Level Music

A new platform for independent artists, everywhere. In beta.

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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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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

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8yr ago

@itsthanh No a good product at all.. You own me $1200 of royalties and i can proove it.

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7yr ago

@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.

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7yr ago

@itsthanh @jathiere_romain @anton_waurisch me too the steahl money

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6yr ago

@itsthanh @jathiere_romain @anton_waurisch @mago_magossa what exactly happened??

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6yr ago

Product Hunt

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?

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8yr ago

Good Company Tea

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.

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8yr ago

Imp Possible

@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

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8yr ago

Good Company Tea

Maker

@kopahkah Thank you!

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8yr ago

@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

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8yr ago

Good Company Tea

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.

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8yr ago

@itsthanh Thanks for your answers! I'm really surprised that you managed to get direct deals. Congratulations! Good Luck!

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8yr ago

Good Company Tea

Maker

@microkritik thank you! Much appreciated.

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8yr ago