Mark Roberge explains why independent musicians need to understand their music distributor. Most distributors can't explain why you're paying them. Know your release timeline, pick an aggregator like DistroKid or TuneCore, and be intentional about every step.
there's just, there is a lot out there, but ultimately you'll find something that's, you know, cohesive across all of that information that you go, okay, that's the thing that I need to be doing. Like just as simple as like, you know, you know, where to, where to aggregate your music to Spotify, right? Which distributor do you want to utilize? Why do you want to use them? You know, understanding like, okay, now how many weeks out in advance should I put it out? It's like these steps need to start. You got to start understanding these things.
You know what's funny? All of my calls. So I'm guessing you do DistroKid or, you know, one of those, or TuneCore. And every time they're like, yep. And I'm like, well, can I ask why? And they're like, I don't know. Every time, every time they don't know. But why would you pay for a service if you didn't know why you were paying for it? And it, and I'm not saying it's something you need to know very deeply, but have these things, have, have an answer, be mindful, like understand what you're doing. Like it's huge.
