The Best Music Distribution Services
The Best Music Distribution Services in 2025
If you’re an independent artist trying to navigate the music industry without having to go through a traditional record label, finding a way to make your music accessible is essential. That’s where music distribution comes in. But with so many music distribution platforms to choose from, it might be hard to find the right one for you. Here's a list of the best music distribution services around the world to help you make the best decision for your career.
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What is music distribution?
Up until fairly recently, many artists needed a record label to get their music out there. But now, with times changing, music distribution services have opened up new possibilities for artists. Taking your music and delivering it to digital platforms like Spotify, Apple Music, TikTok, and Instagram has never been easier due to the music distribution services available today. Think of music distribution as the bridge between the music you make, and the people that listen to it.
8 best music distribution companies in 2025
Because we believe in supporting independent artists no matter where they are on their journey, whether you use Amuse or not, we wanted to provide a list of the best music distribution services around the world to help you make the best decision for you and your career.
At Amuse, we believe that anyone and everyone should be able to release their music, paving the way for a new generation of artists. That's why we offer different plans with features to support you as you grow.
But we'll let you be the one to choose which company is best for you. Here's a list of some of the biggest music distribution companies in 2025.
1) Amuse
Amuse is your one-stop shop, providing easy and fast digital music distribution, tools for promoting your music and flexible funding to the self-releasing and independent artist community around the world for as little as $23.99 per year. In terms of what you get for the money, we offer some of the best value plans in the market. Amuse distributes your music to all major platforms like Spotify, Apple Music, iTunes, TikTok, Instagram, Tidal, Amazon Music, Deezer, Shazam, and YouTube. For the full list of stores available when you upload your music through Amuse, click here.
With the Artist, Artist Plus and Professional plans, you get unlimited releases, fast deliveries (using the ASAP Release option, your music can go live on Spotify in 24 hours or less of upload to Amuse) , royalty advances, 24-hour support, and so much more. With our mobile apps, you can upload your tracks, artwork, release info and credits in just a few minutes, all from the palm of your hand, giving you more time for what matters most… music!
Once your release is live, you can keep track of your streams and downloads, and get deep audience insights through the app's advanced analytics features. As soon as the music stores pay out your royalties, you can withdraw your money directly from the app.
The best part? You keep 100% of your rights and royalties!
2) Distrokid
Distrokid is a music distribution service that gets your tracks onto all the major music stores and streaming platforms. Users pay a yearly fee of $24.99 to upload unlimited albums and songs and artists always keep 100% of their rights and royalties.
3) CD Baby
CD Baby distributes your music to 150+ streaming and download services around the world for a fee of $9.99 per single, $49 per album and 15% of your royalties. CD Baby also gives you access to key demographic and geographic data when you distribute your music using their service.
4) Tunecore
For a flat fee of $19.99 per single or $34.99 per album, Tunecore distributes your music to over 150 digital stores and streaming platforms. TuneCore artists keep 100% of the profits they earn from sales, downloads, and streaming revenue.
5) Ditto
With unlimited releases starting from around $25 USD per year, Ditto distributes your music to over 200 stores, including all the major streaming platforms like Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, and more. Ditto has three distribution packages available for music makers at every stage of their career - Artist, Professional, and Label. Ditto lets you keep 100% of your rights and royalties, has 24/7 artist support, and lets you track sales and trending data with daily analytics reports.
6) Record Union
Record Union is a distribution platform that lets you register a free account and then charges you for every release. There are three distribution packages available depending on the number of stores you want your track delivered to, with single releases priced from $14. Record Union artists are charged per year for every music store or streaming platform they want their track added to and take 15% of all artist royalties.
7) AWAL
AWAL is a distro service that delivers your music to all the key stores and streaming platforms in over 200 territories worldwide. AWAL is free to join, but they take a minimum 15% share of all your streaming and download profits once your track is released. One of the major differences of AWAL is that they don’t automatically accept every artist who wants to join the platform. They believe that having a curated artist roster lets them support their artists with a higher quality of service.
8) United Masters
While UnitedMasters offers free music distribution, their paid plan starts at $59.99 per year (they deliver your tracks to 30+ stores and streaming platforms, including all the majors like Spotify and YouTube), they do take 10% of the profit from your streams and downloads. Every artist has access to an analytics dashboard which tracks your real-time data.
Ready to get started? Try out Amuse to start releasing your music.
