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YouSound is a music platform built to help artists earn more, build stronger communities, and better understand their audience. It combines fair-pay streaming, community-driven discovery, direct artist monetization, and AI-powered insights into one connected experience.

Subscribers pay a monthly fee for streaming. Artists earn directly from the subscribers who listen to them. Our model measures usage and engagement to determine which artists each subscriber listens to most, then distributes that subscriber's payment among the artists they support.

Unlike traditional streaming platforms, YouSound doesn't pay per stream. Each subscriber contributes $7 per month, which is distributed equally among the artists they genuinely listen to using our proprietary streaming model. Rather than treating every stream as equal, the model looks at each subscriber's listening habits to determine which artists they meaningfully supported that month. For some listeners, a single intentional play may be enough to earn revenue. For others who listen to music throughout the day, it may take many more plays before an artist becomes part of that subscriber's monthly distribution. Each subscriber's contribution is shared across the artists they genuinely support, rather than being consumed entirely by whoever generated the most streams. This creates a healthier ecosystem where artists of every size benefit from authentic listening. Established artists can earn more from the audiences they've built, while independent artists can generate meaningful revenue from smaller, dedicated communities—without needing millions of streams. You can explore different payout scenarios anytime using our Artist Earnings Calculator.

Your audience belongs to you. Every follower, listener, purchase, conversation, recommendation, and interaction is visible to you. We don't hide your audience behind black-box analytics or lock your data inside our platform. You can explore your data using natural language, understand how people found your music, identify your biggest supporters, and build relationships directly with your audience. You can even ask YouSound to recommend a specific song to a specific audience. Recommendation campaigns run for up to 14 days, one song at a time, and you can track impressions, plays, monetized plays, and overall campaign performance—all at no additional cost.

Everything. Every play, recommendation, follow, purchase, playlist, conversation, and interaction is connected to the people behind it, giving you the context traditional analytics leave out. Instead of asking "How many people listened?" you can ask: Who discovered me through this playlist? Which listeners became paying supporters? Who keeps coming back every week? Which cities are growing the fastest? Which artists do my biggest fans also listen to? Which recommendation campaign performed best? Simply ask in natural language, then drill into the results, explore the audience behind the data, and take action—whether that's contacting listeners, launching a recommendation campaign, finding collaborators, or understanding what's actually driving growth. Your data isn't just visible, you can have a conversation with it.

Our recommendation system is designed around fairness. New music receives fair rotation, smaller artists receive balanced visibility, and songs that genuinely connect with listeners naturally earn more exposure over time.

YouSound makes streaming fraud economically impractical. Every play is tied to a real account and only qualifying plays from paying subscribers generate royalties. Because creating artificial streams requires real subscriptions, attempting to inflate play counts quickly becomes more expensive than it's worth. We also don't display public play counts, removing much of the incentive to inflate numbers for social proof. Instead, artists are rewarded based on genuine listener support, ensuring subscription revenue flows to the music people actually choose to hear.

No. Any artist account can upload music to YouSound and build an unlimited catalog without a paid subscription. To protect the platform from spam while encouraging intentional publishing, verified free artists can publish up to two new releases per month. Pro and higher plans increase your publishing velocity, allowing you to release music more frequently. Unverified accounts are limited to 10 published tracks and 60 minutes of published audio, and cannot collect revenue, or become eligible for discovery until they're verified. This approach keeps publishing accessible for everyone while protecting discovery from abuse.

No. YouSound isn't a music distributor—we're the platform where your music is streamed, discovered, shared, and monetized. Keeping listening on YouSound is what allows us to provide higher-paying streaming, direct community, and deep audience intelligence in one system. You're free to release your music anywhere else you choose.

You can, but you don't need to. An artist's job is to make work that resonates—not become a full-time content creator just to earn attention. Release quickly or take your time. YouSound is designed for both, because your success isn't dependent on manufacturing enormous play counts. Bring the people who already care about your music to YouSound and give them one place to listen, follow you, join your community, and support your work. Our economics mean you don't need 100,000 monthly listeners to build meaningful revenue from streaming. We also removed many of the reasons artists were forced to spread themselves across multiple platforms in the first place. You don't need one platform for streaming, another for community, another for analytics, and another to buy access to an audience. YouSound connects those pieces. We protect discovery from fake streaming and mass-upload abuse, don't throttle your followers just to sell their attention back to you, and give you direct access to the intelligence generated around your music. When you want to grow, you can ask who your audience is, understand who's responding, and help your music reach more of the right listeners—without buying ads. Our incentives are aligned: YouSound succeeds when artists succeed. So the strategy is simple: make great work, bring your people together, learn from what happens, and keep releasing at the pace that's right for you. The goal isn't to be everywhere. It's to make where you are matter.

We don't try to detect AI-generated music. Instead, we design the platform so mass uploads don't overwhelm discovery. Publishing on YouSound is intentionally paced. Verified artists can build unlimited catalogs, but new releases are rate-limited based on account status, making large-scale automated publishing impractical. Publishing alone also doesn't create discovery. Music earns visibility through verification, human curation, and genuine listener engagement—not simply by uploading more tracks. AI-generated music can exist on YouSound, but it can't dominate discovery through volume alone. Our focus is rewarding authentic listening and giving every release a fair opportunity to reach its audience.

Stream counts are private by design. Artists have complete access to their own streaming analytics, earnings, and audience data, but that information isn't displayed publicly. We believe listening statistics are business metrics, not social metrics. Just as most businesses don't publicly disclose their revenue or customer analytics, artists should have the choice over what performance information they share. Music should be discovered through listening, not by comparing numbers.

Yes. If you own the rights to your music, you can upload previously released tracks to YouSound. If your release has collaborators, they simply need to have a YouSound account and accept their collaboration invitation before the release becomes active. Revenue is then automatically split according to the agreed ownership percentages, ensuring everyone is paid transparently.

Every collaborator must have a YouSound account. To collaborate on a release, artists must mutually follow each other before uploading the track. During the upload process, simply invite your collaborators, who will receive a collaboration request to review and accept. Once all collaborators have accepted, the original uploader must manually publish the release. Revenue is then automatically distributed according to the ownership percentages you've assigned. Collaborators can also be added after a release has been published. However, the original uploader is responsible for any revenue generated before those collaborators are added, as revenue splits are not applied retroactively. This ensures every collaborator has agreed to participate, ownership is transparent, and everyone is paid directly and fairly according to the agreed ownership of the release.

Everyone gets a free chat room upon sign up. Paid rooms and digital products require Pro. You can set the price from $1 to $1,000 per month.

YouSound is free to use. You can discover music, save tracks, build playlists, follow artists, and message other users at no cost. A subscription is only required for full-length streaming; free users can listen to song previews.

Listener Perfect for music fans. Includes unlimited streaming, messaging, playlists, and artist discovery. Pro (Most Popular) Built for independent artists. Includes everything in the Listener plan, plus higher publishing velocity (8 releases/month), the ability to sell digital products, create paid chat rooms, access AI-powered analytics, and 2 GB of storage. Pro Plus For growing artists who need additional storage, AI usage, higher publishing velocity (20 releases/month), and higher platform limits. Unlimited Designed for labels, collectives, and high-volume creators who need unlimited storage, expanded AI analytics, fair-use publishing velocity, and the highest usage limits.

Unlimited includes our highest level of access, generous Orbit AI usage, and uncapped media storage. Most members can simply use their plan normally. If your Orbit usage exceeds what's included, additional AI usage is billed separately and shown transparently in your account. Any Orbit billing issue only pauses Orbit—it doesn't affect the rest of your Unlimited subscription.

Free users: Content auto-deletes every 30 days. All paid plans: Content is retained for 90 days after account closure, then permanently deleted.

No, your messages are private and secure, but they are not encrypted. We prioritize transparency over privacy. This platform is designed for artists and creators and their supporters to maintain appropriate conversations. Our moderation team can access messages when necessary to ensure community safety and enforce content policies.

Yes, you can cancel your subscription at any time. You can resubscribe anytime to restore full access.