The Featured Artists Coalition published its Kitemark for music distributors on 23 July 2026. Drawn up by the FAC Artist Council, it aims to set out what a distributor should offer as a bare minimum in the digital age we now…
A musician releasing music independently this year, will spend somewhere in the region £2,000 on a single release cycle. This is by the time all of the distribution fees, analytics subscriptions, PR retainer’s and the paid social advertising are taken into…
In January 2026, a story appeared on my timeline that stopped me in my tracks. DistroKid, the music distribution platform, was apparently seriously exploring a sale. The figure being quoted is, as I write this, sitting at around $2 billion, with…
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