Play & Cue Music
a new star is born!
Release
Your Music
Worldwide
Dancemusic expert Frank Ehrlich founded Play & Cue Music in 2015. In his different functions so far
• as artist manager
• as artist booker for concerts, clubs and festivals
• as well as managing director of the Blue Art Event GmbH
he has been successfully active in the music business for over 20 years. The digital distribution Play & Cue Music wants to offer a fair and uncomplicated music distribution to talented musicians.
Our first signing for digital distribution was Martin Jensen (Danish DJ & producer). Meanwhile he is successful with artists like Imambek, Nico Santos and Alle Farben. Further highlight releases: Alfons, Hearts & Colors, Paxel, Rob & Chris feat. Udo Bönstrup.
Frank Ehrlich has worked as a manager with Cascada (since 2005), ItaloBrothers and R.I.O., for instance. As a booker, names like DVBBS, Alexandra Stan, Basshunter and Burak Yeter complete his reference list.
The music distribution
Your fans can listen to your music worldwide via streaming services. Spotify, Amazon Music, iTunes / Apple Music, Deezer and other platforms make it possible. Play & Cue Music helps you to place your music there and to release it online. We bring your releases as stream or download to all popular stores. With us, this even works “out of the box” – meaning even without a label!
We can also help you to promote your music digitally: While you continue to fill your social media channels with self-managed content and information, we provide your release to our industry contacts that we have built up over many years: DJs, TV and radio stations. These multipliers can publish your song on their own music channels!
You can measure the success with us. You will receive regular evaluations and payments from us. In the half-yearly statements we show you overviews in which country and on which music platform your release was heard online.
Distribution: We deliver your release to all popular online and download portals within a few hours. So streaming platforms like Spotify, Amazon Music, iTunes / Apple Music, Beatport or even Deezer can release your music. No intermediary label is necessary.
Promotion: In addition to distribution, we deliver your music to playlist makers worldwide. They then decide whether they like your music and include your music on their playlist.
Costs: You pay no fees for our distribution!
Full control: You decide how your music is promoted digitally.
Releases
The digital music distributor Play & Cue Music supports you with any kind of release – no matter if it’s just a single song or a complete new album. With us, you don’t need an intermediary independent label or a major label for digital music distribution. With Play & Cue Music you can sell your music all over the world on the web by yourself.
Our distribution signings so far:
A distributor arranges, manages and controls the audio sales to the music retailers with specific tools. Traditionally, artists were signed to a music industry label. The label mainly took care of artist marketing and the licensing rights of the music. Furthermore, it made the physically produced media available through a music distributor to retail chains, record stores and other retailers. For musicians without a label contract, it used to be almost impossible to sell their own music to a wide audience.This was especially true for the sale of cassettes, CDs and vinyl records abroad.
This was especially true for the sale of cassettes, CDs and vinyl records abroad. Nowadays, digital music in various audio formats sells mainly through online stores and streaming services. One click in the browser or streaming app and your fan can listen to your album or song. Thanks to the digitalization of the music industry, musicians can now earn money with music without an intermediary label. Artists can make their own decisions about their works and their usage rights and market them themselves – if they want to. A digital music distributor now suffices as the only link between the artist’s production and the customers who demand it. The music is thus available in the shortest possible time on Spotify, Apple Music, Google Play, Beatport and other music stores.
There are numerous best lists for online music distributors on the Internet. Worldwide known music distributors are for example SpinnUp, CD Baby, RecordJet or Tunecore. SpinnUp is an online distributor of the Universal Music Group. Artists who do not have a label contract with Universal Music become accessible through the group’s own distribution. The artists keep their rights, but pay there for the digital distribution. All providers in digital music distribution have their advantages and disadvantages. Who is suitable? It is worth taking a closer look.
The advantages of Play & Cue Music are the strong specialization and many years of experience in electronic music and dance music. If new artists come to our music distribution, we often know them before signing – personally or at least through connections. With big music distributors you can be one among countless artists. With us, you will be the focus of our specialized distribution.
And that’s not all: Through our artist management Blue Art Events, we have a close link to the live business – another channel for the income of today’s artists. If your music is successful, we can also offer know-how, tools, support and shortest decision paths for the realization of live booking requests.
