Rights & Services
Music Distribution
Music distribution delivers your recordings to streaming platforms and stores and collects the recording royalties they generate.
Where this sits
Music Distribution
- Distribution
- Broadcast
- Publishing
- Performance
A distributor delivers your master recordings to DSPs and stores (Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon, and 50+ others) with credits and ISRCs attached, then collects the recording revenue those plays generate and pays it to the artist or label.
Good to know
Music Distribution: common questions
- What does a distributor not collect?
- Composition/publishing royalties (performance and mechanical) and, often, neighboring/digital-performance royalties. Those need a publisher/administrator and SoundExchange; Notes handles them alongside distribution.
- Recording RoyaltiesRoyalties
- Publishing AdministrationRights & Services
- ISRCIdentifiers
- Content ID RoyaltiesRoyalties
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