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thanh nguyen

Level Music - A new platform for independent artists, everywhere. In beta.

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A simple and easy way for artists to release their music on major music services without any upfront charges, contracts or distribution fees while retaining 100% of their rights and royalties.

https://beta.levelmusic.com

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thanh nguyen
Maker
Hi PH community! We are excited to share with you an early beta release of Level, a new global distribution platform for independent musicians. Our team spent countless hours speaking to musicians from all over the world to understand their challenges and needs as they pursue their creative vision and build a career. It’s been an amazing experience and beyond rewarding hearing the feedback from some of tomorrow’s brightest creators. We understand there are a lot of great products out there to support artists’ needs around music distribution, but we also know there is a lot of room for improvement. While we may not have all the answers now, we’re focused on building the right product brick by brick alongside the music community. Today's release is focused on providing a simple and frictionless way for artists to get their music out to all of the major music services while getting essential performance analytics, a dedicated support team and an easy way to get paid for their work via PayPal. And by frictionless, we mean making it free during this beta phase and plan on having a free version. That means no fees, surcharges, and artists keep 100% of their royalties. We believe in creating valuable features and products that the community will be proud to pay for in the future. In tandem with this release, we’re also launching a community program called Open Sessions (https://levelopensessions.com) down at SXSW allowing for registered users to book free studio time during music week. Space will be limited but our intention is to roll out this program in future cities and communities. The beta (https://beta.levelmusic.com) is currently available via invite only but for everyone here you can use this invite code: TEAMLEVEL2018 to gain access. We'd love your feedback and are looking forward to hearing what you create! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- V.1 Release: + A simple and fast way to release music to Apple Music, iTunes, Spotify, Amazon Music, Google Play, Deezer, TIDAL, Pandora and Napster. More services will be added in the future + No upfront charges or fees. Keep 100% of your rights, royalties, and earnings + Automatic notifications about the progress of your releases and help from our dedicated Support team + Track your performance with simple trend analytics + Get paid easily through PayPal + Intelligent landing pages that route fans to their preferred music service
Anton Waurisch
@itsthanh @jathiere_romain They owe me money, too, and they're trying to keep it. But I won't let them get away with it.
Ryan Hoover
Congrats on the launch, @itsthanh and team. I'm admittedly not familiar with this space. How are artists distributing their music across all platforms today?
thanh nguyen
Maker
@rrhoover thanks man! There's definitely already some solid options in this space for artists to purely distribute their music but distribution is really just the foundation. The goal is to build a larger suite of tools for artists not just to get their music out there but also be able to effectively promote it, manage their finances and understand their audiences so they can build their own version of success. We're seeing a lot of these things pop up as one-offs but it'd be valuable if they can get it all in one place where everything holistically ties together. For example, we're providing automated landing pages for every release; that artists can use to promote their music. The goal is to have the tools and features scale in tandem with their career.
J.D. Lindsay
@itsthanh Love what you're trying to do. The biggest difficulty for startups is in this space is that most musicians are not "rolling in it", and careful where they spend their money. 😜 Taking the free angle will at least tell you how many people are interested. I'm switching from Landr right now as paying hundreds of dollars a year to keep my Spotify releases active is a real pain
Simon Kwan

it's free!

Pros:

slick interface, easy to use

Cons:

none atm, will report back

David Davidson

They don't pay my money and don't answer questions for a long time now

Pros:

100% royalties

Cons:

- No support response - My money has disappeared - I have many problems with Level - Others are better - Level is not competitive

Toni Hansano
@new_user_3464742981 what exactly happened?
David Method Tran

Just checked out Level and I'm loving it.

Pros:

Best platform I've used so far

Cons:

none

Toni Hansano
@mago_magossa in what way exactly are they bad??
Jeff Osborn
Looks amazing. Can't wait to try it out and learn more. Great work!
thanh nguyen
Maker
@jeff_osborn Thanks man, would love your feedback. Ton of work left to do!
Jeff Osborn
@itsthanh This is exceptional. From the ease of use to the summary sections, it's clear you and your team thought a lot about the artists who would be using levels. I'm not an artist so I won't be able to experiment with the most important parts of the product, but I've shared the beta with a band I'm close with so they can give it a spin. I'm really excited to see where this goes!
thanh nguyen
Maker
@jeff_osborn much appreciated and yes spread the love!
George M. Bloch
@jeff_osborn @itsthanh Signed up with code. DOB field required, no direct input MM/DD/YYYY , selected wrong, continue = account blocked. I guess I stay with my current distributors.
thanh nguyen
Maker
@george_m_bloch sorry to hear you ran into an issue. We can reset your account if you want to reach out at support@levelmusic.com thanks.
Sam Zwart
Holy cow, this is amazing! I'm excited to see where this platform goes, but as an independent musician, I'm definitely going to try this.
thanh nguyen
Maker
@gonovavfx glad you're digging it Sam. Thank you.
Konstantin Singer
@itsthanh First, congrats on the launch!! Looks like a great product. I worked for one of the biggest digital distribution services worldwide, that's why I have some specific questions. 1. Do you have direct deals with streaming services (spotify, itunes...)? As I know there is no digital distribution service in Europe that can offer 100 % and it is very hard to get new deals with spotify and co. If not every release will make you loose money. 2. What's the business model? Are you planning to sign artists directly and offer them extra services (promotion, physical products) 3. Is the player with all stores integrated or is it linkfire? Looks exactly the same. Best Konstantin
thanh nguyen
Maker
@microkritik thanks Konstantin. Great questions, happy to answer them: 1. We’re doing direct deals, hence why we’re only delivering to 8 (major services) at the moment. 2. We’re still figuring that out and as stated our intention is to build valuable features and tools on top of core distro as a premium offering. One can argue for either an upfront paid model or a smaller % based model and we intend to find the right fit for our community and audience. For now we want to use this long beta period as a learning and build from the bottom up vs. top down. I don’t see signing artists as part of our offering nor will we get into physical products. We will however look to do more community outreach and programs at a smaller scale. 3. Great eye, we’ve partnered with them and are utilizing their API to automate these pages for releases.
Konstantin Singer
@itsthanh Thanks for your answers! I'm really surprised that you managed to get direct deals. Congratulations! Good Luck!
thanh nguyen
Maker
@microkritik thank you! Much appreciated.
Alex Sharp
This looks super promising. Really glad to see another competitor to Tunecore, which I've had a terrible experience with.
thanh nguyen
Maker
@ajsharp thanks man. would love your feedback as we continue to build.
Infinity Music
Customer support is very slow. That is my only Con about this service. I wish they respond faster because they claim their offices are open 9 to 5, Monday-Fri but take forever to respond to you 🤦🏾‍♂️
Rowan Doutré Jones
Just signed up for the beta! So far, I'm very impressed. Excited for you future
Sam Sexton
This is the sort of thing i've been looking for. As I write an record my first EP distribution like this is going to be really important to me. Now I can focus on geting someone to listen!
thanh nguyen
Maker
@samsexton looking forward to hearing your release Sam!
Sergey Lu

User-friendly interface, many useful features

Pros:

Great free product for artists with useful handy features!

Cons:

Didn't find yet

RomainJ
bad bad bad... so long to anwser ticket (1month) . Read DM in Twitter and FB, but never anwser it... They own me more than $1200 royalties for the march period... And they unilateraly, without any discution, decided to not paying me... i have proof !
Ghost Kitty
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Anton Waurisch
You owe me over $1,000. I have the impression that they cheat and just keep the money. I really can only recommend other services. Give me my money
Anton Waurisch
Be honest with me. Do not cheat. Be not evil
Vertex Label
LEVEL MUSIC IS A THIEF AND FRAUD!!!! ITS FREE JUST TO GET IN THEN THEY SHUT YOU OUT OF YOUR ACCOUNT AND COLLECT YOUR MONEY. THEY ARE A BUNCH OF THIEVES!!!!!!
Nandi Soleil

easy to use

Pros:

great tool for artists

Cons:

none!

Jan Jauregui
Please keep updating this app. It has great potential!