Earnings Reports
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How and When Do I Get Paid?
Earnings reports and withdrawals are available once DistroKid processes earnings from streaming services and stores. Services report your earnings every 1-2 months, with those r...
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How Much of My Earnings Does DistroKid Keep?
DistroKid does not take any percentage of what stores send us for your earnings. When streaming services and stores send us earnings reports, we send 100% of the earnings alloca...
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How Much Do Streaming Services Pay Per Stream?
The rates streaming services pay aren't up to DistroKid, and we have no control over changing them. We just pass along the exact amounts that services send to us. DistroKid has...
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When I Delete a Release, Do I Still Get My Earnings?
Yes, you will still receive any due earnings for a deleted release for the time it was live on streaming services. The earnings will be passed through to your DistroKid Bank.
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Using the DistroKid Bank to See Your Earnings
To access your DistroKid Bank, sign in to DistroKid and click on "Bank" in the top banner, or head directly to https://distrokid.com/bank. Your DistroKid Bank is available to sh...
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Checking How Many Times Your Song Has Been Streamed and Downloaded
To see the streaming and download totals for your releases, sign into DistroKid and visit your DistroKid Bank at https://distrokid.com/bank by clicking "Bank" on the top navigat...
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Streams and/or Sales in Your Daily Stats Page That Aren't Reflected in Earnings Statements
DistroKid's Musician Plus and Ultimate plans offer access to the Daily Stats page, showing estimated daily stats from Spotify, Apple Music, iTunes, and Amazon. It's normal for...
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Why Do Some Streams in My Earnings Report Show Earnings of Zero?
There are several factors that may result in a stream count from an earnings report showing zero earnings. Some streaming services may not pay earnings for listeners on free tri...
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Saving Your Earnings Information as a Spreadsheet File
Here are the steps you can take to save your earnings as a TSV (tab-separated value) file: Visit your DistroKid Bank at https://distrokid.com/bank Scroll down and click "SEE E...
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Referring Your Friends To DistroKid
DistroKid has a referrals program to help share DistroKid with your friends, and you make $10 every time they sign up through your referral link! There are three referral links ...
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DistroVid Earnings
When you use DistroVid to distribute your music videos to services, you keep 100% of the earnings sent by services for those videos. DistroVid does not take any percentage of wh...
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Does Vevo Send Earnings for my Music Video Views?
Yes! Vevo earnings are reported 2-4 times per year. As an example, if we’ve just shared earnings reports for August, Vevo might be showing earnings info from March. Keep in mind...
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Getting a Gold or Platinum Record Plaque from the RIAA
If you think your single or album has sold more than 500,000 copies (gold) or 1,000,000 copies (platinum) in the US, or streamed the equivalent, please let us know. We'll verify...
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Getting More Streams for Your Music
DistroKid offers a number of ways to promote your music such as HyperFollow, Mini Videos, Meme Generators, Synced Lyrics and more! Pitching your music to editorial playlists in ...
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What happened with Apple Music and January/April/July/October 2017/January 2018/April 2019 earnings?
If it looks like we skipped a month, have no fear! We didn't skip it. Apple just jumped forward a month, that month. So streams that happened in Jan--which used to be reported a...
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TIDAL Direct Artist Payouts
TIDAL partnered with DistroKid to offer artists direct payments through TIDAL Direct Artist Payouts. This payout model provided by TIDAL ended on March 31st, 2023. How Direct A...
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