Free Music Distribution: 11 Best Spotify Distributor Services

The income for artists is finally rising again after a long struggle. More and more artists are releasing their own Music and no longer sharing their income with a label. Find how you can publish your Music yourself without any problems.

What can you learn here?

• How to get on spotify your Music, (Itunes and Youtube)
• Best Free Music Aggregators - Comparison
• Other Music Distributors worth mentioning
• Label Aggregators, including Traxsource, Beatport and Juno
• How to release Native Instruments STEMS?
• How much do Music Streaming services pay? 
• Smart Links for Music Streaming Services - Share Music Links

If you don't wanna spend money before releasing and selling your own Music. Here I show you how to put Music on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, Deezer, Itunes, Shazam, or Pandora. There are some free-of-cost solutions to distribute your Tracks with spread income. For example, the Distributor gets 15%, and you keep 85% of the revenue. Often it makes more sense for independent Artists!

If you have the question "How to sell/distribute my Music on Spotify or Itunes?" You can read my reviews for the free Digital Music Distributors I found on the Web. The best music aggregators 2021 / 2022 are Soundrop, Routenote, Bandcamp, Amuse, United Masters, Symphonic, Tunecore, Distrokid. Some of these Distribution platforms have no yearly fees and no sign-up fees. Some are entirely free digital music aggregators, and others take a commission.

Read more about the cheapest music distributors you can find online:

In the following Blog post, I compare these details:

• Who has the best free fast music distribution service
• Which Distributor can supply the most download and streaming services?
• How high is the margin the distributors charge you per stream or download?
• How much do you have to earn until the music distributor pays you out?

Good luck in finding the best monetization options for your Music!

Distribute Music for Free - Independent Music Distribution Companies

My comparison for the best music Aggregator: Itunes, Apple Music, and Spotify Distribution. Soundrop vs. Routenote vs. Awal vs Level Distribution vs. Distrokid vs. Bandcamp vs. Amuse vs. Fresh tunes vs. Horus Music vs. Songtradr vs. United Masters

Routenote is a digital music distribution platform and was founded in 2007. They operate from Great Britain to help artist release their music.

Routenotes digital music distribution offers a free and a premium plan. With free music distribution, Routenote takes a 15 percent commission from your earnings.

With the Premium Plan, you get 100% of your earnings, but you pay per music release to the aggregator routenote.

The good news is you can switch between the free and premium plan at any time.

According to Routenote, your music can be distributed up to 200 different shops and streaming services. Also interesting that many Asian and Chinese stores are included.

Routenote distributes your music to the following stores:

• Apple Music, Itunes, Spotify, Amazon Music, Google Play, Deezer, Youtube, Shazam, Pandora, Melon, Soundcloud, Juke mymusic, Groove Music, Claro Musica, Tidal / WiMp, eMusic, Napster, Omnifone, Anghami, Gracenote, Kanjian

Routenote Pricing:

• Routenote distribute your Music with no upfront cost but keeps 15% of your download and streaming revenue.

When do you receive payment from Routenote?

• Once the balance on your Earnings page has reached the USD$50 minimum threshold amount. 

Extras:

• Non Exclusive release agreement
• RouteNote Premium - For a small upfront cost, you keep 100% of the royalties. You pay $9.99 annually ongoing and one time per release (Singles $10, EP $20, Album $30, Extended Album $45)
• Youtube Content ID included
• Custom Web Store with - Routenote Direct
• Payment Splitting for Collaborations

Routenote Rating

• 4,3 (Source Trustpilot June 2022)

*Soundrop Music Distribution is the replacement for Loudr.fm, whose service has closed in 2016. They offer an almost free Youtube Music, Apple Music, and Spotify Distribution. They charge 0.99 Cent per Song release and 15% of your download and streaming revenue if you use their service. 

Soundrop also includes a Revenue Splitter, an elegant, efficient way to add revenue splits for music collaborators during the upload process. So every producer or songwriter gets paid for their work.

Soundrop distributes your music to the following stores:

• iTunes / Apple Music
• Spotify
• Google Play / YouTube Music
• Deezer
• Amazon Music
• Tidal
• Resso
• Boomplay 
• Pandora
• Facebook / Instagram
• Yandex
• Netease
• Snapchat
• Tencent
• TikTok

Spread Income with Soundrop:

• Soundrop keeps 15% of your download and streaming revenue.

When do you receive payment from Soundrop?

• Once the balance on your Earnings page has reached the USD$20 minimum threshold amount. 

Extras:

• Automatic Revenue Splits
• Facebook / Instagram Story Fingerprint
• Use Show.co marketing tools for free
• Set up payee splits to distribute revenue automatically among multiple rights holders.
• Sell Cover Songs - Pay a one-time fee of $0.99 per composition. They will take care of calculating and paying all the appropriate publishing royalties on your behalf.

Soundrop Rating

• 2.3 (Source Trustpilot - June 2022)

Amuse was founded in 2016. It is a App based and 100% free music distribution service. Upload your music and get your songs distributed to Spotify, Apple music and Itunes in just a few days. You can upload your tracks in .wav format via IOS or Android APP. But you also need a Google Drive, Dropbox or Icloud account. Only with one of these cloud services you can send your songs directly to Amuse. Otherwise, this service works entirely trouble-free and is worth a try.

With the free Plan it takes up to 4 weeks to release your music.

Amuse distributes your music to following stores for free:

• Spotify
• Apple Music
• Itunes
• Deezer
• Audiomack
• Claro Musica
• Youtube Music 
• Tidal
• Amazon Music
• Napster
• Pandora
• Tik Tok

Spread Income:

• Amuse keeps 0% of your download and streaming revenue. Everything is free, and 100% of the royalties go to the artist.

When do you receive payment?

• If you’ve earned $10 or more you can withdraw your royalties using PayPal
• "Early Access" lets you have access to upcoming royalties as small as $10 USD from weeks to months earlier than stores' payout. 

Extras:

• If you pay for Amuse Boost or Pro, your Music get's released faster, you can choose between more streaming services, multiple Artist Profiles, Custom Label etc.
• They discover artists they believe in and offer them a record deal that includes marketing, financing, promotion and playlist pitching. If you are one of them, they split the profits 50/50 with the artists.
• First app-only Music Distributor with no desktop site, you have to upload your music to Icloud, Dropbox or Google Drive to release your music

Amuse Rating:

• 4.8 out of 5 (Source: Apple App Store / Google Play Store - Mai 2022)
• 1.8 out of 5(Source Trustpilot - June 2022)

Online Mastering Service

Founded in 2003, Awal Distribution is owned by the Kobalt Music group and represents more than 4000 Artists and Labels. It's Music Aggregator service is App based and invite-only. You can submit your own music, but Awal will review your sound quality, social media reach, press releases and Spotify plays from the past.

Music Gateway is a complete artist services platform based in the UK. They provide virtually every service artists and musicians need to create, distribute and promote their music.

Music Gateway’s basic music distribution service comes as standard with their free and lite subscription, with retention of 100% of your royalties. They release to 300 DSPs including Spotify, Apple Music, and Amazon Music. Their set-up is super quick and they can also provide a UPC code if you don't have one.

They also have a Song Import Tool to help you easily transfer any previously released music with all the data with it. All distribution comes with free IBM anti-piracy protection. Their premium services give you unlimited distribution with unlimited songs, and you can downgrade anytime.

When you distribute with them you also get free access to lots of helpful services like Spotify playlist curation, networking opportunities with sync and promotion, and you can create a free artist page.

Music Gateway Distribution Stores:

They distribute to 300 digital streaming platforms, including the major player:

Aggregator: Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, Amazon Music, Google Play, Youtube Music,  Tidal, TikTok, Pandora, and more.

Music Gateway Pricing:

They have a free trial for 14 days which leads to their Lite account at £5/ $7.50/ €5 per month.

Free/Lite Features:

• Data storage 500 MB
• Distribution releases 5
• Song publishing commission 10%
• Retained Revenue from Sync Placement Up to 50%

The Pro or Influencer account is £15/ $22 /€15 per month.

Features:

• Data storage 15GB
• Distribution releases 10
• Song publishing commission 5%
• Retained Revenue from Sync Placement Up to 80%

The Gamechanger or Unlimited account is £25/ $37/ €25 per month.

Features:

Data storage Unlimited

Distribution releases Unlimited

Song publishing commission 0%

Retained Revenue from Sync Placement up to 80%

Music Gateway Rating: 4.6 - Trust Pilot

Freshtunes is another free music aggregator. They have zero fees and you keep 100% of your royalties and rights.

Just upload your music, after 24 hours your album or EP is checked and will immediately be sent to Spotify, Itunes, Deezer and other shops (a total of 14 streaming and download services). Another advantage is that you will be offered a pre-order function for your upcoming release.

They also provide promotional campaigns via Facebook or Youtube, to promote your next Music release.

Fresh Tunes distributes your music to the following stores:

• Spotify
• Apple Music
• Itunes
• Deezer
• Google Play
• Youtube
• Tidal
• Amazon Music
• Shazam
• Yandex Music
• Saavn
• Kanjian.com
• Claro-Musica
• Zvooq
• Beatport
• Soundcloud

Spread Income with Fresh tunes:

• Fresh Tunes keeps 0% of your download and streaming revenue. Everything is free and, 100% of the royalties go to the artist.

When do you receive payment by Fresh tunes?

• If you’ve earned $25 or more you can withdraw your royalties to your bank card, Payoneer or WebMoney account

Extras:

• You can pay Fresh tunes to get Promotion, Album Art Video production, Artwork production or to find a producer 

Fresh Tunes Rating:

• 3,5  (Source: Trustpilot June 2022)
• ! Some People say they get banned without no reason, or It takes up to 2 Month to withdraw your Money

Bandcamp Distribution Service is perfect for making your songs available to your fans. At Bandcamp, you have your shop as a label or artist. You can offer your songs as a free download and ask for an e-mail address, or set the price by yourself to distribute your latest EP or album. Another nice feature is the integrated store to distribute merch, vinyl, CDs, and tapes. You also have many useful statistics at your disposal, and you can create download codes to give some of your music for free. Distribution via Bandcamp is not exclusive, so you can still distribute your music via streaming providers like Spotify.

Which Shops for Download and Streaming are Included?

• Bandcamp Store

Spread Income:

• Bandcamp keeps 15% of your download revenue.

When do you receive payments?

• Your share of each digital transaction is transferred into your PayPal account 24 to 48 hours after the sale.

Extras:

• Physical Records & Selling Merch(vinyl, posters, tickets, t-shirts)
• Optional High-quality download formats like FLAC, Wav and Apple Lossless
• Pre-Orders
• Discount Codes

United Masters is one of the top free music distribution plattform. They also let you sell Beats to Artists. There is also an app with which you can manage all services.

Which Shops for Download and Streaming are Included?

• Apple Music / iTunes
• Spotify
• TikTok
• Instagram
• Amazon
• Tidal
• YouTube
• SoundCloud.

Spread Income:

• Wit the United Masters free plan they keep 10% of your streaming revenue.
• If you are a SELECT member, it will cost $19.99 per month 

When do you receive payments?

• The minimum payment treshold is $ 50,00, you get payd viay Paypal on a monthly basis

Extras:

• No Payment Splitting
• Artist Websites
• Music Licensing Deals
• Select Member Extras [Keep 100% of Sales Publish, Unlimited Beats, Exclusive Sync and Brand Opportunities, Playlisting & Editorial Promotion, Sell Beats to 1.5 Million+ Artists, Get Paid Instantly, Custom Producer Storefront, Sales and Performance Data ]

United Masters Rating:

• 3,9 (Source Trustpilot June 2022)

Songtradr was founded in 2014 and is mainly specialized in music licensing, besides offering you many distribution options.

Which Shops for Download and Streaming are Included?

• Spotify
• Apple Music
• Deezer
• YouTube Music
• Tidal
• Amazon
• and many more (Beatport, Boomplay, Juno Dance, Traxsource)

Spread Income:

• Wit the Songtradr starter plan they keep 10% of your streaming revenue.
• If you are a Lite member, it will cost $19.00 for a yearly subscription, to keep 100% of your earnings

When do you receive payments?

• The minimum payment threshold is $ 10,00 via Paypal

Extras:

• Payment Splitting
• Music Licensing

Songtradr Rating:

• 3.0 (Trustpilot June 2022)
• Some complaints on Trutpilot because of the payouts

Sonomo is a fairly new music distributor. You keep 100% of your streaming revenue. The payout is supposed to be extremely fast. Your music is published to over 120 music stores.

A special service is that you can invest in other songs and thus receive shares of future earnings. 

Sonomo Rating:

There is just one Review on Trutpilot

Symphonic was founded in 2006 and is an established music distributor. With the Partner Plan, you can also release your music here for free, and Symphonic will receive 15% of your earnings, but this service is only available to established labels, managers, and artists.

Revenue sharing:

As a new artist, you can book the Starter Plan, pay $19.99 yearly, and keep 100% of your earnings.

The starter plan is DIY and fee-based with some restrictions, while the partner Partner Plan has no restrictions or fees. You only pay a percentage of your royalties as you use additional Symphonic resources.

Stores:

• Your music is delivered to over 200 download stores and streaming providers. You can also split your earnings between different artists.

Extras:

Symphonic also offers many other exciting services 

• Support for NFT release strategy
• Sync licensing
• Physical distribution
• Obtaining neighboring rights
• Royalty management
• You can apply to this distribution as an individual artist or as a label.
• Real-Time Tik-Tok Analytics

Symphonic Rating

• 3.6 out of 5 points (source Trustpilot - June 2022)

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