Music Distribution API & White-Label Platform

A white-label music distribution platform lets companies run music distribution under their own brand on top of existing delivery infrastructure. LabelGrid provides the REST API, DSP delivery network, royalty processing, and catalog system. You provide the brand and the customers.

The distribution engine is ready to run: catalog management, release scheduling, DSP delivery and royalty accounting. Analytics and webhooks come with it. Launch your own distribution service or wire LabelGrid into the tools you already use. Documentation is public, so you can read every endpoint before you sign up. Rather not build at all? Imprint is the no-code way in.

REST API

The LabelGrid API is a REST API that speaks JSON over HTTPS. Every endpoint lives under https://api.labelgrid.com/api/public. You authenticate with an API token, passed as a bearer token in the Authorization header, so there is no OAuth dance and no SDK lock-in. Any HTTP client works.

The endpoints cover the full distribution lifecycle: build catalog metadata, upload audio and artwork, validate a release against DSP rules, submit it for delivery, and read the analytics and royalty data that come back. Reference endpoints return the genres, languages, territories, contributor roles and outlets you need to populate metadata correctly. The analytics endpoints return per-track, per-platform and per-territory streaming and engagement series: plays, listeners, saves, playlist placements, geography and demographics. It all filters by ISRC, UPC, release or artist, with a machine-readable availability matrix and per-section freshness dates so you always know what each store reported. The statement endpoints return itemized royalty statements broken down by platform, release and track, plus transactions and splits, as JSON you can pull on any schedule and load straight into your own reporting or accounting stack.

Partners on the API can also connect an AI assistant to their account through the official LabelGrid MCP server — an open-source Model Context Protocol connector that drives the same API in natural language, with layered, fail-closed permissions. Explore the MCP server.

GET  /api/public/releases
POST /api/public/releases
POST /api/public/releases//validate
POST /api/public/releases//distribute
GET  /api/public/analytics
GET  /api/public/statements

REAL-TIME EVENTS

Register webhook endpoints and LabelGrid pushes events to you as they happen, review-status changes and delivery updates among them, so your platform reacts in real time instead of polling for state. Each event arrives as a JSON payload with the full context your systems need to act on it.

Manage webhooks through the API itself: create and update endpoints, choose which event types each one receives, send test hooks, inspect delivery logs, and rotate the signing secret. Payloads are signed, so you can verify they came from LabelGrid before trusting them.

YOUR BRAND, OUR ENGINE

Run a fully branded distribution service on LabelGrid infrastructure. The operational heavy lifting works from day one: DSP delivery to all major platforms, royalty processing, and catalog management. Your artists and labels see your brand, not ours. You handle onboarding and billing, and answer the support tickets.

The API is the only thing you need to integrate. Build a distribution front end for a label group, add distribution as a feature inside an existing music SaaS product, run a catalog-migration pipeline, or sync royalty data into your own accounting tools. Custom logo, email templates, royalty-statement branding, and a support portal all sit under your domain.

Imprint, the LabelGrid white-label portal, is a ready-made hosted portal with your own domain, your logo and your colour scheme, available on the waiting list. Building on the API is available now and gives full branding: your artists and labels see your brand, and you set your own plans and prices. Contact sales to talk through either path, or start in the developer hub.

SELL ON BEHALF OF

Distributors with their own DSP contracts can use LabelGrid as delivery infrastructure while keeping their direct deals. SOBO (Sell on Behalf Of) lets you deliver through your own agreements with 100% royalty retention on those direct-deal deliveries.

Run a hybrid model: your direct deals where you have them, LabelGrid’s DSP network for everything else. Manage every delivery from one place regardless of which path it takes.

You keep 100% of royalties on your direct deals. For platforms where you don’t have an agreement, use LabelGrid’s standard DSP network and pay only the standard 5% distribution fee.

INDUSTRY-STANDARD METADATA

LabelGrid generates and ingests fully compliant DDEX ERN feeds across versions 3.8.2, 4.3.0, 4.3.1 and 4.3.2, with full support for NewReleaseMessage and PurgeReleaseMessage. Territory-specific release dates, deal terms, and rights holders are preserved exactly as submitted.

Migrating from another distributor? DDEX import lets you bring an existing catalog into LabelGrid without rebuilding metadata by hand. Validation runs automatically on import and reports exactly what needs attention, and our team maps edge cases with you when your feed calls for it. See the DDEX import guide for what we accept and how validation works.

Explore DDEX Delivery →

MULTI-LABEL MANAGEMENT

Manage multiple labels and imprints from a single account. Each label portal gets its own branding, catalog, user access, and royalty reporting, completely separate from your other labels.

Distributors managing a roster of labels, or labels running multiple imprints, can scale from a handful of portals to a hundred as the business grows. Add labels through the API or the dashboard without contacting support.

Every portal operates independently, with separate artist rosters, release pipelines, royalty statements, and user permissions. Your sub-labels never see each other’s data. Consolidated reporting at the parent level gives you a complete view across all labels.