beginners guides

a beginners guide to music distribution

Music distributors have contracts with many streaming platforms such a spotify and apple music, even some social media platforms like tiktok and instagram. This can be a tricky process for an artist to tackle on their own so many will distribute through a third party service.

amuse music - distributes music for free, allows artists to upload an image to accompany their singles to help viewers identify their music, artists retain all rights to their tracks, artists can borrow a predicted amount of money from amuse to utilise and further their music career.

distrokid - extremely similar to amuse although there are a few key differences: overreach the distribution of amuse as they can place your music in over 150 different music platforms, costs $19.99 for a subscription for the year, doesn’t offer any sync licensing deals unlike amuse.

music gateway - free music distribution and sync licensing, distributes to all major platforms such as spotify and amazon music, artists keep 100% of their sales, master an artists music for them for free.

a beginners guide to music production and studios

Music can be produced in a professional music studio using instruments, or at home using digital audio applications such as LOGIC and virtual instruments and MIDI. There are many people involved when producing in a professional music studio, the artist themselves, the sound engineer, the music producer, the band manager and potentially a songwriter.