Content Policy

Effective 10 September 2026. Last updated 10 September 2026.

These are the rules a release has to meet before we deliver it. Most of them are not ours: they come from the stores, and a release that breaks one is rejected, taken down, or in the worst case costs the whole label its access.

Breaking these rules is a breach of the Terms of Service.

1. The rights come first

Deliver only what you own or control. That means the recording, the composition, every sample and interpolation, and the permission of every featured artist, producer and session player. If you cannot show it on request, do not deliver it.

2. Names and credits

• The primary artist is the person or group who actually performs on the recording. Do not put a bigger name there to be found in their catalogue: that is impersonation, and stores remove it and penalise the account.
• A featured artist has to have actually featured, and to have agreed. Write them in the release's featuring field, not glued into the title.
• Titles carry the title. No keywords, no genres, no "prod. by", no store names, no hashtags, no emoji, no extra punctuation for effect.
• A version tag — Remix, Live, Acoustic, Sped Up, Radio Edit — goes in the version field, in brackets after the title.
• Write names the way the artist writes them everywhere else. Consistency is what keeps every release on one artist page.

3. Artwork

• Square, JPG or PNG, at least 3000×3000 pixels. Smaller is rejected by the stores automatically.
• It must be yours: your photograph, your design, or an image you have licensed. A photograph you found is not yours, and neither is one an AI generated from somebody else's likeness.
• No logos or trademarks you do not own, no store logos, no website addresses, no social handles, no prices, no "explicit" stickers of your own, and no text that is not the artist name and the title.
• Nothing blurry, pixelated, or with a border added to reach the size.
• The artwork has to relate to the release. Placeholder art is not accepted.

4. Audio

• WAV, 16 or 24 bit, 44.1 kHz or higher. MP3 masters are rejected.
• Clean masters. Clipping, silence at the head that runs for seconds, and audible artefacts get releases refused.
• No silent tracks, white noise, or filler uploaded to game a payout system.
• One recording per track. Do not put a whole set or a DJ mix in a single file unless it is licensed as one.

5. Covers, samples, remixes and karaoke

• A cover — you singing somebody else's song — needs a mechanical licence for every territory it goes to. Getting it is your responsibility, and we can ask to see it.
• A sample or an interpolation needs clearance from both the recording owner and the publisher, in writing, before delivery.
• A remix needs the permission of the owner of the original recording.
• Karaoke, instrumental versions and soundalikes of somebody else's song need the same licences as a cover, and stores treat them with more suspicion, not less.

6. Music made with AI

You may use AI tools. Two things are not allowed:

• A voice that imitates a real, identifiable artist without their written permission. This is the fastest route to a permanent ban, for you and for us.
• Telling us it is human when it is not. Several stores now require AI-generated content to be declared, and we pass on what you tell us. If your recording is wholly or largely AI-generated, say so when you deliver it.

7. Explicit content

Mark a track explicit when the lyrics contain profanity, sexual content, or violence. Marking it wrong gets a release rejected and, on Apple Music, gets an account flagged. A clean version has to be genuinely clean: a bleep over the word, not the word turned down.

8. What we will not deliver

• Anything that sexualises a minor, in the audio or in the artwork. This is reported to the authorities, not just refused.
• Hate speech, or content that incites violence against a person or a group.
• Threats, harassment, or the personal details of a private person.
• Content that impersonates somebody else, including a fake official release by an artist you are not.
• Recordings whose sole purpose is to attract streams — noise, silence, loops, or near-identical uploads under many titles.
• Anything unlawful where the stores operate.

9. Artificial streaming

Do not buy streams, use bots, or work with anyone offering "playlist placement" in exchange for money and a guaranteed number of plays. The stores detect it, they claw the money back from us, and they can remove the whole catalogue we deliver — not just yours.

If we find it, the release comes down, the earnings are reversed, and the account is closed.

10. What happens when a rule is broken

Depending on what it is, we will ask you to fix it, hold the release, take it down, hold the earnings from it, or close the account. For anything involving somebody else's rights, see the Copyright Policy.

We would rather catch it before the stores do. If you are unsure whether something is allowed, write to info@musadistro.com and ask before you deliver it.