Damn man ! Thank you so much we’ve been looking for this solution for way too long with my friend !! So we just have to upgrade one of our license to semi-pro and then do what you did on the tutoriel ? I Hope this will work !!
This is very helpful, thank you! What if one of the two collaborating artists has Spotify and Apple Music accounts and the other does not? Will it create a new artist account for the new artist?
When uploading the music to distrokid, there should be a window that appears asking you for the second artist's spotify and apple music details. Within this window there should be an option to select that they do not have these details yet (as they don't have a profile on these platforms) and when this is selected Spotify and Apple music will create accounts for that artist automatically.
nice thanks, this video only confirmed my suspicion thata you have to use up another artist slot for that, a bit uncool.. oh and thanks for the extra info about the URI and stuff
Yeah it’s quite annoying, I think they could of done it a better way, something like there being an extra tier between ‘musician plus’ and ‘label’ that would give you multiple collab slots instead of just more artists
Hello! Tha R.E.C, thanks for this very much helping video. I have some questions I need to ask about this. I'm getting the Musician Plus plan for the release dates and the 2 artists. I'm making an album with my friends. He is featured in every song, which means he will be a primary artist so all my slots will be gone, but in some songs, we will have a third person, Will I put him as a featured Artist? One more thing, if the third person is a feature and I have no more artists slots left, how will I artist map him, Do I keep it blank? Thanks!
If you have already used up your 2 artist slots then yes. But if your only using one artist name at the moment then you can use the second one for a collaboration
@@iamtaalib yes. I know it sounds obvious but even when you copy and paste them directly, double and triple check that they’re correct because it’ll be so annoying if somehow even one number’s wrong
So, let's say I have the two artists plan and I already used both slots for different artists (let's say Johnny and Michael) - if I want a collab album between my two artists Johnny and Michael, do I need a third slot just for the collaboration?
Yes, unfortunately. I imagine that’s what most people use the ‘label’ account for. I don’t have that one but I doubt most people who do actually have 100 artists and just use the extra slots to have the freedom to be able to make another collab whenever they want.
Thank you for this! So I recently worked with an artist and we did a co-release using Distrokid. She is the one who released it and did the collaboration thing following the steps in this video. With me being the other artist should I be seeing the release in the “My Music” tab also?
glad you found the video helpful! The music will only appear on your Distokid profile if you two have agreed the splits. As soon as you are given even a single percentage point you'll see the tracks.
I believe if its a collab album you would put you and the other main guy in the artist name then you would put the other artists as the features. I could be wrong tho
You can add as many primary artists to a release as you want (if it is not a single). I have the problem that i released a collab single with 2 other artists. And now its not possible to upload that song on my solo album, even if I add both artists as primary artists. metadata seems not to match
nice vid! I have an issue though... I am trying to release a collab and the other person has a Spotify Artist URI, a UA-cam Artist URL, but he does not have an Apple Artist URL. Apparently its required to fill out all three artist profiles otherwise I cant fill out any at all.
Thanks for watching and sorry for the late reply; there should be a category near the start of the page where you can select if they already have a profile or not and if you select ‘no’ it makes one automatically… at least that’s what appears on my distrokid
thank you very much for this video, answered a lot of my questions. I have one more that I would like to ask, I'm co-releasing an album and the context is, the artist I'm releasing the album with already has a profile on all the stores having uploaded music prior to this album release, I don't have an account because it is my first release ever with distrokid on any store, now the album isn't showing up on his "upcoming" section on spotify for artists and we fear something will go wrong with the release, is there a way I can make sure that everything is gonna go as planned? I would love to access my profile before it gets created by the release.
It should work absolutely fine even if you haven't had an account before, however, I don't think there's a way to access your profile on Spotify before the album is released. Something might appear on iTunes if you've allowed the release to be pre-ordered but I'm not 100% sure. As for seeing the release on the 'upcoming' section, this doesn't appear immediately. Obviously, I don't know how long you've been waiting for, but the last time I released something, I think it took around 10 days to appear.
Does anyone have experience with uploading a collab single (artist name: artist1 & artist2) and afterwards trying to add it to an album (artist name: artist1). I´m experiencing big metadata issues with that atm. It is possible to add primary artists to each song of a album, but it is not possible to add primary artists to a single for collaboration. That messes up the meta data i guess. Any ideas how to fix?
one question. if i need to add a different collabs on each song. so basicly song 1 has "me" and "person A". song 2 has only "Me" and song 3 "me" and "persoon B". how can i do that without having "me" , "persoon A" and "persoon B" on every song of the album. as collab not feat
Great video! I’m still stumped on one thing. I’m releasing a collab album with someone else, but one of our songs has a guest artist, and we want their name to appear in the artist field, just for that one song. Is that possible? It seems like you did it for yours. Thanks so much!
If you want to add a guest/feature artist, in the title of the song put ‘feat. [artists name]’ and then at the bottom of the page you can paste in a link to their account so that it all connects up
I’m pretty sure that’s possible (but never tried it) because at the bottom of the upload page you have to put their Spotify account URL’s so it should link everything up alright… you might have a bit of a problem if your doing the splits though because I think both have to be on distrokid if you’re doing that.
Thanks bro for you‘re video🙏🏼 I‘m gonna release a collabo album with my bro (we should be both primary artist) but we both haven‘t released anything yet… I‘m on distrokid, my bro is on tunecore. If i make the release ready on my distrokid acc like you told me, will spotify, apple music etc create artist accounts for both of us?😅 My english is not the greatest tbh, hope you get me :D
Thanks for watching the video, I’m glad it helped! Yes, I’m pretty sure that will work, just make sure that you double check all of the names and details you put in because after you release it they’re quite hard to change.
Thanks mate🙏🏼 Just one more small question😅 i‘ve got the musican plus version of Distrokid and right now I‘m alone on my account. I think my buddie could use the second artist slot in my distrokid acc, right? :D So then we‘re both releasing our first project with distrokid (we just have to tell distrokid at the step „artist mapping“ that we dont have accounts yet) and then anything should work better than with two diffrent distibutors😅 Distrokid hopefully should create two new spotify accounts for us Have a nice day🙏🏼
@@mascyy I’m not sure it works like that because you need the second artist slot free to make the double act. Your friend may have to sign up to distrokidon the most basic plan to get himself an artist slot and then you can follow the steps to collaborate. If anything goes massively wrong I’m sure you can just send if an email to the distrokid customer service, they’re usually quite good at resolving stuff and are generally helpful.
I don’t think you’ll be able to do that unfortunately. What you can do is exclude the other person from the writers credits and splits so that only you get the money.
Hey man wassup, do you know how to make one of the tracks of the collab album only have 1 artist name especially if that song only has one artist on it?
I don't think you can do it that easily on Distrokid, but I'm not totally sure as I haven't tried something like that myself. The only way I can think of how to do this is to NOT upload the album as a collaboration but upload it normally and state on every track, apart from the only one you want to leave out, that your second artist is a 'main artist'. You have to go through and do this on every single track though, there is no blanket setting as this would put your second artist on the unwanted track as well. Don't worry if this doesn't work on the first try; even if the album is released you can open it in Distrokid and select 'Edit Release. This will allow you do all the steps I've said above. The only downsides I can think of by doing it this way is: 1) It takes time and you must meticulously check the details you're putting in. Even I get quite confused sometimes when I'm uploading 15 songs and I'm trying to keep track of these details on a webpage that seems that it scrolls down for miles! 2) On iTunes, it may recognize this as a compliation not an album. Although iTunes is the only platform that does this, it still annoys me and when i saw this happen to something I uploaded, I ended up removing the credits that caused this to happen. Hope some of that helps, if you've got any more questions then just let me know!
I'm actually about to upload a giant album I've been working for months that involves 22 artists (kind of crazy XD) and what I've found out in my research and emails with Distrokid is that you can make an album with technically as many people but the problem is there's primary artists and featured artists on the album level and the track level, so I'm gonna have 21 artists who are primary artists on the track level, but I'm gonna be the only person who is the primary artist on the album level. The only reason why this is important (to me at least) is because since the other artists aren't primary artists on the album level they won't be able to pitch any of the songs in Spotify for Artists. So how I'm gonna go around this is by uploading specific songs as singles with the same exact release date as the whole album, with the same ISRC so that they can pitch it to spotify for artists. The issue there is that you'll need to upgrade your distrokid to be able to upload songs with more primary artists. That was super long and complicated, sorry that I suck at explaining things but I hope this helps!
@@TanoshiSan yeah I understand that, it’s a bit annoying though because I think that method is more designed for compilations rather than collaborations, even though they are probably very similar in the end.
Yes, but you wouldn’t be able to do that using this method. You can add them as a feature on the song and when the track is released their profile with have an ‘appears on’ section and your song will be there
can we upload a track level single (not an album) with two primary artist??? i have a label plan and i cant find primary artist option....i have to release a song with two artist collab not a featuring
@@ThaREC bro the additional primary artist option is only coming when I'm selecting 2 or more then 2 songs....other wise for single it's only show's feature and remixer
@@nine9beats right, I haven’t looked at the website for ages so fair enough sorry about that. If that’s the case, unfortunately I have no idea how to get around that then. I think all you can do is just give the other person as much credit as possible in terms of splits, writing credits and when you advertise it
Unfortunately yes, it only works if you have the musician plus account. But if the person your uploading with has that type of account then they can do the upload and it should work.
This was the best video on this topic. Thanks!
glad it helped!
Damn man ! Thank you so much we’ve been looking for this solution for way too long with my friend !! So we just have to upgrade one of our license to semi-pro and then do what you did on the tutoriel ? I Hope this will work !!
Exactly, also that’s what’s so good about this is how only one person has to upgrade. Thanks for watching as well!
Thank you for the video !
If one artist uses cdbaby or tunecor, is it still possible to add him using "&" ? Or both artists need to be on Distrokid ?
Thank you this helped
This is very helpful, thank you! What if one of the two collaborating artists has Spotify and Apple Music accounts and the other does not? Will it create a new artist account for the new artist?
When uploading the music to distrokid, there should be a window that appears asking you for the second artist's spotify and apple music details. Within this window there should be an option to select that they do not have these details yet (as they don't have a profile on these platforms) and when this is selected Spotify and Apple music will create accounts for that artist automatically.
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Glad it was helpful
nice thanks, this video only confirmed my suspicion thata you have to use up another artist slot for that, a bit uncool..
oh and thanks for the extra info about the URI and stuff
Yeah it’s quite annoying, I think they could of done it a better way, something like there being an extra tier between ‘musician plus’ and ‘label’ that would give you multiple collab slots instead of just more artists
Great video and explanation my man apprecieate that ı needed those infos!
Glad I could help!
Hello! Tha R.E.C, thanks for this very much helping video. I have some questions I need to ask about this. I'm getting the Musician Plus plan for the release dates and the 2 artists. I'm making an album with my friends. He is featured in every song, which means he will be a primary artist so all my slots will be gone, but in some songs, we will have a third person, Will I put him as a featured Artist? One more thing, if the third person is a feature and I have no more artists slots left, how will I artist map him, Do I keep it blank? Thanks!
so even if i have a distrokid account with two artist. i have to make a compleatly new one to have us both on a compilation?
If you have already used up your 2 artist slots then yes. But if your only using one artist name at the moment then you can use the second one for a collaboration
@@ThaREC ok thank you 🙏🏾. And when I make a new one I just make sure I copy the uri numbers from
Both artist and it’ll link right?
@@iamtaalib yes. I know it sounds obvious but even when you copy and paste them directly, double and triple check that they’re correct because it’ll be so annoying if somehow even one number’s wrong
@@ThaREC hey man I appreciate it thank you.
@@ThaREC my bad another question. so do you make a new e mail every time?
So, let's say I have the two artists plan and I already used both slots for different artists (let's say Johnny and Michael) - if I want a collab album between my two artists Johnny and Michael, do I need a third slot just for the collaboration?
Yes, unfortunately. I imagine that’s what most people use the ‘label’ account for. I don’t have that one but I doubt most people who do actually have 100 artists and just use the extra slots to have the freedom to be able to make another collab whenever they want.
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Thank you for this! So I recently worked with an artist and we did a co-release using Distrokid. She is the one who released it and did the collaboration thing following the steps in this video. With me being the other artist should I be seeing the release in the “My Music” tab also?
glad you found the video helpful! The music will only appear on your Distokid profile if you two have agreed the splits. As soon as you are given even a single percentage point you'll see the tracks.
@@ThaREC alrighty thank you very much!
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What if an artist wants to release an album of 7 tracks each with a different collab? How many collaborations are we allowed to put in an album?
I believe if its a collab album you would put you and the other main guy in the artist name then you would put the other artists as the features. I could be wrong tho
You can add as many primary artists to a release as you want (if it is not a single). I have the problem that i released a collab single with 2 other artists. And now its not possible to upload that song on my solo album, even if I add both artists as primary artists. metadata seems not to match
nice vid! I have an issue though...
I am trying to release a collab and the other person has a Spotify Artist URI, a UA-cam Artist URL, but he does not have an Apple Artist URL. Apparently its required to fill out all three artist profiles otherwise I cant fill out any at all.
Thanks for watching and sorry for the late reply; there should be a category near the start of the page where you can select if they already have a profile or not and if you select ‘no’ it makes one automatically… at least that’s what appears on my distrokid
@@ThaREC alrighty thank you!
thank you very much for this video, answered a lot of my questions.
I have one more that I would like to ask, I'm co-releasing an album and the context is, the artist I'm releasing the album with already has a profile on all the stores having uploaded music prior to this album release, I don't have an account because it is my first release ever with distrokid on any store, now the album isn't showing up on his "upcoming" section on spotify for artists and we fear something will go wrong with the release, is there a way I can make sure that everything is gonna go as planned? I would love to access my profile before it gets created by the release.
It should work absolutely fine even if you haven't had an account before, however, I don't think there's a way to access your profile on Spotify before the album is released. Something might appear on iTunes if you've allowed the release to be pre-ordered but I'm not 100% sure.
As for seeing the release on the 'upcoming' section, this doesn't appear immediately. Obviously, I don't know how long you've been waiting for, but the last time I released something, I think it took around 10 days to appear.
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Does anyone have experience with uploading a collab single (artist name: artist1 & artist2) and afterwards trying to add it to an album (artist name: artist1). I´m experiencing big metadata issues with that atm. It is possible to add primary artists to each song of a album, but it is not possible to add primary artists to a single for collaboration. That messes up the meta data i guess. Any ideas how to fix?
Is it possible to edit an already uploaded release to switch the featured artists to collaborators?
one question. if i need to add a different collabs on each song. so basicly song 1 has "me" and "person A". song 2 has only "Me" and song 3 "me" and "persoon B". how can i do that without having "me" , "persoon A" and "persoon B" on every song of the album. as collab not feat
Great video! I’m still stumped on one thing. I’m releasing a collab album with someone else, but one of our songs has a guest artist, and we want their name to appear in the artist field, just for that one song. Is that possible? It seems like you did it for yours. Thanks so much!
If you want to add a guest/feature artist, in the title of the song put ‘feat. [artists name]’ and then at the bottom of the page you can paste in a link to their account so that it all connects up
@@ThaREC I see! But this won't make them a co-artist right? Meaning it won't actually be counted as one of their songs?
@@Vicilliar exactly, it will only make the song appear in their "appears on" list
Thanks for the tutorial🙏🏼
I have a question.
What can I do when I have a collab with a artist who uses Onerpm or an other distributor?
I’m pretty sure that’s possible (but never tried it) because at the bottom of the upload page you have to put their Spotify account URL’s so it should link everything up alright… you might have a bit of a problem if your doing the splits though because I think both have to be on distrokid if you’re doing that.
@@ThaREC Okay thanks for answering so fast🙏🏼!
Thanks bro for you‘re video🙏🏼 I‘m gonna release a collabo album with my bro (we should be both primary artist) but we both haven‘t released anything yet… I‘m on distrokid, my bro is on tunecore. If i make the release ready on my distrokid acc like you told me, will spotify, apple music etc create artist accounts for both of us?😅
My english is not the greatest tbh, hope you get me :D
Thanks for watching the video, I’m glad it helped!
Yes, I’m pretty sure that will work, just make sure that you double check all of the names and details you put in because after you release it they’re quite hard to change.
Thanks mate🙏🏼
Just one more small question😅 i‘ve got the musican plus version of Distrokid and right now I‘m alone on my account. I think my buddie could use the second artist slot in my distrokid acc, right? :D
So then we‘re both releasing our first project with distrokid (we just have to tell distrokid at the step „artist mapping“ that we dont have accounts yet) and then anything should work better than with two diffrent distibutors😅
Distrokid hopefully should create two new spotify accounts for us
Have a nice day🙏🏼
@@mascyy I’m not sure it works like that because you need the second artist slot free to make the double act. Your friend may have to sign up to distrokidon the most basic plan to get himself an artist slot and then you can follow the steps to collaborate. If anything goes massively wrong I’m sure you can just send if an email to the distrokid customer service, they’re usually quite good at resolving stuff and are generally helpful.
what if you upload an album but there is a song on the album that is only by one of the artist ? And you only want to put that 1 name
I don’t think you’ll be able to do that unfortunately. What you can do is exclude the other person from the writers credits and splits so that only you get the money.
Hey man wassup, do you know how to make one of the tracks of the collab album only have 1 artist name especially if that song only has one artist on it?
I don't think you can do it that easily on Distrokid, but I'm not totally sure as I haven't tried something like that myself. The only way I can think of how to do this is to NOT upload the album as a collaboration but upload it normally and state on every track, apart from the only one you want to leave out, that your second artist is a 'main artist'.
You have to go through and do this on every single track though, there is no blanket setting as this would put your second artist on the unwanted track as well.
Don't worry if this doesn't work on the first try; even if the album is released you can open it in Distrokid and select 'Edit Release. This will allow you do all the steps I've said above.
The only downsides I can think of by doing it this way is: 1) It takes time and you must meticulously check the details you're putting in. Even I get quite confused sometimes when I'm uploading 15 songs and I'm trying to keep track of these details on a webpage that seems that it scrolls down for miles! 2) On iTunes, it may recognize this as a compliation not an album. Although iTunes is the only platform that does this, it still annoys me and when i saw this happen to something I uploaded, I ended up removing the credits that caused this to happen.
Hope some of that helps, if you've got any more questions then just let me know!
Can u do a collaborative project with 3 people? Or just 2?
Only 2 I believe, but I might be wrong. I’ve only ever seen collabs with 2 people
I'm actually about to upload a giant album I've been working for months that involves 22 artists (kind of crazy XD) and what I've found out in my research and emails with Distrokid is that you can make an album with technically as many people but the problem is there's primary artists and featured artists on the album level and the track level, so I'm gonna have 21 artists who are primary artists on the track level, but I'm gonna be the only person who is the primary artist on the album level.
The only reason why this is important (to me at least) is because since the other artists aren't primary artists on the album level they won't be able to pitch any of the songs in Spotify for Artists. So how I'm gonna go around this is by uploading specific songs as singles with the same exact release date as the whole album, with the same ISRC so that they can pitch it to spotify for artists. The issue there is that you'll need to upgrade your distrokid to be able to upload songs with more primary artists.
That was super long and complicated, sorry that I suck at explaining things but I hope this helps!
@@TanoshiSan yeah I understand that, it’s a bit annoying though because I think that method is more designed for compilations rather than collaborations, even though they are probably very similar in the end.
My former distributor is refusing to take down my songs can I redistribute my songs?
Can I corelease an individual track (where it shows on their page as well) that is part of an album. Without having the whole album on their page.
Yes, but you wouldn’t be able to do that using this method. You can add them as a feature on the song and when the track is released their profile with have an ‘appears on’ section and your song will be there
can we upload a track level single (not an album) with two primary artist??? i have a label plan and i cant find primary artist option....i have to release a song with two artist collab not a featuring
I’m pretty you can do that, just select ‘single’ when it asks you how many songs are in the project
@@ThaREC a single with two primary artist???
@@nine9beats i haven’t tried it but I’m pretty sure it’s possible
@@ThaREC bro the additional primary artist option is only coming when I'm selecting 2 or more then 2 songs....other wise for single it's only show's feature and remixer
@@nine9beats right, I haven’t looked at the website for ages so fair enough sorry about that. If that’s the case, unfortunately I have no idea how to get around that then. I think all you can do is just give the other person as much credit as possible in terms of splits, writing credits and when you advertise it
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So Does This Meant That I Cannot Upload A Collaboration Album If I Have The Plan That Covers Only One Musician?
Unfortunately yes, it only works if you have the musician plus account. But if the person your uploading with has that type of account then they can do the upload and it should work.