Welcome to Muziki Wetu,
We help musicians understand all about music distribution and the different types of distributors available in the industry through our videos, blogs and consultations.
We also help musicians get started and successfully upload their music for online distribution.
As we know, listening to musing has evolved from playing CDs and Cassettes to streaming online and on Digital Platforms.
This evolution has also meant that majority of earnings and revenue from Music has changed from selling music in CDs to selling music online through streams and downloads.
So, how does music get online?
Your audio music gets to streaming and social media platforms by uploading them to the platforms just like you do in Youtube
However, there are many platforms that you may want your fans and listeners to find your music like Facebook, Instagram, Boomplay, TikTok etc.
Many platforms will mean that uploading music to each of these platforms will be a tiresome, expensive and a repetitive process. Also platforms like TikTok, Boomplay and Spotify among others do not accept direct uploads from artists. These Platforms require and encourage artists to use music distributors to get their music to the platform.
These distributors will check your music for copyright issues, take all the required details for your songs to be accepted and make your music available for your listeners on any platform that you desire.
The distributors then collect revenues your music has gained from all these platforms and make them available for you in one place.
HOW DO DISTRIBUTORS CHARGE FOR THEIR MUSIC
There are hundreds of music distributors serving different regions and levels of musicians. These distributors include CDbaby, Distrokid, Landr, RouteNote, Umijam among others.
Each distributors also charge different ranges for their services.
Some distributors charge musicians a fee ranging from $10- 30 renewable every year.
Some distributors offer their services for free but retain up to 20% of your music earnings.
Some distributors charge once a fee from $3-10 per song or album and retain up to 5% of your music revenue
Some distributors are invite-only. These distributors accept applications from artists, review them and market their songs while retaining a percentage of their earnings
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