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Stem
Selective distribution and financial platform for established artists and teams, offering automated royalty splits, recoupment tracking, and advances, on a revenue-share basis.
- Best for
- Clean split payments across collaborators on serious releases. Independent artists and labels with measurable traction, complex royalty splits and an active management team.
- Skip if
- You release solo and don't need splits infrastructure. You are a new DIY artist seeking instant approval, transparent pricing or inexpensive self-service distribution.
- First move
- Map your collaborator splits, then request access with real numbers.
- Watch out
- Stem does not publish standard pricing or acceptance thresholds. Confirm commission, deal length, recoupment and catalog-exit terms before signing.
- Reach
- Focused
- When
- Worth it once you are building a team.
- Based in
- United States