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keep 100% royalties
You always give 100%, now we're giving it back. When you distribute your tracks with SoundCloud, you take home 100% of your royalties. It’s your music on every major streaming and social platform, with no cuts: Spotify, Apple Music, and 60+ other platforms. With no cuts from us (the way it should be).
From superfans to tastemakers, find the exact audience you’re trying to reach. The second you hit “distribute”, your music reaches SoundCloud’s community of music obsessives and beyond.
From superfans to tastemakers, find the exact audience you’re trying to reach. The second you hit “distribute”, your music reaches SoundCloud’s community of music obsessives and beyond.
DXRKNOVA gives his all - and keeps 100%
From Nashville and beyond - Trap and Indie Pop artist DXRKNOVA is doing it all on SoundCloud. Distributing on SoundCloud helped grow his audience and earn more.
nextdimensional distributes, monetizes, and grows - all in one place
Brooklyn-based DJ and producer nextdimensional built her sound and found her people on SoundCloud. Now she’s distributing her next EP 'Portal' with us (and keeping the profits, too).
Nextdimensional Distributes, Monetizes, and Grows–All in One Place
Brooklyn-based DJ and producer Nextdimensional built her sound and found her people, on SoundCloud. Now she’s distributing her music (and keeping the profits, too).
Earn more with Fan Support
Turn plays into pay. Now your fans can directly support your art and show up as top supporters on your profile. Every cent goes to you—SoundCloud takes no cut.
Release Vinyl On-Demand
Take your tracks from streaming to spinning. Now you can release your music on vinyl directly through SoundCloud, with no upfront costs or bulk orders to worry about.
Release Vinyl On-Demand
Take your tracks from streaming to spinning. Now you can release your music on vinyl directly through SoundCloud, with no upfront costs or bulk orders to worry about.
Show off your Artist Storefront
Selling your stuff: merch, albums, or something else? Link it to your SoundCloud page. We don’t care if it’s elsewhere, we just want to see you get paid.
Make and Sell Merch
You’d look great on a t-shirt. Over 200 artists (and counting) are making and selling merch on SoundCloud with zero lift and zero fees. You keep 100% of those profits, too.
Make and sell merch
You’d look great on a t-shirt. More than 200 artists (and counting) are making and selling merch on SoundCloud with zero lift and zero fees. You keep 100% of those profits, too.
As of November 2025, we updated our monetization and distribution royalty share rate from 80% to 100%. You receive 100% of your earnings whether the activity is on SoundCloud or another platform.
Full transparency: Our payout processor now applies a small processing fee to each payout, as low as $0.50 USD. There are no hidden fees or surprise deductions. You’ll see your estimated payout fee when adding or editing your payout method.
You will receive your payments via the payment method you’ve selected in your SoundCloud for Artists dashboard. Your balance is updated at the end of each month and payments auto-deposit once your earnings meet or exceed $25 US. Additionally we are net 60, so payments are two months delayed. This is because it takes music platforms 30-45 days usually to pay us on a given period's earnings and then a bit of time for us to turn those royalties around to our partners.
Our payout processor applies a small processing fee to each payout, as low as $0.50 USD. There are no hidden fees or surprise deductions. You’ll see your estimated payout fee when adding or editing your payout method. You can reference a list of estimated fees here.
We now require Two-Factor Authentication (“2FA”) to be enabled on your account in order to receive SoundCloud for Artists payouts or make changes to your payout method. Here’s a link to the steps you can take to enable 2FA.
Once you’ve monetized your music directly on SoundCloud or have distributed a release through SoundCloud for Artists, you will start generating earnings based on streams. To get set up once your earnings exceed $25 and we’re ready to pay you out:
1. Go to the Earnings section of your SoundCloud for Artists account
2. Click the Payouts option
3. Click +Add Payout Method and select Bank Transfer or Paypal
4. Enter your information as an individual, or as a business if you file taxes that way
5. Select your payout method
6. Once you’ve entered your payout method details, click to Submit a Tax Form
7. Enter all required information and proceed through the prompts to complete your tax form
8. Choose whether you’d like to receive your end of year tax form via E-Delivery or Postal Mail
You can return to this at any time if you need to edit your tax form or update your payout method.
Nothing! This will automatically apply to any payouts from our November 2025 payout period onward. Keep in mind, this does not apply to previously generated statements, so if you have an account balance that hasn’t been paid out yet, you may see that some older earnings reflect the previous revenue share.
We’re here to help. Visit our Help Center to answer some of your questions or reach out to our team there.
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