 Wow what's up everybody once again is Brain Man Sean and I'm back with another video and in this one well I thought about the fact that I've talked about so many distribution services before but I never really gave my complete thoughts on tunecore I actually did an interview on tunecore if you guys remember that with somebody who works there however I never gave my particular thoughts and I was thinking as the largest of those distributors where we're talking about a billion dollar company I should at least offer a little bit more detail on a few things from my perspective that could be valuable and just also talk about my distribution service philosophy a few primary things that I look at or think about so number one is the fact that yes there are huge distributor one thing that first threw me off this back when I was first researching distributors this is years ago at this time was the fact that they only did a one time fee right there's a flat fee versus royalties that initially was just interesting and I didn't expect it but I love that about any distribution service that does that I don't believe in paying the royalty rate through your third party distributor especially if you have the option not to and there are some that take royalty fees some of these people say they're free but they're taking fees off of your music and that's cool if you actually are maybe a hobbyist and don't really want to make money off of your career you think you really don't think your music's going to blow up or anything like that that that might be cool but if you're taking your music seriously and you really think it's going to be something I would much rather pay a flat fee even if it might seem like it's more money up front just to make the bigger money on the back end so many people have probably been aware of Russ talking about how artists really have money to make in music there is money to make in music if you own it right and if you're not cutting giving somebody a cut on every corner and he always cites tunecore because that's what he's been using all these years and says you can make millions on tunecore but back to that same philosophy of the fact that once again look why are you giving this person 15% royalty per song when they're just getting it on these platforms so that when we look at distributors when we look at you know you have the the the general distributor distribution names you're used to and then you have the hybrids where it's like you know they they say that they're like a and r's record labels you know those companies as well i've done the the video on the a walls and the the united masters and who am i missing who am i missing amuse right we've talked about companies like that as well but most of those are going to take some kind of cut somewhere even if it's not advertised at up front it's in the fine print i'm is definitely in a fine print i'll do a video about that later now another thing i like about them is that especially from a record label standpoint if i have a group you don't have to pay per artist name that is extremely valuable right just because if i'm running and i got multiple artists or i'm a manager but again if you're in a group with with the homies i know there's some people who have the group hybrid but they have the artist hybrid that's still something to consider right that's just that's back to the money again and i understand that money is a primary thing that most artists are thinking about as they try to rise and build up their career but again even that part is far less important than that one fact that one fact that look flat fee i'm not taking a percentage that part is extremely important to me i didn't even know i was going to stress it i'm now stressing it the more i think about it in this particular video because i know i haven't talked about this enough when it comes these distribution services if they are taking a royalty just know do not do it in my opinion particularly when there's options not to do so and last but not least when it comes to tunecore now this is kind of a random aside thing that they do special in particular is they do fan reviews they offer that service and why that's important to me is simply because so many artists have told me they have trouble getting objective feedback or they can't they want people's opinions on music and i'm only saying that because people ask me for their opinion on music all the time or i have conversations with artists that say look i can't find anybody to give me their opinion or all my friends say i'm good or i can't get their honest opinion that is something that you should probably check for a service like that for right especially when you're looking at people like me or anybody else that you think should have some kind of voice towards your music that's cool but we're probably not your demographic like there's we we can only it's not that i don't like a lot of different types of music right but at the same time i'm probably not going to be your target fan base so it's better to at least go through some objective third party things where you're just taking this information and you don't even have so much of a face to the name where you're trying to value it like that like complete objective data that comes back and reads that way versus somebody like oh i'm going to put a lot of weight in braindead shana pin because he thinks my music is dope or because he thinks my music is wack or he needs work that's the one of the reasons i don't give them heavily i might do something interesting like that um at some point but the i think the fan review thing is something that's overlooked and the fact that they have a service for it i think is cool and the data like i've seen the back end data and what that looks like and how extensive it is which is pretty dope that's something worth looking into them again so yes the fan reviews and yes you can have multiple artists and um you know names under an account especially for the record label type people without having to pay again and again and again per artist but the biggest thing all goes back to the philosophy of not paying for royalties not paying for your streams even though it's small up front it's money on the back end and this is again for something that could be done without taking that royalty we have to be able to think long-term business versus short-term when it comes back to this stuff and so many of these people that y'all might be hopping on with right or that are advertising themselves as free and easy they are free up front free to put it on the platforms but if they're still taking a royalty rate as maintenance or whatever they say like whatever language gets used it's not free right and that's the last thing i'll end with stop expecting everything to be for free there's always going to be some exchange you know at the very least it's time but but particularly when these when we talk about these companies and hosting your information or or selling in the music industry you should not expect anything to be for free especially as you become more and more of a professional you should be looking to pay for your stuff you want good deals right you want better deals but you should understand there's going to be a cost to things and for free right might not even be a certain level of quality that's a this is a whole like a side not even just talk about distribution services now but for for free right might not even be the quality of maintenance that you require and need when it comes to you running yourself professionally someone something isn't done well and you're wondering why it wasn't done correctly well you you asked for it to be done for free versus making sure that someone was incentivized to actually deliver the quality that you require right so keep that in mind and yes i talked about tunecore a lot in this video they are the biggest you do hear a lot of art artists talk about them and you can check them out if you haven't heard of them for some reason in the link in the description know it's not a uh like affiliate or anything like that just tunecore.com i'll put it in the description if i remember if not you can also just type in tunecore.com so that's the end of this video and i want to make sure i think i've got all these things covered no i have one big video going a little bit deeper into some of these hybrids and some of the details that y'all miss when it comes to these and the contracts but stay tuned for that again if you liked this video hit go ahead and like button if you like it you might as well share it and if you're not subscribed you know what to do hit that subscribe button