DistroKid

What DistroKid is

DistroKid is a music distribution service that uploads an artist's songs to more than a hundred fifty streaming and store platforms, with an optional AI-assisted master tool, but it is not an AI music generator.

It is a distribution aid, not a generator. The appeal is that a release reaches every major store while the artist keeps all earnings, so an independent musician reaches listeners without a label, which suits someone self-releasing.

The stance is wide distribution with full earnings, and the product is aimed at independent musicians, bands, DJs, and labels.

What you can do with it

You upload tracks and it pushes them to Spotify, Apple Music, TikTok, Amazon, YouTube, Tidal, and many more, keeps all your earnings rather than taking a sales cut, handles royalty splits and a registered artist profile, and bundles extras like video distribution and an instant online mastering service, so the loop is upload, distribute, get paid, aimed at independent musicians and labels who want wide release without a label.

Because it keeps none of your sales, the economics favor a working artist, and the royalty splits are the part that pays collaborators automatically, which is the difference from a manual payout. For an independent, that is the control.

It claims much faster distribution than other distributors, which is a vendor claim to weigh.

Who it is for

It suits independent musicians, bands, DJs, and labels.

It suits artists who self-release.

What to keep in mind

Pricing is public: a base membership at about twenty-five dollars a year with unlimited uploads and full earnings, and a video service at about eight and a quarter dollars a month, while some add-ons are priced separately, so pick by release frequency and note the base is annual. Confirm the current table.

The compliance stance is straightforward: it states it keeps none of your sales, links a distribution agreement, privacy, cookie, and terms pages, and routes content through each store's own policies, so you still owe any tax and must own the masters you upload. Because it is a distributor not a generator there is no AI-output-rights issue, but ensure your music is original or licensed before release.

A practical point: the master-ownership rule is the one that governs a release, so upload only music you own or have licensed. Confirm the price and the agreement, and note the AI piece is a mastering helper and not creation.

Two practical points

confirm the price and the agreement, because DistroKid is a music distributor to more than a hundred fifty platforms at about twenty-five dollars a year, keeping all earnings, with AI only as a mastering helper, not a generator, so upload only music you own or license.