TuneCore vs SpaceMedia: TuneCore's Hidden Costs Exposed
- 27 Feb 2024
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Are you an independent artist dreaming of skyrocketing your music career to the cosmos? While platforms like TuneCore have paved the way in digital music distribution, SpaceMedia is here to take your musical journey to new heights. Our mission? To empower artists like you with a platform that's transparent, fair, and designed to put more of your hard-earned money back into your pocket. Let's embark on a journey to explore why SpaceMedia is the launching pad your music deserves, especially when compared to traditional options like TuneCore.
The TuneCore Experience
TuneCore has been a significant player in the music distribution scene, offering artists a way to get their music onto major platforms like Spotify, Apple Music, and more. However, TuneCore's model includes annual fees for album and single distributions, which can add up over time, especially for artists with multiple tracks. These fees are required to keep your music on the platform year after year, which can be a financial burden for emerging artists.
Additionally, TuneCore offers a range of a la carte services, such as music publishing administration and YouTube Sound Recording revenue collection. While beneficial, these services come at an extra cost, making it challenging for artists to predict their expenses and earnings.
Introducing SpaceMedia: A New Horizon
SpaceMedia emerges as a beacon of innovation in this landscape, addressing many of the pain points artists face with platforms like TuneCore. Here's how we're changing the game:
Say Goodbye to Hidden Fees
Transparency is at the core of SpaceMedia. Unlike TuneCore's annual fees and additional service charges, we offer a straightforward, no-hidden-fee structure. With SpaceMedia, you won't find any surprises chipping away at your earnings, allowing you to invest more in your music and less in distribution costs.
A Fair Universe for All
SpaceMedia stands out with its fair revenue share model, designed to ensure artists keep a significant portion of their earnings. This model contrasts with TuneCore's approach, where the cost of maintaining your music on the platform can diminish your profits over time. At SpaceMedia, we believe in empowering artists financially, allowing you to reap the rewards of your hard work.
Navigating Made Easy
We've designed SpaceMedia to be as intuitive and user-friendly as your favorite social media platform. This ease of use stands in stark contrast to the complexities and nuances of managing multiple services and fees with TuneCore. With SpaceMedia, distributing your music is straightforward, letting you focus on what matters most—your art.
Comprehensive Support at No Extra Cost
SpaceMedia offers a suite of services to maximize your reach and earnings, all included in our transparent pricing model. From playlist placements to social media promotions, we provide holistic support without additional fees for each service, unlike TuneCore's a la carte pricing model.
Join the SpaceMedia Universe
Choosing SpaceMedia means joining a platform that truly values your artistry and supports your growth in the ever-evolving digital landscape. Say farewell to the limitations and costs associated with traditional platforms like TuneCore and embrace a world where your music and financial well-being are our top priorities.
Elevate Your Music with SpaceMedia
In the vast universe of digital distribution, your music deserves a platform that not only showcases your talent but also supports your financial goals. SpaceMedia is that platform. With our artist-centric approach, transparent pricing, and comprehensive support, your music is set to reach new heights.
Ready to launch your music career into the stratosphere? Join SpaceMedia today and be part of a community that's all about elevating artists without the burden of unnecessary costs. Start your journey to fair and transparent music distribution by signing up at SpaceMedia.
Welcome aboard, space explorer—your most thrilling adventure starts now.
SpaceMedia delivers music to a broad and changing network of streaming, download, social, and music-identification platforms. This can include major services such as Spotify, Apple Music, iTunes, YouTube Music, Amazon Music, Deezer, TikTok, Facebook and Instagram, SoundCloud, Tidal, Pandora, Boomplay, Anghami, iHeart, JioSaavn, KKBOX, NetEase Cloud Music, Tencent, Qobuz, and other supported partners.
The exact network can change as platforms update territories, rules, and delivery requirements. SpaceMedia gives you access to supported distribution channels, but no distributor can guarantee that every platform will accept every release in every country.
Most major streaming services do not let every artist upload music directly. A distributor like SpaceMedia delivers your audio, artwork, metadata, and rights information to supported platforms so your release can appear on services such as Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, Amazon Music, Deezer, TikTok, and others.
Create an account, choose the plan that fits your needs, upload the final release files, review the details, and submit. The Free plan currently distributes within 5 days, while Premium and Unlimited currently distribute within 2 days, before each platform completes its own processing.
You can monetize eligible music on supported video platforms through Content ID when your plan includes it. Content ID is currently included with Premium and Unlimited, and it is not included with the Free plan.
Only submit music you fully control for Content ID. Tracks with uncleared samples, non-exclusive beats, royalty-free loops used by many creators, public-domain recordings, or disputed rights may be rejected or may cause claims that need to be resolved.
Submit your release through SpaceMedia and choose distribution to social music platforms where available. Eligible releases can be delivered to platforms such as TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, and other supported social or short-form music services.
Once delivered, each platform decides how the music appears, how long processing takes, and which features are available in each territory. Use accurate metadata and clean audio to reduce avoidable delivery issues.
Independent music distribution lets artists release music to streaming, download, and social platforms without signing to a traditional record label. You stay in control of your music while using a distributor to deliver it to supported services.
With SpaceMedia, you can manage releases, artist details, earnings, and payout information from your account. Free users currently keep 90% of reported earnings, while Premium and Unlimited users currently keep 100%.
The Free plan lets artists release music without an upfront distribution fee. Free users currently keep 90% of reported earnings, and SpaceMedia keeps 10% from reported earnings.
This gives new artists a way to start releasing music before paying for a yearly plan. If you later want 100% royalty share, faster distribution, Content ID, or live support, you can compare paid plans on the pricing page.
Yes. In many cases you can transfer existing releases to SpaceMedia while keeping them live, as long as you submit the same metadata, audio, artwork, UPC, and ISRCs where available.
Keep the old release live until the SpaceMedia delivery is live and matched correctly. Removing the old version too early can interrupt availability or make stores treat the transfer as a new release instead of matching it to the existing one.
Publishing a new way
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