Frequently asked questions
Who runs Horus Music, and who runs LabelGrid?
Their terms of use name the company: “The full name of our company is Horus Music Limited. We are registered in England and Wales under registration number 05914312”, with a registered address in Leicester. The footer across their captured documents reads “A Nick Dunn Enterprises Limited Company.”, which is their own statement of ownership and the only one this page uses. Their about page says the company was “Established in 2006” and that “Our headquarters is located in the UK, with staff and offices operating globally.” Their privacy policy names two separate companies, Horus Music Limited and Horus Music Publishing, both incorporated in England and Wales, so a publishing subscription and a distribution subscription are bought from different entities. The LabelGrid contracting entity is LABEL GRID, LLC, formed in 2017 and based in Denver, Colorado, independently owned with no major-label and no DSP parent. Where a company is registered is not a reason to pick either one; it is here because people ask.
How much does Horus Music cost, and is LabelGrid cheaper?
Their pricing FAQ gives two figures: “For independent artists, music distribution services cost only £20 per year”, and “For record labels, the yearly subscription cost is dependent on the number of artists they have signed. Starting at £30 per year for x2 artists.” Their homepage states the retention on those subscription plans as “Keep 100% of your royalties. We don’t take a cut.” They also run a pay-per-release mode, £25 for a single, £35 for an EP and £45 for an album, which their support team applies to an existing artist or label account on request. LabelGrid is not cheaper at the entry. Our plans are published in US dollars on the pricing page, and a customer keeps 85% on Solo, 85% on Basic and 90% on Pro; on Custom Distribution and every API tier a customer keeps 95% of standard-DSP royalties earned through LabelGrid’s deals and 100% of what they earn on their own direct deals or through SOBO. The two products are priced for different buyers, and the comparison worth making is the whole cost of running your business on each.
Does Horus Music publish its pricing?
For the subscription plans, yes. Their pricing page renders “Unlimited Distribution” twice, at “£ 20 Year” and “£ 30 Year”, and the third card, “Artist & Label Services”, shows “£ -- Year”. Which figure belongs to which plan comes from their pricing FAQ and their distribution page rather than from the cards, which share one heading. Their distribution page describes what the fee buys: “Distribute unlimited singles, EPs and albums worldwide” with “Free UPCs and ISRCs included with every unlimited release.” Their homepage also carries a plan for independent artists in India, where “With Unlimited Distribution PRO, pay £40 a year”; that figure belongs to the India section and is not a general tier. LabelGrid publishes every distribution plan and API tier price, including the Custom Distribution and Custom API starting prices, and publishes the meter each plan runs on beside it.
What is the Horus Music Artist & Label Services deal?
It is a different product from the £20 subscription, on a company their FAQ describes as “a global music distribution, publishing and label services company.” Their Artist & Label Services page prices it as a share rather than a fee: “80/20 split on streaming revenue generated (retain 100% ownership)”, under a step headed “Keep 80% of Your Streaming Royalties”. It is gated, in their words: “Our Artist & Label Services model is invite-only, so as well as listening to the music, we are also looking at the artist’s brand identity, current fanbase and their short term vs long term goals”. What they list inside it includes a “Direct account manager to provide dedicated support and release strategy advice.”, unlimited releases at no additional cost, “Global editorial playlist pitching campaigns for new audio releases.” and free UPCs, ISRCs, pre-saves, smartlinks and pre-orders. Both companies gate the upper product: LabelGrid API and third-party distribution access starts with onboarding screening plus KYC and KYB, and a dedicated account manager comes with Scale API and Custom API. A 20% share is five points above the 15% a LabelGrid Solo or Basic customer pays, and it is priced against a different product, so this is a difference of product rather than of appetite.
Does Horus Music do publishing, and does LabelGrid?
Horus Music Publishing is a separate company from Horus Music Limited, with subscriptions of its own. Their publishing page starts at “From just £3/month (or £33/year) create a songwriter profile”, heads a band tier “Music Publishing for Bands from £5.50/month” with two songwriter profiles included and “additional songwriter profiles for only £2.50/month each”, and heads a sync tier “Song Publishing and Sync Licensing from £5/month”. On those plans a songwriter receives “90% of performance and mechanical publishing royalties, and retain 100% ownership across all account models”, and on a successful Publishing+ sync a songwriter receives “75% of the total flat fee”. They also list registration with collection societies in “110 countries worldwide”, a figure the same page states a second way as “100+”, and an invitation-only representation service called Horus Music Publishing Signature. LabelGrid is a distribution platform, and its royalty accounting covers recording royalties. A publishing price is never added to a distribution price to build a total; the two are bought from different companies for different rights.
What else does Horus Music sell on top of the subscription?
Their pricing FAQ says so directly: “We also offer additional add-on services (i.e. marketing, mastering, sync licensing, video distribution) which can be purchased separately.” Their pricing page lists Editorial Playlist Pitching, UK Radio Plugging, Global Radio Promotion, Digital Ads, Digital PR and Bespoke India Marketing, and their own gate on the marketing side is that “our marketing team choose to work with artists on a case-by-case basis through a submission and review process.” Video distribution is bought per video: their video page prices “VEVO+ £20*”, “STARTER £75*” and “Apple+ £100*”, and offers “professional video distribution from just £20 per video.” Their pricing page adds that “For artists and labels based in India or African territories, we offer additional territory-specific services”, naming Horus Music India and Horus Music Africa. On the LabelGrid side the documented part is the promotional tooling inside the platform: a hosted landing page and smart link for every release, each with an lbl.gr short URL, a Spotify pre-save button before release day, optional fan email capture, landing analytics, direct posting of a release to Bandcamp and SoundCloud and YouTube and Instagram, and the same landing pages on your own domain through the WordPress plugin.
Does Horus Music offer advances, and does LabelGrid?
Horus Music does; LabelGrid does not. Their advances page describes “advances to further their careers off-set against streaming royalties only” and invites an artist to “Apply today and receive up to x8 your annual streaming income”, adding that “you will retain 100% ownership of your masters and can customise your deal to suit your needs in terms of the releases included, recoup term-length and monthly income levels.” The eligibility bar is published on the same page: an artist has to be “distributing with Horus Music” and to have “a minimum of 10,000 organic monthly listeners across streaming platforms”. The multiple is their figure rather than a valuation of anything. LabelGrid offers no advances on any plan, which is a real reason to choose Horus Music if funding is what you are after.
Can you get a refund from either company, and how does billing work?
Their payment terms give an individual artist a statutory cancellation right: “Individual artists have the right to cancel any contract for services within 14 days without giving a reason (‘Cancellation Period’)”, running from the day the subscription fee is paid and the first recording is uploaded. Two limits travel with it, both theirs: refunds “are not available to labels”, and “If choosing to cancel outside of the 14 day or within the 14 day period but our services have been engaged we cannot refund the Subscription Fee.” Their billing runs on two subscription types, monthly and yearly: “If you choose a monthly subscription package, we will bill you each calendar month until you cancel your subscription. If you choose a yearly package, we will bill you yearly on the date of signing up”. On the LabelGrid side there is no published refund window, and fees already paid for the term are not refunded on standard plans. Self-serve plans open with a seven-day free trial instead, which is where the evaluating is meant to happen.
How does each company pay royalties out?
Their payout FAQ says they pay “through Convera or PayPal”, and their payment terms add that “Horus Music Limited does not hold any card banking details; these are only located on either Convera (formerly Western Union) or PayPal’s platform.” They publish a threshold: “If you’re not in the UK, there is a £10.00 (GBP) minimum threshold (due to bank conversion fees etc). For UK based clients there are no minimum payouts.” On timing, they “account to and pay all eligible clients within 60 days period on a monthly basis post receiving the royalties and corresponding sales reports from the digital platforms”, with the rollout “usually completed and payment sent to clients between the 10th – 20th of the month”. That page also notes that many stores take up to three months to account to them, which is true of every distributor including LabelGrid. LabelGrid charges no fee of its own to issue a payout, so there is no payout charge, no processing charge, no withdrawal charge and no per-transfer charge on any plan, with the plan’s distribution share and your own bank-side conversion costs the only deductions. Our terms allow a minimum payout threshold, and we will let you know if one applies to your account.
Does Horus Music have an API, and what does LabelGrid publish?
Their 18 distinct captured pages, read 23 September 2026, do not contain the words API, DDEX, ERN, sandbox, webhook, rate limit or MCP. What those pages describe is an upload dashboard and a client portal: “Our in-house My Client Zone technology allows artists to track their royalties with intelligible reports, graphs and data.”, plus a pay-per-release mode their support team applies on request. That is an observation about what their published material covers rather than a statement about what they can build, and no developer documentation, help centre, blog or regional page was requested in that capture. Two things belong in the same breath. The only legal document in the capture is a website terms of use, which governs “your use of our website MyClientZone”, so nothing here speaks to their distribution agreement; and neither company publishes a white-label price, since Imprint is scoped at onboarding and their white-label page carries no figure. On audio, their FAQ asks for a WAV rather than an MP3 and for artwork “with a minimum size of 3000 x 3000 pixels (square) at 300 dpi”, which is the category standard. LabelGrid asks for the same finished master, and also delivers Dolby Atmos mixes and high-resolution masters on every standard plan and every API tier at no extra charge.