what's up nerds my name is cory bergeron
you are watching cory bergeron
recordings and we are back with another
video and in this video i'm gonna teach
you how to release your music through
all the major distributors yes that
includes Spotify Apple music iTunes
title etc it's very easy doesn't take
very much time so let me show you how
it's done
but first quick little story time so as
you may know if you are subscriber of
this channel I play guitar in a band
called locket now lock it is signed to
Fearless Records so when it comes to
releasing music fearless records takes
care of all the distribution what you
may not know is that I also play in a
band called sour happy and sour Happy's
kind of a little side project and it is
completely independent and the aim is
also a little different so we are
looking at releasing smaller quantities
of music more often so for example that
could be six singles in a year now this
is where distro kit comes into play
distro kid is a service that musicians
use to get their music on all major
online stores and streaming services
district it also clicks all the
royalties and they give it directly to
the artist 100 percent of the royalties
made go directly to the artist now for
me one of the main reasons why I like to
use district Kids service versus other
services on the market is because for
one small annual fee you are able to
release as many songs as you want that's
right so if I wanted to release one song
or two hundred songs under the sour
happy name this year it would cost me
the same amount of money now if you want
to save a little bit of money make sure
use the link district kid comm slash the
VIP slash what's up nerds and you will
save seven percent when you sign up you
save money it supports the channel two
good things ok so here's what we're
gonna do I have a song a pronouced our
happy song that I want to release and I
want to put it on all the major
streaming platforms and all the online
stores so I'm gonna use this row kids
service and I'm gonna go through top to
bottom and get this song on line so I'm
gonna switch angles here I'm gonna jump
on my computer and we're gonna walk
through that whole thing here we go
okay so I'm now sitting in front of my
computer and I am on the distro kid
website I'm not signed in let's just
take a quick look at the home page here
so I've already touched on a couple of
these but let me just go through it one
more time
upload your music to stores today we'll
get your music into Spotify iTunes Apple
music Pandora Amazon Google Play title
the list goes on 150 plus other
streaming services and stores so that's
pretty self-explanatory
keep 100% of your royalties and get paid
monthly you make all the money off your
music this is another interesting
feature in stores 10 to 20 times faster
than any other distributor at a fraction
of the price this is true I've used
other services you can upload songs same
day through district in pay only $19.99
to upload unlimited albums and songs for
a year and it says in brackets here our
competitors charge at least two times
that just to upload one album again I've
used other services this is the truth
and this is why I switched over a distro
kid and remember if use distro kid comm
slash VIP slash what's up nerds you'll
get 7 percent off that 1999 when you
sign up keep all your earnings or setup
splits to automatically route any
percentage of earnings from any track to
anyone so for example let's say your
band of 5 people you all have a district
it account you can set it up so 20% goes
or that the full 100 percent of the
earnings get split five ways and each
member gets 20% and then there's no
weird business where someone makes the
money and has to divide it up to
everyone things get a little weird
continuing on there are some bonus
features so distribute cover songs
legally get paid when other people use
your music in YouTube unlimited backups
instant Spotify verified checkmark
manage your Apple music page get your
credits and lyrics into stores get a
YouTube official artists channel Spotify
pre save and so much more
ok so there you go that is district kid
now let's actually use the service and
let's get this our happy single on all
major online stores and streaming
services so I'm gonna go ahead and sign
in and then I'm gonna make my way over
to the upload page and once you're on
the upload page let's start here at
stores as you can see there are a bunch
of stores and they are all check marked
you can see at the top here we have
Spotify Apple music iTunes and the list
goes on I
about you but I want my music to be
heard and I wanted to be heard by the
most amount of people as possible so I'm
gonna put it in every single streaming
platform and store so I'm gonna leave
everything selected and move forward
moving on to number of songs we are
gonna be doing a single so just one song
I believe it lets you go all the way up
to 35 which is insane but yes we're
gonna leave it at one song because we're
just doing a single has the single been
previously released the answer that is
no artist and band name so as you can
see I've already uploaded a song under
this our happy name so it's already put
this our happy name there now one thing
to note this is kind of a secret if you
click on band name here you can find
this secret little check box where you
can preserve non-standard capitalization
meaning you can write it all in
lowercase and it will preserve that but
it comes at a potential cost it's this
morning stores don't love this and I
haven't had any issues with it but there
is the potential for stores to reject it
so just be careful if that's what you
want to do I'm gonna leave that selected
and it will make sense in a little bit
artists already in Apple music there are
no other artists under this our happy
name so it says we're all set artists
already in Spotify it's a Spotify
already has one artist name sour happy
visit the link below and check if it's
you so I'm gonna open up this link this
is me so I'm gonna say that's me we're
gonna move forward release date I would
like to release the song on January 10th
2020 lets you choose a release time and
it lets you choose what timezone that
time is in so let's go with midnight and
in the listeners timezone boom works for
me
pre-order I do not want to do a
pre-order for this so I'm gonna let this
just be no don't let anyone buy it until
it's released
moving on to record label so at the
start of the video I mentioned that sour
happy is a completely independent
project and this is true when I first
released the first single through
district it it prompted me in this box
to write whatever I wanted even if there
was no record label and I wrote
subscribe bro and I guess it remembered
that so we're just gonna leave that as
is album cover I do have and now
cover so this is just the art associated
with it what is important is it has to
be a perfect square and it says the
optimal size is 3000 by 3000 so that's
what I did for this image here stores
will reject our work that contains
website address twitter name or any of
that stuff so make sure as you're going
through this process that you are
reading all these little disclaimers
down here to make sure that your music
gets in all of these stores and it's not
rejected language is English and let's
keep going primary genre this is always
a tough question I'm gonna go with
alternative secondary genre hmm let's go
with pop alternative pop is what we're
doing and track title okay alright I'm
uploading the song hush now as you can
see here hush is in lower case if I were
not to have selected this box up here
that says preserve non-standard
capitalization it would go ahead and put
a capital H on that now I'm an artist
and this is my creative vision and I
want it to be lowercase so there may be
some consequences but I'm gonna make
sure that it's lowercase and hopefully
these stores understand and do not
reject it now be sure to read all of
this fine print down here it just gives
you examples on how to go about writing
out your track title if someone's
featured on it if it's an instrumental
if it's part of a part or volumes it's
cover song all that stuff so be sure to
check that out now moving on to audio
file it gives you the option of a bunch
of different formats labeled here I'm
gonna go ahead and hit choose file and
put hush final 1 dot wave and keep
moving forward it's gonna ask who the
songwriter is making sure that it's in
original tune and yes it is an original
tune songwriters real name okay so let's
go lyrics
okay so I've inputted all the people
that worked on this track and let's keep
moving forward explicit lyrics no is
this a radio edit no is it instrumental
no so we're gonna keep moving forward
make sure if if any of those things are
true for your track that you
input the appropriate information track
price we'll leave it at $0.99 lets you
go lower or higher let's just go in the
middle I have a funny feeling that no
one is gonna be buying this track on
iTunes okay so now we're at the end of
the upload and there are some extras
they're optional but they are awesome as
it says here so Instagram and Facebook
add the single to instagrams music in
stories which less Instagram users
easily add your music to the posts if
you are an Instagram user you know what
this means so I'm gonna hit yes because
it's free YouTube money so this will
make it so if someone uses your song in
their YouTube video if it's in the
background doesn't matter any part of
your song in their video it will flag
the video and make sure the revenue from
that video goes to you instead of them
so for an additional five dollars a year
you can make sure that if anyone puts
your song on YouTube that you get the
revenue for it store Maximizer what this
does is it puts it on any upcoming
stores let's say there's a brand new
Spotify that comes out or there's a
there's a brand new competitor on the
field if you pay this 795 a year it will
make sure that your song instantly goes
live on that brand new platform Shazam
and iPhone Siri let's say that your song
is playing at a bar and someone's having
a good time listening to it and they
pull out their iPhone they say hey Siri
what song is this if you pay an
additional dollar a year it will put it
on Shazam and iPhone 4 series so they
can detect your song and then leave a
legacy distro kid will never delete the
single from stores due to a lapse
district kid membership even if you die
you can always choose to delete at any
time or not you will continue to accrue
100% of royalties as normal forever
leave your legacy for future generations
so this just puts your trek on all the
platforms forever for a one-time fee of
$29 and right at the end here we have
important check boxes mandatory I select
YouTube music as a store so I won't
email district kid later asking why
you'd upload my music to YouTube ok I
recorded this music and I'm authorized
to sell it in stores worldwide and
collect all royalties yes it is not a
copy in fridge material I'm
not using any other artists name in my
name song titles or album title without
their approval this is true you know I'm
not trying to act like I'm someone else
this is this is that's yep I have read
and agreed to the terms of the district
aid distribution agreement I haven't but
let's go with yes done and just like
that the album artwork is uploading and
the track is uploading and on January
10th this song will go live on all major
online stores and streaming platforms
just like that
now before we end this video I want to
show you just as a bonus here once your
music is live on the platform there's an
additional feature if you go to district
it comm you can go here to stats and you
can see your stats so for example I'm
here under the stats page this is just
showing the stats from Spotify so as we
can see here in the last 365 days we
have received a thousand 796 streams
which is pretty cool because over the
last month I've been on tour with a
different project so just to receive
streams on a first single that's been
released it's pretty cool so there you
go and it shows you last 60 days last 30
days last seven days yesterday and a
breakdown of it so there we have it this
is distro kit it is a service that i
highly highly recommend to any musician
out there any independent musician out
there that's looking to upload their
music to all online stores and major
streaming services I would also say if
you're using a competitor's service and
you have multiple releases under the
same artists name to consider using the
district in service as it is much more
cost effective and has more perks as
well it'll save you money and it works
really well and make sure to use the
link district kid comm slash VIP slash
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if you have any experience with district
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down below what that experience has been
and I will see you in the next video