Amuse Price Hike & Distrokid Distributes Videos to Spotify

Amuse Price Changes 

Amuse has updated its pricing and tiers, renaming its plans and introducing a new feature. The Boost and Pro plans are a thing of the past. Introducing Artist, Artist Plus, and Professional. What was the Boost plan became the Artist plan with an increased price, going from $19.99 annually to $23.99. Nothing changes but the name. You get the same features for $4 extra. The new Artist Plus plan - $39.99 - is the Pro plan minus Team Members and Custom Label names. The Professional plan, formerly Pro, stays the same. 

What also hasn’t changed are the core reasons why Amuse isn’t a Top Pick of Payusnomind: missing stores and poor royalty reports - read our full Amuse distribution review. 

They have made some additions and cleared a few muddy things up. Amuse now distributes Hi-Res audio formats, but only if you’re on the Artist Plus or Professional plans. This is included with Landr’s distribution, but both Tunecore - see our Tunecore Review - and Distrokid - see our Distrokid Review - charge additional fees to handle advanced formats. Amuse has now also made it clear how many artists can release music across their various plans: Artist - 1, Artist Plus - 2, Professional - 3, but with the ability to pay more per artist added - a little over $1 per artist. 

Music Videos on Spotify through Distrokid? 

Distrokid’s video distribution platform now distributes to Spotify in a pilot program where the top DSP is testing the addition of music videos. Here are the details: 

• Spotify does not accept Lyric videos

• Your video must match a song already live on Spotify

• During the beta, it can take a little while for videos to be accepted and go live

Distrokid’s music video service, Distrovid, has an annual fee of $99 for unlimited music video distribution. It is the only service dedicated to music video distribution with this type of offer. There are a few distributors that offer music video distribution, but they charge per video and take hefty revenue shares, up to 50% of revenue. Distrokid allows rights holders to keep 100% of revenue from the videos they distribute. 

Note 

We have a few changes we’re going to make to our coverage here at Payusnomind. Our focus will shift to more coverage of finance and industry as it relates to music. Things you can expect to see added are music business opportunities, start-up analysis, funding opportunities, investing in music through catalog acquisition, venture capital, and more.