In this section you'll find information about how MusicHub works and how to become a member.
While our features are geared towards musicians, you may use MusicHub as a label or publisher. However, you might find some label features that won’t work and uploading a large number of works at one time will require increased manual effort on your part.
While our features are geared towards musicians, you may use MusicHub as a label or publisher. However, you might find some label features that won’t work and uploading a large number of works at one time will require increased manual effort on your part.
While our features are geared towards musicians, you may use MusicHub as a label or publisher. However, you might find some label features that won’t work and uploading a large number of works at one time will require increased manual effort on your part.
While our features are geared towards musicians, you may use MusicHub as a label or publisher. However, you might find some label features that won’t work and uploading a large number of works at one time will require increased manual effort on your part.
While our features are geared towards musicians, you may use MusicHub as a label or publisher. However, you might find some label features that won’t work and uploading a large number of works at one time will require increased manual effort on your part.
To pay for your monthly or yearly subscription fee, you can use:
Your royalty payouts are made by SEPA credit transfer to your bank account.
Yes we do. Beatport requires a yearly subscription of €96, and you will keep 100% of the income generated through downloads. The subscription covers MusicHub releases that are in an electronic genre, including previous releases with MusicHub.
First, you can create a free MusicHub account and get access to parts of our offer as a demo version.
However, to release your music and use other paid tools and services, you will need to sign up for a paid subscription. Check our subscription details here
Check our offer for GEMA members here
When you release via MusicHub, you retain full control over the rights to your recordings and keep 90% of the income generated from streaming and downloads, plus 100% of the income generated from Beatport downloads. You can see your earnings directly in your MusicHub account and have them paid out to you. Please note that income from on-demand-streaming of copyright protected works will continue to be paid out by the streaming services, via GEMA.
Yes, however, please make sure that there are no rights conflicts with labels or other distributors.
You can read our article here for more detail on how the process works.
Yes we do. For each release we will provide these free of charge. Once a release has been submitted, they will be automatically assigned to the release.
You can watch our tutorial video here to get a good overview of the process.
For technical questions, we would recommend first checking our help center.
If you can’t find the answer there, feel free to contact customer support.
So that your audio files are accepted by all streaming and download platforms, when you release, you should stick to the following requirements:
File format: WAV file
Sample size: 16-bit
Sample rate: 44.1 kHz
Data transfer rate: 1411 kbps
Currently our distribution partner pushes to the leading streaming and download platforms: Spotify, Apple Music (incl. Shazam)/iTunes, Amazon Music, Beatport, Deezer, Napster, Tidal, YouTube Music & Content ID, Soundcloud Go, 7digital, Pandora, iHeart Radio, Tencent, Anghami, Boomplay, Claro Música, JioSavvn, Joox, KKBox, Resso, NetEaseand and to social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram and TikTok. We are continuously working on expanding the range of platforms served.
When creating your release in MusicHub, to ensure a successful release to all DSPs, you must select a release date 2 weeks in the future. That is how long it will take it take for your release to go live.
Our Promo Partner section started with three partners: Groover, SubmitHub and AURALE. You'll find more details on your MusicHub Homepage, once logged in.
Note: Promo Partner offers are only available with a valid MusicHub subscription.
You can also find a selection of promo articles in our Blog and in our Intercom Help Center. In those, we focus on topics such as what you have to consider when uploading your track, what happens after you have submitted your release, or what you can do to promote it, for example, by updating your artist profiles on DSPs.
We will be adding more Promo Partners in the near future to give you the best possible support when it comes to promotion.
MusicHub’s first distribution partner is ZEBRALUTION. ZEBRALUTION has been active as a digital distributor for independent labels since 2004 and has been awarded the status “preferred provider” by major DSPs such as Spotify and Apple over many years. The ZEBRALUTION team has supported the foundation of MusicHub by GEMA, offering its know-how and experience to quickly launch the first beta version with a focus on distribution to DSPs.
You can access daily stats detailing the performance of your music, which can help you direct your marketing efforts.
The income you've earned from your music's streams and downloads is available every month and ready for pay-out directly in your MusicHub account.
The general terms and conditions for the use of MusicHub can be found here. Different terms and conditions may apply for GEMA members.
To release your music to platforms such as Spotify, Apple Music etc., you must grant MusicHub a non-exclusive license to your recordings, exclusively for sublicensing to the distributor and to DSPs. You retain exclusive rights to your recordings for all other uses and can also have your recording taken down from platforms, via the distributor, at any time.
Before publishing your release, you need the explicit permission of all parties involved.
Yes, but the recordings must not already be exclusively licensed to a label or another distributor.
Feel free to check out our Help Center.
If you can't find what you're looking for, we'd be happy to answer any further questions you may have.
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