🚨🚨 @unitedmasters has finally launched a digital music distributor for artists. it's... not much different from any other ones out there. artists can upload their tracks and album artwork directly to the website, and UM takes a 5% commission. 
SUPER INTERESTING: when you upload your song to be distributed through @unitedmasters, they automatically default the release date to four weeks *later* because they "recommend you give yourself at least this much time to consider marketing and promoting your release." 🤔🤔🤔
pretty good global mix of streaming services, including a bunch from Africa & Asia!
this is what artists will see on the backend for their releases. to me, UM's product differentiator seems just to be in repurposing data that's already available to artists directly thru the platforms (i.e. Spotify), in a way that's supposedly more digestible and coachable.
new card popped up on the UnitedMasters artist feed yesterday explaining the rationale behind this recommendation:
