Honestly I don’t recommend distrokid to any foreign artist, I was impressed how everyone in TH-cam was talking about this company and I decided to use their 2nd annual plan but also used TH-cam contend id and had to pay annually for them too about 3 years and the day I decided to finally withdraw my money (streams + affiliate earnings) they decided to ban me from their website and take down all my music saying that they can’t offer any services or refunds in my area etc… That was frustrating and I almost quit making music after that, they never refund me all my streams and even for people who used my affiliate link to register to DistroKid. And I still see many people making videos saying that DistroKid is the best distributor which is WRONG they are scammers and many people are complaining about that. I switched to DITTO as I release many songs per year, but other than that I highly recommend Cd Baby for one time release.
@@Yuniek Yes ditto is a great alternative to DistroKid. For both original songs and cover songs. I also released on CD baby and I’m thinking to switch again to cd baby just because they offer upfront fees. But if you prefer annual subscriptions, Ditto is my recommendation.
@@NewJayqwe2 I don’t have any issue so far with them. And they sometimes offer nice deals and opportunities to their customers which is great too. I’m still testing it and I hope they will offer more great features. So it will depends on what services or features you are looking for
Thank you for sharing. I am glad you have not given up on your music. I have just uploaded my daughter's song to CD Baby. She is busy in University so does not get time to do a lot of music, which is sad. They even want her to give up music. Not on my watch. At 57 years old I have seen a lot of recession's. CD baby keep your music up, and you don't have to worry about yearly subscription fees etc, which apparently if you do not continue with Diskokid they take your music down. I don't like that. I feel safer with CD Baby because I know my daughter's music will stay online forever now.
Cd baby is cool because you can pay once and forget it..also they set you up with bmi ascap on pro plans..so its a time saver ..album releases can be up to 50 songs or 5 hours of content. ..but yes you can use other services and save some money and get 100% rights , if you have the time and motivation..but cd baby also seems more professional imo…btw are you paid by distrokid or something?
lol you didnt even finish the first comment which was touching on distro's leave a legacy compared to cdbaby lifetime uploads, just admit youre biased because of the vip sponsor
As a newbie who does not have much experience in this industry, I tried CD Baby with a single...it was confusing and a nightmare. I am going to try SoundOn but its asking for Spotify Artist ID which seems to be controlled by CD Baby. Not sure what to do since CD Baby seem horrendously slow in replying to support queries.
Thats totaly wrong distrokid takes 30 % from foreign composers total with the us goverment isr charging 80% foreign composers split with the goverment of us
Honestly I don’t recommend distrokid to any foreign artist, I was impressed how everyone in TH-cam was talking about this company and I decided to use their 2nd annual plan but also used TH-cam contend id and had to pay annually for them too about 3 years and the day I decided to finally withdraw my money (streams + affiliate earnings) they decided to ban me from their website and take down all my music saying that they can’t offer any services or refunds in my area etc… That was frustrating and I almost quit making music after that, they never refund me all my streams and even for people who used my affiliate link to register to DistroKid. And I still see many people making videos saying that DistroKid is the best distributor which is WRONG they are scammers and many people are complaining about that. I switched to DITTO as I release many songs per year, but other than that I highly recommend Cd Baby for one time release.
How is CD Baby 9 months later?
Completly agree with you , I wanna leave Distrokit , what about DITTO , do you recommend it
@@Yuniek Yes ditto is a great alternative to DistroKid. For both original songs and cover songs. I also released on CD baby and I’m thinking to switch again to cd baby just because they offer upfront fees. But if you prefer annual subscriptions, Ditto is my recommendation.
@@NewJayqwe2 I don’t have any issue so far with them. And they sometimes offer nice deals and opportunities to their customers which is great too. I’m still testing it and I hope they will offer more great features. So it will depends on what services or features you are looking for
Thank you for sharing. I am glad you have not given up on your music. I have just uploaded my daughter's song to CD Baby. She is busy in University so does not get time to do a lot of music, which is sad. They even want her to give up music. Not on my watch.
At 57 years old I have seen a lot of recession's. CD baby keep your music up, and you don't have to worry about yearly subscription fees etc, which apparently if you do not continue with Diskokid they take your music down. I don't like that. I feel safer with CD Baby because I know my daughter's music will stay online forever now.
Cd baby is cool because you can pay once and forget it..also they set you up with bmi ascap on pro plans..so its a time saver ..album releases can be up to 50 songs or 5 hours of content. ..but yes you can use other services and save some money and get 100% rights , if you have the time and motivation..but cd baby also seems more professional imo…btw are you paid by distrokid or something?
When you do the math, Distrokid is way more expensive than CD baby.
lol you didnt even finish the first comment which was touching on distro's leave a legacy compared to cdbaby lifetime uploads,
just admit youre biased because of the vip sponsor
is cdbaby still good today
As a newbie who does not have much experience in this industry, I tried CD Baby with a single...it was confusing and a nightmare. I am going to try SoundOn but its asking for Spotify Artist ID which seems to be controlled by CD Baby. Not sure what to do since CD Baby seem horrendously slow in replying to support queries.
how I can track my royalties ?
Cdbaby's new artist agreement is troubling with more changes coming.
is it still bad
whats better bro ? Tunecore or distrokid ? Also i noticed you use both of them ? How do you use them in conjunction ? Thank you
i thought no one makes money off streams anyways..
Thats totaly wrong distrokid takes 30 % from foreign composers total with the us goverment isr charging 80% foreign composers split with the goverment of us
Wow. That is so bad. What a rip off.
with distrokid its not 20% for content id. its 20% by them, and 20% by audiam lolz
I prefer CD baby, but you do you.
Mini golden update please