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How to Get Your Music on Apple Music
Apple's subscription streaming and lossless audio service.
Visit Apple Music →Apple Music is Apple's subscription streaming service, with curated editorial, spatial audio, lossless playback, and tight integration with iOS, macOS, and watchOS. It pays artists and rightsholders on a per-stream basis with rates among the highest in the industry.
Notes delivers your music to Apple Music alongside Apple's purchase store, registers your ISRCs and credits, and tracks the recording and publishing royalties Apple pays out across both streaming and download usage.
How Notes works with this platform
What we do on Apple Music
- Deliver. Notes ships your sound recordings to Apple Music as part of every release, with credits and ISRCs included.
- Register. Your songwriter credits are registered with PROs and The MLC so the publishing side of every play is paid as well.
- Collect. Recording royalties from Apple Music, plus the publishing royalties behind every play — performance and mechanical — are reconciled in one place, with no percentage taken.
What you earn here
Royalties Apple Music generates
Apple Music
- Recording
- Songwriting
Your Apple Music recording royalties reach you through Notes, and we register you with The MLC and your PRO so the rest is collected too — all paid to you in full, never a percentage taken.
- Recording RoyaltiesRecording royalties are what the master earns — the recording revenue your distributor collects, plus digital-performance royalties.
- Mechanical RoyaltiesMechanical royalties are paid to songwriters and publishers each time a composition is reproduced — including every interactive stream and download.
- Performance RoyaltiesPerformance royalties are paid to songwriters and publishers when a composition is performed publicly — on radio, TV, in venues, or via streaming.
Questions musicians ask
Common questions about Apple Music
- How do I get my music on Apple Music?
- Create a free Notes account, add your release, and Notes delivers it to Apple Music with your credits and ISRCs attached. You keep your masters and your rights — Notes never takes a percentage of your royalties.
- How long does it take for my music to appear on Apple Music?
- Most releases reach Apple Music within a few days. Setting your release date a couple of weeks out gives you time to line up pre-saves and pitch playlists before it goes live.
- Does Notes take a cut of my Apple Music royalties?
- No. Notes is a flat monthly subscription with a free tier to start, so your Apple Music royalties are paid to you in full — nothing skimmed off the top.
- Does Notes collect my songwriting royalties too, or just the recording?
- Both. Alongside your Apple Music delivery, Notes registers your songwriter credits with PROs and The MLC, so the publishing royalties behind every play get collected as well.
More streaming platforms
Notes delivers to all of these
- Spotify
- Amazon Music
- YouTube Music
- Tidal
- Deezer
- Pandora
- SoundCloud
- Audiomack
- iHeartRadio
- Napster
- Anghami
- Boomplay
