GAME CHANGER - Tunecore and their new unlimited distribution pricing! 

Hello! Great question! It's been about 10 years since I've done what you're asking, but I'll do my best to answer from memory. I would suggest getting your music claimed by Tunecore, then anytime someone else uses your music, you'll get paid for it. Even if they don't have your permission, Tunecore will still collect on your behalf. But, if you do not want them to collect on videos on your own channel, you can request for them to "Whitelist" your channel. That means your channel will be cleared to use your music. I would assume they can still do this as they did for me and my band a long time ago. We get paid anytime our music is played on anyone's RU-vid channel, but we collect our own royalties from our uploads. Also, if you do upload your music to your channel and do not have it whitelisted, you will get a copyright claim, but it WILL NOT hurt your standing on RU-vid. I hope this helps! Let me know if you have any questions about it. Also, I checked and Tunecore doesn't have Serbian as a language option. But I wouldn't let that slow you down. I'd maybe pick the closest similar "market" that you're music would be played in. For example, my music is listed as English even though it's all instrumental and about 25% of my streams come from non-English speaking countries.

@@ZachWirchak Thanks alot for that! So if i white list my channel i will be earning 100% of my revenue for that video from googleAd sense as usual. Amd they only get 20% of the revenue that they find else where... but dont touch my youtube partner progrsm earnings right?

@@Vlade.Jovanoski.Official Correct! They won't claim anything from your channel if it's whitelisted. And like I said, they should still be able to whitelist channels. I haven't in a long time, but my bands channel is still whitelisted til this day from Tunecore.

If you don't renew the subscription then your music will be removed from the digital stores. But I'm guessing it would automatically kick you to a free subscription like you said, so therefore your music could still be on social media platforms (don't quote me on that, but it seems like that's what it should do).

Yes! I release a blend of singles and albums.

@@ZachWirchak ok thank you. I just sign up today and they have a promotion going on so instead of paying $29.99 for Breakout Artist - Unlimited Plan it was only $20.51.

@@candidoaviles220 that's great! I've been loving the new plans they have in place.

That is a great question! I think it comes down to your marketing plan for your singles. I just released 3 all within about 6-8 weeks of each other and they have been performing better than usual for my singles. I personally would say, if you've got quality tracks to release, then the more the better as long as you're not over saturating your fan base.

@@ZachWirchak ok great thank you for getting back. I did Google it and it said 3 to 4 weeks but I guess everyone has their own way to release singles. I'll go the way said it instead. Thank you

@@candidoaviles220 the main reason they recommend the 3-4 weeks is so the distribution sites have a chance to review and release. So the upload and the release date should be 3-4 weeks apart.

@@ZachWirchak I tried using your discount code, but it didn't work. Is it still valid?

The fee is $1 per withdraw from Tunecore.

@@ZachWirchak thank you

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Which distributor has the best support?

It's a once a year charge. I have about 40 songs released and I pay $49 (or whatever the professional level costs) for all of them. There are add ons you can get or lower level subscriptions, but tgis new plan saves me a bucket load of money every year.

@@ZachWirchak Cool, but how much for a rising artist plan to pay for renewal every year with 30 tracks? Thank you for the response!

@@ALTreble I believe the Rising Artist would be $19.99 a year for all your releases. You could have 100 songs and it'd still should only be $19.99. You want to look for "Unlimited Releases to all Digital Stores" under what each plan offers.

​@@ZachWirchak That's good news, thanks for clearing it up for me! subbed!

Yikes! Check out the recent scandal developing around TuneCore and their mistreatment of artists. See Benn Jordan for his personal ordeal.

and the promotional opportunities

Excellent! I'm still enjoying Tunecore a lot. They are also improving the user interface pretty often as well.

I can totally make an updated version! It is still pretty similar to the video I made a little while back. Here is a link to it - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-lfy-PcFVqbY.html

@@ZachWirchak Thank you so much for both making an updated video in the future and the other one I Subbed!🙏

@@Prof.Albusdumbledore Thank you for watching and subbing!

If you let it expire, then all the sites will remove the music.

@@ZachWirchak so you start from stretch if you want that album back on Tunecore??

@@Buja3d I actually don't know what happens to your stats if the album is removed from your category. I believe if you were to reupload or reactivate, you could you use the same UPC and it "should" pick up where you left off? But I'm not 100% sure.

You do get daily trend reports for both Spotify and iTunes. But, I believe you might get that with all the plans? But I'd have to double check. If you want more in depth reporting on Spotify numbers, I'd highly suggest getting a Spotify Artist profile built. Then you can see very detailed daily reporting straight from Spotify.

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They do not. SoundCloud is its own stand alone that the artist is able/relied on to upload their music.

@@ZachWirchak ok thanks

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Sorry for the delayed response! Did you find the info you were looking for?

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That is odd! It must be some sort of glitch on their end. Have you reached out to them? The Rising Artist should give you the ability to distribute your music to all the major online stores. Do you have just 1 artist profile?

@@ZachWirchak yes indeed

@@ZachWirchak do you know they email? That I can reach them from

@@baddyloop Do you have the Store Automator selected? If so, that is a feature of the higher level options?

@@baddyloop Yes. If you go to your artist dashboard, there is a help tab near the top. Click on that. Then select any of the FAQ's. Then near the bottom of the page there will be a "Submit a Request". Use that to send a message to their customer service team.

Interesting! I still get notifications that people are able to use it. Let me look into that tho.

@@ZachWirchak Did you find out if it was still working? I was looking to use it.

I reach out to their customer support about 2-3 times a year and they are usually great with getting me the answer I need in a reasonable time, usually within 48 hours. So I can honestly say it's been great for me... but that doesn't mean others have had a hard time with it.

@@ZachWirchak Hmm, interesting

I have not subscribed to the social media part of it. I like to have a more hands on approach with any of my social media. But that said, I have never used it, so it might be good/great? If you're looking to do some scheduling with you social media, I'd also look into Hootsuite.

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What do you mean? I get paid about 5-6 times a month from different distributors. Depending on the streaming service, it'll be about a 1-3 month delay. For example you'd get paid for your February numbers in April.