You can submit your question above, or email our team at [email protected]
You can always track your sales directly in your account.
There are two different views available:
Sales Trends View
Here you can see all your download and streaming data updated. (For the streaming platforms, we can currently read the data from Spotify and AppleMusic, with a delay of two days).
Your earnings will be credited to your account on a monthly basis, by the 15th, along with detailed billing. You can always transfer money from your account to your Payoneer.
Amounts can only be paid out for a minimum amount of $50.
No. You just have to be in possession of the copyright of the songs. This means that you have created the works yourself without using any lyrics, melodies or parts (samples) of any other work, unless you have the license for commercial use. As a member of any collecting society you have to register all your works independently with your collecting society.
You need a cover picture and the audio files and you need to have the right to sell the music in the territories and formats that you want to sell it.
The following formats are required:
- Songs as WAV file in 16bit 44.1kHz
- Cover as JPG file with at least 3000 x 3000 pixels
Large services like Apple Music and Spotify usually only take a few days. For the smaller shops, it can take up to two or three weeks. This depends on the respective shops and their processes. However, we recommend supplying releases through New Wave Distro at least three to four weeks before your desired release date.
Den Distribution supplies all of the largest stores on a global basis. These stores represent that vast majority of sales for most releases. These include:
- Apple Music
- Spotify
- iTunes
- Google Play
- YouTube Music
- Amazon
- Deezer
- Tidal
The complete and updated shop list is directly visible in your account when you create a new release. More services are being added on a regular basis.
Yes. When you create a release in your account, you have the option to set the release date and the preorder date
The status of the delivery is visible in your account. If you click on the respective release under "My Products", you will find under the menu item "Music Stores" a detailed overview of the releases of the release to the music stores you have selected.
Regardless of this you will receive a notification via e-mail after successful delivery to the shops.
When your release goes LIVE (that means ‘available in the shops’), you will receive another email, in which you get the links to all shops as well as your personal link site.
As soon as your release goes live, you will receive an email with links to all shops and your personal link site. The link site summarizes the links for all shops, clearly arranged on a page with your individual URL.(Example: https://lnk.site/1/gods-titans-reloaded)
You can also find your link site including all store links in your account by selecting the respective release under "My Products" and then the menu item "Link Site »Click.
Sales will be reported by the Music Stores to the Chart companies in the countries where charts exist.
Important to know: Music stores only pay a proportion of the selling price to the artist/partner. These payments vary depending upon the store but as a rough guide, for a song download with a selling price of 0.99 USD, a store may pay out approximately 0.70 USD to us as your distribution partner. We would then apply our 15% fee and you receive the balance. The value can fluctuate due to a number of variables including VAT rates (e.g. VAT in Germany is 19%, in Switzerland 8%), allowable deductions for credit card billing or payments made to copyright agencies.
In summary, 100% of the net revenue does not mean 100% of the selling price, but 100% of what the music stores pay us.
Stream revenue can vary and depends on a number of factors, including in which country the song was streamed and the type of service (e.g. Ad funded or Subscription). As a rough guide the approximate payout per 1000 streams is $2.50 but again this can vary considerably depending upon the music service and the country in which the stream took place.
The exact details of your earnings can be found in your account.
Just make a test order via iTunes or another music store. After only 1-2 days, the download will be displayed in your sales trends. Please take into account that occasional delays on the part of the Music Stores may occur during the transmission of the sales figures. Unfortunately, we can not influence this.
With the release, you get all the codes for your release for free:
- ISRC Codes
- EAN Code
- Barcode
The codes are automatically generated after the release of your release. If you have questions about your codes, please contact us at [email protected]
If you need the EAN and ISRCs from your release in advance for mastering? No problem! Just follow these steps:
- Log in to your account and click on "+ NEW RELEASE"
- Enter the basic information for your release
- Fill in the tracklist including all track information and pay attention to the order of the songs. You can skip the WAV upload of the songs for the time being.
- Send an email to [email protected]as soon as you have entered all available information about your release and request the label copy including your codes.
- Complete the tracklist with the finished mastered songs sometime in January, you will receive billing for.