# Audora

> Audora (audora.music) is an artist-first music distribution and promotion service for independent artists. It delivers releases through the same distribution network the major labels use, makes professional cover art and press-ready bios, and has Promotion, which drafts release campaigns (captions, images, rendered promo videos and lyric videos), makes the Spotify Canvas for a release and publishes approved posts automatically to TikTok, YouTube, Instagram and Facebook Pages; the first video Audora makes for an account is free. Create an account to get started. Every release is checked against what the stores demand before it goes out. Audora is on the artist's side of the table.

Pricing: one monthly plan. Distribution is available on the paid plans, and the
same plan covers the work around a release: cover art, bios and
promotion. See https://audora.music/#pricing for current plans and what each includes. A Label plan lets a label or manager run several artists from one account, while each artist keeps an account of their own. We take nothing from artists' royalties on any plan. If an artist
cancels and their music stays distributed, Audora recovers only its
distribution costs from what it earns. Everything above that is still paid
to the artist. Audora creates the ISRCs for an artist's recordings and they are the
artist's to keep, so streams and playlists carry over if they leave. Boost,
optional paid ad campaigns on a release, is paid by card separately from the
plan: a budget of $150 to $10,000 per campaign, all of it spent on the ads,
plus a 10% Audora service fee and VAT. Terms: https://audora.music/distribution-terms/ ·
Refunds: https://audora.music/refund-policy/

## Guides

- [How to Switch Music Distributors Without Losing Streams](https://audora.music/guides/switch-music-distributors/): the deliver-first order of operations, and how streams and playlists carry over with your ISRCs
- [Who Owns Your ISRC Codes?](https://audora.music/guides/who-owns-your-isrc-codes/): registrant vs. assignee and what transfers on a switch. The ISRCs Audora creates are the artist's to keep
- [My Distributor Removed My Music](https://audora.music/guides/distributor-removed-my-music/): triage steps when a takedown or account termination hits
- [Leaving DistroKid: What Happens If You Stop Paying](https://audora.music/guides/leaving-distrokid/): the exit sequence, Legacy costs and what you keep, sourced to DistroKid's own pages
- [AWAL Alternatives](https://audora.music/guides/awal-alternatives/): the routes open after a rejection, compared by model
- [How Much Does It Cost to Release a Song?](https://audora.music/guides/cost-to-release-a-song/): the full line-item budget of releasing properly
- [TuneCore Cost Per Year: The Real Renewal Math](https://audora.music/guides/tunecore-renewal-fees/): per-release renewal compounding across a catalog, dated and linked
- [How to Promote Your Music on TikTok in 2026](https://audora.music/guides/how-to-promote-music-on-tiktok/): sound library mechanics, TikTok for Artists, pre-saves and a sourced posting strategy
- [Audora vs DistroKid](https://audora.music/guides/audora-vs-distrokid/): a head-to-head on exit terms, promotion tools and what each plan covers
- [DistroKid Pricing 2026](https://audora.music/guides/distrokid-true-cost/): every add-on priced from DistroKid's own pages, with an interactive calculator
- [DistroKid Alternatives 2026](https://audora.music/guides/distrokid-alternatives/): seven distributors compared on support, lock-in and what each leaves you to do yourself, plus how to switch
- [Audora vs TuneCore](https://audora.music/guides/audora-vs-tunecore/): the 20% social-platform fee explained, and what a release still needs after the upload
- [Audora vs CD Baby](https://audora.music/guides/audora-vs-cd-baby/): the permanent 9% commission, the UMG acquisition and what a release needs beyond delivery
- [Amuse Free Plan Is Gone: 2026 Pricing](https://audora.music/guides/amuse-alternatives/): what Amuse costs since free distribution ended, and where to go
- [Sony Music Distribution Explained](https://audora.music/guides/sony-music-distribution-explained/): The Orchard, AWAL and how independents access label channels
- [How to Release Metal Music Independently](https://audora.music/guides/how-to-release-metal-music/): genre-specific presentation, channels and promotion
- [How to Get Your Music on Spotify](https://audora.music/guides/how-to-get-music-on-spotify/): step-by-step release walkthrough for independent artists
- [How Much Does Spotify Pay Per Stream?](https://audora.music/guides/how-much-does-spotify-pay-per-stream/): current per-stream royalty math, including the 1,000-stream minimum, with a royalty calculator
- [Case Study: Marc Hudson of DragonForce](https://audora.music/guides/marc-hudson-golden-case-study/): how the DragonForce singer released his "Golden" metal cover through Audora
- [How to Release and Promote Music with ChatGPT or Claude](https://audora.music/guides/release-and-promote-music-with-chatgpt-or-claude/): what an AI assistant can do for a release and daily promo once the distributor speaks MCP, a week-to-week routine, and the calls that stay the artist's

## Product

- [How it works](https://audora.music/how-it-works/): the path in order, shown in screenshots of the product: create an account, confirm it's you (Audora looks you up and brings in the records you already have out), build the release, distribute it, promote it, then read what it did
- [Promotion](https://audora.music/features/promotion/): release campaigns drafted for you that auto-publish to TikTok, YouTube, Instagram and Facebook Pages, for a release on its way or a record already out. A release link takes pre-saves before release day and opens the release from release day on, on the artist's page, in Promo posts and in fans' emails. A private listen link lets press and radio hear a record before it is out, with a card on the Promo calendar three weeks before release day to send it. Boost (https://audora.music/features/promotion/#boost): an optional ad campaign an artist or their label buys on a release, run by the ad team at the distribution partner and offered on the release's Promo calendar when each kind fits: pre-save ads (offered three weeks to eight days before release day, running the week before it), Spotify Marquee from release day (with 1,000 Spotify streams in the last 28 days), ads to the release and YouTube views around release day, a boost for a post Promo already published, Spotify Showcase for a song that is moving (offered in The count after a playlist add or a jump), and followers, subscribers or profile visits any time. The artist sets the budget and all of it goes to the ads; Audora's service fee and VAT are shown before paying by card. The order goes to the ad team once the payment clears, Audora says when it is running, and the results (impressions, clicks, views, pre-saves, new followers) come back on the release Posts are written in the artist's language (12 languages, from English and Spanish to Swedish and Icelandic). Instagram collaborators from the release credits, trial Reels, carousels of the artist's own pictures, Facebook Page Reels, and posts on YouTube's and Facebook's own schedules; each post shows its own numbers.
- [Distribution](https://audora.music/features/launch/): global distribution through the same network the major labels use, with the stores' rules checked before a release is submitted. Records an artist already has out are brought into their catalog. Move to Audora moves a record that is out through another distributor: Audora delivers it with the same ISRCs and its original release date, and two weeks after it is live tells the artist to take the old copy down, then checks that it is gone. A move costs what a release costs. Albums and EPs can take an optional pre-order date: fans pre-order the record and pre-add it on Apple Music, and the tracks the artist chooses play at once during the pre-order
- [Your numbers](https://audora.music/features/stats/): what a release did, reported from the distributor: plays, saves, stores and playlists, and whether listeners went looking for the song or were played it. From the artist's own connected Songstats account (Audora is a Songstats partner, https://songstats.com): monthly listeners, followers, playlist reach, TikTok and YouTube views, Shazams and listener cities. When a song is added to an editorial or listener-made playlist, Audora tells the artist in the app, on Home and in Reach
- [AI assistant](https://audora.music/ai-assistant/): Audora speaks MCP, so the AI assistant an artist already uses (ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot or any assistant that speaks the Model Context Protocol) does the daily work in their Audora account. Promo first: it starts a campaign, fills each post with a clip or picture from the artist's Library, writes the captions and hashtags, fixes what a post still needs, keeps, skips or adds posts, says what is going out this week and how the posts did, and, once the artist allows it, schedules the posts to publish themselves and has Audora make new pictures and videos. Releases: the artist profile, tracks, credits and royalty splits, uploaded masters and cover art, a release draft with a readiness check, submitted once the artist allows it, and released records brought into the catalog. It works through the to-do list and the release calendar (the pitch, the pre-save, the Canvas), posts the artist's shows, switches a release's first listen on, and reads the numbers back: plays, saves, stores, playlists, TikTok use, followers and who is listening. A label's assistant works across the whole roster. Included from Starter up, and the artist connects their assistant from inside their own Audora account
- [Artist-First Promise](https://audora.music/artist-first/): what Audora owes every artist, in writing. Your music stays yours, and support is answered by the people who build and run Audora
- [For labels and artist managers](https://audora.music/labels/): one list of what every artist on the roster still needs, grouped by artist on the label's Home. Each line opens that artist's account at the fix. It is the same list the artist sees, and a line the label closes is closed for the artist too. Every approved label starts free on the Label test drive: the full app, for one artist. On the paid Label plan, one label account runs up to five artists' releases, distribution and promotion, and releases go out under the label's own name. The label works inside each artist's account from its own sign-in. Artist by artist, it decides whether to invite the artist in to work alongside it from their own sign-in (uploading masters, connecting their socials) or to lock them out. It sets its deal terms in a form that becomes the agreement. Each artist keeps their own account, music and ISRCs, sees what the label did in their name and can leave. A label adds an artist with a link to where they are already out, and Audora looks them up and reads in what the streaming services and stores make public: their profile, photos and links, and, from the artist's own account, their released music with its codes. The count shows the whole roster's week on one page: streams, saves, playlists and reach against the week before, the artists sorted by change with a 7-week line, what moved, and recent releases' first 28 days side by side. Under it, each artist gets a list of what is missing or late, and every line has a button that opens their account at the fix. Automations: the label picks the jobs it wants Audora to run (a weekly email to each artist, a release-week checklist, asking for files, Promo for quiet artists, thanking playlist curators) or describes its own, and labels' requests come first. A label can pay for Boosts (paid ad campaigns) on its artists' releases from its own card. The label sets up payout details on the artist's account and settles the split with the artist. Economics (statements, each artist's share by their agreement's rate, what is left to recoup and payouts) is coming soon

## For AI agents

Audora runs an MCP server. Working inside an artist's own account, an assistant
can run their Promo (start a campaign, fill, write, fix, keep, skip and add
posts, say what is going out this week and how the posts did, and, with the
artist's permission, schedule posts and have Audora make pictures and videos),
set up releases (artist profile, tracks and albums with the full metadata the
stores demand, credits and royalty splits, masters and cover art, a release
draft with its readiness, submitted with the artist's permission), work through
the to-do list and the release calendar, post the artist's shows, switch a
release's first listen on, bring released records into the catalog and read
the artist's numbers back: plays, saves, the daily run, which stores and
playlists the listening came from, TikTok use, followers and audience. A
label's assistant works across the whole roster, and each change lands on the
artist's account. Any agent that speaks MCP works: ChatGPT, Claude, Microsoft
Copilot, Perplexity, Grok, Mistral's Le Chat and autonomous agents such as
OpenClaw. It is included from Starter up, and the artist connects their
assistant from inside their Audora account.

- [MCP Server Card](https://audora.music/mcp/server-card): identity, endpoint and supported protocol revisions (MCP SEP-2127)
- [AI catalog](https://audora.music/.well-known/ai-catalog.json): every machine-readable resource Audora publishes
- [What an assistant can build](https://audora.music/ai-assistant/): the artist-facing version, and where an artist starts

## Optional

- [Scene](https://audora.music/features/community/): release day with the artists on Audora. The week's releases are listed nearest to your sound first. A release out through Audora can have a first listen on release day, played in Audora's own player, and listeners can leave a line only the artist reads. You see who listened to yours. Scene also lists shows and release parties, puts the artists you like on your page, and gets you feedback from other artists on a track before it is out (any of your own tracks with audio, not one released elsewhere). On every plan, the free one included
- [About](https://audora.music/about/): part of Metalmedia Group, Gothenburg, in the business since 2016
- [Contact](https://audora.music/contact/): a person aims to answer within one business day
- [Artist profile](https://audora.music/features/artist-profile/): logos, bios, colors, typography and a public artist page where fans sign up for new-music emails (one email per release: the pre-save, or the out-now on the day)
- [Terms of Service](https://audora.music/terms-of-service/)