Releasing your music and putting it out into the world on streaming platforms like Spotify and Apple Music is an exciting time for any budding home recording enthusiast. For me, it's one of the most satisfying parts of my music creation process. Apart from releasing a song or a set of songs and being able to share my music with friends and fans, it's when I get to end that creative arc with those songs. Once I release music, it frees me from the creative pull associated with those songs allowing me to move on and start creating new music again. And thus, an exciting new creative cycle begins.

But when you're new to releasing music, how do you choose which platform to use to distribute your music? There are a lot of distribution platforms out there offering distribution of your music to all the music streaming services, and each has its particular nuances. I was inspired to write this post after speaking with a friend who is about to start releasing music on streaming sites. He told me he was leaning toward using a platform that was charging $250 to distribute his music and would give him everything he needed to do so. WTF? $250 to disperse his music to streaming sites. I nearly had a heart attack of catastrophic proportions when he told me this.

There are plenty of cheaper options, but I argue, why would you pay for distribution at all when you are commencing your journey of releasing music? If you don't yet have a fan base that will supply you with enough streams to generate the revenue needed to pay for distribution, perhaps starting out with a free platform is the way to go.

Bobby Manila Audio

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