A simple and easy way for artists to release their music on major music services without any upfront charges, contracts or distribution fees while retaining 100% of their rights and royalties. https://beta.levelmusic.com

Hi PH community! We are excited to share with you an early beta release of Level, a new global distribution platform for independent musicians. Our team spent countless hours speaking to musicians from all over the world to understand their challenges and needs as they pursue their creative vision and build a career. It’s been an amazing experience and beyond rewarding hearing the feedback from some of tomorrow’s brightest creators. We understand there are a lot of great products out there to support artists’ needs around music distribution, but we also know there is a lot of room for improvement. While we may not have all the answers now, we’re focused on building the right product brick by brick alongside the music community. Today's release is focused on providing a simple and frictionless way for artists to get their music out to all of the major music services while getting essential performance analytics, a dedicated support team and an easy way to get paid for their work via PayPal. And by frictionless, we mean making it free during this beta phase and plan on having a free version. That means no fees, surcharges, and artists keep 100% of their royalties. We believe in creating valuable features and products that the community will be proud to pay for in the future. In tandem with this release, we’re also launching a community program called Open Sessions (https://levelopensessions.com) down at SXSW allowing for registered users to book free studio time during music week. Space will be limited but our intention is to roll out this program in future cities and communities. The beta (https://beta.levelmusic.com) is currently available via invite only but for everyone here you can use this invite code: TEAMLEVEL2018 to gain access. We'd love your feedback and are looking forward to hearing what you create! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- V.1 Release: + A simple and fast way to release music to Apple Music, iTunes, Spotify, Amazon Music, Google Play, Deezer, TIDAL, Pandora and Napster. More services will be added in the future + No upfront charges or fees. Keep 100% of your rights, royalties, and earnings + Automatic notifications about the progress of your releases and help from our dedicated Support team + Track your performance with simple trend analytics + Get paid easily through PayPal + Intelligent landing pages that route fans to their preferred music service

@itsthanh No a good product at all.. You own me $1200 of royalties and i can proove it.

@itsthanh @jathiere_romain They owe me money, too, and they're trying to keep it. But I won't let them get away with it.

Congrats on the launch, @itsthanh and team. I'm admittedly not familiar with this space. How are artists distributing their music across all platforms today?

@rrhoover thanks man! There's definitely already some solid options in this space for artists to purely distribute their music but distribution is really just the foundation. The goal is to build a larger suite of tools for artists not just to get their music out there but also be able to effectively promote it, manage their finances and understand their audiences so they can build their own version of success. We're seeing a lot of these things pop up as one-offs but it'd be valuable if they can get it all in one place where everything holistically ties together. For example, we're providing automated landing pages for every release; that artists can use to promote their music. The goal is to have the tools and features scale in tandem with their career.

@itsthanh Love what you're trying to do. The biggest difficulty for startups is in this space is that most musicians are not "rolling in it", and careful where they spend their money. 😜 Taking the free angle will at least tell you how many people are interested. I'm switching from Landr right now as paying hundreds of dollars a year to keep my Spotify releases active is a real pain

@kopahkah Thank you!

it's free!

Pros:

slick interface, easy to use

Cons:

none atm, will report back

Just wanted to warn everyone to be really careful with this company. They are thieves, scammers, and the music industry's biggest liars. They will steal from you, they will block you and never respond to you. I was waiting for my payment for a whole year, and then they blocked me claiming fraudulent streams, nonsense. They do this to hundreds of indie artists, never providing any proof or explanation. Even before they deactivated my account, they will take weeks to respond. Plus they don't give you the earnings from tik tok, Facebook, and Instagram. They claim they don't collect it but they actually do but they don't pay you. They are the worst out there! STAY AWAY FROM levelmusic

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