EU DACH Area: Local Distributor, Worldwide Distributor, or No Distributor?
Hello!
TLDR FIRST:
We want our music to exist permanently & reliable, without hassle. No interference with our own youtube channel. If we cant get that from a distributor, we'd choose to opt out.
Any recommentations for the DACH REGION? (RecordJet, Rebeat: Austria, iGroove? )
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INTRODUCTION:
We are an upstarting female vocal Electro-Pop project, with mostly English lyrics and about a month or two away from our first releases.
Our output will be approximately up to 10 full Songs a Year (+ Remixes, Instrumentals, etc.) With one or two music videos per year for those.
Overall the initial feedback we got was very positive and we are pretty proud of the quality we have reached.
THE START WITHOUT A DISTRIBUTOR:
For the start we now want to focus on building subscribers on youtube (for future monetization), with the full songs available for free. This channel we want manage our self without any interaction or interference from a distributor. From what we have read, once a certain threshold of subscribers is reached, we can monetize our self.
Additionally we will have our songs on bandcamp as well.
(So free on youtube, bandcamp for the usual small fee.)
Soundcloud, we might use for some Snippets & Experiments as well, but with no priority as we are currently unsure if its worth the actual effort for exposure.
There is a realistic chance we will have some exposure in the DACH (+IT) Region on the local radio as well.
DISTRIBUTION:
We see this typically discussed here, the current options like Distrokid & Co do seem to be rather messy for a lot of users here. It currently seems to us, there is often very little payout and a larger potential of unreliability and extra work involved.
We do not expect to make money quickly here; but the one real benefit would be of course to reach a larger audience with apple music & spotify (which we personally do not like as a platform at all).
We actually consider not using a distributor for now until we actually see something good coming our way.
We also considered local options: As we come from the DACH Region: DE, AT, CH (& IT), we found some local distributors
- RecordJet: German
- Rebeat: Austria
- iGroove: Swiss
QUESTION: Has anyone feedback for us with those?
Thank you very much for your feedback!