A cover is your recording of a song somebody else wrote, and that needs a cover license before a store will carry it. We route the licensing through Easy Song, our licensing partner, and the finished track goes out through Unchained.
Permission from the song's writer to release your recording of their song. You need one before a store will carry your cover.
Licenses are counted per song, so an EP carrying three covers needs three. The formal name is a mechanical license, and Easy Song arranges it.
One release, three states. The licensing sits with our partner, the release sits with us.
Decide what you are covering and record your version.
Easy Song handles the licensing from the song and your release details.
Upload the cover in your account and send it to stores like any other track.
How distribution worksIllustrative The same release, three states.
Illustrative Arranged through Easy Song.
The same figure on Grow and on Pro.
Our pricing lists cover song licenses at $15 a song on both plans. The license itself is arranged through Easy Song, our licensing partner.
The four that come up before a cover goes out.
Any time you distribute a recording of a song you did not write. If the song is your own, there is nothing to clear here and you can go straight to distribution.
The audio recording you send to stores. That is the mechanical side of it. Putting the cover out as a video needs a separate sync license, and that is not part of this flow.
A remix is a different thing. It uses somebody else's original recording, so it needs permission from whoever owns that master rather than a mechanical license for the composition. This page is about re-recording a song yourself.
Through Easy Song, our licensing partner. Once the song is cleared, upload the cover in your Unchained account and release it the same way as any other track.
Start the license with Easy Song. Once it is cleared, your cover goes out through Unchained like any other track.
