r/DistroKidHelpDesk

if my song gets taken down to put it back up do i upload it the same way i did before? and it’ll keep the streams?

My channel meets all the requirements (I checked over and over again) and I even tried the renaming hack but still nothing. I waited 2 days and still have the error when I try linking it. I have two music videos for the songs I uploaded on distrokid, and have a topic channel with those same songs. My names match exactly. idk what I'm missing here.

I’ve read the FAQ up and down. Contacted “support”. They told me to wait another 5 days! Is this common? I feel like I did everything right, like way in advance. I did an initial rollout on Bandcamp May 1st, could that be triggering something?

Hello was hoping to get some guidance here. I recently submitted an album to DistroKid that just got rejected because it "predominantly consists of songs shorter than 60 seconds." This isn't true. There is only one song on the album that is under 60 seconds so I don't understand why I'm getting this rejection. The average track length is 1:42 so that shouldn't be an issue either. I have uploaded songs shorter than 60 seconds in the past so I'm not sure what the issue is here. I have the full track list below if anyone can give me input. Do I just need to extend that one song to be over 60 seconds?

The full track list with track lengths is below:

1. Something Terrible Ahead (feat. OJ Mountain) 03:12

2. Boredom's Casualty (feat. KawaiiSteez) 01:26

3. A Dedication (feat. Hendricks & Humanbien) 02:08

4. Suffering (feat. Humanbien) 01:31

5. Grim (feat. Immortal AD) 01:12

6. Holy Water (feat. Robbie Sleeper) 02:32

7. Act of Wrongdoing (feat. paid4lifewann) 01:31

8. Fire Sale! (feat. Suave Dubois) 00:43

9. Death March (feat. Immortal AD) 01:06

10. Some Things I Hate 01:32

11. Revenge (feat. Hester Valentine) 02:06

12. Pull the Plug (feat. Kid God) 02:03

13. Dead (feat. Humanbien) 01:49

14. Rebirth (feat. Chaos1.0) 01:25

15. Dreams (feat. Jakk) 02:07

16. I Can't Sleep (feat. Robbie Sleeper) 01:13

17. Head Hurt (feat. Robbie Sleeper) 01:38

18. Free Moment (feat. whereisfox) 01:21

19. Nauseous (feat. T H R O N E) 01:33

20. Happy Ending (feat. Immortal AD) 01:36

Project length 2,031 seconds ÷ 20 tracks = 101.6 seconds per track

Convert back to minutes:

101.6 seconds ≈ 1 minute 42 seconds

Average track length: ~1:42

Sorry if this has been asked before. I have a song that's going to be on a compilation album where I'll be listed as a featured artist (that's the plan as of now). I was wondering if it's possible for me to upload the song to one of my own albums as well, using the same ISRC code?

We’ve had a multiple artists package for a few years and honestly, with Spotify being horrible for songwriters/bands (and not so great in other ways) and Apple being impenetrable - and us being indie - we’re asking ourselves why we don’t drop DK and keep our stuff on Bandcamp (where at least they pay you) and share our music on socials.

Anyone else think that for indie artists the juice is just not worth the squeeze re: DK?

Truly, feedback is a gift…

I released an album in January and have around 7,000 Spotify streams so far. Three of the songs have over 1,000 streams.

Spotify for Artists reflects the streams normally, and DistroKid’s Stats page also shows Spotify stream activity.
However, I still have no Spotify royalty reporting/earnings showing in DistroKid.

I’ve contacted Distro support multiple times, but I haven’t gotten a meaningful technical/accounting explanation yet.

I understand royalties are delayed, but by this point I would expect at least some reporting data to appear.

Has anyone experienced something similar where stats appeared but royalties didn’t?
Was it eventually resolved?

Hey all, I’m currently dealing with an issue with distrokid. I recently uploaded an album about 1 week ago, and one of the tracks got flagged for copyright. Despite that, my song is a completely original song with no samples or copyrighted content. Here is the email:

Hi,
We've been notified that one or more of your songs may contain remixes, samples, or other audio that may not be 100% yours.
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**Additional detail:**
**Track 7 is associated with an active infringement claim, and until the dispute has been resolved, we are unable to distribute this audio. If you are the recipient of the original claim, please reach out to the claimant directly. Once the dispute is resolved, you can re-upload this content at your convenience.** 

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You may only upload audio that you have 100% recorded yourself. Stores won't accept music that contain unauthorized samples, remixes, and so on.
We know this is super inconvenient and we apologize.

However, I have absolutely no information on who claimed me or how to find that out. In addition, since the track was never released, I don’t have a Spotify URL to the song, which I apparently need to submit a DMCA counter-claim form. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

How is that even possible? My music is still there, but the channel has shorts on it, comments now enabled and the channel name has been changed.

This is what the bot chat said:
"YouTube topic channels are auto-generated by YouTube and can't be accessed, edited, or managed by artists—including us at DistroKid. So, if you think your topic channel is "hacked," there's actually nothing to worry about, since no one (not even you) can log into or control it. Your music is still safe and available!

Click the link below to learn more about this topic:"

Tried to distribute a song of mine a few months ago (ik ive left it ages...) but it quickly got blocked for potentially containing "remixes, samples, or other audio that may not be 100% yours."

The only reason I can think of this happening is due to the fact I uploaded it personally to my SoundCloud account a while beforehand, any way to rectify this?

UPDATE: Temporary solution found (Check comments)

Hey everyone, I’ve been stuck on this and can’t find any info. DistroKid support hasn’t been helpful so far.

My Spotify link shows as “invalid” only when clicked from my Hyperfollow page (see screenshot). What’s confusing is the link itself is completely fine—if I paste it directly into a browser, it opens normally with no issues.

Apple Music and YouTube links on the same page also work perfectly. It’s just Spotify that’s acting up.

What I’ve tried so far:

• Waiting it out
• Removing and re-adding the Spotify link
• Using both album and track links
• Testing links from older releases

No luck so far.

Has anyone run into this or know what might be causing this?

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Basically I let a friend use my account to release their music and they used multiple slots, no biggie. The problem is they got copyrighted on these slots, though I haven't. Because of this I am not allowed to release music on the account under any slot? They say it's banned for editorial review

What can I do to be able to release at least on my slot? Is there anything I can do?

Hi everyone,

I’m having a problem with DistroKid’s synced lyrics and I wanted to know if anyone else is experiencing the same thing.

Before, my workflow was simple: I uploaded a song to DistroKid, added the lyrics, and then I could sync those lyrics directly without any issue. The audio and lyrics were already inside DistroKid, so the process made sense.

But now, when I try to sync lyrics, DistroKid asks me to upload the audio again and also upload the lyrics again. After syncing, it gives me three different downloadable files in different formats, but inside DistroKid the song still doesn’t appear as having “synced lyrics”.

I paid for the lyrics feature so my lyrics could appear on Spotify, and this new process feels confusing and honestly kind of terrible compared to how it worked before.

Has anyone else had this happen recently?
Is this a new DistroKid change, a bug, or am I missing a step?

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

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Hi, i currently have the normal 25 euro worth musician. I wondered if plus would be worth upgrading to? I still have 3 days left to decide so i can also get a refund. What's your opinion on them?

i uploaded a song to distrokid last week and i used a beat from youtube that i paid for. today i got an email saying that it was rejected because it contained “samples” or were too similar to other artists songs. in the license it says we can’t copyright the beat unless you exclusively buy it but that’s not the case and now i’m not sure what to do. had this happened to anyone else ? is there anything i can do or did i waste my money ?

edit: i ended up asking to speak with a real person since the bot wasn’t helping and got emailed today that they manually reviewed it and was sent back to stores. they said that if this were to happen again with other beats to just email and they’d handle it. i guess everyone with yt beats does this.

thanks everyone !

My previous releases including albums were fully approved in 12hrs or less, my latest single has taken 3 days so far and has only just had the file and cover approved (over the weekend i know it’s slow) no sample or anything is in the song. Not urgent still got a couple weeks till release just wondering if anyone else has noticed slower approval speeds?

Hey yall! I just got an email asking for artist verification via IG or Twitter or via ID photo. Can someone who faced the same error share their experience on how you solved it? And how long did it take and which method you used?

Thank you!!!

Guys I have a new distrokid account

I have 2 artist profiles

Uploaded one track in each

Track 1 - Uploaded on April 20th (Release date set up for 8th May)

Track 2 - Uploaded on April 21st (Release date set up for April 24th)

Both are showing Yellow dot. It’s 1st May today!

PLEASE HELP!!