Unchained Music Distribution passport
- Platform
- TouchTunes
- Site
- touchtunes.com
To get your music on TouchTunes, distribute through Unchained Music. Releases typically go live within 24 hours to 7 days.
TouchTunes runs the largest digital jukebox network in North America, with more than 65,000 jukeboxes in bars, restaurants and social venues. Delivery there means your music is searchable and playable everywhere the network reaches, and every paid play earns.
TouchTunes, founded in 1998 and headquartered in New York, put the jukebox on a touchscreen and a phone: patrons browse the catalog at the machine or through the TouchTunes app and pay to queue the songs they want. The network spans more than 65,000 venues across North America and Europe, and the plays it generates are a real revenue line, because every song a patron queues is a paid use of your recording. TouchTunes does not take unsolicited submissions; its catalog is built through approved distribution partners. Deliver your release through Unchained Music and it becomes available for the TouchTunes catalog, searchable by name in every bar on the network. TouchTunes also publishes its own jukebox airplay charts, a genuinely different picture of what people pay to hear than streaming charts give.
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 TouchTunes 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.
TouchTunes only accepts music through approved distribution partners, so the route is your distributor rather than a submission form. Release through Unchained Music and your tracks can be delivered to the TouchTunes catalog, after which patrons can find and queue them in any venue on the network.
Yes. Jukebox plays are paid uses: the patron pays to queue the song and rights holders share in the revenue, which reaches you through your distributor alongside performance royalties collected by the societies. Per play economics differ from streaming, since each play is individually paid for.
No. TouchTunes states that it does not accept unsolicited music and only ingests catalog from trusted distribution partners. That makes your distributor the practical gateway, and it is why delivery through Unchained Music is the way independent releases reach the jukebox network.
Search for your artist name or track in the TouchTunes mobile app, which mirrors the jukebox catalog, or at any jukebox on the network. New deliveries take time to process into the catalog, so if a fresh release does not appear immediately, check again after the ingestion window has passed.
TouchTunes machines sit in more than 65,000 bars, restaurants, bowling alleys and social venues, concentrated in the United States and Canada with a growing European footprint. For working musicians that is a distribution channel into rooms where people are actively paying to choose the soundtrack.
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.
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