Unchained Music Distribution passport
- Platform
- Audius
- Site
- audius.co
- Social
- @audius
Audius is a groundbreaking decentralized music streaming platform that puts control back into the hands of artists and their communities. Built on blockchain technology, Audius allows creators to share music directly with fans, ensuring transparency, fair rewards, and stronger connections. With its rapidly growing user base and reputation for innovation, Audius has become a hub for independent musicians and forward thinking listeners. By distributing through Unchained Music, artists can release their tracks to Audius alongside 150+ global platforms, ensuring their music reaches audiences who value both discovery and artist empowerment.
Audius is a decentralized music streaming platform designed to give artists greater control over their work and direct access to their audiences. Launched in 2019, Audius is built on blockchain technology, allowing creators to upload, distribute, and monetize their music without relying on traditional intermediaries. The platform has quickly gained attention for its artist first approach, transparent revenue models, and strong support for independent musicians across a wide range of genres. With a vibrant community and an intuitive interface, Audius offers high-quality streaming, curated playlists, trending charts, and social engagement features that help artists grow their fanbase organically. Its open source infrastructure encourages collaboration among developers and creators, expanding opportunities for innovative tools and integrations within the ecosystem. As the landscape of digital music evolves, Audius stands out as a forward thinking platform championing creative freedom, accessibility, and new possibilities in artist empowerment.
Five questions, answered for this platform specifically.
Audius is a decentralized music platform that lets artists upload tracks directly and share them with fans without traditional intermediaries. It uses blockchain technology to secure ownership, support transparent attribution, and enable community-driven discovery.
Artists upload audio files, artwork, and metadata directly through the Audius dashboard. Content is stored and distributed across a decentralized network of nodes rather than a centralized server, ensuring fast playback and resilient availability.
Audius needs accurate titles, artist names, genre tags, artwork, and rights information. Additional metadata such as mood descriptors, BPM, and descriptions can improve discovery through playlists, charts, and community-curated collections.
Audius surfaces music through trending charts, community playlists, repost networks, algorithmic feeds, and artist-following tools. Engagement signals, likes, reposts, plays, and social traction, help push tracks to wider audiences.
Audius uses a hybrid model: artists can earn through platform rewards, fan engagement features, token-based incentives, and optional monetization tools. Since the platform is decentralized, earnings structures depend on Audius governance and creator settings rather than traditional DSP pay-out models.
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.
Apply for Artist & Label Services