Questions on using DistroKid for uploading my friend's music for sale

[Robert Bone]

Hey guys - I am trying to help a friend of mine navigate the DistroKid process. He has an account, and is ready to upload his music. When we go to the Upload Music page, there are a number of Services listed, all of which are pre-checked (Spotify, Amazon, Pandora, etc...). My hunch is that for Distrokid to send all of these Services his uploaded songs and ISRC codes, that my friend would need to have previously set up accounts for each of the services he wants DistroKid to send his music to. We tried looking through the DistroKid FAQ's and came up empty on this.

Can someone please explain this a little, so we do the Upload Music process properly? For example, my friend has a Spotify free account, to listen to music. Does he need to do anything different on Spotify for DistroKid to properly send his personal music to Spotify? Same question for the other Services - does my friend need to set up a business/vendor type of account for Amazon, of any of the other Services? THANKS! 

[Old Joad]

How To Upload Your Music On Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube (DistroKid Tutorial)

How to Upload Music on DistroKid Tutorial (2023 UPDATE)

 

Edited August 26, 2023 by Old Joad

[mark skinner]

 Robert , It will be helpful later for your friend to set up a "Spotify Artist" account (free). From that he can monitor streams , downloads etc..  Normally takes a few months for the data to be collected and available for viewing.    ms 

[John Vere]

This is a timely post for me but I have my own questions so I best start a new thread as to not hijack 

But thanks for the video links.