1. The preliminary submission fee is high.

2. They cost at $5 per single, or $20 per album, after which a 9% commission

3. It presents cowl track licensing only for singles.

4. You can’t do fee splitting.

5. No free bar-codes.

6. YouTube commissions of 30% are very high.

7. It has a excessive sync licensing commission of 40%.

8. You’ve to manually request for cover song music distribution territory opt-out.

To collect the other half of the royalties that the sound recording produces, you want to verify you’re listed because the performer beneath every recording. Simply as with the sound recording proprietor royalties, you possibly can register this even after it’s been released by searching SoundExchange’s database, the place you’ll be able to see if they’ve already been accumulating royalties.

Distrokid was certainly one of the primary distributors to upload your song to Tik Tok, which is cool (though a bunch of different distributors do that now, too). Nonetheless, with the rate of recognition that Tik Tok has reached, having your song as a Tik Tok sound is a big deal.