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Your music on Spotify, Apple Music, 50+ platforms. No cuts.
The only STREAMING PLATFORM with built-in DISTRIBUTION
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.
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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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