Terms of use

1. These terms

These terms are an agreement between you and One Side Global Distribution LLC, trading as One Side Global Distro (“One Side Global”, “we”, “us”), covering your use of onesideglobaldistro.com and the distribution service we provide through it. By creating an account or submitting a release you accept them.

If you do not agree with them, do not use the service. Questions go to support@onesideglobaldistro.com.

2. Your account

You must be at least 16 to hold an account, and old enough in your country to enter a binding contract. If you are acting for a band, label or company, you confirm you are authorised to bind it.

You are responsible for what happens under your account and for keeping your login details private. Tell us promptly if you think someone else has access.

Everything you tell us — your identity, your rights in the music, your payout details — must be accurate, and you must keep it up to date. We rely on it when we deliver your music and when we pay you.

3. Keeping your account secure

Your account is yours to look after. Choose a password you do not use anywhere else, and do not share your login — anyone who has it can submit releases in your name, change where royalties are paid, and take your music down.

Tell us immediately at support@onesideglobaldistro.com if you think somebody else has access. Until you do, we have to treat instructions from your account as coming from you.

One account is for one artist or act. If you release under several names, ask us and we will set that up properly rather than have you share a login.

4. What we do

We format the recordings you give us to each store's specification, deliver them, and collect what they earn on your behalf. A person reviews every release before it is sent.

We are a distributor. We are not your label, your publisher, your manager or your agent, and nothing here makes us any of those.

Stores decide what they accept. We cannot guarantee that a particular store will take a release, how quickly it will appear, or that it will stay available — those decisions belong to them.

5. The rights you give us

You keep everything you own. To distribute your music we need permission to do specific things with it, and that permission is limited to exactly those things.

You grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide licence, for as long as your release is distributed through us, to reproduce, format, deliver and make available your recordings, artwork and release information to stores, and to collect the revenue they generate on your behalf.

This licence is non-exclusive: you may distribute the same music elsewhere at the same time. It transfers no ownership. It does not cover your compositions or publishing rights, which we do not take. It ends for new deliveries when you ask us to stop, subject to the takedown section below.

6. What you promise about your music

You confirm, for everything you submit, that:

• you own or control all the rights needed for us to distribute it worldwide
• any samples, interpolations and featured performers are cleared, and any co-writers, co-owners and collaborators have agreed to the release
• the recordings and artwork do not infringe anyone else's rights
• the metadata is accurate — titles, credits, contributors and release dates
• nothing in it is unlawful, and artwork carries no store logos, prices, URLs or social handles
• you are not using the service to generate artificial streams or manipulate chart or playlist activity

7. What you must not do

Beyond the promises above, some things will get a release rejected or an account closed. You must not:

• upload a recording you did not make and do not control, including a re-upload of somebody else’s track under a different name
• imitate another artist’s name, or use a voice or likeness generated to sound like a named person without their permission
• submit artwork containing store logos, prices, URLs, social handles, or anything you do not have the right to use
• use titles, credits or descriptions to game search — keyword stuffing, unrelated artist names, or “feat.” credits for people who are not on the record
• submit silence, noise, or recordings made only to accumulate plays
• attempt to interfere with the service itself, or with anybody else’s account

8. Artificial streaming

This one has its own section because it is the fastest way to lose everything you have built here, and because it costs us directly.

Artificial streaming means plays that did not come from real listeners choosing your music — bots, click farms, paid-for-plays services, and playlists built to loop tracks. It does not matter whether you did it, paid somebody else to do it, or bought a promotion service that did it on your behalf without telling you. The result is the same.

Stores detect it, and they now charge distributors a penalty for each affected track. If a store charges us because of your release, we will pass that charge on to you, and we may set it against royalties we hold for you.

We may also remove the affected release, withhold payment on it, suspend your account, or close it — and stores may refuse your music in future regardless of what we do.

If you are offered a promotion service that guarantees plays, streams or playlist placements for a fee, it is almost certainly this. Ask us before you buy it. We would rather answer that question than have this conversation afterwards.

9. Plans, price and renewal

Plans are Artist at $19.99 a year, Artist Pro at $39.99 a year, Artist Elite at $79.99 a year, billed yearly. The plan fee covers unlimited releases with no per-release or per-platform charge.

We may change prices, and if we do we will tell you before the change applies to your subscription. Changing a price never changes what we take from royalties on releases already delivered.

You can change plan at any time. Moving up takes effect immediately and we credit the unused portion of your current plan against the new one; moving down takes effect at your next renewal, and you keep the higher plan until then. Changing plan does not alter the revenue share on any release we have already marketed — that stays as agreed when the campaign was run.

Cancelling stops future billing. It does not remove your music — see the section on ending your subscription.

10. Chargebacks

If you think you were charged in error, write to support@onesideglobaldistro.com first. Our refund policy is at /refunds, and we would rather sort a problem out directly than have a bank do it slowly.

Asking your bank to reverse a payment instead costs us a fee whatever the outcome, and while it is open we may suspend your account and pause delivery of your releases. If a chargeback succeeds on a subscription you have already used to distribute music, we may take those releases down and set what we are owed against royalties we hold.

None of that applies where we got it wrong. If we failed to deliver, double-charged you, or billed you for something you did not get, tell us and we will put it right without argument.

11. Marketing services and the revenue share

Artist Pro and Artist Elite include marketing campaigns that we plan, buy and run at our own cost. You pay nothing towards the advertising spend.

Artist Pro covers meta, google, instagram, tiktok and youtube ad campaigns, spotify playlist pitching, campaign strategy and setup. Artist Elite covers all of that, plus a higher campaign tier on every channel and a named campaign manager on your releases.

Playlist pitching means submitting your release for editorial and algorithmic consideration. It is not the purchase of placements, which the stores prohibit and which we do not do.

In return, we take a share of the master royalties earned by the releases we market: 30% on Artist Pro and 50% on Artist Elite. This share applies to only the releases we market for you — not your back catalogue, and not releases we did not run a campaign on.

The share lasts 10 years from the release date, followed by a 10-year retention period — 20 years in total. In plain terms: for 10 years from the release date we take the share described above, and for a further 10 years after that we continue to take it on the same release. At the end of that period — 20 years from the release date — the share ends and 100% of that release's royalties revert to you.

This is a long commitment on a single release, so it is worth being clear about what it does and does not cover: it attaches only to releases we market, it never applies to your back catalogue or to releases we ran no campaign on, it is a share of that release's revenue rather than of your income generally, and it transfers no ownership at any point.

This is a share of recorded-music revenue only. We take no share of your publishing or songwriting income, and no ownership of any recording or composition.

We cannot promise a result. No one can guarantee streams, playlist placements, chart positions or revenue, and nothing in a campaign we run should be read as a promise of any of those.

12. Royalties and payouts

We pay you what the stores report and pay to us for your music, less only the marketing share described above where it applies. Distribution itself takes no percentage.

You can withdraw once your balance reaches $50. Below that, earnings keep accruing until they reach it.

Stores report on their own schedules, and some report months in arrears. We pay on what we have actually received; we cannot pay on revenue a store has not yet reported or remitted.

You are responsible for your own taxes. We may need identity or tax information before we can pay you, and may hold a payout until we have it.

13. Tax information

Before we can pay you anything, we need tax details from you — a W-9 if you are a US person, or the right W-8 form if you are not. This is not a preference. We are not permitted to make the payment without it.

It is your responsibility to keep those details current and accurate, and to declare and pay whatever tax you owe on what you earn. We do not give tax advice.

Where the law requires us to withhold tax before paying you, we will, and we will tell you how much and why. Money held back because we are missing your form is not lost — it is paid once the form arrives.

14. Review, rejection and takedowns

We review every release before delivery and may decline to distribute anything that fails a store's requirements, appears to infringe someone's rights, or breaks these terms. Where we decline, we will tell you why.

You can ask us to remove a release at any time and we will request takedown from the stores. Stores control their own catalogues, so removal is not instant and we cannot guarantee a date.

We may remove a release ourselves if we receive a credible infringement claim, if a store requires it, if we detect artificial streaming, or if the law requires it.

15. Copyright claims

If you believe a release we have distributed infringes your rights, write to support@onesideglobaldistro.com with enough detail to identify the work, the release, and your right to complain. We act on credible claims quickly, including taking a release down while it is looked at.

If a release of yours is removed after a claim, we will tell you who claimed and why, and you can respond. If it turns out the claim was wrong, we will put the release back and ask the stores to restore it.

Repeated, well-founded claims against the same account will close it. So will a claim you make in bad faith about somebody else’s music.

16. Ending your subscription

You can cancel whenever you like. When you do, releases already delivered stay live on the stores and keep earning, and we keep paying you what they earn. We do not take your music down for lapsing.

What you lose is the ability to submit new releases until you subscribe again. Any marketing share on releases we already marketed continues to apply as agreed at the time.

A release already in review when you cancel is finished and delivered. We do not pull it from the queue because a renewal lapsed. If it had been accepted for a marketing campaign, that campaign runs and its share applies as agreed.

We may suspend or close an account that breaches these terms, that we are required to close by law, or that is being used for fraud or artificial streaming.

17. Our own rights

The site, the dashboard and everything we have built to run them are ours. You may use them to distribute your music; you may not copy, resell, reverse-engineer or scrape them.

Store names and logos belong to their owners and are used only to say where your music can be delivered.

18. Stores and other services

Delivering your music means passing it to stores and to the services that sit between us and them. Those companies have their own terms, and your release is subject to them once it reaches them.

We are not responsible for a store's decisions, outages, reporting errors or the way it displays your release, though we will help you chase problems where we can.

19. Disclaimers

The service is provided as it is and as it is available. We do not promise that it will be uninterrupted or error-free, that every store will accept every release, that a release will appear by a particular date, or that your music will earn any particular amount.

To the extent the law allows, we exclude implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. Nothing here removes rights you have as a consumer that cannot be excluded by law.

20. Limitation of liability

We are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, or for lost profits, lost revenue, lost opportunities or lost data arising from your use of the service.

Where we are liable, our total liability to you for all claims in any twelve-month period is limited to the amount you paid us in that period.

Nothing here limits liability that cannot be limited by law — including liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, and for anything else the law says cannot be excluded.

21. Indemnity

If someone brings a claim against us because of music you submitted — because it was not yours to distribute, because a sample was not cleared, or because a co-owner had not agreed to the release — you will cover the reasonable costs and damages that result.

We will tell you promptly about any such claim, will not settle it without asking you first, and will let you take over the defence if you want to.

22. Governing law and disputes

These terms are governed by the law of the State of Wyoming, United States, and the courts there have jurisdiction over any dispute.

If something goes wrong, tell us first. Most problems are faster to fix by email than by anything formal, and we would rather sort it out directly.

Nothing here takes away your right to bring a claim in your local courts where the law gives you that right.

23. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. If a change materially affects you, we will tell you before it takes effect rather than relying on you re-reading this page, and we will update the date at the top.

Changes never apply retroactively to a marketing share already agreed on a release we have delivered.

24. Contact

Write to support@onesideglobaldistro.com with anything about these terms, your account or your music.