How to evaluate a music distribution platform for a record label. The infrastructure checks that decide whether a catalog can move without losing streams.
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A 24-bit stereo master and an ADM BWF with its own ISRC. The label checklist for Atmos and hi-res delivery, including the rejections you can stop at upload.
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Subscription vs Per-Release vs Revenue Share: How Distribution Pricing Scales With a Label’s Catalog
A $14.99 album fee looks cheap until the back catalog starts earning. How subscription, per-release and revenue-share distribution scale once a label has a roster.
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A label submits one release. The distributor builds a store-shaped DDEX ERN for each outlet, with that platform’s version and audio floor, from ingest to go-live.
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Artist distributors are built around one name. Once you are paying a roster, you need label infrastructure and a sequenced catalog move that keeps ISRCs intact.
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A split recorded as 8% instead of 16% pays out wrong on every statement until it is fixed. The real royalty leak lives upstream of the rates debate, in identification and split accuracy.
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A working guide to release-support services worldwide: promotion, PR, radio, sync, rights, and mastering, with what each does, how it works, and who it suits.
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Most releases clear review on the first try. Here are the few issues that actually hold a release up, and how to clear each one before you submit.
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The regions adding the most streaming subscribers pay the least per stream. Independent artists who treat that reach as fanbase capital can still turn it into income.
