Music Distribution
API
Deliver releases to Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, TIDAL and 200+ DSPs worldwide through a single RESTful endpoint. DDEX ERN 4.3 compliant, API-key secured, sandbox-ready.
Built for record labels, music distributors, and aggregators who need infrastructure they can ship on without rewriting it. The ToneGrid Music Distribution API covers ingestion, delivery, royalty accounting, and analytics in one developer-friendly platform.
POST /v1/releases
{
"title": "Midnight Echo",
"artist": "Amara Cole",
"stores": ["spotify", "boomplay"],
"territories": "worldwide"
}
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Developer-friendly RESTful API built to handle millions of requests. Scale from indie labels to enterprise distributors without changing a line of code.
Flexible
Easy-to-use modular architecture lets you pick only the capabilities you need. Integrate distribution, royalties, analytics, or payments—individually or together.
Secure
Protected cloud-based infrastructure with API key authentication, encrypted payloads, and role-based access controls. Your data stays safe at every layer.
Digital
Supply Chain
Streamline music distribution across all platforms with one API. Automate metadata management, release scheduling, and DSP delivery. Distribute seamlessly to 200+ stores using ToneGrid’s agreements or your own, all from a single integration.
- Automated metadata validation & enrichment
- Release scheduling with territorial controls
- Real-time delivery status tracking per DSP
- Bring your own DSP agreements or use ours
Analytics
Integration
Integrate advanced analytics into your platform. Get real-time insights on streaming performance, revenue trends, and audience demographics for data-driven decisions. Easily generate reports and embed custom dashboards for streamlined analytics management.
- Real-time stream counts across all DSPs
- Geographic and demographic breakdowns
- Embeddable dashboard widgets
- Exportable reports in CSV, JSON, or PDF
Royalty
Processing
Automate royalty calculation and reporting directly within your application through our API. Generate accurate, cloud-based royalty statements, manage contracts and revenue splits, and streamline payouts—minimizing operational friction and errors.
- Automated royalty calculation engine
- Flexible revenue split configurations
- Cloud-based statement generation
- Multi-currency support with audit trails
Payment
Distribution
Automate and manage global cross-border payments with our API. Ensure your artists and partners receive timely, accurate payments with support for multiple currencies and compliance with international payment standards.
- Global cross-border payout support
- Multi-currency with automatic conversion
- Compliance with international payment regulations
- Scheduled and on-demand payout triggers
Customizable
Solutions
Tailor our API to fit your unique business requirements. Whether you need a completely custom solution or a white-label interface, our API’s flexibility allows you to build, scale, and innovate as your business grows.
- Full white-label branding per tenant
- Modular endpoints—use what you need
- Custom workflows and webhook events
- Dedicated support for enterprise integrations
Custom Branding
Your logo, colors, domain—on every touchpoint.
Configurable Flows
Adapt approval, ingestion, and payout workflows.
Multi-Tenant
Run multiple labels under one integration.
Rapid Scaling
From startup to enterprise without re‑architecting.
API plans for teams
building their own product
The same delivery, royalty and analytics infrastructure as the ToneGrid platform, without the white-label portal. Every plan includes sandbox keys, so you can test your integration before you go live.
Or $3,348 billed once a year. You save $840.
Up to 10,000 active releases
Or $6,708 billed once a year. You save $1,680.
Unlimited releases
Volume pricing and contract terms
Already on the Pro or Scale platform plan? Production API keys are included. Need the branded artist portal as well? See platform plans.
No setup fee · Month-to-month or annual · The same rate limits on every plan
Music Distribution API,
answered
Quick answers to what teams ask before integrating with the ToneGrid Music Distribution API.
What is a music distribution API?
A music distribution API is a programmable interface that lets labels, aggregators, and distributors deliver releases, manage rights, ingest audio, pull analytics, and process royalties on streaming platforms without uploading manually. The ToneGrid Music Distribution API exposes every step of the digital supply chain, from release creation to DDEX delivery to royalty payout, over a single RESTful endpoint.
Which DSPs does the ToneGrid Music Distribution API deliver to?
The ToneGrid API delivers to 200+ digital service providers including Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, Amazon Music, TIDAL, Deezer, Boomplay, Anghami, JioSaavn, NetEase Cloud Music, KKBox, Pandora, iHeartRadio, Audiomack, Napster, and every other major streaming or download store. Delivery uses DDEX ERN 4.3 with real-time acknowledgment tracking.
Is ToneGrid's API DDEX compliant?
Yes. ToneGrid's distribution pipelines use DDEX ERN 4.3 (the current industry-standard release notification schema) for all DSP communication, with DDEX ERN 4.4 readiness on the 2026 roadmap. The API accepts both DDEX XML deliveries and a simpler JSON release model that ToneGrid translates into DDEX automatically.
Can I white-label the ToneGrid Music Distribution API?
Yes. The Music Distribution API is multi-tenant by design. Labels, aggregators, and sub-distributors can operate their own branded distribution product on top of ToneGrid's infrastructure, including their own domain, mailers, and pricing, while ToneGrid handles the DSP commercial relationships, DDEX delivery, royalty pipelines, and compliance.
Does the API include royalty accounting and payouts?
Yes. The Royalties API surfaces ingested DSP statements, computes splits across writers and rights holders, supports cross-currency conversion, and triggers payouts via the same call. Per-stream reporting and territory-level breakdowns are available through the Analytics API.
Is there a sandbox environment?
Yes. A sandbox is available at api-sandbox.tonegrid.pro with mock DSP delivery responses, isolated databases, and reset-friendly state. Sandbox keys are issued separately from production keys so you can build and test integrations without touching live releases.
How does authentication work?
The API uses bearer API keys. Keys are issued per integration, take the role of the user they belong to, and can be rotated or revoked at any time. All requests are TLS 1.2+ and rate-limited per tenant. Full reference lives in the API documentation.
Ship Your First Music Distribution API Integration
Get a Music Distribution API key, deliver releases to 200+ DSPs via DDEX, and ship royalty & analytics endpoints into your product, without rebuilding the supply chain from scratch.