Frequently asked questions

You must be 18 years of age or older to sign up for Unbound Music, per our Distribution Agreement. If you're younger than that, please have an adult sign up on your behalf.

Nope! With a Unbound Music account, you can distribute unlimited releases for free. Oh, and enjoy fast, next-day distribution speeds.

You do! Unbound Music does not take any ownership or intellectual property rights from artists. You keep 100% ownership.

Unbound Music distributes your content to more than 30 service providers across the globe and the list is constantly expanding. Some of our most notable stores are Amazon, Apple Music, Deezer, iTunes, Spotify, YouTube, and Beatport. Here's the list: • ADAPTR • AMAZON • ANGHAMI • APPLE MUSIC • AUDIBLE MAGIC (LICENSING) • AUDIOMACK • AWA • BEATPORT • BOOMPLAY • DEEZER • FACEBOOK AUDIO LIBRARY • FACEBOOK RIGHTS MANAGERFLO • IHEARTRADIO • IMUSICA • ITUNES • JAXSTA • JIOSAAVN • JOOX • KKBOX • KUAISHOU • LICKD • MIXCLOUD • MUSICTIME • NAPSTER / RHAPSODY • NETEASE • NUUDAY • PANDORA • PELOTON • PRETZEL • RESSO • ROXI • SHAZAM • SNAP • SOUNDCLOUD • SOUNDTRACK YOUR BRAND • SPOTIFY • TENCENT • TIDAL • TIKTOK • TREBEL • TRILLER • YOUTUBE CONTENT ID • YOUTUBE MUSIC

The turnaround time can vary from store to store. We recommend submitting your album at least 2 weeks prior to your intended release date. This gives enough time for us to ingest and deliver your tracks, and for the services to also ingest, index and display them on their own sites. We will advise you from your catalogue page if your release has been delivered to stores, but this does not mean the store itself has been able to get the tracks live on their site (which is out of our control).

Yes! Your release will be sent to TikTok automatically when you distribute through Unbound Music.

Unbound Music is non-exclusive. If you'd like to distribute some (or all) of your works with a different company in addition to, or instead of, Unbound Music-you're welcome to do that. Betcha won’t want to though, with all the perks of being a part of the Unbound Music! :D

When modifying any of the following aspects of your release, you can: do so directly yourself without help from our support team. Here is what you can change/update: Release cover image and title (as long as the image text matches the associated metadata – and vice versa – for the release)Language localization for artist names, submissions, and original/public domain tracks, Additional artist names & roles Track title and additional artist names & roles Genre Publishing information Explicit lyrics Distribution territories Changes that require a take down of your release: Here are the items you cannot change without taking down your release. Note that this is true even if your release isn't live yet. Track order Track count UPCs / ISRCs Audio changes that do not correct an audio error and/or significantly change the track length For Apple/iTunes only: The release catalog ID The track catalog ID Any other changes not included in the permitted items you can change/update in the list above

Your single or album will go through several stages of processing before it is delivered to online music stores. PENDING means we've received your order and are checking the release data before we ingest it on our delivery platform. Approved means the product is in our delivery platform and is in the process of being delivered to music stores. DELIVERED means your product has actually been delivered to stores (note some stores can take at least 5 days to push content live after delivery). Please note you cannot make edits to your product after the PENDING stage once you have submitted your release to us. If you need to make edits (eg. change release date), please contact us using the form at the bottom of your dashboard and we can make the changes from our side.

Is your song appearing on all other platforms/stores, but not Apple Music? Apple Music/iTunes are one of the strictest platforms when it comes to properly uploading a release to them - if you do anything wrong, they will reject your release. To prevent this from happening, please ensure you're following these guidelines: Your release image has no text, or the text is minimal, small, and exactly matches your release name or artist name. Your release name, track name, and other field forms (except artist name) follow PROPER capitalization of the first letter of each word(Like This For Example). If your track is an instrumental and you select 'Instrumental - NO VOCALS' in the 'Vocals' field, it must have absolutely no vocals at all (not even a half-second sample).The language you select in the 'Vocals' field must exactly match the language of the vocals on your song. Apple Music/iTunes are the most strict about the guidelines above, so if you follow them well you should not have any more issues going forward :)