Last week, Spotify introduced it might introduce a new program for chosen acts in its Spotify For Artists program that will enable impartial artists who personal their very own copyrights to straight add their music to the streaming service, bypassing conventional digital distribution corporations.
Now, Ditto Music — a U.Okay.-based digital distributor that companies music on behalf of 150,000-plus artists worldwide — introduced a brand new software that it says is in response to Spotify’s announcement. The software, Ditto Plus, successfully wraps up all of Ditto’s label-support and distribution choices — public relations, social media assist, artistic design, digital advertising and marketing, radio promotion and playlist pitching — into one providing, which the corporate says shall be akin to major-label assist.
“It’s an thrilling time for impartial music and its by no means been extra essential for artists to have the fitting workforce backing them,” Ditto CEO Lee Parsons stated in a press release. “Ditto pleasure ourselves in having one of the vital profitable observe information within the enterprise for rising expertise. With 19 international places of work, we’re opening up these instruments to much more artists and our wonderful workforce are right here to work with them, no matter stage they’re of their profession.”
Ditto additionally says that its Plus offers will give artists a greater, “fairer” royalty fee, with no upfront price. (Spotify’s provide for direct uploads can be free for its Spotify For Artists shoppers, with a better royalty fee.) Ditto will preserve 20 % and hand artists 80 % of the label royalty in these instances.
Ditto says that its new providing shall be open to artists, managers and impartial labels.
