Unchained Music Distribution passport
- Platform
- AMI Entertainment
- Site
- amientertainment.com
To get your music on AMI Entertainment, distribute through Unchained Music. Releases typically go live within 24 hours to 7 days.
AMI Entertainment runs one of North America's biggest jukebox and in venue video networks, with more than 30,000 machines and a mobile app live in tens of thousands of venues. Delivery there puts your music, and your music videos, where patrons pay per play.
AMI Entertainment traces its lineage to 1909 and the earliest automated music machines, and today operates a modern digital network from its Grand Rapids, Michigan headquarters: more than 30,000 jukeboxes and video systems across North America and the UK, plus the AMI Play app that lets patrons queue music from their phones in tens of thousands of US and Canadian venues. AMI machines play music videos as well as audio, which makes it one of the few networks where a video version of your release earns in physical venues. The catalog is built through label and distributor partnerships rather than direct submissions, so distribution is the way in. Deliver through Unchained Music and your release can reach the AMI catalog patrons browse at the machine and in the app.
The same four steps for every release, whichever stores you send it to.
Sign up and pick the plan that fits. Grow is one artist profile, Pro is three and adds editorial pitching.
Audio, artwork and the metadata that travels with them: titles, credits, release date and rights.
Select AMI Entertainment at store selection, along with everywhere else you want the release to land.
A person checks the release before it leaves. It typically appears on the platform within 24 hours to 7 days.
Updated September 2026
Five questions, answered for this platform specifically.
AMI builds its catalog through label and distributor partnerships and does not take direct artist submissions. Distribute your release through Unchained Music and it can be delivered into the AMI catalog, where patrons can find it on jukeboxes and in the AMI Play app.
They are the two major digital jukebox networks in North America and they remain separate companies. TouchTunes runs the larger audio network, while AMI pairs its jukeboxes with in venue video screens and reaches into the UK. Distributing to both maximizes the venues where your music can be queued.
Jukebox plays are paid by the patron who queues them, and rights holders share in that revenue through the usual licensing and distribution channels. Public performance royalties from venue play are collected by the performing rights societies on top.
Yes. AMI runs video jukeboxes and venue screens alongside audio, so an official music video delivered with your release can be shown in participating venues. Video adds a second earning surface in the same rooms, which few other networks offer.
Search your artist name in the AMI Play mobile app, which mirrors what venues on the network can play. Fresh deliveries take time to ingest, so a new release may need a processing window before it appears in search.
Set the release up in the app and it goes to this platform with the rest of them, delivered to spec and checked by a person first.
Upload the release yourself in the app, on the plan that fits, and send it to every store you want in one go.
Start DIYFor multi-release plans and label rosters, scoped with the services team before anything starts.
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