Unchained Music Distribution passport
- Platform
- Vocana
- Site
- vocana.co
- Social
- @vocana.co
To get your music on Vocana, distribute through Unchained Music. Releases typically go live within 24 hours to 7 days.
Unchained Music helps independent artists share their songs on Vocana, a growing streaming platform for music discovery. With global reach, we make it easy to connect with new listeners and expand your presence.
Vocana is a social music streaming platform based in the United States (Brooklyn, New York, USA) and designed to operate globally, though with a strong focus on empowering independent artists. Vocana's mission is to create a music first ecosystem that connects indie artists directly with fans through community features, direct monetization, and transparent payments. The platform offers a 100% independent catalog (no major labels), social networking tools (profiles, follows, commenting), “Hubs” for genre or vibe based communities, and a user centric payment model where subscription dollars, tips, and merchandise sales go straight to the artists with minimal intermediaries.
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 Vocana 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 August 2026
Five questions, answered for this platform specifically.
Unlike traditional streaming platforms, Vocana is built exclusively for independent music it excludes major label content. It emphasizes direct to artist payments, community engagement, and social features rather than relying heavily on algorithm driven discovery.
Artists and creators: Independent musicians can upload their music, set up direct monetization through streaming, tips, and merchandise, and manage their fan community. Listeners and fans: Anyone can join to stream indie music, follow artists, participate in community hubs, listen to curated playlists, and support artists with tips or merchandise purchases.
Vocana uses a user centric payment model, where subscription fees, tips, and merchandise spending go directly to the artists that fans engage with. This approach is designed to ensure fairness and transparency, giving artists a larger share of the revenue they help generate.
Hubs: Genre or mood based communities where fans and artists connect and interact. Artist and fan connections: Users can follow others, comment, like, and share music and posts. Curation over algorithms: Vocana focuses on tastemaker driven and fan curated playlists instead of relying on automated recommendations.
Artists can distribute their music to Vocana through partnered distribution services or platforms such as Revelator. Once uploaded, their music becomes available for streaming, and they can access monetization tools, analytics, and audience engagement features.
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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