Join Identity Music: the better alternative to Symphonic

Symphonic works on an annual fee basis for its Starter plan and a custom royalty share split for its Partner plan.

On Symphonic’s Starter plan, you pay your annual fee upfront before distributing music. Access to upgraded features, like playlist pitching, YouTube Content ID and UGC content, is either unavailable or incurs additional commission cuts.

Symphonic’s Partner plan includes access to those ‘upgraded’ features and no upfront costs. Upon application, Symphonic offer you a royalty split, where they keep a percentage of your earnings.

At Identity Music, we work only with chosen clients who we’re confident we can provide the best level of support to. All our features are available to all clients and, because we’re selective with who we work with, we’re able to offer faster, more efficient and more impactful support across all our services.

We work on a bespoke royalty share basis, where you keep the lion’s share of your royalties (never less than 80% goes to you), and nothing incurs additional fees or upfront charges.

Client support is the thing we’re best at. Chat to us via live chat (in under 2 minutes on average), email us, send us an Instagram DM - or even pick up the phone and speak to us the old-fasioned way. We’re here to help 10am-6pm (UK time) every weekday - and you’ll never be left chatting with a bot.

Symphonic claim to provide a response to your support question within 1 working day of receiving it. While that’s certainly much faster than other DIY distributors (like DistroKid, who has a famously bad reputation for support), we’re confident our team are faster, better and friendlier - because it’s our core function.

We use the latest technology to make distribution to over 80 platforms as seamless and stress-free as possible. 

We have close partnerships with the biggest streaming platforms, including being a Spotify Preferred Provider, that make sure your music is distributed on time every time.

You can - and we recommend you do! 

Moving your catalogue over to your Identity Music dashboard will allow you to monitor your releases using our in-depth reporting and insights. 

To move your releases over from Symphonic is simple: all we need is your metadata and WAV files and a list of assets to transfer, and our Client Management team will start the transfer for you. 

After around 6 weeks of track-linking between Symphonic and Identity Music, you’ll be able to request takedowns from Symphonic and all your releases will be available in your Identity Music dashboard.

Yes! But you’ll need the relevant licenses.

Every track distributed through Identity Music is reviewed by one of our Client Management team who will make sure you have the rights to distribute the track. 

While other distributors, like Symphonic, may let you distribute content for which you don’t have the correct licenses, we take copyright seriously and will require licensing proof before distributing your cover song or remix - so that your track isn’t taken down from platforms for violating licensing rules.

Yes! And it comes at no extra charge.

While Symphonic Starter plan clients are subject to additional costs to monetize content on YouTube, Identity Music clients benefit from digital rights management and YouTube Content ID at no extra cost.

If we find your content used without proper attribution, we give you the choice of tracking, removing, or monetizing that content.

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Anything you distribute via Identity Music will remain live forever at no extra cost - unless you ask us to take it down or a takedown is needed for another reason (like violating artificial streaming rules, licensing, etc.).