Unlike most music distribution companies, DistroKid charges are very customer-friendly pricing structure. In this blog, we will get to analyze the details of DistroKid’s fee and pricing structure.
As you may already know, there are extra distribution services with additional costs that DistroKid offers. For instance, if you are a music artist and you intend your music to be identified with Spotify’s editorial playlist curators, you will have to pay additional fees, and hence the first tier, that is a $20 annual fee, would not be the best appropriate tier of service to subscribe to. To customize your release dates, you need to subscribe either to the Musician Plus tier or Label tier. Remember that DistroKid offers three-tier services. Do not worry, we will cover these in a bit. So, don’t stress up, you will understand them better as we proceed.
To understand this concept better, note that DistroKid offers a three-tier service namely;
Now, to subscribe to the musician tier, you will have to pay a fee of $19.99 annually. For this tier, DistroKid offers the unlimited distribution of music for one whole year. This unlimited distribution only applies if you are a single artist or one band. It also provides access to Spotify’s artist verification page. Note that this access is only given to one artist or band. This tier also allows for unlimited distribution of lyrics. How wonderful! And better is the fact that this musician tier allows you to keep all the royalties due to you. You only have to pay the $19.99 annual fee.
The other tier is the musician plus tier. For this tier, you will need to pay an annual fee of $35.99. Paying for this tier means you will get a customizable label name, customizable release date, customizable preorder date, and customizable iTunes pricing. Besides, for two bands or artists, DistroKid allows for unlimited distribution of music for one whole year. You will also get to obtain access to Spotify’s artist verification platform. In this tier, DistroKid allows such access to two bands or artists, unlike the musician tier where the access is only given to one artist or band.
You will also get access to daily sale stats if you pay for this tier and also get syncs lyrics for Instagram. And finally, as you may already know, even if you pay for this tier, DistroKid will still allow you to keep the 100% of royalties due to you. You will not be required to give up a given percentage of the royalties your music generates.
The third tier which is known as the label tier requires clients to pay a $79.99 annual fee. For this tier, DistroKid allows for unlimited distribution of music by at least 5 and at most 100 artists or bands. It also allows for unlimited lyric distribution. If you manage to pay for this tier, you will get access to a customizable label name. You will also be offered customizable iTunes pricing, customizable release date, and customizable preorder date. Under this tier, DistroKid will grant access to Spotify’s artist verification platform to two artists or bands. You will also be able to get daily sales stats. As usual, DistroKid will also allow you to keep 100% of your royalties. You will only be required to pay the $79.99 annual fee. And for this, you will, also, get syncs lyrics for Instagram. All these packages fall under the label tier.
One of the main unique features of DistroKid that makes it stand out is the fact that it offers the unlimited distribution of music for an annual fee. And you only have to pay $19.99 for this. However, you should note that the musician tier is not appropriate if you want to submit your music to Spotify’s editorial playlists. This is because the musician tier does not enable you to customize your release dates. That is why you will find most music artists opting for the Musician plus tier or the Label tier and also because these two tiers allow you to gain access to the statistics page. I will explain to you more about this in the upcoming blogs.
There are more extra services offered by DistroKid. We will cover this bit in the next blog. Just click NEXT on your screen. Thank you for reading.
