

Change spotify song rating how to#
Most distributors have their own instructions on how to do this and after helping a few artists do this with various distributors, researching all the distributors’ (and Spotify’s) FAQ, I’ve put together Ari’s Take guide to switching distributors. +11 Ways To Get Hired for (or Fired From) the Second Gig If you’re making some serious dough from a few of your songs which are included on hot playlists – you definitely want to make sure you do this correctly so you don’t lost the playlisting slots, losing potentially boat loads of money. How can you do this without losing your play counts or getting removed from playlists?Ī few years ago, this was actually quite challenging and there were no guarantees it would work.

Or maybe your laptop just crashed and you need to distribute your music via your phone so you need to switch to Amuse. Or maybe your songs got included in a bunch of playlists and you’re starting to make some serious cash and AWAL’s 15% commission is really starting to add up and now you have to pay your producer and other collaborators their proper cuts and the accounting is just too much of a headache so you decide you want to switch to DistroKid for their 0% commission and automatic payment splitting. Or maybe Ditto f’d up your releases for the very last time and you just need to get out of their system.

But now that the band has been broken up for 4 years you really don’t want to keep paying that $50 annual fee. Maybe you distributed your first band’s album with Tunecore 5 years ago because at the time you thought the album was going to take over the world and $50 a year seemed like nothing when you were going to be making millions off of it and the 0% commission seemed way more attractive at the time. I keep an updated comparison of 16 of the biggest independent distribution companies, but more pop up every day and it’s even hard for me to keep up. But now, well, there are so many distributors for indie artists and labels that it’s hard to keep up. Then Tunecore barreled in offering commission-less distribution (with heftier fees). Maintaining a modest signup fee and tiny commission, it was quite the deal to get into the #1 music store in the world without a label. Shortly after, they were the first and only company that allowed self-released artists to get their music into iTunes. When my high school band released our very first (and only… RIP Jahaziwoga) CD, there was one game in town to get it sold online.
