r/DistroKidHelpDesk

I have distributed my songs through DistroKid, including UGC delivery to YouTube, TikTok, Meta, etc., but without the Social Media Pack.

I've now added Symphonic only for Content ID/UGC monetization, which means the tracks are once again delivered to those platforms, creating duplicates.

Could these duplicate deliveries cause any problems if only Symphonic is handling the UGC claims?

The only downside I've noticed so far is that it looks messy, but DistroKid doesn't let me remove the UGC deliveries without reuploading the releases.

I am trying to upload a single for my band peace to spotify and youtube music. I've paid for the stupid premium plan and tried uploading it twice, but it still refuses to send my music to the platforms, and has said that it is being sent to stores today for the last 3 weeks. Seriously, screw distrokid, I don't know what is wrong.

My musician credits for vocals aren’t displaying correctly in streaming services. The only options for vocals under Musician credits are “Singing & vocals,” “Background vocals” and “Vocal accompaniment.”

I choose “Singing & vocals” since it makes the most sense but it doesn’t show at all in Apple Music and on Spotify it shows as “studio personnel.” The other ones display as you’d expect, but nothing shows as just “Vocal” or “Vocals.” Does anyone else have this issue?

Can someone help school me on the method behind uploading an album to Distrokid, but setting individual release dates for certain songs that will be released as singles before the album release date?

I’m really looking for having the album uploaded and having songs grayed out until their release date, but still have the entirety of the album details contained within the single album entry on any given streaming service.

I struggled with this during my previous album rollout and had to upload singles as their own release, then later take the ISRC code and paste it into the album entry, then delete the single entry afterwards. I absolutely loathe this look and want to do it right this time.

Any and all help is appreciated!

Has anyone else using DistroKid had this problem recently?

For more than a year, my new releases on YouTube Music were usually connected to the correct Official Artist Channel within one or two hours.

For about the last month, several new releases have stayed permanently on the generic “Release Topic” channel.

The releases are visible under the Releases section of the correct Official Artist Channel, but when you open the Art Track, it still shows “Release Topic”.

Because of this:

People cannot comment on the tracks.
People do not properly reach or subscribe to the artist channel.
The releases seem to get dramatically less reach.

Normally some of my releases get around 10,000 to 100,000 views within the first few days. The affected releases are only getting around 1,000 to 3,000 views.

DistroKid says the tracks can remain on Release Topic for days or even weeks and recommends using the Fixer. YouTube Support, however, told me that the distributor has the tools and direct communication with YouTube's specialized music team to resolve Art Track mapping problems.

Has anyone else noticed this during the last month?

If yes, how long did your releases stay on “Release Topic”, and did they eventually move automatically to your proper artist channel?

Hey Fellow Creators! I uploaded music to DistroKid today and set the release date three weeks into the future.

I want to have these songs be part of a yet-to-be-created playlist on Apple Music and Spotify.

Is this something I setup in DistroKid or is this something I have to setup on each streaming site with a unique login?

I was sent URL's in the DistroKid Support Chat with instructions for "pitching". I don't know what that is and I just want to have my music in a Playlist that I can share with folks. Order is important in this case.

Thanks for the help!

I’m releasing music for the first time and have been left out in the cold by Distrokid’s non-existent customer support. I submitted a single almost three weeks ago with a release date of tomorrow (August 7), but there is still no Spotify Artist page detected. I did manage to get one email response from Distrokid, over a week ago, giving me a URI and Artist link, but Spotify is saying they are invalid.

Do I need to push my release date out? Or is it possible my Artist page will magically appear on the release date?