Streaming platforms
The DSPs themselves, kept deliberately separate from the tools: where ad-financed and paid streaming actually happens. Your distributor delivers here; your profiles segment claims them; this row is the destination layer.
- Amazon Music — Alexa-driven casual listeners, disproportionately 30+ households. Prime members, Alexa or Echo households, and listeners who want lossless or spatial audio without a separate audiophile tier.
- Apple Music — Higher per-stream payouts from an all-paying audience. Artists seeking placement on a major global DSP, strong Apple-device visibility, Shazam insights, editorial opportunities, and detailed geographic data for marketing or touring.
- Boomplay — Any artist targeting African audiences. Afrobeats, Afropop, Amapiano, Gospel, Bongo Flava, Dancehall, and other artists actively targeting African listeners.
- Deezer — French and European reach with artist-friendly payment experiments. Artists with audiences in Europe or Brazil, those seeking another editorial pathway, and qualifying artists who may benefit from Deezer’s artist-centric royalty model.
- IDAGIO — Classical artists, ensembles and labels whose recordings benefit from accurate work-level metadata and specialist discovery.
- Pandora — Artists seeking US discovery through personalized radio and free artist-to-listener promotional messages.
- Qobuz — Audiophile-leaning genres: jazz, classical, electronic, singer-songwriter. Jazz, classical, rock, electronic, acoustic, and other artists whose production quality, musicianship, albums, or audiophile audience are central selling points.
- Spotify — The default DSP where playlists and algorithms decide reach. Nearly every commercially active artist, especially those seeking global discovery, detailed audience data, playlist exposure, and measurable release campaigns.
- TIDAL — Hi-fi positioning and a payout ethos that favors real fans
- YouTube Music — Turning video discovery into streaming catalog consumption. Artists prepared to combine official releases with music videos, Shorts and searchable content that encourages fan participation.