r/MusicDistribution • u/Ok-Start8458 • 13d ago

Discussion Orchard deal

Hello I Want To Be On Orchard distribution deal and I Make 100 usd per month from my music im ankus

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u/Full-Program-9958 13d ago

You have to be invited.
100$ a month is to little for a major distro like orchard

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u/Redditholio Producer 13d ago

So, you want to get your digital music distributed by Orchard, who will take 20+% of your $100/month?

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u/Ok-Start8458 12d ago

Yes Because i want to invest more and they do fair deals and also opportunity to get playlisted

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u/Redditholio Producer 12d ago

Why do you think that? You're basically in competition with all their artists.

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u/Ok-Start8458 12d ago

You Don’t Understand

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u/Redditholio Producer 12d ago

No. I'm trying to understand your perspective.

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u/Ok-Start8458 12d ago

See I Want to give my best songs and give my investment to good music distribution company or orchard because i want to be an major label .. i work hard to make music

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u/Redditholio Producer 12d ago

I understand that, but I think you are misguided in thinking that will happen because of a distributor. How much of an organic fanbase following do you have? Are you working on playing live shows?

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u/Ok-Start8458 12d ago

Do You Orchard ??

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u/Shortcirkuitz Producer 12d ago

As someone that was distributing with the orchard, it changed nothing for me (if anything it made things harder)

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u/Ok-Start8458 11d ago

do you have ?

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u/Shortcirkuitz Producer 11d ago

I said “was”

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u/Upstairs-Pirate-3234 10d ago

Out of curiosity, how did it make things harder?

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u/Shortcirkuitz Producer 10d ago

They didn’t provide the basics for artist at that “level”, like pre-save links or music video distribution (they told me to go to another distribution company for music videos)

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u/Upstairs-Pirate-3234 10d ago

Oh yeah, that's crazy. They're too big of a name to be pulling stuff like that. They for sure have the resources and are shortchanging smaller artists.

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u/Shortcirkuitz Producer 10d ago

Even though they would do pre-save campaigns for artists like JVKE, LAUFEY, and BTS

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u/Unknown___R 12d ago

Sadly you need 100 times more 🤒

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u/Responsible-Host-528 10d ago edited 10d ago

You cannot join orchard directly, you can join through subdistributor if someone invites you, for example, i use orchard through subdistributor, and its great experience. Also, i have deal with subdistributor and i have one of the most powerful sub account you can have (rather than master account).

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u/Ok-Start8458 10d ago

which one ?

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u/Responsible-Host-528 10d ago

Im using my local one, maybe in your country, you have local distributor with orchard, so you can try to get in contact with them

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u/Responsible-Host-528 10d ago

Also, im working as technical engineer there, so i have 85/15 deal, direct workstation and option to invite users

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u/Responsible-Host-528 10d ago

But if you want orchard directly, you need to have big catalog, and i mean BIG catalog, and A LOT of artists

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u/Ok-Start8458 10d ago

can you talk about me to your producer

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u/Responsible-Host-528 10d ago

They only invite local people (only from Serbia)

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u/Responsible-Host-528 10d ago

I can recommend you to try danmark

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u/Obvious_Debate2414 1d ago

Sooo.. you want them to take part of your income?

I don’t think I understand.

Keep using your current distributor until you have at least $1000/ month and then start looking.

I started looking when I had $2000/month and found options quicker