LANDR Distribution

Get your music on Spotify, Apple, YouTube & 150+ platforms in as little as 2 days.
Keep 100% of your earnings, get paid monthly

Sell your music independently without giving up any control of your release.

Split royalties automatically
Make sure every collaborator on your project gets their fair share with royalty splits, the easy way to maintain control of your money flow. You focus on creating music, we'll take care of the rest.


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Track your progress with release performance & earnings reports. Learn which stores and platforms get you the most plays and find out where your fans are and how they listen.


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Manage your releases from anywhere
Get real time insights on your music performance, distribute and manage your releases all from your phone to ensure you're always on top of your music career.

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Pay a one time $15 fee and we'll take care of all the paperwork for you. Unlike our competitors there are no recurring costs.

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Real people. Real helpful. Our Artist Success Team ensures you have what you need, whenever you need it.

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LANDR is probably the best music distribution company out there, especially in terms of customer support… I’ll probably be recommending LANDR to every artist that comes through my studio for the rest of my career.

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Get your music on Spotify, Apple Music, TikTok, YouTube, Tidal, Tencent and more.
Keep 100% ownership of your music and stay in control of your career. Unlimited Releases starting at $22.99/year.

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BMI was founded in 1939 by forward-thinkers who wanted to represent songwriters in emerging genres, like jazz, blues and country, and protect the public performances of their music. BMI is currently the largest music performing rights organization in the U.S. and continues to nurture new talent and new music.

BMI is the bridge between songwriters and the businesses and organizations that want to play their music publicly. As a global leader in music rights management, BMI serves as an advocate for the value of music, representing over 22.4 million musical works created and owned by more than 1.4 million songwriters, composers and music publishers.

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ASCAP is a performing rights organization of more than 1.1 million songwriters, composers and music publishers. We are the only PRO in the US that operates on a not-for-profit basis, and the only one that puts creators first.

ASCAP is the only performing rights organization in the US founded and governed by songwriters, composers and music publishers. Our Board of Directors is made up entirely of writers and publishers elected from and by the membership every two years. Writer members elect 12 writers to sit on the Board, and publisher members elect 12 publishers, ensuring that every decision the Board makes is in the interest of ASCAP members as a whole. This Board elects a President and Chairman, who must be a writer member.

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Bandcamp bans purely AI-generated music from its platform
Indie music store says it wants fans to have confidence music was largely made by humans.
Benj Edwards – Jan 14, 2026 9:46 AM



On Tuesday, Bandcamp announced on Reddit that it will no longer permit AI-generated music on its platform. “Music and audio that is generated wholly or in substantial part by AI is not permitted on Bandcamp,” the company wrote in a post to the r/bandcamp subreddit. The new policy also prohibits “any use of AI tools to impersonate other artists or styles.”

The policy draws a line that some in the music community have debated: Where does tool use end and full automation begin? AI models are not artists in themselves, since they lack personhood and creative intent. But people do use AI tools to make music, and the spectrum runs from using AI for minor assistance (cleaning up audio, suggesting chord progressions) to typing a prompt and letting a model generate an entire track. Bandcamp’s policy targets the latter end of that spectrum while leaving room for human artists who incorporate AI tools into a larger creative process.

The announcement emphasized the platform’s desire to protect its community of human artists. “The fact that Bandcamp is home to such a vibrant community of real people making incredible music is something we want to protect and maintain,” the company wrote. Bandcamp asked users to flag suspected AI-generated content through its reporting tools, and the company said it reserves “the right to remove any music on suspicion of being AI generated.”

As generative AI tools make it trivial to produce unlimited quantities of music, art, and text, this author once argued that platforms may need to actively preserve spaces for human expression rather than let them drown in machine-generated output. Bandcamp’s decision seems to move in that direction, but it also leaves room for platforms like Suno, which primarily host AI-generated music.

Two platforms, two approaches, one flood
The policy contrasts with Spotify, which explicitly permits AI-generated music, although its users have expressed frustration with an influx of AI-generated tracks created by tools like Suno and Udio. Some of those AI music issues predate the latest tools, however. In 2023, Spotify removed tens of thousands of AI-generated songs from distributor Boomy after discovering evidence of artificial streaming fraud, but the flood just kept coming.

Last September, Spotify revealed that it had removed 75 million spam tracks over the previous year. It’s a figure that rivals the scale of Spotify’s actual catalog of 100 million tracks. Country music has also been particularly affected by AI music synthesis on Spotify, with AI-generated tracks sometimes topping genre charts above fully human tracks in December 2025.

In a newsroom post from last year, Spotify wrote that it envisioned “a future where artists and producers are in control of how or if they incorporate AI into their creative processes” and that the company wants to leave “those creative decisions to artists themselves.” Spotify focuses its enforcement on impersonation, spam, and deception rather than banning AI-generated content outright.

In some ways, the stark contrast between Bandcamp and Spotify reflects their different business models. Bandcamp operates as a direct marketplace where artists sell music and merchandise to fans, taking a cut of each sale. Spotify pays artists per stream, creating incentives for bad actors to flood the platform with cheap AI content and game the algorithm.

Bandcamp acknowledged the policy may evolve. “We will be sure to communicate any updates to the policy as the rapidly changing generative AI space develops,” the company wrote. The announcement also noted that the company had received feedback about this issue previously, writing, “Given the response around this to our previous posts, we hope this news is welcomed.”

Enforcement remains a question. Detecting AI-generated music is not straightforward, since today’s products of AI synthesis realistically imitate voices and even acoustic instruments. Bandcamp did not specify what tools or methods it would use to identify AI content, only that its team would review flagged submissions. In a world where seemingly unlimited quantities of music can now be created at the push of a button, that’s no minor task.

Keeping Bandcamp Human
Posted by Bandcamp January 13, 2026



Keeping Bandcamp Human
Bandcamp’s mission is to help spread the healing power of music by building a community where artists thrive through the direct support of their fans. We believe that the human connection found through music is a vital part of our society and culture, and that music is much more than a product to be consumed. It’s the result of a human cultural dialog stretching back before the written word.

Similarly, musicians are more than mere producers of sound. They are vital members of our communities, our culture, and our social fabric. Bandcamp was built to directly connect artists and their fans, and to make it easy for fans to support artists equitably so that they can keep making music.


Today we are fortifying our mission by articulating our policy on generative AI, so that musicians can keep making music, and so that fans have confidence that the music they find on Bandcamp was created by humans.

Our guidelines for generative AI in music and audio are as follows:

Music and audio that is generated wholly or in substantial part by AI is not permitted on Bandcamp.
Any use of AI tools to impersonate other artists or styles is strictly prohibited in accordance with our existing policies prohibiting impersonation and intellectual property infringement.
If you encounter music or audio that appears to be made entirely or with heavy reliance on generative AI, please use our reporting tools to flag the content for review by our team. We reserve the right to remove any music on suspicion of being AI-generated.

With this policy, we’re putting human creativity first, and we will be sure to communicate any updates to the policy as the rapidly changing generative AI space develops.

Thank you.


https://blog.bandcamp.com/2026/01/13/kee...amp-human/

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elasticStage is the world’s first on-demand vinyl and CD platform for music creators, including independent artists, labels, managers, and rights-holders. We allow our creators to create, sell, and ship custom vinyl records and CDs globally, with no costs, no inventory risk, and no minimum orders.

Instead of pressing hundreds of records in advance, elasticStage uses a made-to-order model: each vinyl or CD is only manufactured when a fan orders it. This means creators can sell their full catalogue physically without ever selling out.  Think of it as streaming, but physical.

Upload a single, EP, or full album on Vinyl or CD
elasticStage generate your own web store for you to sell directly to fans
Sell custom vinyl & CDs on-demand, to fans in 90+ countries
Buy your own copies (order 1 or in boxes or 20-50) 
Manufactures in weeks not months
Earn royalties on every sale, without spending a penny upfront
React fast to viral moments, tour dates, anniversaries, or limited drops
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Based in London, all products are made to order in-house. You can read more about our materials and how we make a Vinyl here. Our vinyl is trusted by legends like Boy George, Don Diablo, and Nelly Furtado, as well as GRAMMY-winning producers like Paul Epworth and Dan Grech-Marguerat.

The name elasticStage reflects our mission: to stretch the limits of physical music and make custom vinyl and CD creation accessible to all.

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Real artists release physical albumsYou didn’t make music just for streams. Putting your album on CD and vinyl makes it a lasting work of art — proof that your artistry is for real, your story matters, and your sound deserves to be remembered — forever.

We make every form of physical media! Transform your art into a one-of-a-kind experience.

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Fans love supporting artists by buying CDs & vinyl
Buy CDs for $2 each & sell for $15 each (85% profit)
Selling 1 CD = more profit than ~3,000 streams
Combine CDs & vinyl with streaming for maximum revenue
Physical media delivers superior sound & amazing graphics
CDs & vinyl are an essential revenue driver for indie artists
CD & vinyl sales are growing three times faster than streaming
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We've supported more than one million indie artists, filmmakers, and creators.
You can count on us to deliver top-quality media that makes a lasting impact.

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KISS legend Gene Simmons crashes into parked car after experiencing medical emergency on PCH
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Thursday, October 9, 2025

MALIBU, Calif. (KABC) -- KISS bass guitarist and co-lead singer Gene Simmons was taken to the hospital Tuesday after experiencing a medical emergency and crashing into a parked car in Malibu, Eyewitness News has learned.

Malibu/Lost Hills deputies responded to a traffic collision involving a black Lincoln Navigator at the 25600 block of Pacific Coast Highway.

Simmons was transported to a local hospital for medical treatment, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.

Simmons later posted on X saying, "Thanks, everybody, for the kind wishes. I'm completely fine. I had a slight fender bender. It happens. Especially to those of us were horrible drivers. And that's me. All is well."