in this DistroKid review I'm going to show you how to make money with music
that you create this video will show you how to upload unlimited music to spotify
itunes google play amazon and all of the popular online music stores plus 150
smaller music stores DistroKid makes this very easy and i'm going to show you
how so if you create music or do cover songs and would like to distribute it
maybe even make a little bit of money off of it then this video is for you
welcome to simple green tech I'm Zane and on this channel I do audio tech tips
tutorials and reviews to help you unleash your creativity now first off I
want to be clear that this is a sponsored video for DistroKid but
that's not going to change my opinion of their service I only accept sponsorships
from products or services that I believe in and don't tell them this but I was
actually thinking of signing up for their service and reviewing it for you
anyway because it's actually a great service so it's really cool that they've
reached out to me and they've been very cool to you as well if you use the link
that's on the screen right now it's also in the description below you'll get 7%
off of their service which is already reasonably priced so be sure to use that
link if you're interested in getting your music out there to the masses which
is exactly what DistroKid does they get your music out there on Spotify iTunes
google play amazon and many other online music stores so now you're probably
thinking how much royalties does DistroKid take and the answer is zero all of
the money that you make off of your music goes directly to you and you can
even set it up so other band members or team members get percentages of the
royalties as well you just put the team members name in set the percentage and
DistroKid takes care of all of the payments for you they've made this
service extremely affordable at the time of recording this it's actually only
$19.99 plus if you use that link in the description you get seven percent off
that which is very reasonable and you can upload unlimited tracks
while your membership is active and this might even inspire you to create more
music why not if you can upload unlimited tracks to Spotify iTunes and
all of the other online music stores there are a few different options that
you can choose from for your membership there's musician musician plus and
label I'm going to get into the differences in just a bit as I have an
old track that I never did anything with and I'm going to upload it using the
upload form which is where I'll show you those differences I mentioned earlier
that you can even make money by doing cover songs district kid will get the
license for you it does cost an additional twelve dollars per cover song
per year and the original artist will get a nine point one cent royalty from
every sale that you make so if you sell a cover song for $0.99 you still get
eighty nine point nine cents for every sale which is not too bad for using
somebody else's song and cover songs can be a great way to turn people on to your
original music so let's go through the upload process now so first up you have
the list of stores that you can upload your track or album to you can unselect
any of them if for some reason you don't want your music on that particular store
or maybe it's already on that store next you can choose how many songs you're
going to be uploading if you choose anything more than one song you'll be
able to enter in an album title and also give your album a price this can be a
great way to upsell instead of them just downloading one song maybe because
they're getting a discount they'll download the whole album
the next question is has your song been previously released if you select yes
you'll have to enter in the date that it was released then you enter in your
artist or band name you can also see that there's some important tips below
like if your track is featuring another artist don't put that artists name in
here and what I really like about all of the tips that DistroKid gives is that
they're written in a way that you can understand them it's not corporate speak
or anything it's the way a musician would speak to another musician
and next up is the release date and I think you need to have the musician plus
or label plan to change this but what's really cool is that you can set it for a
future date and it will be available in all the stores at the same time they
suggest at least 1 to 4 weeks in advance to give all the stores time for
reviewing it but at least it's live in all the stores at the same time so you
can tell people that it's available everywhere and the next section here
goes with the release date if you set it to release at a future date you can
allow people to preorder it if you like again this is a musician + or label
feature and here's another feature that's only available in the musician +
or label membership level it's the ability to change the record label name
so you get to come up with a record label name to release your music under
which is pretty cool if you just have the base plan I think it gets released
under DistroKid's name next up you can include album art and they have a bunch
of recommendations and regulations for this things like not including a web
address or not including a specific store logo like Spotify or iTunes logos
leave those off and don't put any of your social media handles on here and of
course do not use any images that you're not licensed to use they also recommend
not using the same image for multiple albums which makes sense it will help
your fans to find new albums more easily next you'll have the album name in price
if you chose more than a single and you can also select your language here you
have your primary genre and your secondary genre the secondary genre is
optional now you can give your track a name and they have a bunch of guidelines
to follow here for naming things like capitalization how to properly add
artists that you're featuring and what not to put in the title and again it's
very easy to understand and they give examples you can upload your track by
clicking choose file and if someone else wrote your song like
if this is a cover song you would click another artist wrote it and then you
have a bunch of other options in here plus it tells you what's okay and what's
not okay to put in here you would add the original artist slash songwriter and
the original song title and in here you would put your name in here if you're
the only one that wrote the music and the lyrics or you can separate it if you
did the music somebody else did the lyrics you could put that here you can
add another songwriter and another one and another one next up
is the option if your music has explicit lyrics you would say yes and if you do
choose yes it takes out the next question which is is this a radio edit
so you can say no this song is clean and it's always being clean or you could say
yes there is an explicit version of the song but this one is clean then you have
the option to click if it's an instrumental or not and here you can set
your track price for iTunes Google Play and Amazon and I'm pretty sure this
might be only available to the musician plus and label plans and now you have
some optional extras like you can put it on Instagram in Facebook so it's
available for people to use in their stories if you want to make money off of
youtube say somebody uses your song in their video if you choose this option
you'll get notified if somebody uses your song in a video plus you can get
the revenue from that video now this option does cost an additional 495 per
year plus 20% of all the YouTube ad revenue that you get from those matched
videos the next thing is the store Maximizer
so if DistroKid adds another store to their list of stores after you've
already uploaded you will get added to those additional stores and as you can
see there is an additional cost to that here you can add it to Shazam and the
iPhone Siri list which makes it easier for people to identify your song and if
you want your song to remain on the stores forever
you could pay this one-time $29 fee and it will stay up there forever even if
you no longer have a DistroKid member ship you will still get a hundred
percent of the royalties for then you have some mandatory checkboxes
that you have to click so be sure to read all of these to make sure you're
okay with everything and then if you are okay with everything you would just
click done
and that's it and you can see here it says when will this single be released
says give stores up to a week to push your album live iTunes / Apple music
often happens faster sometimes same day but not always for Spotify new
deliveries will take at least five business days to go live and it also
says that they've made a pre save page to help you get more listeners share it
now and you can edit the text before posting so let's see what that looks
like
click on these share buttons here it has your info in there and you can easily
share this with everyone on your social media lists and you also have the link
right here for that page and you can check out the status or add credits and
lyrics to your upload and you can see here if you didn't add any of those
extras and you want to add them now you can still add those extras if you like
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