Sell your music direct
Sell your single for $1.99 and you keep about $1.63. Earning that on Spotify takes roughly 370 plays.
STREAMING
plays needed to earn $1.63
And nothing at all until that track passes 1,000 plays in a year.
SELLING IT
fan paying $1.99
Paid today. Straight to your bank. And now you have their email.
Streaming rates vary by platform and month — roughly $0.003 to $0.005 per play is the commonly reported range. Check current figures before quoting them publicly.
Run your own numbers
Drag these to match your situation. The numbers are arithmetic, not a promise.
One to five per cent of an engaged list is realistic. Superfan lists do better, cold imported lists do much worse.
You'd make
Sell it however you want
Upload it, set a price, share the link. Fans buy it in about eight seconds and download it in whatever quality you uploaded.
Let fans decide what to pay with a floor you set. It reliably out-earns a fixed low price, because the people who can afford more usually choose to — and the ones who can't still get the music.
Album plus a shirt. Vinyl plus the download. One checkout, one card fee, bigger order. The fastest way to raise what an average fan spends.
Early access is the easiest sale in music. Your list hears it days before the public, and you get paid before release day instead of ninety days after it.
Our cut
On a $1.99 single our 7% would be fourteen cents. That's not worth taking off an artist who's trying to make their first money, so we don't.
Above $3 it's 7%, the same as everything else on Hypetize. Card processing applies everywhere and goes to the banks, not to us.
| You sell | Card fees | We take | You keep |
|---|---|---|---|
| $0.99 track | $0.33 | $0.00 | $0.66 |
| $1.99 single | $0.36 | $0.00 | $1.63 |
| $4.99 EP | $0.44 | $0.35 | $4.20 |
| $9.99 album | $0.59 | $0.70 | $8.70 |
| $25 vinyl + download | $1.03 | $1.75 | $22.22 |
Founding members pay 0% on their first $25,000 of sales each year, so the middle column is zero for them until they pass it.
Why it's worth uploading
Paying to get into someone's queue stops being "find the SoundCloud link, paste it, hope it works." It's pick a track from your library and send. Two taps.
When the track plays from our player, we have the record — what played, when, for how long. That's what makes the played-or-refunded promise something we can actually enforce instead of just claim.
Everything that comes later — playlists, placement, discovery between artists — needs the music to already be here. This is the piece that makes all of it possible.
You can. Card fees make sub-dollar pricing pointless — a 32¢ sale leaves the artist a penny. Credits fix that: fans top up once and spend it in small amounts, so you keep 30¢ of a 32¢ track. That's how you sell demos, B-sides and loose takes that are worth something but not two dollars.
How Credits workSome platforms have banned AI-made music. We haven't. If people want to buy it, you can sell it — the same tools, the same rates, the same fan list. We ask one thing: tag it as AI-assisted so buyers know what they're getting. That isn't a judgement on the music, it's what keeps chargebacks down and buyers happy.
Only upload music you have the rights to. We take copyright seriously, we act on takedown notices, and accounts that repeatedly upload other people's work get closed. That's not us being difficult — it's what keeps the platform usable for everyone who is doing it properly.
Questions
No, and you shouldn't. Streaming is how people find you. Selling direct is how you get paid properly by the ones who already found you. Do both — they're not in competition.
Whatever you upload. MP3 for the small file, WAV or FLAC if you want to offer lossless. You can include both and let the buyer choose.
Unrelated. Your distributor puts you on streaming services. This is you selling to your own fans. Check your agreement if you're signed to a label, because that may cover direct sales too.
Yes, and you should. Early access is the easiest sale in music — your list hears it first and you get paid before release instead of months afterwards.
$1.99 for a single and $9.99 for an album are the numbers people expect. If you're not sure, use name-your-price with a $2 floor and watch what happens — the average almost always lands higher than you'd have set.
We do. The buyer gets an instant download link that stays in their account, so they can get it again if they lose it. You never email anyone a Dropbox folder.
Yes. Every buyer becomes a contact on your list with their email and what they bought. That's the part worth more than the sale — next release you can tell all of them directly.
Free to put up. Nothing taken under $3. Your fans can buy it in about eight seconds.