TuneCore is a Scam? 

I had the exact same experience!! My theory is the reason they're able to keep prices so low and undercut Distrokid is because they're not actually paying to distribute a lot of their user's songs (since they scam half of them lmao). Seems like they need a lawsuit.

If there is any formal class action law suit against Tunecore in the future please lmk. I feel the same exact sentiments, like I got ripped off literally. I got the same EXACT Copy & Pasted Email they sent you and I've been suffering from emotional damages and financial hardships because my single was suppose to be published and over 1,000,000 streams as of now =(...lol

Every single distributor is f$#king artists up, can't even help it.

Yep, got the same response after my inquiry about the rejected release. I'm going to do a transaction dispute with my bank for the TuneCore charge and file a fraud claim with the FTC. TuneCore has violated our consumer rights protections...they failed to inform their customers/artists. They'll end up being a federal suit if enough of us file fraud claims with the FTC to get refunds. 💯

I had the same experience. I uploaded an album to TuneCore and a few days later it was taken down, and I received the same email. I asked them why my music was taken down and this was their response: "Hello Dolfyre, Thank you for getting back to us. Unfortunately, after further review of your account, we have made an internal decision not to release this content. Please do not attempt to upload any additional content on this or any other account. Thank you. Best, Bryan" Thank you, Mr. Helpful!

and I'm a poor person who struggled to buy a package to be able to distribute my music, and I was fooled and it broke my head so much

This is the exact same email I got today!! I sent the same question to them about my album and I'm pretty sure I'll get the same response as you because other ppl have been complaining on the Better Business Bureau site (U.S.) about the same issue and also not getting paid. Tunecore you're cancelled --this was my first and last album submission. Hopefully things will go better with CD Baby.

This particular experience didn't happen to me, but their artist support is pretty awful. After months I'm still unable to claim my Spotify for Artists/RU-vid artist channel (I have videos that I made specifically for singles that no one will see because the auto-generated RU-vid channel for my music always come up first in the search engine) despite qualifying for both. Someone also posted my album on their RU-vid (not the biggest deal) and I asked TuneCore to claim it and they were completely useless and kept dicking me around and eventually I just gave up. They way I see it, if I can make back the $15 I spent on TuneCore thru either streams or purchases I can call it a day and move on to another distributor but this is a really sad way for me to finally release my albums after a ton of hard work. So tired of middle-men scraping off of people who actually give a shit about their art and want to push it forward and have an audience. But anyway, glad other people are catching on to how bad their service is. Just wanted to share my experience so far.

This is annoying Im about to make the same mistake as you but on purpose >:D ahahahahhhha Im insane. jk lol :).

Thank you for this video. I've been trying to release ONE song for about a month and they give me NO reason for the refusal. This company is a scam.

I had a similar experience with Tunecore, stay away from them, Distrokid is fantastic

How they have not been investigated for fraud is beyond me, their BBB page literally has an F grade and a 1.25 out of 5 score.

Bruhhh this was so intense lol thx for the heads up man I hope everything goes just best for you

Published 2 albums 1 Ep and lots of singels with tunecore and never had a problem. Very strange tho

This just happened to me last couple of days, I released 3 albums all of which got blocked for no fucking reason....lol Whatever, I'll use distrokid

Looks like they have an AI running thrue the releases to check if it will be approved or blocked. And then the AI is not good enough (yet) to make decent decisions about approval or blocking of releases and make wrong decisions. But Tunecore is not willing to take responsibility of that and try to give an answer that keeps them away from problems. I think an honest answer from Tunecore to the blocked release issue would be: 'Our System blocked the release we don't know why but since it is just a small percentage of releases that is blocked and complains rate is comparable low we keep going like this. If people choose another Distributor we don't care since there is 100.000songs uploaded everyday on this earth, so we will have enough customers anyway. Between i am just a random guy getting paied for giving answers to customers and i have such an easy job by giving just some standart answer, since nobody is willing to take further actions anyway and i won't work here forever and also get paid low so my aim is not to make this company a better place but do my job and answer customers.'

Bro, it's true and I agree with you. I'm an EDM Artist and I signed up for their rising artist plan. So, I have been trying to release two of my music. But Tunecore says My content is removed and unable to distribute to all of the stream platforms.

"My Main Question Was, WTF." 🤣Sorry Bro.

I never had any problems with dropping music on tunecore

Dude. You used my favorite word like 9 million times. Video was informative and fricking awesome. Cheers!

Tunecore is awful. Would you be willing to share the email address you corresponded with? As far as I can tell, they have no published email address that doesn't bounce back. All I get for customer support is a chat-bot that sends me in a loop of endless frustration.

Jesus Christh i thought i was the only one who went through this experience

They make it damn near impossible to cancel your account or cancel a release. And lock in your credit card which you also can’t delete and they keep taking your money

Tunecore is not good for distribution music. I have professional plan of tunecore. First two songs upload nicely but after that tunecore asking money for every song. There is a option for remove item from cart but this is an option only i mean this is not working, every time showing an error. I'm trying to release a single song since three days but getting fail. I have paid twice also. Payment is debited from my debit card but till now tunecore asking for money.

As someone who wants to make parodies. I use NoveCore, it’s hella easy for me and they give me reasons as to why my stuff gets declined. (Bad metadata, not marked as explicit when it is, blurry cover art, etc.) and I’m doing it for fun until I can start making money off of it because making music is something I’ve wanted to do now.

Well, I like your face, so you’re good 😂 thank you for saving me from a huge mistake. I won’t be going with TuneCore

I also hate their yearly fee for uploads thank God if you dont pay they taken your song down. Thank God for the new plans. I paid once on Cdbaby and it's still there till date. Tunecore need to review a lot and I think they are beginning to.

EXACT same thing happened to me, can't believe this is still happening

damn man. too late. I just submitted an album yesterday to tunecore. I wish I saw your video sooner....damn it.

its your album art tho prolly thats the only problem Ive had w them, you cant have any words except the album name or song name I almost switched to distrokid recently and still might but when I looked into distrokid it had problems too so Im still not sure... One thing Tunecore is a pain is that it takes like 2-3 weeks to go live w a song but Ive also hear its a pain to try to switch so...

Wooow maybe ill stick with distro..

God, Remy is just the worst! They have claimed I'm using a sample that I don't have the license to. I haven't used anything I don't own the rights to. So I ask what licence do I need, can you provide a timestamp or who this alleged sample belongs to. I told them it could be as simple as a mistake on my end and I just need to log into to a service a use to retrieve the license if something in my library got mixed in. 7 days later I'm getting the same response over and over. I own hundreds upon hundreds of licences, I just need to know what they are looking for. Then they asked a question, is this AI? And I'm like my mastering program has AI assistance in auto leveling but that's as close as I get to that beyond what's on Photoshop. I ran a file analyzer on my music and the only thing that pinged was a single whispered word on a different track than the main vocals, that's my whisper, it's just the word pronto. I feel insulted, upset and I'm afraid that I have less rights using them.

I check everything too, and now I can't even upload any music after paying, these guys are scams. Their platform is wack and have no proper way to fix people's problem, they keep deducting money

did you see the video (by Top Music Attorney youtube channel) about Tunecore keeping tens of thousands of dollars from an artists and even calling him a fake scumbag?

thanks for your opinion. I'll think before use it

Had a similiar experience, they uploaded my track but to a completely wrong artist profile EVERYWHERE. After contacting the support there was no response for one week even though i asked many times and according to their website and auto reply they answer within 1-2 business days. I switched to Distrokid now, much better experience

They did the same to me

I can't even delete my tunecore account

that's not even counting the fact they abuse the youtube copywrite claim on youtube. they said they claimed music from kingdom hearts which is absolute bullshit and disgusting. they don't own it and kingdom hearts music is under fair use!

Nothing goes right with Them. What they do is fraudulent

The refund they are talking about is from their past payment model, they don't have updated it yet. In the past it was kinda like cdbaby

It is a ripp off. Im having issues with the TITLES that are allowed. Im releasing political material. Political album. Its exempted from regulations. Its also illegal to intervene in a political campaign. I wanted creative titles like long ones. Like scottish folk bagpipes albums. Medleys. Really there is special law. Also the staff are not very knowledgeable. Its interesting to know other people are having issues. I thought the music used to be lifetime distribution once it was released for $200 😮

Same here with me bro, it fucking stressful

You are 100% right 👍

They are fckd up man, Im trying to get my releases sorted but they are taking years to reply and they keep on changing those serving clients, They are boring AF.

Thank you to save my time 🤣 I choose CD Baby for my two upcoming releases. And then I'm planing go to LANDR to release a lot of music a year. But I'm not sure actualy.

I f…ing hate Tonecore so much.

Kind of weird, I've never had any problems distributing my songs.

Once they have your credit card they won't let you delete it.

oh wow, i was just about to release with tunecore but now im leaning towards distrokid

Bro they don’t let me outcash my Money they blocked it its like 2.500€

Whoa, the reviews are awful!!

The same issue, all tracks are on the streaming platforms except Meta. One track was taken down after 1M streams

Glad I saw this

Are you guys all americans? You will be millionaires soon after this goes to court

Well, times are coming by almost every musician ,each band, Any composer has own Distribution,

They scammed me out of so many royalties and took down all my music. I can't afford any kind of legal action against them but wow they are such low lives

Trie Distrokid with same music and albums...earned 50$ in one year...tried TuneCore and earned around 800$ in one year...i think choice is obvious Never had any issue with Tunecore as I been clieant for years.

I paid Tune core for the rising artist plan, and I've also bought the publishing, and they did exactly the same thing to me. I've received exactly the same email this night. I spent in total 98 euro, I honestly feel totaly robbed. Was my first release. Thankyou for have published this video. We really should do something on this.

report complait in court

I wish I saw this video before I decided to upload my first single to Tunecore. Damn this really sucks. I'm sitting with 3 days "Processing" still no content review email. Status is sent. Just hoping for the best at this point.

They stole my song revenue of 1500 and 999 for plan and blocked withdraw and closed my account without and transparent reason ... Please don't use this bullshit...use distrokid or others will be far better

Wheres the song, ?? Lets hear what they rejected !!

ditto, with tunecore, should have went with Distro Kid to begin with, I will never use Tunecore again, ever! Consumer beware!

The worst website I've ever known in my music life

They need a Lawsuit! Their support email is no longer taking questions, you can't cancel the subscription (the button just doesn't exist) and when you try to remove your payment method, you just get an error! Such a scam

You kept it so real here! 👑 so be real with me. How good is distrokid really? How the customer service and do they really take your song down without warning

😢bro you right to

Ok thank you ❤️

Thanks for the heads up

What is your medium of recording? Do you use app or live recording why they blocked you?

same here. I even had a pro account. fucking scam. I´m back to my old distributor distrokid.

Same problem i got today

Nice, just sended my track like 3 hours ago.. Wish me luck guys..

I get Copyright Claim from ToneCore 🤬🤬🥵

i've paid for rising artist plan on tunecore , it's happened to me now they rejected my release

I have had that exact experience just a couple of days ago

I have also had the same problem, I have uploaded my songs They blocked me, I asked them why it happened they answered like this ,Hello there, Thank you for getting back to us. Unfortunately, after further review of your account, we have made an internal decision not to release this content. To protect our review practices, we will not be able to disclose reasons for the release that was rejected. Please do not attempt to upload any additional content on this or any other account. Thank you

Same experience I'm going back to distrokid

thats why distrokid is king

AHHHH, SAMMEEE! Wtf is this!!

U r right bro😞😔

They tried to copyright a song I made with my bare hands

They also upped their pricing again recently.

Tune Core went to shit when Jeff Price left.

TUNECORE ARE CROOKS!

Same happened with me . They are worst . We help our clients is a trap . Switching back to distrokid

Distrokid blocked all my music too ...

legit almost got their service today thank you

Yes, I have faced this kind of issue on tunecore

same thing happened to me, don't use tunecore

Same crap, Tunecore ate my money and canceled the release for no reason. The appeal to support did not work, received an extremely vague answer without indicating the reasons for the cancellation from Jack.

Happened to me too! :( What do I do??

Thanks for explaining and sharing, helps a lot.

That is why cdbaby is still d best

Thank you man! That's very usefull information. And yeah, I heard the same from another guys.

ALL of the streaming aggregators are way more criminal than any record label EVER WAS. The 21st century is the age of BOHICA - 'Bend Over, Here It Comes Again.' Even MGM looks like an angel band compared to streaming.

This is crazy. ALSO… I heard tunecore will charge per album!? Even though you have an annual subscription to “unlimited” releases, if you have 4 albums you get charged for all 4 each year! Can anyone verify this? Thanks

i just faced this same thing bro i think they should be investigated

Lol had this exact same experience and then found this video. Thank you for making this video and listing an alternative.