Can I release a song that is 15–30 minutes long? It's Romani music with long medleys. Would it be better to simply shorten the music? I feel that the authenticity would suffer if I edited these long, passionate performances into shorter tracks.
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I released a song through DistroKid on 20.02.2026. For some reason, there was no video on YouTube, so I uploaded a video of this song to my official artist channel on 17.04.2026. I have also claimed my channel through DistroKid as an Official Artist Channel.
It is a static image + audio video for a song that was missing from my YouTube artist channel.
I am concerned whether the views from this self-uploaded video are counted in my earnings.
When I checked my DistroKid stats, the streams for this song do not appear there at all. This is unfortunate, as this is my most popular song.
However, the video also appears on YouTube Music, where it shows the same number of likes, shares, and comments. The song is also available on Spotify, and everything there looks fine.
I am wondering why DistroKid did not originally release a video for this song, even though it did for other songs I released at the same time.
What could be done in this situation?