Upload and Sell Your Music & Band Merchandise through the Blockchain.
Get Unlimited Distribution to Apple Music, Spotify & Pandora - FREE For Life!
Soundblock makes Blockchain Reporting, Collaborative Storage, Digital Wallet Management and NFT Integration easy.
We are the digital safe deposit box for your most valuable data and media assets.
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What is Soundblock?
What if you never had to trust a booking agent, manager, record label, publisher, performance rights organization or government agency to administer your digital music and merchandise sales reporting and payments ever again?
Soundblock smartly distributes your music and merchandise to the most relevant platforms and on-demand storefronts while every audio stream, file download, and t-shirt sale is documented forever on the blockchain.
Our secure solution allows you to audit, track and protect your most valuable data and digital assets.
Soundblock encodes and delivers music to Apple Music, Pandora, Arena Music & Spotify and manages the merchandise sales and reporting for online and brick & mortar storefronts through services like Brand Boom, Bandcamp, Amazon and Arena Store.
Pay writers, performers, managers, investors and lawyers automatically for every audio stream, file download and on-demand T-shirt sale. Everyone who has ownership in the project can access the same reports and transaction receipts with their own login.
Keep 100% of your music royalties and on-demand merchandise sales revenue, view real-time sales reports and store audio production files, graphic design files, video editing files and audio masters on a secure blockchain ledger and file exchange.
NOW YOU CAN DISTRIBUTE AN UNLIMITED AMOUNT OF ALBUMS & SINGLE TRACKS Through The Blockchain for Less Than $250 – YEARLY!
Soundblock delivers your music to the world's most relevant streaming services and can manage your physical merchandise sales and reporting. Soundblock is the most transparent, secure, and cost effective music distribution platform on earth.
SIMPLE DISTRIBUTION
- Unlimited Singles & Ringtones
- 100% Free. No Hidden Fees – For Life
- 100% Net Royalty Payout
- Placement on Apple Music, Pandora & Spotify
- Standard Monthly Reporting / Payments
- Free ISRC & UPC Codes
- 25GB of Blockdrive Storage ($1.99 per each additional GB per month)
- 2GB of Data Transfer per month ($1.99 per each additional GB)
- Free Customer Service and Technical Support
BLOCKCHAIN REPORTING
- Unlimited Singles, Ringtones, EP’s & Albums
- $49.99 yearly. No Hidden Service Costs or Fees.
- 100% Net Royalty Payout (digital streams + physical sales)
- 5 Secure User Account ($1.99 monthly per each additional user account)
- Team Video Conferencing
- Automatic Payment Splits
- Placement on 40+ of the world’s most relevant digital services
- On-demand Merchandise Single Item Setup (Includes purchase link, fulfillment & order management).
- Real-time Blockchain Reporting / Daily Payments
- Free ISRC & UPC Codes
- Spotify Verified Checkmark
- 250GB of Blockdrive Storage ($1.99 per each additional GB per month)
- 50GB of Data Transfer per month ($0.99 per each additional GB)
BLOCKCHAIN COLLABORATION
- Unlimited Singles, EP’s, Ringtones, Full Albums
- $249.99 yearly
- 100% Net Royalty Payout (digital streams + physical sales)
- 30 Secure User Accounts / $1.99 monthly per each additional user account)
- Team Video Conferencing
- Dedicated Blockchain Ledger
- Digital Wallet Management
- Automatic Payment Splits
- Placement on 40+ of the world’s most relevant digital services
- On-demand Merchandise Storefront (Includes full storefront, fulfillment & order management).
- Real-time Blockchain Reporting / Daily Payments
- Free ISRC & UPC Codes
- Same Day Delivery/ Instant Placement
- Spotify Verified Checkmark
- Daily Trend Reports for Apple Music, Spotify, Amazon Music
- 3 Terabytes of Blockdrive Storage ($1.99 per each additional GB per month)
- 500GB of Data Transfer per month ($0.95 per each additional GB)
BLOCKCHAIN ENTERPRISE
- Need more Collaborative Storage, full catalog setup or a white label solution? Contact us for more information.
Getting Started is Simple
1
Create a free account and upload your .wav files, album artwork, merchandise design files, audio stems, video edits, song lyrics- and any other digital asset you want to securely store and share with anyone in the world.
2
SoundBlock creates the digital contract and administers the NFT's, digital wallets and secure logins for anyone you invite to share in the project's ownership. Each project can have its own contract with different owners.
3
Distribute your singles, EP's and full albums for immediate placement on Spotify, Pandora, Apple Music and let Soundblock develop your on-demand merchandise storefront on Shopify.
4
Music and merchandise listings are active on most platforms within 24 hours. Streams and download sales from traditional platforms report monthly while blockchain platforms and on-demand merchandise storefronts can report daily.
5
When streams and sales are recorded on the Blockchain, payment can be requested by ACH, PayPal, Zelle, Venmo, or converted to Cherut Coin. Payments automatically transfer once monthly for accounts with $10 or more in earnings.
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Need help setting up NFT's and digital wallets? ARENX is the NFT marketplace and a self-custodial digital wallet Soundblock and Arena Music use to facilitate music, video and image transactions on the Ethereum blockchain. Music Royalties and merchandise sales are paid in Cherut Coin (RAH) and can be converted through all major exchanges.
Stream your music on Apple Music, Pandora, and Spotify. Manage your on-demand merchandise sales through Brand Boom, Arena Store and Bandcamp.
WHY BLOCKCHAIN MUSIC
Berklee rethink and blockchain dreams
The blockchain hype went public in July 2015 with “Fair Music: Transparency and Payment Flows in the Music Industry,” a report from the Rethink Music initiative at the Berklee College of Music’s Institute for Creative Entrepreneurship.
The problems it outlines are well-known and widely acknowledged:
- Who owns what is frequently not traceable at all. “20-50 percent of music payments don’t make it to their rightful owners.” Music collection societies tried to create a Global Repertoire Database in the early 2010s, but scrapped the idea in 2014, as nobody wanted to create a new central octopus.
- Existing industry money flows are an unbelievably complicated mess that’s barely understood by most participants.
- Middlemen take money without any reasonable present-day justification.
- Record and publishing companies deliberately obscure what they owe and who they owe it to, and pay very slowly.
- Streaming doesn’t pay nearly as well as CDs used to. (That last problem is not like the others, but keeps being spoken of like it is.)
- Web3 Talks: Sounds of Web3. How the Blockchain Disrupts the Music Industry “How Can NFT’s Reshape the Music Industry”. Web3 Talks 19, May 2023
- Making A Scene!: The Future of the Music Industry “The Rise of Streaming Services, Blockchain Music Services & NFTs for Music Royalty Sharing” Making A Scene! 27 April 2023
- Langston Thomas: The Rise of Token Gated Streaming: A Guide to the Risks and Benefits “What should fans and the traditional music industry expect from the rise of token-gated streaming?” Nft Now, 2 May 2023
- Nathan Zelik: What is an NFT – A Capital Investment for Everyone “The music industry is evolving just like everything, especially its distribution.” NFT Monk, 23 May 2023
Soundblock makes it possible to share your digital assets with anyone, anywhere at anytime, free of headache and worry.
Protools Sessions
Mastered Audio Files
Song Lyrics
Video Edits
Original Artwork
ZIP Compressed Files
With one click, copyright, distribute, track, and audit your music royalties and band merchandise sales worldwide.
Soundblock makes the management of physical and digital sales transactions, reporting, and multi-party royalty payments easy with a realtime and transparent Blockchain ledger.
Soundblock Integrity
Immutable Ledger
Store a record of every transaction, file download, and payment receipt on a blockchain ledger. These records can never be deleted or changed by anyone ever.
Automated Settlement
All owners of a project receive reports and payouts simultaneously when digital platform and on-demand storefront sales are recorded to the ledger. This establishes transparency and trust.
Multi-Signature Accounts
Collaborate and share digital assets and production files with anyone, anywhere, confidently and securely with digital contracts that require the approval of all users for any action or use.
Full-Stack Security
Soundblock uses an end-to-end impenetrable storage vault to protect your files, data, documents and contracts across the entire Soundblock, ARENX and Arena Music network.
Transaction Privacy
Make your blockchain ledger public or exclusively manage access to transactions and user actions privately within your internal network. This is ideal for managing multi-project contracts.
API Integration
The Soundblock API can connect your blockchain ledger to any physical or digital commerce platform. Enterprise accounts can white label the service for stand alone or branded use.
Network Permission Access
One single account owner creates, manages and approves each individual digital contract and can set the ownership level for all parties for any individual project.
Credibility & Confidence
Strategic partnerships with Amazon, Google and Oracle make it possible to reduce risk through a distributed network. Your digital files, NFT's and digital wallets are secure on web3.
Frequently Asked Questions
Soundblock is 21st Century rights management & administration built using both web2 and web3 infrastructure. Our service is designed for musicians and visual artists who have experience in using traditional web2 platforms and those content creators and owners who understand the power in converting their music and digital assets into NFTs. NFTs make it possible to sell direct ownership in digital assets, allowing fans to become shareholders in the music and art they believe in.
We smartly distribute your music and physical merchandise to the most popular music platforms and on-demand merchandise storefronts in the world; while every stream, download, and merchandise sale is documented on a private or public blockchain ledger forever.
Soundblock makes it possible for owners and investors to receive reports and automated payouts simultaneously whenever a transaction is recorded to the blockchain. We have created the most secure and transparent digital music aggregation service in the world. We are a platform where music and merchandise transactions and other digital assets are securely created, shared, stored and documented. This makes auditing, reporting, collaborative storage, digital wallet management and NFT integration easy.
The blockchain was created in 2008 as the public transaction ledger for the cryptocurrency Bitcoin. The technology manages secure transactions that are recorded to the blockchain using a decentralized ledger. Smart Contracts manage digital currency conversions and payments for all parties who have ownership in digital assets which reduce the need for intermediators, arbitrators or other enforcement agencies, allowing an unlimited number of parties who may or may not even know each other, to work together transparently.
In simpler terms, the blockchain and smart contracts make it possible for artists, lawyers, publishers, composers, managers, platforms and other parties to perform secure, documented transactions in a trust-less environment.
Any form of use, or change to the digital asset is recorded permanently and forever on the blockchain as a “timestamped record” of the action. It can never be manipulated, erased, modified or deleted without everyone who is a party to the smart contract, or those who share ownership in the asset, being notified instantly and simultaneously.
The block chain transaction ID’s become a permanent historical record that is attached to the original asset forever.
- Simple Distribution (for an individual artist or band):
- Unlimited Singles & Ringtones
- 100% Free. No Hidden Fees – For Life
- 100% Net Royalty Payout
- Placement on Apple Music, Pandora & Spotify
- Standard Monthly Reporting / Payments
- Free ISRC & UPC Codes
- 25GB of Blockdrive Storage ($1.99 per each additional GB per month)
- 2GB of Data Transfer per month ($1.99 per each additional GB)
- Free Customer Service and Technical Support
- Blockchain Reporting (for an individual artist or band):
- Unlimited Singles, Ringtones, EP’s & Albums
- $49.99 yearly. No Hidden Service Costs or Fees.
- 100% Net Royalty Payout (digital streams + physical sales)
- 5 Secure User Account ($1.99 monthly per each additional user account)
- Team Video Conferencing
- Automated Payment Splits
- Placement on 40+ of the world’s most relevant digital services
- On-demand Merchandise Single Item Setup (Includes purchase link, fulfillment & order management).
- Real-time Blockchain Reporting / Daily Payments
- Free ISRC & UPC Codes
- Spotify Verified Checkmark
- 250GB of Blockdrive Storage ($1.99 per each additional GB per month)
- 50GB of Data Transfer per month ($0.99 per each additional GB)
- Blockchain Collaboration (for labels & catalog owners)
- Unlimited Singles, EP’s, Ringtones, Full Albums
- $249.99 yearly
- 100% Net Royalty Payout (digital streams + physical sales)
- 30 Secure User Accounts / $1.99 monthly per each additional user account)
- Team Video Conferencing
- Dedicated Blockchain Ledger
- Digital Wallet Management
- Automated Payment Splits
- Placement on 40+ of the world’s most relevant digital services
- On-demand Merchandise Storefront (Includes full storefront, fulfillment & order management).
- Real-time Blockchain Reporting / Daily Payments
- Free ISRC & UPC Codes
- Same Day Delivery/ Instant Placement
- Spotify Verified Checkmark
- Daily Trend Reports for Apple Music, Spotify, Amazon Music
- 3 Terabytes of Blockdrive Storage ($1.99 per each additional GB per month)
- 500GB of Data Transfer per month ($0.95 per each additional GB)
In most cases, any production or master file type can be uploaded and stored in your Soundblock account. Some of the more common file types include but are not limited to:
Txt files
CSV files
XLS files
DOC files
PDF files
Image files (JPEG, GIF, PNG, TIFF, BMP)
Zip Compressed files
.ai
.psd
.ptx
.prproj
.LOGIC
.MOV
.MP3
.MP4
.Wav
Streams and downloads from Apple Music, Spotify, Pandora, and other third party platform sales are reported 30 days from the last day of the release month. The first payment for third party reported sales is distributed 30 days after reports are published. Web2 music platform payments are always paid in 30 day arrears. Example. You will be paid at the end of December for sales that were reported at the end of October.
For on-demand merchandise sold through Amazon, Bandcamp, Arena Store, Brand Boom, Shopify & more, payments are automatically distributed 2 days after each confirmed transaction.
Soundblock does not have a payment threshold. If there is a $1.00 or more in your account, you can request payment in whatever form you want although processing fees for wires, PayPal payments, checks or ACH should be considered.
Payments and Musicoin credits generated from streams through Arena Music can be converted to USD or paid out in Cherut Coin (RAH) for those who have a digital wallet.
All of the web2 music platforms and services we distribute audio content to are not blockchain compatible. In order to develop our end-to-end solution for traditional platforms like Apple Music, Spotify, Pandora and TikTok, Soundblock runs on AWS Quantum Ledge (QLDB) and Amazon’s Managed Blockchain for Ethereum to interact with blockchain based services like the ARENX NFT exchange.
This makes it possible for Soundblock to develop proprietary API’s for third parties to integrate with our blockchain solution that allow Soundblock to upload individual decentralized reports. What Is Decentralized Storage? | Binance Academy
Amazon QLDB is not a blockchain or distributed ledger technology. QLDB stores data and files in an immutable database using cryptographic verification that works in conjunction with a blockchain transaction ledger. Cryptography refers to the science of writing or solving codes. Encryption, the application of cryptography, is the process of converting plain text references into a cipher, which can’t be figured out without a key. Think of the phone number (more specifically, the unique serial number found on every SIM card) as the key used to unlock references the encrypted data or files recorded to the ledger. Every transaction, file upload, change, report, file download, payment and file deletion has a unique identifier, we call the blockchain record.
You keep 100% of all net digital royalties and physical merchandise sales.
Yes, you may upgrade or cancel your subscription within the first 30 days of account activation. Users can easily be deleted from your account and you will only be billed for additional users in the current month.
We offer same day support by chat, email and ticket submission during normal business hours.
A blockchain is a digital ledger which is shared with a network of computers using advanced cryptography. Transaction records cannot be faked, counterfeited or double spent as networks of computers are keeping track of any movements of data simultaneously. Blockchain technology also uses tokenization which ensures that information within each transaction cannot be hacked. Data and records are thus securely stored in a blockchain. For example, if a server is down or data has been corrupted, the backup data is instantly available.
"It's a disagreement that I've always had with Spotify…
they’re saying, you can never get rid of piracy; and that’s the reason we can charge .00000 nothing for a song and completely devalue music. Then you have blockchain technology coming around, and you say, ‘Ah, now we’re able to kind of reverse that process,’ when it comes to licensing music.”
- Lupe Fiasco
“It’s about trying to take away the power from top down and give power...
or at least a steering, to the artist who inherently wants to shape their own future,”
- Imogen Heap
"It's time for a major change in the music industry!
Blockchain developers, we need your help to empower artists worldwide.”
- Pitbull
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