Services
What we actually do, what it costs, and what we need from you.
100%
Master ownership
100%
Distribution royalties
$100
Per-song production
6 wks
Minimum lead time
>_ the money
How We Pay For This
Artists keep 100% of their masters and 100% of their distribution royalties. That's real, and it's permanent. It also means the label makes nothing when your song gets streamed.
Here's how it works instead:
On releases we fund, we take the publisher's share — a standard 50/50 split, administered through Songtrust. If your song gets placed in a film, a show, an ad, or covered by another artist, we participate in that. If it just gets streamed, we don't.
That's the whole arrangement. We're betting on the upside of songs we believed in enough to pay for. We're not taking a cut of the floor.
The rest of the label is funded by work that isn't your record: studio time at The Spot, $100/song production for unsigned artists, and the web agency that pays our bills.
>_ production
Production
$100/song$100 per song. Full tracking, production, mixing, and mastering. Open to any musician — you don't need to be on the label.
Free if you're releasing with us. We waive production entirely on projects we put out. We invest in records we believe in.
>_ distribution
Distribution & Publishing
Distribution
Every major platform. Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, Amazon, and the rest. You keep 100% of the royalties.
Publishing
Administered through Songtrust. 50/50 artist/publisher on releases we fund. See “How We Pay For This” above.
Masters
Yours. Permanently. Not for a term, not reverting after seven years. Yours.
>_ the room
The Spot
Our studio in Omaha. Professional tracking, mixing, and mastering. Signed or not, the room is available.
>_ the schedule
The Release Standard
When we release together, this is the machine your record runs through. Every release clears the same floor — not the same budget, not the same push, the same floor. You don't need to learn it now. It's published so you can hold us to it.
8 weeks out — Lock1 step
We do
Masters final, metadata assembled
Confirm masters are final. Assemble metadata — ISRCs, UPC, credits, songwriter splits. Register the works with your PRO. Review artwork against platform specs so nothing gets rejected at delivery.
You do
Sign off that the mixes are done. Settle the splits — who wrote what, agreed in writing between you and your collaborators. It's the most common thing that derails a release, so we'll sit down with everyone involved and help get it clear before it can. It has to be settled; you don't have to settle it alone.
6 weeks out — Delivery2 steps
We do
Delivered to distribution
This is a hard deadline, not a target. Delivering late forfeits the Spotify editorial pitch window, which forfeits Release Radar placement — the closest thing to free reach that exists.
You do
Nothing. This one's on us.
We do
Spotify for Artists — editorial pitch
Submitted the same day as delivery, through your artist profile. Must be in 7+ days before release at the absolute latest. Your single biggest free lever.
You do
If your artist profiles predate us, add us to your Spotify for Artists and Apple Music for Artists teams — the pitch goes through your profile, so we need to be in the room.
5 weeks out — Assets1 step
We do
Asset pack + pre-save live
Press photos in every crop you'll need, one-sheet, EPK, lyric sheets, Canvas. Pre-save link goes live. Your page on this site goes up.
You do
Update your profiles everywhere so they match. Set the pre-save link as your bio link.
4 weeks out — Outreach1 step
We do
Curator, press, and radio outreach
Outreach against our list — real relationships, tracked, with the send log visible to you. Local press and radio submissions. Omaha has actual music infrastructure and we use it.
You do
Your own five. The people you personally know who could say yes to something — a venue, a writer, a bigger band, a podcast. Nobody can make those asks for you and they convert better than anything we send cold.
3–1 weeks out — Rollout1 step
We do
Single rollout + scheduled posts
Single rollout, scheduled posts, playlist pitching, coordination with any show routing.
You do
Show up in the window. Content volume matters more than content quality here. Book at least one show tied to the release — a release show is the difference between a song coming out and something happening.
Release week4 steps
We do
Wave 1 — free + direct
Email/DM curators who publish a real contact. Push across every channel. Monitor adds and flag anything moving.
You do
Talk to your own audience. The two hundred people who'd actually buy a ticket matter more than any playlist you'll land this year.
We do
Wave 2 — free forms
Indiemono, FTLOB, Soundplate, Wild Honey Pie.
You do
Nothing. This one's on us.
We do
Wave 3 — paid reviews
SubmitHub / Groover, if budgeted. Review only — never placement.
You do
Nothing. This one's on us.
We do
Follow up on silence
One polite nudge to no-responses, then move on.
You do
Nothing. This one's on us.
4 weeks after1 step
We do
Report back
What landed, what didn't, what the numbers say, what we'd do differently. Royalty statements when they arrive.
You do
Decide what's next while there's still momentum. The worst thing that happens to a good release is eight months of silence after it.
We guarantee the process, not the outcome. No label can promise you an audience. Anyone who does is lying to you. What we can promise is that every controllable step happens on schedule, and that you can see which ones were yours.
And one hard line inside that promise: we will never buy streams, followers, or playlist placements. No bots, no faked numbers, no services that sell them — not for you, not for us. Fake growth is worthless to you and poison to your profile, and we refuse to be part of it.
>_ tools
Free Tools
Built for anyone, no account required. Master analysis and lyric transcriptions are live now; metadata editing and artwork optimization are in progress. If you're releasing on your own, use them — that's what they're for.
>_ saying yes
Saying Yes
We're small, and a yes has to be a lot of things at once: the music, the timing, our capacity, whether we can genuinely hear ourselves in it. Which means a no usually isn't a verdict on you — sometimes it's just the calendar.
What we can promise is transparency. We listen to everything we're sent, we respond to everyone, and if the answer is no, we'll tell you why. And when it's a yes, it's because we want to be part of what you're making — that's the whole reason to run a label this size.