DistroKid - 20 Questions ANSWERED! Copyrights, Cover Songs, Royalties, Spotify, Global Earnings...
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Clarification on Leave a Legacy feature: The “Leave a Legacy” extra can be added to a release so that it won't be removed due to a lapsed membership payment (if your credit card is rejected, etc.).
Adding this extra to a release does not replace your annual membership fee, and it is not a one-time payment for all of your releases.If you manually close your DistroKid account, your releases will be deleted. But your releases won't be deleted because your card is declined or that sort of thing. (Source: DistroKid site)
More on copyright law www.copyright.gov/help/faq/fa...
Link your TH-cam Channel in DistroKid distrokid.com/TH-camOfficial...
Create a TH-cam Official Artist Channel distrokid.zendesk.com/hc/en-u...
How long to be available in stores? distrokid.zendesk.com/hc/en-u...
DistroKid Leave a Legacy distrokid.zendesk.com/hc/en-u...
In this video, I answer your questions about DistroKid, copyrights, cover songs, global earnings, how to earn money if you’re in another country, about DistroKid and your songs on TH-cam and many others. If you’re new to DistroKid or releasing your music on Spotify and other streaming platforms, this is a great video for you. Let me know if you have other questions.
0:56 Copyrights
1:26 International Artists
1:49 BMI and ASCAP
2:13 Spotify artist account
2:37 Someone stole my song
2:59 Does DistroKid own my music?
3:20 Where's my song on TH-cam?
3:58 My song is already on TH-cam
4:32 Can I monetize my own video on TH-cam?
5:26 Spotify verification for international artist
5:41 DistroKid versus the competition
6:03 Can't find my song
6:36 Royalties in other countries
6:52 Cover songs
7:10 Transferring to DistroKid
7:47 Downgrading my plan
8:08 changing the ISRC
8:39 Song upload is delayed
9:20 Where's my money?
10:04 Will my songs get deleted if I leave DistroKid?
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Because of your first Distrokid video, I used them to distribute my songs. Now I wake up and look to see my music being played in countries all over the world. Yesterday was South Africa. How cool is that? Thanks for your continued help to music producers with your research and videos!
That’s sooo cool! Happy to hear you are having success with your music. Much love! Keep it coming!
@@SanjayC how does it feel being a scammer? Yes,everyone get a lawyer.Consider that you are doing business with a company WITHOUT a real address ! Consider that they give zero of the company info on business.Consider that dozens of musicians were scammer for 1/3 of the money outside of US,despite tax lawyers saying it is not legal...and then Distrokid sending only generic letters to them and refusing to get in touch with these people.
Research this company and avoid this kind of scammers....Sanjay,hope you get cancer
@@SurfyStories they took big part of money of many of those that use it,by saying their country has extra tax and not providing any link or info on it.They cheated out many out of their money.
They also make bot accounts to promote their company,often citing same bullcrap,not even trying to change it.
Hope they go bancrupt,including those few youtubers that get payed to promote them.
@@nikolaivasilev7371 hey mahn just wondering if you had any suggestions other then distrokid. I live outside of the U.S and i don't really want to deal with getting scammed
@@BackyardRonin also wondering.
Thank you so much for educating us independent warriors working on our music to be heard out there. Thanks coach
You're very welcome. Glad you found this useful!
THANK YOU SO MUCH! I ASKED FOR THIS SO RECENTLY AND YOU ROLLED IT OUT SO FAST. AMAZING!!
I’m here for you bro!
Man thank you so much, your content is straight to the point and inspiring! Subscribed instantly you have really helped me so far 🙏🏻
There is one little "issue" with TH-cam Money.
If you upload your songs and select genres like Hip-Hop or Electronic Music, the "TH-cam Money" option will disappear. But if you select other genres, like pop, DistroKid will additionally ask you if all the sounds in your song are completely original. In other words, if you use ANY sound, or ANY instrument, or ANY loops, in GarageBand, Ableton Live, totally legal loops downloaded from Stripe, or whatever other services, you CANNOT select "TH-cam Money".
This, I believe, is a problem created by TH-cam, where they had too many songs wrongfully claimed by their automatic service because a lot of people use the same loops to create their songs.
Even Justin Bieber had issues over a loop he used from Splice lol.
There's a lot of controversy in this because I could create Electronic Music without using any loops or sounds and yet DistroKid doesn't show that option as soon as you select Electronic Music or Hip Hop.
WasabiNoise there ain’t no way around this if you’ve already submitted but want TH-cam Money for video I’ve posted already?
Tre Soona I’ve just seen this reply, no idea how to change this latter. If you used completely original sounds you could try contacting them? Maybe they can enable that.
Happened to me with my song goat it got claimed Bc me and someone used the same beat and I disputed the claim
I hesitated to check the TH-cam tracking box when I used GetGood Drums for my songs. Are midi grooves like those in Kontakt or things like Slate Drums going to trigger this issue? Should I not have worried about it?
As always Sanjay making great videos! Thanks!!!
That's a serious pack of helpful information in the right time needed. Thanks Sanjay and Dharti.
Hey, Rakesh, buddy! Nice to hear from you!
You've been a Big help to me Sanjay :-) All questions were answered carefully and accurately. There are many videos explaining different points about DistroKid but yours is what I found with sincerity and without bias. Thank you Sanjay C. 🙂
Great video. Thank you!
Thank you so much Sanjay C! That cleared things out for me, I just uploaded my single to distrokid then availed their service for "Content ID", but now, I am uploading my OWN created video for an Official Audio of my song. And you're correct about the "Interstreet Recordings" who is claiming my OWN song! I got confused for a while on what to do, but thanks to you, it's not that hard to think eventually! hahaha! Thank you!
Great Vid! You helped me a lot!
Brilliant job my friend. Concise, well said, and super informative.
this guys videos are so well made. thank you for all of this content im starting my music journey soon and you have helped me a lot :)
So happy to hear that. Thank you!
Great video - love your work
As always very informative thank you Sanjey I appreciate your videos
Hi, you really helped me with your informative videos, thank you!
So glad to hear that...and good luck with your channel!
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Awesome and informative! Thank you good sir!
You're the GOAT, Sanjay thx for giving the community knowledge!
🙏🏼🙏🏼 thanks Wise One
Thank you sir, very helpful information!
Great information. Greatly appreciated!
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks for the informations! You really covered all my questions!
Awesome!! So happy to hear that
Really useful, thanks Sanjay!
Man, A Thousand Suns is such a great album🔥
I believe that the ISRC code you get for any song you distribute, belongs to your name (you also have to enter your actual name). That also ensures people know you have the copyright.
Good tips!
Great overview. Thanks for answering these questions. 👍
Glad it was helpful!
Man you got right to the point, you talk about what we really need to hear and know
Thanks for noticing that :-)
Hey Sanjay, Thank you for this valuable information. It's time to grow! 2020 gonna be an amazing year for my music!
Love hearing that, man! Keep it up!! I'm routing for you
Informative Videos!!
Very nice explanation....Thank you very much...
This video is literally the best distribution video for independent artists
thank you for this!
Thank you so much it was helpful ❤
Thank you so much.
Thank you for all the videos Sanjay!! They're super helpful, and I could've missed a lot of plugins if it weren't for those freebie updates! hehe. I was wondering if distrokid will stop monetizing our artist-topic account if we were to create an official youtube artist account? Thank you again for all the help you've given to us musicians!
Another great video - thanks 😀
You’re welcome!
Thank you! This answered all my questions💯🤙🔥
You're welcome! 🙏
Your video’s are amazing
Great videos, really appreciate your content
I appreciate that!
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Dani bringing the Eliteness!
If we distribute music through Distrokid which takes 1400/- gives Official artist channel permanently ? or should we pay for every particular time?
love it! thanks!
You're welcome!
Sanjay Thank You brother! Excellent videos! 👍🌟🙏
My pleasure
Thanks for the very informative video SanjayC!
My pleasure
Suuuuuper helpful info! Thanks!!!!
Good to hear that!
What happens if you have music uploaded prior to selecting the legacy option (since it's an additional option). Will attaining that option cover the previously recorded songs? Or does it roll out only to newer ones from there-on-in?.
Thanks, great video!
Glad you liked it!
Most helpful video 😊 ,thank you so much for detailed explanation
Awesome! Glad you like it!
Question: We uploaded a five-track EP in March 2020 via Distrokid. It showed up on all platforms successfully. However, three of the five album track videos that were up on TH-cam seem to have been replaced by other videos we have of the same songs, like music videos and instrument play-through videos. The tracks do show correctly on TH-cam Music, though. Our TH-cam Channel is linked in Distrokid. Any insight on this? I wonder if TH-cam recognized the audio of these videos were the same and replaced the Distrokid video with the video we uploaded separately...
hey sanjay! great video!! btw whats the beat thats playing in the outro did u upload this beat somewhere? it sounds so sick!! i liked and subscribed!!
Hey, I made it. I make all the music in my videos, except in the Saturday News Reports where I feature other artists/viewers.
Thx so much I love your videos keep doing this.. 🚀
Thanks, Phoniex!
Thank you
hi if i upload music on destrokid will i get any copyright strike .. if yes then how to remove it..
No, why would you?
You'll only get copyright strikes if it's not your music and someone else already owns the copyright
You cannot upload remixes to DK. If you make original music you’ve got nothing to worry about
Effron White gets copyright strikes sometimes on live videos when he performs his own music. CD Baby is looking out for his copyrights and their system automatically tags songs written by him that aren't the official release from one of his 4 CDs. There's a link next to the notification of the copyright strike that tells you how to contest the strike. Just fill in that form they have. Hope that helps.
Super!!!!!
Sanjay, as always, thank you so much for all the information. My question is about sampling. I have used distrokid for my first simple album upload and when they ask for info about each song, sampling is a big no no. However, a lot of hip-hop producers have used sampling to make tracks. For example, you can get license from tracklib for a song that you can sample. How do you get around that on distrokid? Thanks in advance :)
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I have been thinking about using distrokid for a while. This was helpful! 👍
Glad it was helpful!
Educate yourself on taxes and your earnings from any distributer. If you're an artist outside the US, talk to an accountant or a legal professional about US tax withholdings. Additional information on tax withholdings and DistroKid can be found here distrokid.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360044282254-How-to-claim-tax-treaty-benefits-if-applicable-to-you-
Please watch this: th-cam.com/video/UZ9P80XPIWY/w-d-xo.html and clarify your viewers
How long does it take for youtube content ID to recognize your tune that you used for a separate video? Follow up: does it have to be the exact wav/mp3 I used for upload or will the audio still be recognized regardless of the edit?
You may not be a lawyer but that was all GREAT information....and it was free. No legal fees! Thanks.
Haha. That’s true. Thanks 🙏🏼
Appreciate the knowledge is there any way around uploading your music using your own upc code or is it just frankly not possible?
Appreciate you taking the time to explain that you ain’t like these other fools you explain 🤔 things in a manner everyone can understand excellent job I’m 👏 clapping for you good job 👏
Thank you very cool
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Thanks so much!
Hi Sanjay, Great videos ... I'm a pro musician myself and into quite a lot of stuff. A quick question - I have many backing tracks which I've made 100% myself ... (no original samples or anything from the original song used in those backing tracks) can I distribute these via Distrokid legally without any hassle.
super helpful u rock!
Thanks
hey sanjay, question. if i upload to distrokid my music(instrumentals) as a artist/producer... but, then someone wants to use that same instrumental to release a song with lyrics, is there any conflict? would i need to take down the release i did (instrumental) or is it treated as a seperate entity. same as how you might find a song and it's instrumental on spotify, youtube etc..
thanx a lot.
Hi Sanjay you are amazing thanks for tips . I have a question which disturbing me for more than two weeks ,does a remix can make copyright issues on Spotify.not only on Spotify...others like apple music and etc
Wow thank you for the TH-cam topic one, always pissed me off how it posted to a topic with like 1 follower, didn't know it could be changed
No problem. Glad it was helpful!
THIS VDO HELPED ME A LOT THANK YOU SANJAY ! HOW TO UPGRADE FROM MUSICIAN TO MUSICIAN PLUS PLAN ? DOES IT TAKES NEW EMAIL ID AND SERIOUS OTHER STUFF LIKE YOU TOLD IN THE VIDEO OF DOWNGRADING THE PLAN
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@@SanjayC also like the new format of news + new content every week
Thanks, Siddharth!
Dope video!
Glad you liked it!
Hi, congratulations on your videos, they’re so useful! I also write you to see if you’ve the answer of a problem that’s frustrating me so much: I’m in reaper and I can’t record key switch information. When I play what I recorded, it sounds just the last selected keyswitch. All sounds are played with the same keyswitch, even I played different keyswitches during the recording. What I’m doing wrong? Could you help me please? I’ve been searching tutorials and forums for days trying to find a solution and I couldn’t find nothing! I don’t know what to do....thank you
I just recently joined distro kid and have already released a few songs, but I still have a few questions. In regards to your comment about uploading your music videos straight to your channel rather than through distro kid, is this the same for lyric videos? Can I make a lyric video and upload it straight to my artist channel? Do I need to mention distracted in the description, do I need to add anything else?
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If I choose the "Leave a Legacy" option and stop paying the membership, how do I receive the earnings from the songs?
Just perfect and simple explanation as you always do :) Thanks a lot!!! I read a few articles about Distrokid and it seems that they are connected also to Beatport. Do you know if I distribute my EP with dance music content via Distrokid is it automatically sent to Beatport?
Did you solve this?
Can I upload a whole album with e.g. 15 songs at once? Do I have to pay the additional features like like leave a legacy for each song of the album for the Album as a whole? For all the add ons, do you recommend any? It gets kinda pricey once u have a lot of songs uploaded and put the add ons from Distrokit on it...
A question nobody ever answered (PLZ HELP): Can I delete the Cover license by just deleting the cover-song??
Good video. I got my new Royalties a few days ago. For some reason Distrokid only payed me out for like a quarter of the streams for September. Last month it was the same and I thought I’ll get the rest this month but I got even less. That’s quite frustrating because I got a lot streams last month with Spotify algorithm playlists. Hope you can help me ✌🏻
Great video again
Thank you 🙏🏼
BMI affiliation is free for songwriters. At least it was when I joined. There was a small fee when I joined ASCAP as a publisher. That's the most affordable way to gain affiliation.
I have a question. When I go through Distrokid, and then use my own music in a different video, say like on TikTok, I get the sound removed. How can I use my own music and not have this happen?
Hii, what if, we already upload our original song on distrokid, and someone make a cover with that song on youtube, wich is a cover song is always not the same arangement as the master that uploaded on distrokid, will distrokid recocnize it..? Or can distrokid detect it..? Or can it be copyright claim via distrokid..? Because we make another version of all songs that already aploaded on spotify in a difrent name, i'm worry we canot put it in all stores.
With the cover licence through Distrokid, will the cover song only be available in the US or also in Europe ? Thanks !
Hi, I had published some songs on distrokid and I had also put the youtube option, initially they were on the theme channel then I moved them to mine, now I have removed them from the other stores but on youtube they have not been deleted, you could tell me how I could do to delete them thanks.
Excellent information thanks! I have question that maybe you already answered it, but I am still confused. How does BMI know which songs belongs to the songwriter when being played on Spotify? I registered a song on BMI and then the artist that recorded the song uploaded it to Spotify, but I saw that he typed my name incorrectly on Song credits. Would that affect me getting the royalties?
Great video. WhT if already have a personal you tube account but you dont want to use it as your professional one? Which box would you check on distrokid? WhT is the reason/benefit for choosing your own ISRC number?
Do I have to use different isrc code for my youtube upload or can I use same as audio track?
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i got a question so when i uploaded my song "the art track" i click it, it then goes to my music video how do i set that up for all my songs that got videos been digging have n0t got any help
First I would like to say how happy I am to to have found somebody like you with your great videos..My question is that I have a remix of a cover song but I have the famous artist that originally sang the song singing it,does Distrokid take care of the licensing.It’s a different version of the original but the artist has passed away and as a tribute to the artist I redid it with the artist singing the whole song…Thanks in Advance for your guidance…Xavier
Thank You for this video Sir 🙏👍 I register and started my distrokid just today using your affiliate link.
Thank you
What if I get a Official Artist Channel badge on TH-cam via distrokid and do not continue to pay for the next year, would my badge be removed?
yohoooo!! great Video!
Thanks!!
Distrokid Cd Baby or Tunecore? The best?
If you're only starting out, I'd say distrokid over tunecore. CDbaby had so many negative things surrounding it that I ruled it our early.
Tunecore can work if you're only putting out a little bit of music. If you're looking to release weekly or monthly and really build up a catalog but don't have tens of thousands of streams to make the money back, then tunecore with the $10 per song per year will get very expensive.
I'd say start off on distrokid just to get an unlimited amount of songs out for only $20 a year, then once you create a buzz and have a significant amount of streams then I'd say move to tunecore to make sure you get all of your royalties.
Tunecore covers more areas of royalty collection, so it will get you the most money from your music as long as you have enough streams to sustain the $10 per song per year fees. If you don't then my advice is to go with distrokid.
Hi i have a question . For musician Plus , it says 2 artists or Band . We are a duo , we want to upload music as solos ( 2 artists ) and band ( at times ) . Is that possible in Musician plus ?
I have another question. If I use two artist names with two differend contents do I have to create two accounts on distrokid or is it possible to post it from one account?
Any thought on not being able to cancel their plan untill the artist is dead (to use the legacy thing) ?