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‘Artist Republik’ Announced Partnership with Renowned DAW System ‘SoundBridge’ to Launch Next Level Music Distribution Service
October 12, 2020 - Industry disruptor Artist Republik broke the mold this year with its debut of a new indie music business marketplace valued at over $5M and counting. Its simple yet pioneering tech-driven premise caught the eyes of major industry players like independent rapper Hopsin as well as top investors David Beirne (a founding general partner of Benchmark Capital, known for lead stakes in eBay, Twitter, Instagram, OpenTable and Juniper Networks) and respected pro-sports and Hollywood wealth advisor Humble Lukanga. CEO and Founder of Artist Republik Nick Cianfaglione chose to introduce the new talent-controlled platform to return career control and expenses back to the artist.
In its next effort of expansion, Artist Republik has inked a partnership deal with well-known digital audio workstation SoundBridge to launch its full service music distribution and production hub. The deal enables over 200k monthly SoundBridge users to enable integrated distribution through Artist Republik’s platform. SoundBridge users can then distribute their music independently through Artist Republik for $5 a single, $7 an EP and $11 an album. The perk? Artist Republik’s distribution service works massively in favor of the artist by offering affordable pricing, 50+ leading streaming platforms to distribute to and enable users to keep 100% of their royalties without charging any recurring fees.
Artist Republik’s 30,000 users are committed to this platform because of its all-inclusive offerings. Its one-stop shop format makes it easy for the artist to navigate their needs while keeping everything, including distribution, all in one place. For SoundBridge users in particular, Artist Republik’s distribution platform allows them to quickly and effectively distribute their music without having to search elsewhere for a reliable distributor. They can rely on their music being delivered on time to all DSP’s including Spotify, Apple Music, TIDAL, Amazon MP3 and many more. While many distributors require long, tedious contracts that may not maintain transparency, Artist Republik offers artists a sense of ease and freedom with no unnecessary contracts as well as fast, personable and effective customer support.
The partnership with SoundBridge will appeal to producers of all genres; SoundBridge maintains a similar ethos to Artist Republik in the way that it allows easy access to all essential tracking, sequencing, editing and mixing features. On top of that, they meet all professional industry standards and offer complete third-party VST and low-latency/high-fidelity audio driver support. Their partnership with an industry leader like Artist Republik is sure to set them apart from other digital audio workstations.
The Artist Republik platform is an industry first; it widens the opportunity funnel by enabling self-represented music talent and industry stakeholders to sidestep controlling agents, gatekeepers and management when it is not necessary. Its value proposition for the burgeoning $2B global indie music industry (Raine Group Forecast, Rolling Stone, March 16,2020) transforms how performers, musicians, technicians, producers and venues support vendors by creating direct business connections, spending less on marketing, and by retaining more revenue. "The indie music industry needed its own 'LinkedIn meets ASCAP' social community to affordably bring talent together to make deals." explains Founder Nick Cianfaglione, "Artist Republik accelerates this business building by dismantling industry conventions that bottlenecked careers." According to Cianfaglione, his company's beta enrollment of 30,000 users worldwide is proof that music self-distributors and boutique music labels were missing a dedicated marketplace hub.
Artist Republik is free to join and allows users to use all of the resources they need in areas such as production, distribution, marketing, live shows and more. This partnership with SoundBridge is only one of many ways that Artist Republik is providing a complete ecosystem for the independent artist in one location.
