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title: Compare music distributors on what they actually collect
publisher: RapCanon
canonical: https://rapcanon.com/compare/
license: CC-BY-4.0
retrieved: 2026-08-13
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> Side-by-side comparisons of what each distributor collects across eight royalty streams, every cell sourced to the company's own documentation.

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# Compare distributors on what they actually collect.

 
Most distributor comparisons rank on price and features. These compare on the only thing that decides how much money reaches you: which of the eight royalty streams each company actually collects, read from its own documentation rather than from a review site.

 
Every comparison here differs on at least five of the eight streams. Combinations where the answer would be the same whoever you signed with are not published, because that page would waste your time.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 6 of 8 differ 
 
### DistroKid vs TuneCore vs CD Baby

 
On US mechanical royalties: DistroKid and TuneCore both paid add-on; CD Baby does not.

 
 
 7 of 8 differ 
 
### DistroKid vs Ditto Music vs Amuse

 
On US mechanical royalties: DistroKid and Ditto Music both paid add-on; Amuse not published.

 
 
 7 of 8 differ 
 
### TuneCore vs UnitedMasters vs Amuse

 
On US mechanical royalties: TuneCore and UnitedMasters both paid add-on; Amuse not published.

 
 
 6 of 8 differ 
 
### CD Baby vs UnitedMasters vs Ditto Music

 
On US mechanical royalties: CD Baby does not; UnitedMasters and Ditto Music both paid add-on.

 
 
 7 of 8 differ 
 
### CD Baby vs Amuse vs Symphonic Distribution

 
On US mechanical royalties: CD Baby does not; Amuse not published; Symphonic Distribution partly.

 
 
 6 of 8 differ 
 
### TuneCore vs Ditto Music vs Symphonic Distribution

 
On US mechanical royalties: TuneCore and Ditto Music both paid add-on; Symphonic Distribution partly.

 
 
 5 of 8 differ 
 
### DistroKid vs UnitedMasters vs Symphonic Distribution

 
On US mechanical royalties: DistroKid and UnitedMasters both paid add-on; Symphonic Distribution partly.

 
 
 
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## How to cite this page

**APA**
RapCanon. (2026). Compare music distributors on what they actually collect. Retrieved from https://rapcanon.com/compare/

**BibTeX**
```bibtex
@misc{rapcanon-compare,
  title  = {Compare music distributors on what they actually collect},
  author = {{RapCanon}},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://rapcanon.com/compare/},
  note   = {Accessed: 2026-08-13}
}
```

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{{cite web |title=Compare music distributors on what they actually collect |url=https://rapcanon.com/compare/ |publisher=RapCanon |access-date=2026-08-13}}
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