Last updated: May 2025
Music Distribution Guidelines
To ensure timely release, online availability, and royalty generation for your music, meet the submission requirements below. Also, check the content guidelines of chosen streaming platforms and music stores for optimal exposure and success.
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⚠️ Promoting Your Music
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Paid 3rd-party services that guarantee streams aren’t legitimate. Artificial streaming is detected by platforms and results in your music being removed from outlets and significant losses to artists and labels.
Intellectual Property Rights
Artists/users must either be the original copyright holders of the submitted content and be prepared to show evidence if/when necessary or submit (to Support) a government-issued photo ID and verifiable licenses for each product containing the intellectual property of any other artist or entity.
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🚫 Ineligible Content
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Content, as described below, may be disapproved, rejected, hidden from customers, fail to generate royalties, be removed from platforms without notice, result in a strike or block being applied by some platforms, and/or more. When content of this nature is identified, actions are taken as deemed appropriate.
- Content that injures or violates the rights of any third party, including privacy, publicity, copyright, trademark, patent, or other intellectual property rights. These include sound-a-likes, slowed and revered versions or backing tracks of others’ songs, unauthorized DJ/extended mixes and samples, ringtones, bootlegs (unofficial recordings in the form of radio broadcasts, live albums, rare/early/leaked recordings, interviews, etc.)
- Use of trademarked artist names or titles,
- Misleading by mimicking popular titles/names/content or search terms, cover versions, tributes or sound-alikes that are misleading or confusing to customers
- Public domain recordings, unless delivered by the same partners who delivered the respective artist’s recognized discography
- Karaoke tracks with lead vocals or vocal versions, Ringtones
- Snippets (small clips), unless intro/outro of an album
- Unauthorized use of copyrighted music within generative AI music
- Hate speech/music, pornography, content that glorifies harm or violence, objectionable or inappropriate content
- Low audio quality, unless it is for clearly-artistic purposes