DistroKid

Distrokid has been amazing, but I was always frustrated that there wasn’t a streamlined mobile app. I work full time in addition to making music, having to do the double login thing, and then navigating through a desktop site, on a mobile device, while at work, was becoming really inconvenient, and was causing me to miss a ton of distrokid messages, slaps likes, feedback, comments, colab offers, playlist curators, legitimate offers from lables etc… I’m really psyched this came out. It’s going to make my life way easier. It looks great so far. I’m hoping Slaps is integrated into it in some way. I love how simple that platform is. Having an app would be so nice. You guys rock - UGLY-MONEY

I’ve been using dk for a few years and had no issues but as of recently theyve made a few changes. For some strange reason both my distrokid accounts have had issues with withdrawals. Any other time I had an issue someone responded quickly but when it comes down to getting the money they owe you they flagged both my accounts for “suspicious activity” for no reason, both accounts had payment methods with my name attached to it like usual and it was just flagged for no reason. When i contacted support it took almost 2 weeks for them to reply then once they replied they told me it was fixed and I tried again and it really wasnt fixed. I emailed them again and waited close to another 2 weeks for another simple reply. The wait times you have to wait when it comes to getting your money is ridiculous and they dont give any other options to contact them only email and they take forever to reply only when it comes to getting the money you are owed.

Distrokid is the best digital distributor there is! I have tracks on Routenote and Amuse, and there is no comparison. There’s no royalty threshold to overcome, and you get paid within a week of requesting your royalties, no matter how big or little they are. Also, they deliver your songs to stores in as little as 24-hours after uploading! I changed my artist name to Nardy Global, and I uploaded my song “I hurt (radio edit)” to Distrokid, and it was added to the stores by the next day.

I was pleased that DistroKid turned out to be a music distribution company rather than a Japanese anime substandard cartoon. Matter of fact, I happened to require at the Moment of this unparalleled, unvarnished revelation, that our band WYRED’s ‘Image’ Album project was complete, expertly mastered and ready for release to DistroKids vast roster of stream-n-purchase entities! I do report that once my album tunes were parked in DistroKid’s streaming, sales and distribution platform, the overall mix-n-balance clarity and separation were found to be unexpectedly steeped with powerful quality & balance, upheld by an unusually clean, brilliantly rounded bass-punch! I understand that though my new released album’s applications have been submitted initially by DistroKid to several high-visibility major streaming & sales platform companies who never haphazardly offer them up for listening and sale, but rather my music is carefully scrutinized & qualified, requiring some time to approve and apply to their systems. I am anxiously biding my time to see if my album is accepted! Don Crosby Vocalist for WYRED

The fact that it’s cheap and has lot of tools is good and that it helped me pursue my dream of becoming an artist. However, When you go to publish a song and don’t have an artist profile already made, distrokid creates an account for you and publishes the song on their. this is cool however the only problem about that is that the artist does not have access to the account and can’t edit anything on their artist profile like profile picture, or background. All that is there is the default artist profile and looks bland and unprofessional.

I have been using distrokid since 2019 and love them as a distribution platform. I’ve never had any problems with them. However, I am unhappy with their newer updates. They are charging now for what used to be free services. An example is I used to be able to get my lyrics into stores for free now I have to pay for that same service and now that I’m paying it seems like it takes even longer for my lyrics to hit certain platforms if they even do him that platform. How can you all start charging for services that used to be free but now your quality of service has slightly dropped?

I just got a Distrokid subscription a month ago and I am blown away by how amazing this app is. I have the 40$ plan, and there is more on here for me to use than I could have ever expected. It really feels like a service that wants to help you make music, and it has this amazing feature where you can insert your song into a clip from the TV show Friends! This is a fantastic service.

I’m going to keep this short and sweet. I used tunecore before and it was an absolute nightmare. I felt so in the dark during releases, even ones that were planned weeks in advance. DistroKid user interface allows for the artist to feel more engaged in a release, even having promotional templates to utilize. What a great and relieving platform for distributing music. I love to drop a lot and DistroKids yearly plan makes it super easy for me to drop whenever I want!

If your trying to make it in this world with your music and don’t want the middle men or want it to be simple to get paid for your music use this app I’m a very skeptical person in general so take my recommendation and use this if your having issues getting on all platforms and wanting to get out there more this a real review btw come check out my music my artist name is nofxksgiven2001 I’m on all platforms cause of distro kid ✡️🔥🚀

I had a bad experience with an album I released a few years ago through a different distributor, so I was weary, but Distrokid has been a great company to work with thus far. I love how user-friendly their system is, all the tools they have for artists, and my album was delivered on time correctly to all platforms as promised. Will work with them again for sure!

If you bought a subscription and it gives you an error message, go to your App Store purchases and check if it’s pending. It will stay pending for a day or two if it already is. Check after a day and it should say the date of purchase, if/when it does, log out then log back into DistroKid. Now it should work!!

I am very pleased with the effort DistroKid has put into my song going on all platforms and promotions. I intend on uploading more and more in the near future. The only feedback and it may be something I missed is to link to my accounts on social media so once people view the song they can go straight to my profile. Thank you for everything so far!! Sincerely, godzcruze

Ok so I been using this app on and off. I had a subscription on an account but it wasn’t allowing me to drop any music. I think this is a new bug on the app because it won’t go past the subscriptions and it’s like forcing u to buy a subscription just to not let you in the app. I now have a subscription price taken out of my bank for a subscription I don’t have nor did I request. Besides that even when it took the money from my account I’m still not able to get pass the subscription page asking me for different memberships . Please fix this. I’ve already requested a refund from Apple smh.

I know of 5 people that showed me proof of them buying my music so how come I haven’t received any money I’ve also see people with 100,000 downloads and only make $10 why is that are u really not giving us our full pay and pocketing what we make and thinking people wouldn’t start noticing

App is pretty cool but there should be an option to listen to your upload to ensure you selected the right file. My uploads were approved and I’ve set my release date but I still would like to listen to the uploaded file. Also there needs to be more instructions during the process. I was able to figure it out and google some things but still. There’s room for improvement.

I am super happy and pleased with the new mobile app, I was able to upload my music super easy without having to sign onto a laptop or desktop. My only small complaint is, I would like the option to Master my records on the iPhone the same way it’s on the laptop. I don’t see the function on the cellphone. I wanted to master a few records before uploading Them but it wasn't there, but other then that the APP IS PERFECT! 🔥🔥🔥

I’ve been emailing Distrokid for about a week asking why my song with a famous artist is stuck processing and almost in limbo phase. (For over a week) Got no responses. Threatened to go to another music distro and they said go right ahead. Not professional to me, when I’m just trying to figure out why my song is not going anywhere and I get no updates and then treated like that? Smh. I’ll give it 2 stars because I haven’t had a whole lot of issues until this one. But just unprofessional.

This is probably one of the most user friendly apps that I could find because tune core was very confusing for me. If you have seen any TikTok’s saying that this app isn’t good then they are lying most likely but I have only been using this app for a little and it has been very reliable

Hey SO I recently got musician plus because you can set release dates and do synced lyrics ect. So for some reason when I try and sync lyrics for a song when I let go of the synced button it disappears and I don’t know why? I’ve tried it on computers/laptops and on my phone but it won’t work I really hope you guys fix it because I think synced lyrics are cool but its not working for me PLEASE FIX

Looks and feels like the website, but app! Everything feels like it runs smooth. Hopefully we get the “Goodies” section, for Promotion and Hyper follow! Otherwise, navigating is super easy. Haven’t uploaded yet. But, seeing the Bank easier, and getting onto stats is way easier on mobile!

Finally after years of playing music and being a singer songwriter I can write record and release my music. One of the best things about Distrokid is that I have 100% artistic freedom release music the way I hear it. Distrokid has all the tools you need to release your music recordings.

This app truly allows you to experience what every artist has probably always dreamed about. Sharing your music is always a special feeling and I really want to thank Distrokid for this easy to use opportunity to share my music with the world. A great way to start your music career!

This app is easy to use, gives us instant access to our artists, music, and tools. I’ve been waiting for this for a very long time. Thank you. I highly recommend this app and this service to up and coming music artists!

I was charged twice and they told me they wanted the proof I provided a screenshot from Apple showing the money that they took from my account and said that they didn’t this is reason to lose trust in companies like this it’s sad , because what about the artist ? And what happened to keeping your word I did my part and haven’t heard anything back in days I’m disappointed.

Distrokid is the real deal. Super affordable and they make the process easier than I expected. I always thought it would be a complicated process but it’s really not. My only regret is not using them sooner!

Overall DistroKid is one of the best, affordable distributors. However, there had been some issues that have been bugging me for some time. The main issue is having my releases stuck processing, and not being able to have my music uploaded to streaming platforms because of this ongoing delay.

I thought that when I saw the app advertisement that this app allowed to stream music across the music platforms for free everywhere or a few apps to stream music, but when I signed in I had three options but the good options were not all free. I had to pay at least 2 dollars a month. Even though I’m busy, if I were less busy I’d be able to not worry about paying.

This is really good and the best for publishing music, my one problem is that it doesn’t charge monthly so once you get a plan technically, it’s only a few bucks but it automatically charges you the money for the year, but other than that it is a really solid app for publishing music

I have used DK for over a year now and it’s been great for me. They finally have an app and it made me so excited but i feel like a dark mode option would make it even better.

Its a pretty straightforward app easy to use, can't complain for that but my issue is that you cannot remove an individual track from an album if you wanted to. I think an update on that would take this app through the roof.

I wasn’t expecting the process to be so easy. And after I finished, my song was on all streaming platforms working a few days. And $22 for the whole year is extremely fair priced. Great job.

I haven’t started my plan, but before I do, do I need an Apple Music artists account to distribute music to Apple Music because Apple Music for Artists is hard to get started but Idk if u need an account on that to convert DistroKid creation to Apple Music

I’ve dealt with a few different distributors all of which has their advantages. With distro I must say you have a lot of good perks that us artists need as do others but you’re just different 🔥🫵🏿🫵🏿

Great and amazing that you can access upload and use the app just as well As the desktop version. And getting notified when you have money is great too thanks distrokid

As a songwriter for the last 25 years with over 300 songs money was such an issue to publish these songs until I found this app. It’s amazing. I’m publishing all of my music now…

I uploaded a song on August 19th and have been waiting for 5 days so far for my song to be uploaded on all platforms. I’ve been patient and have been seeing the “Everything looks good & your single is on deck. It will be sent to stores TODAY” but it’s been 3 DAYS about to be 4 and still nothing.

I'm not sure about any other services but I do know you're the one I go through and you really inform me what's going on and when I'm streaming at the different stations. I appreciate that.

I hope y’all can use this app it helped me release my music on streaming platform its really helpful to start off your music career

DK was obviously in desperate need of a mobile app, and this seems to be just fine. So glad I don’t need to keep logging in to the web portal now, love that I can get notifications for new earnings releases 👍👍

Love DistroKid, I’ve used FREE distribution befor and let’s just say if you are going to spend your valuable time and hard work on a project the let’s invest into our music spend the money to get legit distribution 💯

Not only do they have a exemplary distribution platform that’s faster than Jimmy Johns but also a killer app that you can use to upload from iCloud. Hats off to the Kings of Music distribution. — Anglo T

I highly recommend this to ANY new up and coming artist that is attempting to get on different platforms super easy and extremely affordable

I’ve spent money twice now over $50 to have my music distributed and both times distro kid has messed up and made me locked out of my account. This is now my second time requesting a refund and I’m gonna have to wait another month for it. even though they say “8 days”. this is so messed up man for a small artist i dont have alot of money and i keep loosing it on this app. im so upset and stressed out right now man

Talk about ease of use! This is the most efficient process I’ve seen! I never thought it would be so easy! Thank you!

I’ve been wanting to release my music for a while now, I didn’t know how to get it on streaming services but I was really determined, this made it SO easy to release my music, I’m so glad I got it, thank you DistroKid!!

The fact I have to pay extra just to feature other artist to collaborate on streaming platforms. It feels like a money grab & should either come with the service or at least be cheaper

I really enjoy working with DistroKid. Plus they offer other things as well. Submissions are very easy and just overall a pleasure.

does take a couple days to get on all platforms which had me worried but i’m pretty sure it’s like that for every app overall good

When adding cover art, after positioning photo & scrolling down a little the screen goes blank . Makes me start the process from the beginning

Would it be possible to be able in the future to release more than 35 songs Update: I’m still loveing this app keep up the good work!!!