Help - All my music on all outlets has been removed?
I'm going mad - I've loads of music on all the streaming and sales platforms - or at least, had until today. Suddenly every single one - my original compositions and recordings plus licences covers have all just vanished. Distrokids has none - one single waiting for release and everything has gone - Spotify yesterday had them all, today, all gone. All Youtube tracks gone - tried the other platforms and exactly the same - every single trace of me has just vanished. Has anyone had this before? Even worse I was waiting for a large royalty payment too - but everything has been zeroed. Distrokids have not replied and I have no idea what has happened? Any suggestions - being kicked out of every organisation hurts, and worse, how the hell to you get things put back? I've paid for every release too - I'm feeling pretty miffed, but also upset that somebody just pushed the off switch!
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This sucks - my 5 million streams on tiktok have gone too - I do
No Kurt - On YouTube you could search for Paul Johnson and then
Have you contacted any of those companies to see why and if so,
Cancel Culture ... have you had anyone accuse you of copyright infringement? If so... you will be turned off by the "AI system". That being said... hopefully you get this sorted because this is frightening.
Please keep us posted.
Actually - yes? CBS/Sony on YouTube tried to claim one of my ori
Its quite possible your account was hacked. I got notice from G
My wifi has been terrible too.
I think there have been some major security breaches and we are feeling the ripple effect.
I take screenshots of my online finance stuff for "proof" routinely. And i think its critical to backup all related data including software installers, which can become unavailable on the manufacturers website.
Didn't you have an issue with Steinberg recently?
Actually - yes. I think the payent system is OK because it's don
That must feel like a personal attack, Paul.You're not alone. Se
That must feel like a personal attack, Paul.
You're not alone. Several people on Reddit (in r/WeAreTheMusicMakers) had the same experience with Distrokid, but Reddit channel mods deleted some of the posts.
Nobody seems to know why. It doesn't seem to be a system malfunction, as one post is from a year ago, another from a month ago and one from hours ago.
High time to move away from Distrokid, I guess...
Yes I’m discovering this, and pretty much nobody has any redress
on youtube, they create a page for your music, but you could put it on your own page, and then if their version of me triggers YouTube’s protection, my own music would be ‘collected’ and not paid to me, but paid to DistroKid’s version of me? No idea if this annoys DistroKid for some reason? Their registration tick boxes suggest it’s fine? Yesterday I was really upset, today I’m more angry. What I want are my five million streams back. If DistroKid wont give it me, then I think I might raise a claim with the uk rights agency as I have the licence and the recording is registered to me, they can’t argue it’s not been used, but worldwide claims are not easy, as the sites don’t exactly make it easy to contact them.
In this new world of streaming, anyone doing a complaint is list
If anyone says to distrokid, one of your song isn't yours, they might have taking your account down to avoid being sued themself.
Some people even related that when givin a song to distrokid, if they don't specify not to, the same song will be taken down from youtube if they posted it...
All this for 0.0000027$ per play.. :(
UPDATE - It's now 10 days since the takedown, but one album of c
EDIT I just found another distributer/aggregator who do classical stuff - Songtradr - and some of my titles are on their platform - so I might try the rejected ones on there and experiment a bit. What a crazy system!
Unrelated, but a sign o' the times. I got an email from one of
I got an email from one of our SSO (single sign on) providers that my account was compromised and I needed to change passwords. So I did.
More than a week later, I get a mail from another, well-known big company that the previous mail was sent out in error, during a test. It seems the big company bought the small one. And Murphy kicked in.
Go figure. These are security vendors. They should know what they are doing. Apparently, they don't.
I see it happening all around. There's at least one very serious breach every day.
And Paul's saga reminded me that not many services seem to be working as they should. Human error, bugs and gaping security holes are everywhere, just waiting to be exploited.
Personally, I've always refused to do business with companies that lacked in any sense. My successor doesn't seem to be so fanatic. He's currently wiping up the debris from the latest mishap. If he gets one like that every week, they'll have to engage some assistants, I'm afraid. That is, if the company is still in business six months from now.
And the user's problem is: Who do we believe? Who do we trust?
I'm amazed by the replacement companies dilligence - I assume it
Spotify and apple have the music starting to appear from Ditto a
im hoping the entire thing was a glitch but if they fix it, everything is duplicated so good knows what will happen then! I have not put up the five million plus track on the new system but I have put up the half a million track, risking it to see if the stats transfer. It’s been such a lot of work.
I've had my first response from Distrokid. It was suspicious act
I've had my first response from Distrokid. It was suspicious activity on my account that led to the takedown and the freezing of the bank account. They are investigating me, which should be worrying, but isn't because I know that apart from playing my own music on youtube and spotify, I've not even tried to market the music at all. The sudden increase in November from a couple a thousand streams a month to nearly six million was absolutely nothing to do with me, yet triggered alarms in their system. That, I do understand, but total non-communication from the 9th Feb to now is unforgivable, so assuming I do actually get the royalties due at some point, I'm going to take them straight out and probably carry on with new titles on the two new distribution system. I could remove them and go back to Distrokid, but their customer attitude totally stinks. So I'm back in the waiting game, seeing at some point if they free up my money!
On the net we see so many posts about rights and how people don't want to pay for them, and music should be free etc - but this has just for me reconfirmed my attitude that the music is mine, and any decision on who gets it free and who pays is mine. Having money dangled on a string and then removed is really such a bad way to make some of your living. It wouldn't apply to every other occupation, would it? Can you imagine saying to somebody - I know you did lots of extra hours, but actually, we're going to stop your pay totally till we've investigated why?
At least I now have actually communicated with them - which is an achievement I think!
Well, tonight I got the answer from Distrokid. my music used on
Well, tonight I got the answer from Distrokid. my music used on nearly six million tiktok streams is deemed suspicious and my account is frozen, and no payments will be made and they suggest I leave and find another distributor. They suggest I click a link and cancel my membership otherwise recurring payments to them on my credit card will continue. There is absolutely nothing I can do. I have contacted tiktok because my music is still on the videos and they are paying royalties to distrokid. If they have paid distrokid, they’ve got my money and I wont get it from tiktok. This is so unacceptable but perfectly within the agreement terms.
if anyone was thinking about choosing a distributor, do not deal with them!
Distrokid told me to leave today as even though they are not giv
Distrokid told me to leave today as even though they are not giving me the money, they are STILL collecting royalties on it, but not paying me? How amazing is that - so I've cicked the close account box, but that's the end to any link with them. Crazy people - I've even found Facebook groups from angry people. They just don't care at all. I don't even have access to the old stats - so cannot even see what I got paid for and what I didn't!
that sucks!