About DistroBuddy

We provide UPC and ISRC codes for your new releases at no additional cost. Each track you upload will be assigned a unique UPC and ISRC code free of charge prior to distribution to music stores. If you plan to release any tracks that have already been distributed through another service, please ensure that you upload these tracks using the original ISRC codes assigned to them. This will help synchronize your streaming data across different music platforms.

As passionate music enthusiasts, we are in the process of curating a diverse array of active playlists across major streaming platforms such as Apple Music, Spotify, Tidal, and Deezer. This is a key priority for us, which is why we carefully listen to every submission we receive. This enables us to confidently pitch our artists’ music to an expanding network of playlist curators, as well as feature your music in our own playlists, social media posts, and blog articles.

Artists will be able to access a Payment Split feature easily found on their dashboard. The Payment Splits feature allows multiple song collaborators to receive a split percentage of royalty payouts on a release directly to their wallet.

Payment Splits is a powerful tool for artists, managers and labels to cut down on costly accounting time and ensure all parties get their share of royalties.

This feature is integrated with every current and new DistroBuddy Artist account and is free for you to access. It is also FREE for collaborators to sign up to our store to receive their royalty splits.

You will be able to add or remove unlimited collaborators and change split percentages at any time. Splits also make it possible for artists to view the history of their royalty splits over time, so that if any changes are made, they have a record of all previous percentage designations.

Take advantage of an Intuitive and informative Artist Dashboard or personal office as you excel in your music career.

We’re thrilled to introduce our enhanced royalties dashboard, designed to provide you with greater transparency and insight into the calculation of royalties. This new dashboard features a split shares history table, allowing you to track changes over time and update future royalties if split shares are modified. With this upgrade, you will benefit from a significantly higher level of detail and clarity.

An Analytics tab is easily accessible in the artist dashboard! This essential feature consolidates data from multiple DSPs and updates daily. With this advanced capability, you can access a wealth of information and insights that will empower you to better understand your music’s performance, allowing you to make more informed decisions.

The page can be found in the artist dashboard under the main menu ‘Account > Discovery Mode’.

For user accounts where there is at least 1 eligibile track for Spotify discovery mode, users now have access to view their eligibile tracks and request opt-ins on a monthly basis.

The page contains a table of eligible tracks from the user’s catalogue and their current opt-in status. To request an opt-in for next month, please fill out the form at the bottom of the page. If a user does not have any eligible tracks they will NOT see this new menu option.

IMPORTANT: If a track is already opted-in, there is no need to resubmit a new request for future months. Tracks will remain in discovery mode until they are OPTED-OUT via submitting a new form request.

The deadlines for submissions fluctuate from month-to-month but as a general rule please have all requests submitted before the 15-17th each month in order to start the following month. These deadlines are set by Spotify each month when we receive the new eligibility report.

Please contact support if you have any follow up questions.