Spare MusicReviews of sparemusic.com

I've been using SpareMusic for 3 years and they are a fantastic distributer. I've used a handful of other distributors for various collaborations in the past (Ditto, Amuse, RouteNote, Horus, OneRPM) and what sets SpareMusic apart is their customer service. I've had small release issues with every distributor I've used, including SpareMusic, but any issue I've had has been resolved in under 24 hours. With other distributors it took weeks or months or never to get responses and resolve issues. I started on their free tier where they take 50% (yes this is quite a bit higher than the 10-20% pretty much every other free distributor takes) but as soon as my releases started performing well, I switched to the $60 a year artist pro plan to receive 100% of my royalties. There is a $20 a year artist plan where you get to keep 95% royalties. Other distributors offer 100% for $20, but I personally think the top tier customer service makes the slightly higher prices worth it. My reports from SpareMusic have always lined up with sales/streaming figures from Soundcharts and payments always go through with no issues. As another reviewer noted, payments are automatic each month and there is a small processing free depending on the method of payment you select, but you can contact customer support and they will turn off automatic monthly payments for you if you don't want to be automatically paid every month. I do have two minor critiques of SpareMusic. 1) Information is sometimes outdated or contradictory on their website, so I always make sure to ask customer support to verify any info I need and don't assume the website is accurate. Ex. Website says you can't downgrade your plan but you actually can. 2) I've found their promotional services pretty useless. This isn't unique to Sparemusic though as no distributor provides top tier marketing tools. There are just better non-distributor options to use like linkfire, lnkbio, etc. The most useful marketing tool SpareMusic provides is that they collect your release links for you so you don't have to search for them yourself. They also distribute music videos to VEVO which is important to me as I am an audiovisual artist that creates a visual video for every song I release.