# AMM Distro Help

> How to release music, get paid and manage your account on AMM Distro.

- [AMM Distro Help](https://help.ammdistro.com/index.md): Answers for releasing music, getting paid and managing your account on AMM Distro.
- [What is AMM Distro?](https://help.ammdistro.com/getting-started/what-is-amm-distro.md): AMM Distro is a music distribution service for independent artists, managers and labels.
- [How to join AMM Distro](https://help.ammdistro.com/getting-started/how-to-join-amm-distro.md): AMM Distro is invite-only.
- [Sign in to AMM Distro](https://help.ammdistro.com/getting-started/sign-in-to-amm-distro.md): AMM Distro has no passwords. You sign in with a passkey or an emailed link, using the same account as ANTHM.
- [Accept an invitation](https://help.ammdistro.com/getting-started/accept-an-invitation.md): You can be invited to AMM Distro in two ways: to join a team (an artist or label account), or to receive a royalty split on someone else's tracks.
- [Set up your new account](https://help.ammdistro.com/getting-started/set-up-your-new-account.md): When we invite you to set up an artist or label account, you sign in with the invited email and answer a few short steps. Artists add their store profiles and legal name.
- [A tour of your dashboard](https://help.ammdistro.com/getting-started/a-tour-of-your-dashboard.md): When you sign in, you land on Home. Here is what each part of the dashboard does.
- [Move your catalog from another distributor](https://help.ammdistro.com/getting-started/move-your-catalog-from-another-distributor.md): You can move releases you've already put out with another distributor into AMM Distro.
- [Create a release, step by step](https://help.ammdistro.com/creating-a-release/create-a-release-step-by-step.md): You build a release on one page with three sections: Release, Tracks and Review & submit.
- [Artwork requirements](https://help.ammdistro.com/creating-a-release/artwork-requirements.md): Your cover art must be a square JPEG, PNG or WebP image of at least 1,000 × 1,000 pixels, and a single still image.
- [Audio requirements](https://help.ammdistro.com/creating-a-release/audio-requirements.md): Upload each track as a WAV or FLAC file of up to 500 MB.
- [Titles, versions and featured artists](https://help.ammdistro.com/creating-a-release/titles-versions-and-featured-artists.md): Stores are strict about how titles and artist names are written.
- [Add songwriter, producer and performer credits](https://help.ammdistro.com/creating-a-release/add-songwriter-producer-and-performer-credits.md): Every track needs at least one songwriter, one producer or engineer and one performer. A track with vocals and lyrics also needs a lyricist.
- [Choose a release date](https://help.ammdistro.com/creating-a-release/choose-a-release-date.md): Pick your release date in the Release section of the builder.
- [Choose stores and countries](https://help.ammdistro.com/creating-a-release/choose-stores-and-countries.md): By default, your release goes to every store we deliver to, in every country.
- [Content ID and social platforms](https://help.ammdistro.com/creating-a-release/content-id-and-social-platforms.md): TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube Content ID and SoundCloud can recognise your recording in other people's videos and uploads and pay you when it's used.
- [Previously released music, ISRCs and UPCs](https://help.ammdistro.com/creating-a-release/previously-released-music-isrcs-and-upcs.md): An ISRC identifies a single recording, and a UPC identifies a release.
- [Cover songs, samples and remixes](https://help.ammdistro.com/creating-a-release/cover-songs-samples-and-remixes.md): You can release covers, tracks with samples and remixes, as long as you have the rights to what you use.
- [Check and submit your release](https://help.ammdistro.com/creating-a-release/check-and-submit-your-release.md): Before you can submit, every Preflight check must pass, you must answer any Spotify profile protection question, and you must make your Content ID & social choice.
- [Single, EP or album?](https://help.ammdistro.com/creating-a-release/single-ep-or-album.md): You don't choose the release type yourself.
- [Distribute a music video](https://help.ammdistro.com/creating-a-release/distribute-a-music-video.md): Music videos are on the Music videos tab of the Releases page. You upload the video, link it to its song, fill in the details and submit it for review.
- [Release statuses explained](https://help.ammdistro.com/release-status-and-review/release-statuses-explained.md): Every release has a status that shows where it is, from your first draft to live in stores.
- [Your release needs changes](https://help.ammdistro.com/release-status-and-review/your-release-needs-changes.md): If our team finds something to fix during review, your release moves to Revision requested and we email you.
- [Why was my release rejected?](https://help.ammdistro.com/release-status-and-review/why-was-my-release-rejected.md): A rejected release won't be distributed.
- [Send proof of rights for a release](https://help.ammdistro.com/release-status-and-review/send-proof-of-rights.md): If we need to confirm that you hold the rights to a release's audio, we put the release on hold and ask you for proof on the release page.
- [Sign your release agreement](https://help.ammdistro.com/release-status-and-review/sign-your-release-agreement.md): When we approve a release that needs a signed agreement, its status changes to Awaiting signature.
- [How long until my release is live?](https://help.ammdistro.com/release-status-and-review/how-long-until-my-release-is-live.md): Review usually takes 1–2 business days.
- [Change a release that's already live](https://help.ammdistro.com/after-release/change-a-release-thats-already-live.md): To fix titles, artists, genre, the label line, explicit ratings, lyrics or credits on a release that's already in stores, click Request changes on the release.
- [Request an edit to a delivered release](https://help.ammdistro.com/after-release/request-an-edit-to-a-delivered-release.md): To ask our team to change titles, credits or artwork on a release that's already been delivered, use the Request an edit card on the release's Delivery tab.
- [Take a release down](https://help.ammdistro.com/after-release/take-a-release-down.md): Account admins can request a takedown from the release's Delivery tab, or for several releases at once from the Releases page.
- [Claim a TikTok sound for your release](https://help.ammdistro.com/after-release/claim-a-tiktok-sound-for-your-release.md): When an edit of your song (sped up, slowed, remixed) goes viral on TikTok under its own "original sound", TikTok often doesn't link it back to your release, so it earns nothing for you.
- [Upload project files and stems](https://help.ammdistro.com/after-release/upload-project-files-and-stems.md): You can attach your project files and stems to each track of a release, in the Project Files card on the release's Overview tab.
- [Track your delivery](https://help.ammdistro.com/after-release/track-your-delivery.md): After your release is approved, you can follow it to each store from the release page.
- [Which stores does AMM Distro deliver to?](https://help.ammdistro.com/stores-and-artist-profiles/which-stores-does-amm-distro-deliver-to.md): AMM Distro delivers to 44 stores and platforms: the major streaming services, social and video platforms, regional services in Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Russia, and services for fitness, venue
- [Link your Spotify and Apple Music artist profiles](https://help.ammdistro.com/stores-and-artist-profiles/link-your-spotify-and-apple-music-artist-profiles.md): Linking an artist's Spotify and Apple Music profiles tells the stores which artist page your release belongs on.
- [Spotify Artist Profile Protection](https://help.ammdistro.com/stores-and-artist-profiles/spotify-artist-profile-protection.md): Spotify Artist Profile Protection is a Spotify for Artists setting that makes Spotify hold new releases for an artist page until the artist approves them.
- [My release is on the wrong artist page](https://help.ammdistro.com/stores-and-artist-profiles/my-release-is-on-the-wrong-artist-page.md): If your release shows up on another artist's page, or someone else's release shows up on yours, contact us with the details and we'll get it moved.
- [I can't find my release in a store](https://help.ammdistro.com/stores-and-artist-profiles/i-cant-find-my-release-in-a-store.md): Most of the time a missing release is still being processed by the store, isn't out yet because of its release date, or isn't available in your country.
- [Get access to Spotify for Artists and other artist tools](https://help.ammdistro.com/stores-and-artist-profiles/get-access-to-spotify-for-artists-and-other-artist-tools.md): Spotify for Artists, Apple Music for Artists and TikTok for Artists are run by the stores themselves.
- [Your music on TikTok, Instagram and YouTube](https://help.ammdistro.com/stores-and-artist-profiles/your-music-on-tiktok-instagram-and-youtube.md): Your release can be used in videos on TikTok, Instagram and Facebook, and earn from YouTube videos through Content ID, if you opt in for that release in the builder.
- [How earnings work](https://help.ammdistro.com/earnings-and-payouts/how-earnings-work.md): Stores pay for the streams and uses of your music, and we turn those payments into a monthly royalty statement.
- [Set up payouts](https://help.ammdistro.com/earnings-and-payouts/set-up-payouts.md): To get paid, add a payout method on the Money page: PayPal (recommended) or a bank account.
- [When do I get paid?](https://help.ammdistro.com/earnings-and-payouts/when-do-i-get-paid.md): We pay royalties automatically in scheduled payout runs.
- [Payout fees](https://help.ammdistro.com/earnings-and-payouts/payout-fees.md): A small processing fee is taken from each payout.
- [Tax forms: W-9 and W-8BEN](https://help.ammdistro.com/earnings-and-payouts/tax-forms-w-9-and-w-8ben.md): Before we can pay you, we need a tax form on file: a W-9 if you're a US person, or a W-8BEN if you're not.
- [Tax withholding for artists outside the US](https://help.ammdistro.com/earnings-and-payouts/tax-withholding-for-artists-outside-the-us.md): If you're not a US person, US law requires us to withhold tax from your royalties before we pay you.
- [Download and read your royalty statement](https://help.ammdistro.com/earnings-and-payouts/download-and-read-your-royalty-statement.md): You can download your royalty statement from the Money page as an Excel spreadsheet.
- [Split royalties with collaborators](https://help.ammdistro.com/earnings-and-payouts/split-royalties-with-collaborators.md): You can share a track's royalties with producers, writers, featured artists or anyone else who worked on it.
- [Accept a royalty split invitation](https://help.ammdistro.com/earnings-and-payouts/accept-a-royalty-split-invitation.md): When an artist shares a track's royalties with you, we email you an invitation.
- [Advances and recoupment](https://help.ammdistro.com/earnings-and-payouts/advances-and-recoupment.md): If you received an advance, or the label paid costs for a release such as marketing or production, that amount is recovered from the release's earnings before your split applies.
- [Statements paid in another currency](https://help.ammdistro.com/earnings-and-payouts/statements-paid-in-another-currency.md): Some stores and partners pay us in a currency other than US dollars, such as euros.
- [Collaborator agreements](https://help.ammdistro.com/earnings-and-payouts/collaborator-agreements.md): A collaborator agreement is a contract between you and someone who worked on your release, such as a featured artist, a producer, or the artist whose song you sampled.
- [Read your analytics](https://help.ammdistro.com/analytics-and-marketing/read-your-analytics.md): Analytics in the sidebar shows how your music is doing across stores: streams, saves, videos using your sound, where listeners are, and what you've earned.
- [Spotify for Artists numbers in AMM Distro](https://help.ammdistro.com/analytics-and-marketing/spotify-for-artists-numbers.md): The Spotify tab on the Analytics page shows Spotify's own counts from Spotify for Artists: streams, listeners, saves, playlist adds, monthly listeners and followers.
- [Why don't my streams match my earnings?](https://help.ammdistro.com/analytics-and-marketing/why-dont-my-streams-match-my-earnings.md): Your stream counts and your earnings come from different reports on different schedules, so they rarely line up for the same days.
- [Smart links for your releases](https://help.ammdistro.com/analytics-and-marketing/smart-links-for-your-releases.md): Every release gets a free smart link: one anthm.link page that lists your release on every store, with a Spotify pre-save before release day.
- [Marketing tools in AMM Distro](https://help.ammdistro.com/analytics-and-marketing/marketing-tools-in-amm-distro.md): The Marketing page in AMM Distro has tools for promoting a release: a social post maker, a press kit builder and your smart links.
- [Playlist pitching](https://help.ammdistro.com/analytics-and-marketing/playlist-pitching.md): Playlist pitching for AMM Distro releases is handled with your manager, not through a self-serve tool.
- [Add team members and choose their role](https://help.ammdistro.com/account-and-team/team-members-and-roles.md): You can give other people access to your AMM Distro account, such as a manager, a bandmate or someone at your label.
- [Switch between accounts](https://help.ammdistro.com/account-and-team/switch-between-accounts.md): If you belong to more than one AMM Distro account, for example your own artist account and a label's account, you use one login and switch between them.
- [Manage artists on your label (sub-accounts)](https://help.ammdistro.com/account-and-team/manage-artists-on-your-label.md): If you run a label account, you can bring artists under your label as sub-accounts.
- [Show your label's branding](https://help.ammdistro.com/account-and-team/label-branding.md): Label accounts can show their own name, logo and colour on the dashboard and on the emails their team and artists receive, from Settings → Label branding.
- [Manage your artist profiles](https://help.ammdistro.com/account-and-team/manage-your-artists.md): Settings → Artists lists the artist profiles on your account: the names you release under, with their Spotify and Apple Music links.
- [Change your name, email or notification settings](https://help.ammdistro.com/account-and-team/change-your-name-email-or-notifications.md): You can change your display name and choose which emails you get from Settings.
- [The AMM Distro mobile app](https://help.ammdistro.com/account-and-team/the-amm-distro-mobile-app.md): There's an AMM Distro app for iPhone and Android.
- [Connect Claude or another AI assistant](https://help.ammdistro.com/account-and-team/connect-claude-or-another-ai-assistant.md): You can connect an AI app such as Claude to your AMM Distro account and ask it questions like "how is my new single doing", "what did I earn last month" or "is my release live yet".
- [Why is my account suspended, under review or frozen?](https://help.ammdistro.com/account-and-team/account-holds-and-reviews.md): Our team can limit what an account can do while we look into a problem, such as a copyright claim or a concern about how an account is being used.
- [Delete your account and personal data](https://help.ammdistro.com/account-and-team/delete-your-account-and-personal-data.md): To have your personal data deleted and your account closed, go to Settings, find Delete my data and click Request deletion. We complete requests within 30 days.
- [Can I release AI-generated music?](https://help.ammdistro.com/rights-and-policies/ai-generated-music.md): No.
- [Artificial streaming](https://help.ammdistro.com/rights-and-policies/artificial-streaming.md): Artificial streams are plays that don't come from real people choosing to listen, such as plays from bots, scripts, click farms or paid "stream" services.
- [Copyright claims and counter-notices](https://help.ammdistro.com/rights-and-policies/copyright-claims-and-counter-notices.md): If someone files a copyright notice against one of your releases, we open a case on the DMCA cases page and email the account's admins and owner.
- [Samples, covers and permissions](https://help.ammdistro.com/rights-and-policies/samples-covers-and-permissions.md): You can release music with samples, covers and features on AMM Distro, as long as you have permission for everything in it.
- [Who owns my music?](https://help.ammdistro.com/rights-and-policies/who-owns-my-music.md): You do.
- [Contact support](https://help.ammdistro.com/rights-and-policies/contact-support.md): Use the chat button at the bottom right of any AMM Distro or ANTHM page, or the chat on this page, or email team@ammdistro.com.
- [The AMM Distro API](https://help.ammdistro.com/api-and-delivery/the-amm-distro-api.md): The AMM Distro API lets you send releases and catalog transfers from your own systems, and check their status, without using the release builder.


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