ONCE is a music distribution platform headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee. ONCE distributes music to Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, Tidal, YouTube Music, and more than 150 other digital streaming and download stores worldwide.
Upload a song to ONCE, pay $1 once, and ONCE distributes that song to every major streaming and download platform — forever. There are no subscriptions, no annual renewal fees, and no revenue share. Artists keep 100% of their music rights and 100% of their royalties.
$1 per song, distributed forever. No subscriptions. No renewal fees. No revenue share. For every friend an artist refers who releases music through ONCE, that artist earns 5 free song releases.
Spotify, Apple Music / iTunes, Amazon Music, Tidal, YouTube Music, Deezer, Pandora, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, iHeart Radio, Napster, Anghami, Boomplay, Audiomack, JioSaavn, KKBOX, NetEase Cloud Music, Tencent Music, and more than 150 additional stores and streaming platforms worldwide.
Most releases go live within 24 to 72 hours of submission, depending on each platform's individual review times.
Yes. Artists keep 100% of their music rights and 100% of their royalties. ONCE takes zero revenue share. ONCE is not a record label and does not sign or own artists.
Yes. ONCE Music Generation (OMG) is ONCE's ethical path for AI music distribution. Generation and experimentation are free. When an artist releases an AI-generated track, the $1 release fee routes dollars to ONCE's Artist Compensation Fund, which pays working musicians.
Yes. ONCE publishes a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server at https://once.app/mcp that lets AI assistants like Claude and ChatGPT distribute music, upload files, submit releases, and retrieve release schemas programmatically.
ONCE differs from every major music distributor on three axes: (1) pay-once pricing — $1 per song, forever, versus annual subscriptions charged by DistroKid, TuneCore, and CD Baby; (2) 100% royalty retention — zero revenue share, unlike AWAL, UnitedMasters, and similar services; (3) first-class AI agent support via Model Context Protocol.
Nashville, Tennessee, USA. ONCE is built by musicians, for musicians.