Audiomack is a digital music platform built for streaming and distribution of songs and podcasts. Audiomack is open to all artists and podcasters globally to sign up and upload their music for free.
Audiomack has a solid system that produces high fidelity audio playback for amazing consumption by music lovers across the world.
Who is the CEO of Audiomack?
Dave Macli is the Founder & CEO at Audiomack.
Audiomack is a New York City-based streaming platform, powering infinite artists and podcasters globally. Starting from a mixtape portal for underground artists, Audiomack now hosts various mainstream artists with a physical presence in Africa.
Audiomack Africa
Audiomack launched its physical reach to the African music market in 2020 when they opened an office in Nigeria.
The Audiomack Africa department is headed by Adeyemi Atunji with Charlotte Bwana in charge of business development and Olive Uche leading content strategy.
According to statistics from Audiomack, the platform grew it’s audience 1600% in 14 months when they extended to Africa. Audiomack also sponsored two of the continents biggest concerts in Ghana, Afrochella and Afro Nation in 2019.
How does Audiomack pay artists?
Audiomack pay artists per song stream on the platform. Unlike other streaming platforms, Audiomack fulfils only streaming earnings at the moment, they do not pay out mechanical royalties.
This means Audiomack does not payout publishing or songwriters’ earnings. This might be a deal-breaker for many big labels and even some smaller record companies but might not be so much of a big deal for a new or growing artist who’s main focus is on getting heard and building a great audience for his or her musical journey.
You can choose to signup and upload songs as you work your way up. When you land a major record deal that rules out Audiomack uploads, you can easily go back and take them down anytime.
Advantage of being visible on Audiomack
Audiomack has a large audience globally that can easily chance on your music, Audiomack has a strong presence in Africa and currently taking over from major free music download websites.
Instead of dishing out your music for free downloads on local blogs, it’s much better to set up an Audiomack account to upload your music, track plays and also monetise your masters.
Afrobeats on Audiomack
On Audiomack, there’s a whole new Afrobeats category added to the major genres on the platform, there are also verified Afrobeats playlists created by Audiomack. At the moment, you can’t scroll through the “Top Songs” category on the platform without seeing more than 20 to 30 African songs.
Afrobeats is the biggest music genre birthed from mainly West Africa and the United Kingdom.
This genre is widely recognised globally and has produced so many superstars from Africa including 2Baba, Wande Coal, DBanj, Wizkid, Davido, Burna Boy, Mr Eazi, Juls, Patoranking, Tiwa Savage and many others.
Over the period from 2010 to 2021, there’s been a major trend change in African music as most artists shift from doing western-influenced songs to more African inspired songs that move the continent and the world at large. Some of the pioneering artists, producers and DJs who led this revolution are still around witnessing the greatness they embarked on,
Currently, the world’s major labels have all turned to Africa to lock down some talents to help them penetrate properly and benefit largely from this African genre.
How to sign up on Audiomack as Artist
- Visit https://audiomack.com/account/create or download the Audiomack iOS/Android apps.
- Sign up easily by connecting your Facebook, Twitter or Google account. You can also use your regular email and fill out the information and have your account ready to upload music.
NOTE: This is 100% free!
