Important only list your name, stage name or band name. Don’t include anyone else name (without their permission), label name
Don’t list featured artists here. Instead, put featured artists in your song titles
Capitalization use “Title Case”, stores will reject ALL CAPS, all lowercase and wEiRd caps.
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Album Cover Description
Don’t increase the size of a smaller image to make it bigger. This makes the image blurry and stores reject blurry images.
Stores will reject artwork that contains a website address URL, twitter name or any image tats pixelated, rotated or poor quality. They also will reject the artwork with prices or store logo. Don’t put an iTunes or Spotify logo on your artwork.also don’t use the same artwork for multiple albums.
You own this artwork and everything in it. Stores will reject your artwork if it contains images you found online that you don’t have the explicit right to use.
Song Title Description
Featured Artists: use the wort feat. in the parenthesis with name separated with ampersand and commas. example (Sweetest Girl (feat. Akon, Lil Wayne, and Nila))
Parts or volume: if your song has part 1, Volume 1, etc. use comma then the wort pt or vol. example metropolis, part.2
Multiple parentheses, titles can have only 1 set of parentheses. If you need more use brackets instead. Example cheerleader (instrumental)
Cover songs, if a cover music or mashup, do not include the original artist name here. Example thriller
Capitalization use title case. Stores will reject all lowercase or mErO capitalization. Example Its The End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
No year/Dates Do not include any year info in your song title
Cover song
Cover songs are okay (A cover song is a song that you performed and recorded but the music was written by someone else example when your band plays “smooth criminal” (written by Micheal Jackson). This is totally okay. Distrokid makes it easy and legal to sell cover songs)
Sampling is probably not okay (sampling is when you use the actual recording of another artists performance for example. If you use the 1971 recording of led zeppelins “when the levee breaks” as your drum track that’s generally not allowed unless you have the permission from the original artist)
Remixes are probably not okay (A remix is not the same thing as the cover. A cover is if you played the song yourself. On the other hand. A remix requires the permission of the original artist and is totally a different thing.)
Distrokid will handle licensing and pay original artists (Distro kid will obtain the required compulsory mechanical license for you. We’ll automatically deduct the legally mandated fee of 9.1 cents per song sold in the US from your earning and pay it to the original songwriter. You’ll get 100% of the rest)
Fee (Distokid charges a fee of $1 per month paid annually, so $12 billed to your cc, to manage this cover song for you we will
Obtain license
Pay the original songwriter every month
Keep up to date on copyright laws affecting your music)