need to add your artist name as a "Remixer" artist role. To add yourself as a remixing artist to a track on the upload form, use the Add featured artist to song title section. Once there, select "Yes, add featured artists to track title" and select the "Remixer" artist role in the dropdown menu. Then, enter your artist name in the box next to the artist role.

Under the section that says Song title preview: you should see something like this: OriginalSongTitle (YourArtistName Remix)

Important Information Regarding Remixes

It is important to keep in mind that remixes are not cover songs. In the "Songwriter" section of the upload form, do not select the cover song option if you are uploading a remix.

Your music videos go live on Spotify worldwide as soon as they're delivered, except in the United States. To release there, your song's publishing needs to be cleared first.

U.S. Requirements

Two things must be in place for your video to go live on Spotify in the U.S.:

1. MLC registration: Your composition must be fully registered (100% of shares accounted for) with The MLC, as is required for all video content on Spotify. Make sure any relevant publishers complete their registration too.
2. HFA opt-in: All publishers on the song must be opted into Spotify's audiovisual license via the Harry Fox Agency (HFA).

How to Clear Your Publishing

• If you have a publishing administrator, reach out to them — they'll handle it.
• If you don't, HFA's affiliate publishers service can get you cleared.

Once cleared with all requirements, your DistroVid uploads will go live in the U.S. automatically.

A paid DistroKid subscription is not necessary in order to use DistroVid. If you already have your music sent to services through a different distributor and would like to use DistroVid for your music videos, you won't need to purchase a DistroKid subscription first – you can just sign up for DistroVid and start getting those videos in services.

Please note that you will still need to create a free DistroKid account in order to sign in and use DistroVid.

If you have a music video for a song of yours that you'd like to get into YouTube, you can use DistroVid! With DistroVid, you can send your music videos to Vevo, which is a leading music video network that also manages music videos for artists on YouTube.

You can always upload your music video directly to YouTube to your own channel should you choose to not use DistroVid to send your music video to Vevo.

For more information on sending your music video to Vevo, see this article: https://support.distrokid.com/hc/en-us/articles/5051347220115. 

With DistroVid, you can choose to distribute your music videos to Spotify.

To get your music video into Spotify, make sure to select the "Spotify" checkbox at the top list of streaming services to distribute to when uploading a music video to DistroVid.

Here's how you can add previously released DistroVid videos to Spotify:

1. Sign into DistroVid
2. Go to your Videos page
3. Click your video
4. Click "+ Add more platforms"
5. Select "Spotify" from the list that populates.

Please note that videos opted in to delivery to Spotify are reviewed for "premium video quality" by Spotify. Opting your video in does not guarantee it will be accepted and go live.

Additionally, please keep in mind that if your song gets removed or changed on Spotify, your video will also be removed.

Learn more about getting your music videos into Spotify here: https://distrokid.com/resources/get-music-video-on-spotify. 

Requirements for Music Video Delivery to Spotify

In order to send a music video to Spotify, the following requirements must be met:

• You must have the associated audio release for the track also distributed by DistroKid (unless the video is a live performance video), and the artist name and track title must match exactly. 
• The music video is not for a cover song.
• The music video is not a lyric video.

Delivering Live Performance Music Videos to Spotify

Live performance videos also qualify for delivery to Spotify through DistroVid, and do not require that there is also an associated audio release through DistroKid.

Please take note of the following regarding live performance music video delivery to Spotify: 

• Live performance videos should only be for a single song. If the video you plan to upload contains more than one song in a single performance, please break the song performances into separate videos for each song and upload them separately.
• Live performance videos for cover songs are not supported by DistroVid at this time.

If you searched for your DistroVid video in services by artist name or release title and still cannot find it, it's possible that one of the following has occurred:

• Your video may not be live yet. If you set a future release date, you will not be able to locate the video in a service until that release date. For more information about how long it takes a video to go live, check out this article.
• Videos for that service may not be available in all regions. If you uploaded your video to DistroVid and sent it to Spotify, please note that videos in Spotify are not yet available in the United States.
• Services are indexing your artist name. Your artist name might not show up in searches until it's indexed, even if your video is live. Services manage this internally, and it usually doesn't take long after your release.
• Your video title is too common. If you have a common song title, such as "Home," it may not show in search results at the top if other songs are very popular in rank.

DistroVid is a music video distribution service provided by DistroKid! Visit https://distrovid.com to check it out.

As a DistroVid artist, you can upload an unlimited amount of music videos and keep 100% of your earnings from those videos.

Artists who upload music videos via DistroVid will have videos distributed to Apple Music, Vevo, Spotify, Boomplay, and Tidal.

In addition to those services, artists also have the option to distribute to the DistroVid Gallery, a collection of all music videos submitted to DistroVid.

A DistroVid subscription allows for unlimited video uploads for one artist. If you need to upload videos for more than one artist, your subscription can be expanded to include additional DistroVid artist slots.

If you don't have a full Mixea subscription and still want to apply some mastering to your upload, you'll still get an opportunity to do so when you upload! After filling out the upload form for your release and selecting "Continue," you'll get an opportunity to listen to a preview of a Mixea-mastered version of your release in case you want to add an additional finished sound.

In the preview of the Mixea mastered version of your release, you'll get to compare the original version to the Mixea version right in your device. If you like what you hear, you can instantly add the Mixea mastering for all tracks on your release. This type of Mixea pricing is a per-track fee, so make sure you review the full price before selecting "Yes, enhance my sound." If you select "No" here, no worries! You can also add Mixea mastering later on by clicking the "Enhance Audio" button from your release's dashboard page.

Once you select "Yes," your files will be mastered and sent to all services you opted into. Happy listening!

Mixea is DistroKid's online mastering service. You can use Mixea to add the final, polishing touch to your music before distributing it to stores and services.

Mixea combines modern mastering techniques to offer a variety of smart, finely tuned options. You can easily choose the best sounding mastered result for your tracks.

Mixea is a subscription-based service. For one annual fee, you can master an unlimited amount of tracks, for an unlimited amount of artists.

Head to www.mixea.com to try it out and receive your first mastered track for free!

To use Mixea, first open the Features Menu in the top right and click "Mixea," or head directly to https://distrokid.com/mixea.

At this point, depending on the file you use, it may take several minutes for the mastering engine to complete the process – it is generating 15 different mastering options for your track.

Once you're on the main Mixea page, follow these steps to get your file mastered:

1. Select the file you want to put into the mastering engine by clicking "Choose File" or dragging the file in.
2. Once your file is selected, click "Master My Song" to start up the mastering engine.
3. After the engine generates mastering options, you'll see a dashboard with waveforms for both your mastered preview track and the original track for comparison.
4. Use the Intensity and EQ Options sliding scales to compare all mastering options for your track.
5. After choosing your favorite, click "Download Mastered Track" to access your Mastered Tracks dashboard. From there, select one of three output files for your mastered track and click "Download."

The Mixea Sliding Scales

When using Mixea, you'll have access to sliding scales you can use to dynamically change the Intensity and EQ Options for the track. You can use these sliding scales to preview the final mastered file and tailor these options to your liking.

Intensity

Intensity controls the dynamics of your track. The higher the intensity, the louder and more compressed your song will sound, at the expense of some dynamic range. The available options for Intensity are Low, Medium, and High.

EQ Options

A warmer EQ brings out the low and mid range frequencies in your mix, while a brighter EQ setting amplifies higher frequencies making your mix more exciting. The available options are Brighter, Bright, Neutral, Warm, Warmer.

Output File Options

When you've finalized the Intesity and EQ Options for your track, you can then complete the processing and download your file. You have three resolution options for your file download: Ultra HD, High Quality, and Medium Quality.

These are the specifications for each option:

• Ultra HD: HD WAV, 24 bit depth, 48k sample rate
• High Quality: WAV, 16 bit depth, 44.1k sample rate
• Medium Quality: MP3, 256kbps bitrate

To get the most out of your track mastering using Mixea, we recommend that you do the following prior to uploading your files:

• Remove any mastering plugins from your mastering bus (including compressors, equalizers, limiters, and stereo enhancers).
• Try to ensure that your audio file is not clipping. A little bit of clipping is okay if you can't change it and can't hear it, but it's preferable to upload something that is free of any clipping.
• Try to provide the best quality recordings you can with low noise (like the background noise picked up by your microphones). A little bit of noise is okay, but the cleaner the recording, the better. We recommend that you set your sample rate to 44.1 or 48 kHz. Anything higher than 48 kHz will be downsampled to 48 kHz prior to mastering.
• Export your track using an uncompressed or lossless format (i.e. WAV, AIFF, or FLAC). A high quality compressed format like MP3 encoded at 256 kbps or more is okay too, but an uncompressed or lossless format is preferable.

If you aren't getting the results you're looking for from Mixea, experiment! Try making changes to your mix or break our recommendations by adding a plugin or two to your master bus before uploading your track to Mixea.

Mixea supports WAV, FLAC, MP3, AIFF and MP4 files, just drag and drop them into the mastering engine, and you'll be good to go!

You can download your finished tracks in Ultra HD (HD WAV, 24-bit, 48k), High Quality (WAV, 16-bit, 44.1k), or Medium Quality - (MP3, 256kpbs).

Mixea costs $99 USD per year, and is billed annually on the original date you opt into and pay for the service.

Bandzoogle is DistroKid's direct-to-fan platform. It's an all-in-one toolkit for artists where you can:

• Build a website with no coding skills required, using tons of fully customizable templates
• Package your bio, music, and photos to create an EPK
• Sell merch using print-on-demand services with no upfront commitment
• Offer direct music downloads
• Register a custom domain
• Grow your fan list using built-in mailing list tools

And more! Just like DistroKid, Bandzoogle never takes a cut of your sales. So you keep 100% of your earnings when you sell music, merch, or tickets to your fans.

Bandzoogle is a subscription based service, with plans starting at just $6.37 per month.

Here's a simple breakdown of recording royalties and composition royalties: 

• Recording royalties: Money for the recorded version of your song. This is paid to DistroKid members via their DistroKid Bank. 
• Composition royalties: Money for songwriting. This is collected by publishers, Performance Rights Organizations, Mechanical Rights Organizations, and/or Collective Management Organizations. This is paid to your DistroKid Bank if you're eligible and signed up for DistroKid Publishing.

DistroKid can only collect your composition royalties (sometimes referred to as songwriting royalties) if you sign up for DistroKid Publishing.

This is because composition royalties can only be collected by publishers, publishing administrators, or the songwriter. You can learn more about this in this article: https://support.distrokid.com/hc/en-us/articles/46710633476243. 

An IPI (Interested Party Information) number, which is sometimes called a CAE (Composer, Auteur, and Editeur) number, is a unique number assigned to songwriters and publishers by their Performance Rights Organization (PRO). 

It is usually between 8 and 11 digits, and is not the same as a member ID or account number with your PRO.

If you are affiliated with a PRO as a songwriter, you can enter your IPI to use for DistroKid Publishing at https://distrokid.com/publishing/PRO.

My PRO Assigned Me an IPI and a CAE, Which One Do I Enter?

If your PRO gave you both an IPI and a CAE, only enter your IPI on the PRO affiliate page.

DistroKid can administer your publishing if you are affiliated as a songwriter with a supported PRO. You can find a list of supported PROs and links to join them in this article: https://support.distrokid.com/hc/en-us/articles/46712266946963

Tips for Joining a PRO

Here are some tips if you're looking to join a PRO:

• Find a PRO that serves the region where you live.
• Join that PRO as a songwriter (DistroKid will take care of the publishing part).
• After you register, let us know by entering your PRO name and IPI Number at https://distrokid.com/publishing/PRO.

Yes, you can still opt your tracks into DistroKid Publishing even if you're not currently affiliated with a PRO. However, DistroKid Publishing can only collect the songwriter share of your performance royalties if you are affiliated with a PRO. If you are not, DistroKid Publishing will only collect the publisher share.

What DistroKid Can Collect if You are Not Affiliated

If you’re not affiliated with a PRO, DistroKid Publishing can only collect the publisher share of your royalties.

What DistroKid Cannot Collect if You are Not Affiliated

To receive the songwriter share of your performance royalties, you must be affiliated with a supported PRO.

If you're unsure which PROs DistroKid supports, check out: https://support.distrokid.com/hc/en-us/articles/46712266946963.

In order for a song to be eligible for DistroKid Publishing, some requirements must first be met. In addition, certain types of musical works are ineligible for registration through DistroKid Publishing.

What Does a Song Need Before I Can Register it for DistroKid Publishing?

Before you register a song, it has to meet a few basic requirements: 

• Original musical composition: The composition must be original and created by you. It cannot be copied or derived from someone else's work.
• Songwriter info: We need to know what percentage of the composition you own and what percentage is owned by your cowriters. Don't worry, we'll only collect the part you control.

• Fixed in a tangible medium: The song must exist in a form that can be reproduced, such as an audio file, sheet music, lyrics, or a recorded performance. The digital files you create & upload to DistroKid count.

   

Are Work-for-Hire Songs Eligible?

Yes, work-for-hire songs are eligible to register through DistroKid Publishing. If the song was created under a work-for-hire agreement, the employer usually owns the copyright, but you can still register it if you have permission from the copyright owner to administer the composition.

What Types of Songs are not Eligible for Registration?

The following types of works are ineligible for registration through DistroKid Publishing:

• Cover Songs: Any song written by someone else, even if you recorded your own version.
• Non-Musical works & Sound effects: Nature sounds, ambient recordings, animal noises, mechanical noise (car horns, appliances, etc.), or any audio that doesn't include an original musical composition.
• Songwriter and/or Song Titles with Non-Latin Characters: At this time, all submissions for DistroKid Publishing must not include songwriter names or song titles with characters outside of the Latin alphabet.
• Spoken word only: Narration, poetry, or spoken-word pieces without original music (if the spoken word performance includes original music you composed, it may be eligible).
• Binaural/meditation/therapeutic recordings: Hypnosis, relaxation, white noise, or meditation recordings are not eligible unless they contain an original musical composition.
• Public domain works: Compositions that are fully in the public domain cannot be registered.
• Songs already administered elsewhere: If another publisher or publishing administrator is already collecting royalties for the composition, DistroKid Publishing cannot collect publishing royalties for the same work.

HyperFollow is a completely free (and awesomely powerful) promotional tool that is available for all  DistroKid artists. With HyperFollow, you can have one page with links to your music on all streaming services.

A HyperFollow page is automatically created for every DistroKid upload. The instant you finish uploading your release, you can start promoting and collecting pre-saves on Spotify (including fan email addresses) with HyperFollow. As soon as your release goes live on its release date, your HyperFollow page will automatically update to include links to other streaming services.

Your HyperFollow link never changes, and you'll never have to update your marketing copy or social media posts.

You can find your HyperFollow link on your DistroKid album page, or by clicking the DistroKid Features Menu in the upper right , and then clicking on "Promote yourself."

You can create a HyperFollow page anytime by visiting https://hyperfollow.com, entering a "username," and clicking "CLAIM PAGE." Note that these pages won't have pre-save functionality or automatic release link updates, but they can be used for various purposes, not just music!

Why Use HyperFollow?

Here are some of the additional benefits of using HyperFollow:

More followers! Anyone who clicks the button on your HyperFollow page to pre-save your release will automatically follow you on Spotify.

More listeners! In addition to following your artist page on Spotify, whoever clicks the button will also automatically save your album to their Spotify library.

More research! You will have access to the city-level geographic location and other (anonymized) demographic information about your fans.

More insight! You'll be able to see the other music that your fans are listening to. Even if those other artists don’t use DistroKid.

More stats! You'll know how many people visited your HyperFollow page, and how many followers you added.

More contacts! You will be given each fan’s email address. (Musician Plus and Ultimate Plans only)

Here's how you can add a Meta or Google tracking pixel to your HyperFollow page:

1. Sign into DistroKid.
2. Visit your HyperFollow page (make sure you're signed in).
3. Click "Customize" at the top.
4. Click "Edit this page."
5. Scroll down to the "More settings" section.
6. Click on "+ Ad-tracking pixels."
7. Enter your Meta and/or Google pixel IDs and click "Done."
8. Click "Save Changes" at the bottom of the page.

Done! All visits will be now be tracked via your pixel ID.

Meta Pixel Custom Events

With a Meta pixel added to your HyperFollow page, you have access to some custom events using Meta's "trackCustom" function. The events are:

• clickSpotifyPresave - Fires when someone clicks your Spotify pre-save link.
• spotifyPresaveSuccess - When someone successfully pre-saves your release.
• click[store] (ex: "clickSpotify" or "clickAppleMusic") - When someone clicks one of the streaming service links to listen to your music.
• clickOut - When someone clicks any of the main links on your HyperFollow page. This will fire in addition to click[store] (which shows which specific link they clicked).
• clickSocial - When someone clicks any of the social media links on your HyperFollow page.
• audioPlay - When someone clicks the play button to listen to your audio preview.
• audioPause - When someone clicks the pause button to stop your audio preview.
• audioSkipForward - If your release has multiple tracks, someone skipped to the next track.
• audioSkipBack - If your release has multiple tracks, someone skipped to the previous track.
• showFullImage - Someone clicked your album artwork to show the full-sized image.

To edit your HyperFollow page, you can visit your HyperFollow dashboard by heading to www.distrokid.com/hyperfollow, or by clicking on the Features Menu in the upper right of DistroKid, then clicking "Promote Yourself," then "HyperFollow."

From there, click the "Edit" button under the HyperFollow page you'd like to edit.

For any HyperFollow pages that are automatically generated for your uploads, you can also click "Customize" on the upper-right corner of the page to reveal a bunch of options, then click "Edit this page." You can also hide or unhide any of your HyperFollow pages from this "Customize" menu.

The HyperFollow Dashboard

From the HyperFollow dashboard at www.distrokid.com/hyperfollow, you'll see the title and number of views for each page. If your HyperFollow page was auto-generated for a DistroKid release, click the "presaves" link next to the views counter to see more details about your pre-saves. There, you can view the email addresses of those who pre-saved your release (if they chose to share it), along with the favorite artists of the people who pre-saved your release.

What You Can Update in HyperFollow

• Social Media Buttons: add links to common social media websites that appear as buttons on your page
• Embedded Audio Player: Add audio files for playback on your page

• Embedded Video: Add a link to a YouTube video to embed on your page

Vizy is a music video generator that musicians can use to get videos to post their music on social media platforms like Instagram, TikTok, X, or Facebook.

Choose from 20 reactive and engaging templates that grab & keep your listeners' attention. 

It's easy! Get started at Vizy.com.

Each video generated by Vizy costs $8.99 USD for the first 5 minutes of any given song, and $0.99 USD for each additional minute.

If the template you select can display lyrics, you can also optionally add synced lyrics to the Vizy video at $5.00 USD per video.

If you buy multiple sizes of your Vizy video at once, you'll get a 10% discount on the total cost for each video. Sales tax will be calculated on the total cost.

To access the music videos you've generated with Vizy, log into your DistroKid account, and visit https://distrokid.com/videos/.

Please note that videos usually take about a day to create. We'll email you when it's done. 🙂

You'll want to check out our Marcel Generator!

Head to https://distrokid.com/marcel to make your own!

These little videos are pretty cool and fun to share with your friends, but for a more professional look, check out Vizy.com for custom audio reactive visualizer videos for your music. ⚡️👽⚡️

More info on Vizy can be found here.

If you uploaded your music to DistroLock and would like to unlock it to prevent DistroLock from blocking uploads, you can head over to DistroLock at https://distrokid.com/distrolock and unlock audio files by clicking the green lock icon next to the audio entry.

You can unlock files in DistroLock even if your DistroKid account is cancelled – to do so, head to https://distrolock.com and click "Sign in" in the upper-right corner. Then, sign in using the login credentials for your cancelled DistroKid account.

If someone has locked a track via DistroLock, it needs to be unlocked before anyone can upload it successfully through DistroKid. If you made an upload to DistroKid and it was blocked by DistroLock, the audio will need to be unlocked before your upload can be delivered to services.

If you're the one who locked the track, you can head over to DistroLock at https://distrokid.com/distrolock and unlock it by clicking the green lock icon next to the audio that triggered the block.

If someone else locked the track, you'll need to reach out to them so they can unlock it for you. You can contact the artist who locked the track by clicking the "contact artist" button in the red DistroLock notification box on your album page next to the blocked track.

Once the audio is unlocked, you can reattempt the upload by deleting the original upload and re-uploading the release.

DistroLock is a free service powered by DistroKid that makes it harder for anyone (who's not you) to upload your original music to streaming services. Once you upload and lock your original music in DistroLock, other services can see this lock and prevent unauthorized uploads of the audio on their platform.

When you upload your audio to DistroLock, we extract an "acoustic fingerprint," log it, and then delete your audio from our servers. If you don't want to upload your music to DistroLock, you can generate fingerprints on your own computer using Chromaprint and just send those.

When uploading to DistroLock, you can also register your music with Audible Magic, a leading public fingerprint database. Audio fingerprinting services can detect matches even if the audio has been sped up, pitch-shifted, or otherwise altered. Many music services utilize these services to block unauthorized releases, including YouTube, DistroKid, SoundCloud, Facebook, Vimeo, Twitch, and others.

Here's how to upload your music to DistroLock:

1. Sign in to DistroKid and head to https://distrokid.com/distrolock.
2. Click on "+ Add new track."
3. Select the "Audible Magic" checkbox if you wish to also add your audio to their database.
4. Add your audio file.
5. Add optional "Artist" and "Song title" information.
6. Confirm that you've read the DistroLock and DistroKid Terms of Service by checking the related box.
7. Click "Submit."

DistroLock Audio Restrictions

DistroLock works best for music that has not yet been distributed. Previously released music may already be in public audio databases, which means it can't be locked by anyone. Any audio uploaded to DistroLock that matches with existing audio in databases may not be eligible to be locked in DistroLock. This includes songs with publicly-available audio, like generic loops, sounds, and samples.

If your audio is found to be ineligible for DistroLock and is rejected after you upload it to DistroLock, there's some positive news: if you've previously distributed the audio, you already have some protections without DistroLock. That's because responsible services and distributors may cross-reference their new uploads with public audio databases, and reject unauthorized releases of your music without DistroLock's help.

Slaps is a music social network for artists and people who love music.

Artists on Slaps usually get quick feedback on their original music. 

Check it out.

https://slaps.com/

Sellouts is a collaboration with 10,000 independent music creators to design & mint 10,000 individualized, collectible, carbon-negative NFTs that commemorate the music of each artist.

From November 17th through December 1st, 2021, artists were able to join the Sellouts waitlist, and create their own NFT here: https://distrokid.com/sellouts

We've partnered with Nifty Gateway, which is an artist friendly platform that has pledged carbon-negative minting (more info here) for the collection.

All 10,000 Sellouts became available for purchase ($60/ea) on Nifty Gateway via random drawing on December 15th, 2021, and all original 10,000 NFT's sold out the following day!

If you participated in the collaboration, and want to check the status of your NFT submission, you can visit https://distrokid.com/sellouts/me to see if your submission was chosen.

While we won't be generating or dropping any additional Sellouts NFT's for the time being, stay tuned for more NFT opportunities in the future!

Please note: Nifty Gateway and DistroKid each take a small processing fee from NFT each sale.

Additionally, no intellectual rights to the music come with Sellouts NFT ownership.

If you believe, in good faith, that your content or material was removed as a result of a misidentification or mistake, you may submit a DMCA-compliant counter-notice via our webform.

If you misrepresent that the content or material is not infringing or make other false representations, you may be liable for damages (including costs and attorneys' fees). Fraudulent or abusive counter-notices or other misuse of DistroKid's services may result in account termination or other legal consequences.

After a valid counter notice is submitted, please be aware that we are obligated to wait 10 business days before reinstating any content or allowing a user to re-upload the affected content. Additionally, please note that services may choose not to reinstate content based on their terms of use, internal policies, or other factors that are outside of DistroKid's control.

DistroKid does not take any ownership or intellectual property rights from artists. You keep 100% ownership of music you upload to DistroKid.

You can review DistroKid's distribution agreement by visiting https://distrokid.com/agreement.
 

You must be 18 years of age or older to sign up for DistroKid, per our Terms of Service at https://distrokid.com/terms and our Distribution Agreement available to view at https://distrokid.com/agreement.

If you're younger than that, please have an adult sign up on your behalf.

This is not legal advice, and we are not lawyers.

Generally, you will not need to actively seek a copyright for your music if you've written it yourself.

Under the present United States copyright law, which became effective January 1, 1978, a work is automatically protected by copyright when it is created. A work is created when it is "fixed" or embodied in a copy or phonorecord for the first time. Neither registration in the Copyright Office nor publication is required for copyright protection under the law.

There are, however, certain advantages to registration, including the establishment of a public record of the copyright claim. Copyright registration must generally be made before an infringement suit can be brought. Timely registration may also provide a broader range of remedies in an infringement suit.

For more information, visit http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ50.pdf.

DistroKid's Terms of Service are available to view at https://distrokid.com/terms.

DistroKid's Distribution Agreement is available to view at https://distrokid.com/agreement.

You can distribute your works with other distributors alongside or instead of DistroKid, as we are a non-exclusive distributor.

To cancel your DistroKid Direct subscription, please contact our support team via the chat widget in our help center. Once put in touch, an agent can assist you with the cancellation.

When an order made to your Direct store fails, it gets cancelled and we attempt to refund your customer for the order charge. 

Here's what causes Direct order failures:

Payment failure (your PayPal account)

If we can't withdraw the production and shipping cost for the items in an order from your PayPal account, the order fails. You'll get an email notification and have 48 hours to fix the issue. If it's resolved in time, the order is resubmitted. If not, the order is cancelled and your customer is refunded. Refunds are usually instant. If we're unable to process one, we'll contact you directly to complete it.

Item out of stock

If a product is unavailable when the order is placed, it's automatically cancelled and your customer is refunded. 

Invalid shipping address

If the customer's address is incomplete or undeliverable, the order may fail. Your customer can usually place a new order with a corrected address.

Other reasons

Occasionally orders fail for other reasons. In these cases, the customer is refunded automatically and can try again.

Sometimes, an order placed from a Direct store can't be completed. When this happens, the order is cancelled and a refund is issued for the order charge.

How Long Does the Refund Take? 

Refunds are usually processed within a few hours of placing your order, sometimes sooner. The funds should appear back in your account (depending on your bank or payment provider), and can take anywhere from 1-10 days.

Why Did My Order Get Cancelled? 

These are the most common reasons for a Direct order being cancelled:

• An item you ordered was out of stock
• There was a problem with the entered shipping address
• A payment issue occurred on the store's end

In most cases, you can place a new order through the same Direct store if the initial order failed.

Most shirts are the same price in the most common sizes (Small–XL). But sometimes certain sizes or colors cost more from our print partners. When a customer picks a size or color in your store, the price updates in real time to reflect the actual cost. This is why we let you set your margins so you make the same amount (or more) on any variant no matter what the fulfillment cost.

Direct is a merch platform built by DistroKid that lets artists generate revenue by transforming their existing releases into on-demand products their audience can buy.

Direct lets you create and sell merch without handling inventory, packing, or shipping. 

You choose the products, design them using your release artwork, set your prices, and keep 100% of the profit after production, tax and shipping costs. Everything is printed and shipped on demand.

Direct costs $70 USD per year, which works out to about $5.89 USD per month. 

To learn more or create your store, visit https://distrokid.com/direct.

Getting your store live takes just a few steps:

1. Choose your artist
   Go to https://distrokid.com/direct and pick the artist you want to create a store for.

2. Join Direct
   Purchase a Direct membership to unlock store creation, it's billed at $70 per year (about $5.89/mo.)

3. Pick your products
   Select the merch items you want to launch with.

4. Connect PayPal
   Link your PayPal account so you can receive payments from fans.

5. Authorize fulfillment
   Approve Gelato to withdraw the production, shipping, and tax costs for each order. You keep 100% of the profit after costs. 

6. Share your store
   Your shop is live. Share the link and start selling.