Ditto Music Review: The Rebels are in the house!

Ditto Music was created by Matt and Lee Parsons as a way to help musicians avoid their difficulties in distributing their own music. Derek Sivers, founder of CD Baby, was similarly motivated. However, Matt and Lee are eager to prove they can play the big dealers. It is an attitude that I like and it can work for you. Let’s dig a little deeper with this Ditto Music Review.

At first, I wasn’t sure about Ditto Music’s business model. But after doing some research, I discovered that their foundation is based on distributing your music to as many digital retailers as possible. That’s what TuneCore and CD Baby, its biggest competitors, also do. The digital retailers they are associated with include iTunes, Spotify, Amazon, Rdio, etc. The basic service is free, which means you can put up to 10 tracks on iTunes. If you want more stores, you pay $9 for a single, $20 for an EP, and $35 for an album. These are annual fees, so whenever you want to sell your music through Ditto, you’ll pay that fee. However, keep in mind that Ditto gives you 100% of all sales of your music.

At this point, you may be wondering how Ditto Music can make any mullah. The reason they can offer such low rates is, as they say, that they are more than a “monster truck for distributing music.” Distributing your music is actually how they develop a relationship with you. If you’re satisfied with their service, you’ll probably be inclined to seek out their host of other services, like creating your own record label, a chart-busting package designed to give you a madhouse release to hopefully break into the Top UK 40. , Pre-release sale, video distribution, mixed media release package to combine multiple media into your iTunes release, registration for the UK and US charts, as well as royalty registration to ensure it is pay him what he is owed.

Do you live to act? You are in luck with Ditto Music because they will try to connect you with festivals. This means live performance venues at SXSW in Austin and Liverpool Sound City. Ditto Music will fight for you in finding sponsorship, licensing, and sync opportunities as well.

I mentioned in both my CD Baby and TuneCore reviews the importance of excellent customer service because sometimes things hit the fan. Both are well positioned in this category, as is Ditto Music, which won the 2011 RECS award for best online customer service.

This is a quick summary of Ditto Music for you. Truth be told, many of the services offered by CD Baby, TuneCore, and Ditto Music are very similar, if not entirely the same. Your job is to connect with the company that strikes a chord with who you are and what you want to achieve through music. My suggestion: don’t rush (don’t take a year either, but you get what I mean) and find several dealers. After doing so, go with your gut, it’s usually correct.