Keep 100% of Your Masters.
Pay €9.90. Once.

Artyfile is a pay-once music distribution platform for independent artists, producers and composers. You pay a one-time €9.90 per track — never a subscription — choose your channels (Artyfile Stream, sync licensing, and 150+ platforms including Spotify and Apple Music), and keep 100% of your master rights. Artyfile takes a flat 15% commission only on revenue it generates for you, and you can optionally offer your fans numbered Limited Edition shares of a track.

A one-time €9.90 per track, or €39 for an album with up to 10 tracks (€3.90 per track). That is the entire upfront cost — no subscriptions, no hidden fees, no advance recoupments. Beyond that, Artyfile takes a flat 15% commission on revenue it generates for you: streaming payouts, sync licenses, and Fan Limited Edition sales. If your music earns nothing, you never pay more than the €9.90.

Yes. Your master rights remain entirely yours — Artyfile never takes ownership of your recordings, on any plan. The agreement is non-exclusive on ownership: you can license your music elsewhere, sample it, or leave. Only the streaming distribution itself runs exclusively through Artyfile while your track is active with us, which is how we collect our 15% commission at source. Your songwriting and publishing are never touched.

The flat 15% applies only to revenue Artyfile actually generates for you: payouts from streaming channels we deliver to, sync licenses sold through our marketplace, and Fan Limited Edition share sales. You keep 85% of all of it. There are no other fees — no annual renewals, no payout charges, no “platform maintenance”. For comparison: sync libraries commonly take 50%, and labels take 70–85% plus your masters.

The Album bundle covers up to 10 tracks for a one-time €39 — €3.90 per track. Every track gets the full treatment: your choice of channels (Artyfile Stream, sync marketplace, 150+ platforms), 100% master ownership, and optional Fan Limited Editions per track. One A&R review covers the whole record.

Fan Limited Editions are entirely optional and off by default. If you activate them, up to 20 numbered shares of a track — 1% of the master each, at €69.90 per share — are offered to fans on artyfile.com. Each share is entered in the Artyfile ownership register with a personal PDF certificate, and holders receive quarterly payouts on their share. You receive 85% of every sale upfront — up to €1,188.30 for a fully sold edition — you always keep at least 80% of the master, and every creative and business decision stays yours.

Two reasons. Scarcity: a numbered edition of 20 means each share is genuinely rare — like a limited fine-art print run, not a mass token sale. And responsibility: the cap keeps every edition inside the small-offering exemptions of German investment law, so fan editions stay a simple, transparent product instead of a regulated financial instrument. Fan payouts are an honest bonus of ownership, never a promised return.

Artyfile Stream guarantees a minimum of €0.03 per stream — 10× higher than Spotify’s average of €0.003. Through our unique Patronage system, payouts can reach up to €0.20 per stream. When a subscriber listens to fewer tracks, their full €12 monthly artist pool is distributed across their actual listening, dramatically increasing per-stream value.

The Patronage system allocates each subscriber’s full €12 artist pool to the tracks they actually listen to. Heavy listeners (400 streams/month) receive the €0.03 minimum per stream. Connoisseur listeners (60 streams/month) generate €0.20 per stream. Your music earns based on genuine engagement, not algorithmic manipulation.

You decide where your music lives: Artyfile Stream (our Hi-Fi app with €0.03–€0.20 per-stream payouts), the Artyfile sync marketplace (film, TV, advertising — average license €96.90), and worldwide DSP distribution to 150+ platforms including Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, YouTube Music, Deezer, TikTok and Tidal. Pick one, two, or all three — and add or change channels later.

It is a different deal. DistroKid and TuneCore charge ~$25 every year, forever — stop paying and your music disappears. Artyfile charges €9.90 once and takes 15% only on revenue it generates, so we are invested in your success. On top: Artyfile Stream pays 10×–66× more per stream, a curated sync marketplace is included, and you can sell numbered edition shares to fans — which no traditional aggregator offers. On pure list price per single, CD Baby ($9.99 + 9%) sits in the same bracket; we win on payout rates, sync access, and fan ownership, not by pretending to be the cheapest.

We used to — and we replaced it. Artyfile’s ownership model now runs on a plain, legally robust ownership register maintained by Artyfile, with numbered shares and personal certificates: the same fan co-ownership, zero crypto. No wallets, no gas fees, no tokens. Shares recorded on a blockchain under the earlier model remain valid and are fully mirrored in the register, which is authoritative.

Yes. Your compositions stay registered with GEMA or your local collecting society as usual — Artyfile distributes your recordings and manages master and sync rights directly. Buyers license sync rights from a single source (Artyfile) and pay no additional GEMA fees on top of the license. Your writer royalties keep flowing through your society, untouched by our commission.

There is nothing to stop paying. Artyfile uses a one-time payment model: your €9.90 (or €39 album) fee covers permanent distribution. There are no annual renewals required to keep your music live. Your catalog remains on all your chosen channels — including Artyfile Stream — indefinitely.

Artyfile maintains quality curation through an A&R review process. Submit your original song (MP3 for initial review), artist biography, and contact information — applying is free. We evaluate quality and originality; an active online presence (website, Instagram) is required. Upon acceptance, submit your studio-quality WAV and pay the one-time €9.90.

Yes — once your application is accepted, we set up a personal login for your Artist Dashboard. There you always have self-service access to your streaming numbers over time, the status of each track (live, in review, draft, takedown), and your royalty statements per period with gross/net and payout status. What still runs through direct contact with our team by email rather than self-service: changing your channels after the fact, and submitting new tracks or assets. You choose your channels during the application, but can add or change them anytime afterwards — just email us.