From finished track to payout
Guides for artists and labels on releasing music, growing your audience, protecting your rights and getting paid.
Digital distribution essentials
Getting your music out and heard: what a distributor does, how to release and promote, how to switch distributors and how to protect your rights.
Read the guidesStreaming and your rights
How to get your music on Spotify and earn from it, and what licensing and copyright mean for your music before you upload it anywhere.
Read the guidesHow Lay works
The practical side of your Lay Distribution account: when and how you get paid, and how to take a release down from the stores.
Read the guidesLatest posts
- Releasing music on Spotify for free: what free actually costsSpotify takes no uploads of its own, a distributor has to deliver them. What a free route includes, where the hidden costs sit, and when a yearly fee is cheaper.
- Music royalties explained: recording, publishing, and what reaches youTwo royalty streams, one distributor and a payout minimum. How streamshare works, why there is no per-stream rate, and what is left of a stream when it arrives.
- DistroKid alternatives in Germany: fee, per release, or a shareDistroKid starts at 23.99 euro a year. TuneCore, CD Baby and Lay price differently. The three models with dated numbers, and what changes for artists in Germany.