FonoTec is not a label deal. There is no advance to recoup, no rights assignment, no exclusivity and no A&R gatekeeper deciding whether you're allowed in. You upload, you set your prices, you build your storefront — and the same catalogue gets placed with the stations and global brands we license to. Every play and every sale pays you 85%.
Most artists are running a distributor, a storefront, a merch service and a mailing list — four bills, four dashboards, four sets of fees. FonoTec is one.
Sell tracks, releases, stems, merch and tickets direct to your fans at prices you set. Your page, your name, your mailing list — exportable, always.
Paid tiers for the fans who want more: unreleased material, early access, mix archives, livestreams. Recurring income that doesn't depend on a release cycle.
Your tracks placed across FonoTec's own stations. You see which station, which zone and how many plays — and you get paid per play, not per pool share.
The bit nobody else offers. Your music placed with the global brands we license to — automotive, hotels, restaurants, healthcare — credited by name, at 85%.
I own everything I made. That sentence should be boring and instead it is the reason I signed up.
The statement tells me which station, which zone, how many plays. Nobody in fifteen years has ever shown me that.
I still put everything on the big platforms. Non-exclusive means I never had to choose, which is the only reason it was an easy yes.
Illustrative artist voices — composites written for design purposes, not quotations from real individuals.
| FonoTec | A traditional deal | |
|---|---|---|
| Your share | 85% of everything, from day one | Typically 15–25%, after the advance is recouped |
| Your masters | Yours. We take a non-exclusive, revocable licence to place a track | Usually assigned, often for the copyright term |
| Your publishing | Untouched | Frequently part of the deal |
| Your fan list | Yours, exportable at any time | Held by the label or the platform |
| Exclusivity | None. Stay on every other platform you're on | Standard |
| Getting in | Open. Sign up and upload | You have to be discovered first |
| Leaving | Withdraw your catalogue whenever you want | Term, options and reversion clauses |
FonoTec launches globally as headline sponsor of the DJ Awards. Every artist nominated in every category gets twelve months of full platform access free — and for those twelve months keeps 100% of everything they earn. Storefront, memberships, station rotation, brand licensing. We take nothing.
Everything a paying creator gets, from launch day, with nothing to cancel at the end.
Our take rate for nominees is zero for the full twelve months. Whatever your fans and our licensees pay, you keep.
Tell us who you are and what you make. Accounts open in waves ahead of the October 2027 global launch — early sign-ups get first access to brand briefs and a founding-artist badge on their storefront.