Social Music Platform BandLab Launches Albums, Empowering Artists to Independently Release Music, Set Pricing and Take 100% of Earnings

BandLab Albums let musicians self-publish their music in a professional format, with complete control and unlimited free storage.

The BandLab music marketplace gives artists 100% of their revenue.
No commissions, no joining fees.

This new feature is the latest in a raft of creation, curation and collaboration tools used by a growing community of over 20 million creators

SINGAPORE, SINGAPORE; Tuesday, 30 June 2020 – BandLab, the world’s leading social music platform, today announced the launch of the self-publishing tool ‘BandLab Albums’, empowering musicians to release and sell unlimited singles, EPs and albums freely and on their own terms. Artists on BandLab have complete ownership of their creative output, and control their own pricing, allowing them to independently monetize their work. There are no hidden terms and conditions, or cuts taken from artists.

Listeners can access Albums on all devices including web, iOS and Android.

Since launching in 2015, BandLab’s mission has been to democratise and power the next-generation of music creation, and Albums stays true to this ethos. Its user-friendly and intuitive interface coupled with the delivery of a high quality service puts control into the hands of creators. Albums caters to a broad spectrum of creators, allowing anyone to publish an album in three easy steps. Creators can choose to upload original tracks made in BandLab, or import tracks from another program or source.

Customisable features include the design of the album, and the option to attach bonus content in a wide variety of formats, such as lyric sheets, images, videos, or behind-the-scenes content.

Creators decide what they want to charge for their album; BandLab doesn’t charge for this feature, nor take a cut. Creators can choose to set a fee to download their album or release it free. There are no hidden fees or subscription charges for listeners or creators, beyond payment gateway fees, powered by Stripe.

CEO of BandLab, Meng Ru Kuok said: “Our users are at the heart of our product. Beyond the continued development of our next-generation solution for the music creation process, we’re incredibly committed to supporting our growing base of creators at each stage of their creative journey. We want that journey to last a lifetime, and releasing Albums is an important step in allowing our artists and independent labels to create sustainable revenue streams for themselves whilst keeping them completely in control and ownership of their own content. We’re really looking forward to seeing what artistic statements our users will make with Albums, and hope that the ability to earn from creating will empower more people to make music.”

BandLab’s cloud-based music production platform integrates music making, mastering and collaboration tools, and with this release, now offers professional tools to help artists sell their music as well. BandLab is available as a web version, iOS, and Android app. As of May 2020, BandLab has over 20 million registered users from over 180 countries. BandLab has been experiencing significant growth in 2020, averaging 1 million monthly downloads, and 10 million tracks saved on the platform monthly.

Publishing to Albums is currently only available via web, and will be available on the iOS and Android versions of the BandLab app in the near future. Music released via BandLab Albums can be Downloaded or listened to via BandLab on the web, as well as via BandLab’s iOS and Android apps.

Find BandLab Albums by heading to bandlab.com.

Tech specs + more information on BandLab Albums

Albums can be published by signing up to BandLab, and uploading tracks via web (Chrome web browser recommended).
BandLab supports music file formats wav, mp3, m4a, ogg, and aac for uploading.
Up to 50 songs can be uploaded as an album
Up to 10 files (10MB each) can be uploaded as bonus materials for fans to download once they purchase an album. Most image and video formats are supported.
Listeners can listen or download Albums via web at bandlab.com, or via the BandLab app for iOS or Android
Downloads are delivered as M4As (96Kbps, 44.1 kHz)

Head to bandlab.com/features/albums to jump in to making albums

See this blogpost for the full technical overview on how to upload, set pricing and publish an album.

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About BandLab
BandLab was founded in 2016 and reported its first million users in April 2017, followed by 5 million in 2018, 12 million in December 2019 and now has 20 million registered users world wide. BandLab is part of music technology group BandLab Technologies, and is the flagship digital product in the organisation’s portfolio of music experience brands.

Through its best-in-class digital audio workstation (DAW) and audio hardware division, BandLab empowers creators to make music and share their creative process with musicians and fans on an unprecedented level. The BandLab product family also includes BandLab for Education, an award-winning music creation platform with classroom management tools, which is used by schools in over 40 countries worldwide, and Cakewalk by BandLab, a professional-level digital recording studio for career musicians and producers.

About BandLab Technologies
BandLab Technologies is a collective of global music brands with a vision to connect the world of music. This includes BandLab, the group’s flagship digital product – a social music platform that enables creators to make music – and share the creative process with musicians and fans. BandLab has been adopted by over 20 million people worldwide since its inception in 2015.
Together, our brands share a passion. We’re driven by integrating the physical, digital and social supply chain, to enable better experiences, opportunities, and connections for all music lovers. Established in 2016, BandLab Technologies is headquartered in Singapore.

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