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The process is simple.
Creating your curator profile is easy.
If you have at least one playlist with more than 1,000 followers or an engaged audience elsewhere, you're ready to apply.
Browse our catalogue and select the perfect tracks.
Name your album, add cover art, and submit.
We reach out to artists and get them to approve their song for your album.
Then, we release the album for you.
Add your album to your playlists and promote it to your audience.
Our partners at Symphonic ensure you get paid every month.
Frequently Asked Questions
Have a question? We have answers.
Tapioca helps curators make compilation albums with none of the hassle. Compilation albums are a great way to foster long-term, revenue-sharing partnerships between artists and curators.
Rather than artists paying curators for possible short-term placements, curators can create compilation albums with artists’ music and agree to share in the revenue that the album generates (don’t worry - we handle all the paperwork).
This approach allows curators to earn recurring revenue from their valuable playlists and allows artists to stay independent, retain ownership over their music, and work with as many "labels" as they like.
- Artists upload previously-released music to Tapioca.
- Curators create a compilation album from tracks in the catalogue.
- The album is sent to each artist for approval. If the artist declines, their track is not included in the album.
- Once artists have responded, the album is sent to Tapioca to be released on Spotify and other major DSPs.
- The curator promotes the album and generates streams, through playlisting or other means.
- All revenues generated from the compilation album version of a track are split between the curator and the track’s artist (see "How are track royalties split?" for more information).
With Tapioca, curators create compilation albums and invite artists to be part of them. Artists and curators share the passive, long-term royalties from the compilation album. Most other playlisting services make artists pitch their music to curators for (often short- term) playlist consideration.
For a track released on a curator's compilation album, the artist(s) and curator each receive 40% of net track royalties (Tapioca retains a 20% commission). Curators do not earn royalties on any non-Tapioca instances of a track.
There is no upfront cost to release an album on Tapioca. Tapioca retains a 20% commission on all revenues generated from compilation albums distributed through our platform. There are no hidden fees - we pay for all downstream distribution fees to our partners.
Yes. The tracks will share the same ISRC, meaning stream counts will contribute to the same total on your profile. However, each instance of those tracks (i.e. the original version and each compilation album version) are unique entities.
This means that royalties generated from clicking play on each version are distinct. If you add the compilation album version to a playlist, resulting streams generate royalties for the compilation album version, and vice versa for the original version.
Note: streams generated from algorithmic playlists (e.g. Discover Weekly, Release Radar, etc.) are attributed to the original version.