Getting music onto Spotify, Apple Music and other streaming platforms is simple for one artist. Running releases for a roster, a group of sub-labels or paying clients is a different job. White label music distribution lets you put your own name on that job while a vendor handles delivery, reporting and accounting in the background.
This guide is for record labels, distributors, agencies and artist services companies that want to run a branded music distribution business. It explains the problem, how the model works and what it costs, then lists the platforms in our directory with the white-label capabilities confirmed on each listing.
Why Record Labels Want Their Own Branded Music Distribution
Streaming now makes up most of the business. According to the IFPI Global Music Report 2026, streaming revenue passed US$22 billion in 2025, or 69.6% of global recorded music income. When most income flows through digital stores, how releases are delivered and how earnings are reported become part of what a label offers its artists.
An independent label usually has two options. It can send its catalogue through a consumer service built for single artists, which puts another company's brand between the label and its artists. Or it can sign direct deals with each store and build its own delivery pipeline, which takes years, money and engineering staff. A branded distribution platform is the option in between.
Royalties add to the pressure. Every store reports in its own format, splits must be calculated per release and per artist, and clients want to know what they earned and when they get paid. Spreadsheets work for ten artists and break at a hundred. Labels, managers and agencies want to give each artist or sub-label a login under their own brand, where they upload releases, check streams and download statements without contacting support.
How a White-Label Music Distribution Platform Works
White label music distribution means licensing software and presenting it as your own. You add your logo, colours and often your own domain and email address, and your clients log in to what looks like your service. The vendor runs catalogue management, delivery to stores, sales reporting and, on many systems, royalty accounting and payouts.
The workflow is similar across vendors. An artist or sub-label uploads audio, artwork and metadata, you approve the release, and the platform delivers it to the DSPs (digital service providers such as Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music and YouTube Music), usually in the DDEX format. Sales and streaming data come back, are matched to each release and become reports and statements for your clients. Check whose store deals a release travels on: the vendor's aggregated deals, your own direct deals, or both. That decides how independent your business is.
Money moves in two layers. You pay the vendor a platform fee, which can be a subscription, a setup fee, a revenue share or a mix. You charge your clients through monthly or annual plans, a fee per release, a share of earnings, or a bundle with marketing and support. Your margin is the difference plus any services you add. A few vendors publish their pricing model: Dream Records charges a monthly subscription plus a setup fee, VerseOne Pro and Random Sounds are sold on subscription, and Audicient includes branding on every plan. Most others quote on request.
What to Look For in a Distribution Solution
Start with every screen your clients see: the login page, the web address, the emails and the statements. A vendor that lets you change the logo but sends emails from its own domain will show its name to your artists, so ask which of these you control yourself.
Next, look at the client dashboard. You want separate accounts for sub-labels and artists, roles and permissions, an approval step for new releases and a clear view of each client's catalogue. If you plan to serve many clients, the admin side matters as much as the artist side.
Royalty accounting needs the closest test, because that is where labels lose the most time. Check that the system imports statements from every source you use, runs splits across labels, sub-labels and artists, and shows clients their own statements and payments, along with streaming and sales analytics they can read without help.
Finally, confirm which stores the platform delivers to, in which territories, and how it handles takedowns and redeliveries. If you run your own website, CRM or finance tools, an API lets you connect them instead of copying data by hand.
How to Choose the Right Music Distribution Platform
Decide what you will sell first. A distributor serving established labels needs strong catalogue tools and store relationships. An agency launching a service for emerging artists needs simple onboarding, client billing and marketing support. A label whose main problem is accounting can start with statements and add delivery later.
Then decide who owns the store relationship. If you already hold direct deals, choose a platform that delivers on them. If not, an aggregated deal through your distribution partner gets you live faster. A vendor that supports both lets you switch as you grow.
Before your name goes on the service, run a real release and a real statement file through it. Review the login, the emails, the reports and the payout view from an artist's side. A trial or guided demo shows you more than a feature list.
21 Music Distribution Services for a Branded Label Business
Below are the options in the music distribution category of our directory. Each entry says who the platform suits and lists the white-label capabilities confirmed on its listing.
1. FUGA
FUGA is an enterprise music distribution and technology company for record labels and distributors that manage sub-labels and artists. Its white-label product issues custom-branded accounts, embedded in your own website, that feed a master catalogue you control, with branded emails and no FUGA branding shown.
Best-fit niches: Record labels, sub-labels, rights holders, music distributors.
White-label capabilities: Branded accounts embedded in your own website, branded emails with no FUGA branding, and multi-tenant management for sub-labels.
2. Revelator
Revelator offers Revelator Pro, a white-label tier for labels and distributors that want their own hosted, self-service distribution and royalty system. Enterprise setups add a child account for each client, and the system runs under your own custom domain, logo, login, emails and reports.
Best-fit niches: Record labels, digital music distributors, music companies.
White-label capabilities: Your own domain, login and branded statements, a child account for each client, and a white-label API for building on top.
3. SonoSuite
SonoSuite is a Barcelona-based distribution and royalty accounting system licensed to distributors and labels that resell distribution to their own clients. It runs under your brand and custom domain, with a branded login, a branded admin dashboard and reseller management.
Best-fit niches: Music distributors, record labels, artist services companies.
White-label capabilities: A custom domain with a branded login and admin dashboard, reseller management and payment gateway integration.
4. Labelcamp
Labelcamp, built by IDOL Tech Services, is catalogue management and distribution software for distributors serving their own labels and partners. The white-label version adds your logo, custom domain and branded email notifications, with unlimited user accounts, plus roles and permissions.
Best-fit niches: Music distributors, record labels, artist services companies.
White-label capabilities: Your logo and custom domain, branded email notifications and per-client settings, with webhooks for your own systems.
5. LabelGrid
LabelGrid is a distribution, catalogue and royalty system for labels and distributors, offered with a reseller portal and a REST API for building your own branded product. The API covers catalogue ingestion, DDEX metadata feeds and connecting royalties, analytics and payments to your own dashboards.
Best-fit niches: Record labels, music distributors, resellers, music technology platforms.
White-label capabilities: Branded reports, a reseller portal and a white-label API, with client billing and invoicing built in.
6. AudioSalad
AudioSalad is a supply chain, catalogue, delivery and analytics system for labels, distributors and rights holders. Its optional white-label dashboard uses your logo, colours and custom domain, and you invite clients and staff into it to manage content and deliver music.
Best-fit niches: Record labels, music distributors, rights holders.
White-label capabilities: A dashboard on your own domain with your logo and colours, vendor branding removed, and roles for clients and staff.
7. Limbo
Limbo sells modular distribution infrastructure as Music Blocks, with an API-first core and an optional white-label portal for distributors, labels and music tech companies. The portal supports your own domain, login and emails, plus separate branding for each client.
Best-fit niches: Music distributors, record labels, artist services companies, music technology platforms.
White-label capabilities: Separate branding for each client, your own domain, login and emails, and multi-tenant management.
8. Audicient
Audicient is a tenant-based, API-first distribution system for labels and independent distributors, with branding included on every plan. You manage rights, royalties and releases under your own logo, colours, custom domain and login.
Best-fit niches: Record labels, independent music distributors, music companies.
White-label capabilities: Branding on every plan, a branded support area, client billing and local payment methods.
9. SpaceMedia
SpaceMedia offers SpaceMedia Enterprise, a licensed tier in which distributors and labels run a self-branded portal on an isolated organisation. Branding covers the dashboard, login, emails and customer touchpoints, on your own custom domain.
Best-fit niches: Music distributors, record labels, music companies.
White-label capabilities: An isolated organisation on your own domain, branded emails and support pages, configurable billing and a white-label API.
10. VerseOne Pro
VerseOne Pro is a music and music video distribution service sold as a monthly subscription to partners who resell it under their own brand. Your artists see your domain, login, emails and reports, and VerseOne's own branding stays hidden.
Best-fit niches: Record labels, artist managers, music agencies, music distributors.
White-label capabilities: Your domain, login, emails and reports with VerseOne hidden, plus client invoicing and a white-label API.
11. ASUP Records
ASUP Records offers ASUPX Suite, on which distributors and aggregators launch their own branded distribution service while ASUP runs the infrastructure and delivery to stores. You add your logo and custom domain, with a branded login and emails, unlimited user accounts and unlimited uploads.
Best-fit niches: Music distributors, aggregators, record labels, enterprises.
White-label capabilities: Your own domain, login and emails, reseller management and built-in client billing.
12. DistroDirect
DistroDirect is a B2B distribution system on which labels, managers and music businesses manage and automate their catalogues under their own brand. You control pricing, royalties, artist access and analytics, with your logo and brand styling on the front end.
Best-fit niches: Record labels, artist managers, music businesses.
White-label capabilities: Your logo and brand styling on the front end, with your own pricing plans and payment gateway integration.
13. Random Sounds
Random Sounds is a distribution and catalogue operating system sold on subscription, on which you run your own branded distribution company on your own domain. It combines distribution, royalty reporting, catalogue management and analytics with built-in billing and invoicing.
Best-fit niches: Music distributors, record labels, music publishers, artist services companies.
White-label capabilities: A branded dashboard on your own domain, reseller management, client invoicing and local payment methods.
14. Horus Music
Horus Music is a UK distribution and publishing company that licenses its My Client Zone technology, so you can run your own branded distribution service and invite your own artists and labels. Horus says the setup can be live within 72 hours, with your logo, custom domain and branded emails.
Best-fit niches: Music distributors, record labels, music companies.
White-label capabilities: Your custom domain and branded emails, a branded support area and client billing, with no Horus branding shown.
15. dig dis!
dig dis! is an independent music distributor in Stuttgart that offers a white-label version of its own distribution platform, delivered on its existing store agreements. You run it in your own corporate design and use its label management tools.
Best-fit niches: Music distributors, record labels, distribution startups.
White-label capabilities: Your corporate design on the front end and native integrations, with releases delivered on dig dis!'s existing store agreements.
16. Dream Records
Dream Records sells white-label distribution software on a monthly subscription plus a setup fee, and hosts and maintains it while you run it under your own brand and domain. Releases go to Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, Amazon and other stores, and clients get an artist dashboard with royalty reports.
Best-fit niches: Music distributors, record labels, music businesses.
White-label capabilities: Your own domain, login and emails with Dream Records' branding removed, plus client invoicing.
17. Vesta Music
Vesta Music is a music distributor with a Vesta White-Label Express plan for businesses and a custom Enterprise tier, delivering to DSPs such as Spotify. It suits artists, managers and smaller distributors that want a branded front end for several client accounts.
Best-fit niches: Artists, record labels, managers, rights holders, music distributors.
White-label capabilities: A branded front end with separate accounts for your clients.
18. EVEARA
EVEARA is B2B distribution software that lets streaming services, labels and media companies run a DIY music creator service under their own brand. It can run on your existing domain and front end, with EVEARA's branding removed.
Best-fit niches: Music streaming services, record labels, media companies, music ecosystem businesses.
White-label capabilities: A creator service on your own domain with EVEARA's branding removed, your own pricing and a white-label API.
19. Vydia
Vydia is a distribution, rights management and royalty system for labels and creators, with a white-label programme that Vydia sets up for each partner. Partners run a custom-branded version with their own logo and visual styling.
Best-fit niches: Record labels, music distributors, artist services companies, creators.
White-label capabilities: Your logo and visual styling set up by Vydia, with separate client accounts and team roles.
20. Royalti.io
Royalti.io is a royalty accounting, catalogue and payments system for labels, distributors and publishers, with white-label client portals from its Premium plan. Portals carry your logo, custom domain and email address, and an optional DDEX delivery add-on sends releases to stores.
Best-fit niches: Record labels, music distributors, music publishers, artist teams.
White-label capabilities: Branded royalty statements and emails on your own domain, multi-tenant management and webhooks.
21. Tuned Global
Tuned Global provides B2B music streaming technology rather than store delivery: a modular white-label streaming app and an API for building streaming into your own product. It suits brands, telcos and media companies that want a branded mobile app in the app stores.
Best-fit niches: Streaming services, brands, telcos, media companies, music startups.
White-label capabilities: A branded mobile app published in the app stores, your own subscription pricing, local payment methods and a white-label API.
Comparison at a Glance
The table shows each option next to the business it suits and the main reason to choose it.
Service | Who it suits | Main reason to choose it |
|---|---|---|
Label groups and large catalogues | Branded sub-accounts that feed one master catalogue. | |
Labels wanting one system | Hosted distribution and royalties with a child account per client. | |
Resellers | Distribution and royalty accounting under your brand and domain, with reseller management. | |
Distributors with many clients | Your logo, domain and emails, with unlimited user accounts. | |
Teams building their own product | REST API with DDEX feeds and a reseller portal. | |
Large catalogue owners | Branded dashboard for catalogue, delivery and team work. | |
Modular builders | Music Blocks with an optional branded portal and per-client branding. | |
Operators wanting branding on any plan | Branding on every plan, with client billing and local payment methods. | |
Fast starters | Isolated, self-branded organisation with billing and an API. | |
Audio and video resellers | Monthly subscription covering music and music video. | |
Aggregators and enterprises | Vendor-run infrastructure with unlimited users and uploads. | |
New branded services | Control of pricing, royalties and artist access, with billing tools. | |
Multi-market operators | Subscription system with billing, invoicing and local payment methods. | |
Quick launches | My Client Zone technology live within 72 hours. | |
Distribution startups | Your corporate design on dig dis! store agreements. | |
Cost-conscious operators | Hosted software on a monthly fee plus a setup fee. | |
Small operators | Express plan with a path to a custom Enterprise tier. | |
Brands with creator audiences | DIY creator service on your existing domain and front end. | |
Teams wanting a service partner | Vendor-configured branded version of a distribution and rights stack. | |
Accounting-first teams | Branded royalty portals, with optional DDEX delivery. | |
Streaming launches | Branded streaming apps and an API rather than store delivery. |
Conclusion
Start with the service you want to sell and the clients you serve. Delivery, accounting and client experience carry different weight for a group of imprints, a growing distributor and a manager launching a service for new artists.
If you run several imprints and want one central catalogue, look first at FUGA or Revelator. If you need a fast branded setup for many client accounts, try Labelcamp or SpaceMedia. If you want to build your own product, start with LabelGrid. If you are launching a new service and need billing from day one, look at DistroDirect or ASUP Records. If statements are your biggest problem, begin with Royalti.io. Then compare the rest of the music distribution category and choose the platform that puts your brand, not the vendor's, in front of your artists.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is white label music distribution?
It is software you license from a vendor and present under your own brand. Clients upload and track releases in what looks like your service, while the vendor handles delivery, reporting and, on many systems, accounting.
Do I need my own deals with every store?
Not always. Some vendors deliver over their own aggregated deals, so you can go live without direct agreements. FUGA and Audicient describe support for their own deals or your direct deals, dig dis! delivers on its existing store agreements, and Royalti.io's paid delivery add-on can deliver directly or via FUGA.
How do I make money from a branded distribution service?
You pay the vendor a platform fee and charge clients through plans, release fees, a share of earnings or bundles with services such as marketing. Your margin is the gap between the two plus what you add.
Can I start with royalties and add delivery later?
Yes. Royalti.io is built for that: branded client portals first, with a paid DDEX delivery add-on when you want to send releases to stores yourself.
Can I build my own product on top of a vendor?
Yes. LabelGrid, Revelator, SpaceMedia, VerseOne Pro, EVEARA and Tuned Global have a confirmed white-label API on their listings, and Limbo and Audicient describe themselves as API-first.
How much branding control will I get?
It varies. Labelcamp, SpaceMedia, VerseOne Pro and Royalti.io confirm your logo, custom domain and branded emails. Vydia sets up the branded version for you with your logo and visual styling. Check the login page, emails and statements before launch.
Is there a free option?
None of the listings here describes a free plan for the branded version. Ask for a demo or trial, and test a real release and statement file before you sign.