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Update: Important Google Play Changes

At MusicDiffusion, we are constantly working with digital music platforms to allow you to efficiently and easily share your music with your fans, wherever they are. We always strive to keep our artist community abreast of updates regarding the platforms they rely on to sell music and create fans. To keep our offer up to date, we are making changes in accordance with Google’s previously announced plan to replace Google Play Music with YouTube Music.

In anticipation of this next product change, starting this month and as a member of MusicDiffusion, you should make sure the content you have been delivered on Google Play Music, is also available on YouTube and YouTube Music which you can select on our distribution dashboard (any delivery of your music on new stores/platforms is free of charge with MusicDiffusion). If you have already distribute your music on all stores, you have nothing to do 🙂

What about reports?

Your Google Play Music reports and historical payments will remain under the same name in your MusicDiffusion monthly sales reports “My Sales.” You will receive the remaining reports for Google Play Music performance on your music in the same place as before. Once you have received all of the remaining reports, all new performance reports will be available in YouTube Music. As a reminder, reports are generally sent within two months.

As always, MusicDiffusion is there for our artists every step of the way! If you still have questions about the above news, please don’t hesitate to contact our support team.

And don’t forget, while distributing your music on YouTube Music makes your releases available as “artistic titles” on the platform, you can also take advantage of YouTube’s content identification system and generate income when your music is used in other users’ videos, for free!