The basic idea
- You subscribe to tunes.fund and give a small amount each month
- You choose to distribute those funds via a spotify playlist or your recently played
- tunes.fund will distribute those funds directly to the artists
- Your name/data will not be shared with anyone (artists, other users, any 3rd party).
Small playlists to local musicians work best
How we distribute payments
- The list of payable tracks is made based on either recently played music or a playlist, depending on settings.
- For recently played the funds are distributed by time, so a 4 minute track gets twice is much funding as a 2 minute track.
- For a playlist the funds are distributed by track with no consideration for track length.
- Funds are distributed to each artist listed (according to Spotify) on the track evenly.
- Funds are only distributed to living artists.
- tunes.fund takes a 10% service charge to any payout to an artist approved account.
- Payouts over 6 months old will be 100% (no service charge) redirected as donations to Save The Music
- tunes.fund is a for-profit business and is not affiliated with Spotify or Save The Music
- tunes.fund will not refund any payment after the end of the calendar month.
- User can set a max popularity (according to spotify) or block an artist completely from funds.
At the beginning of each month
- Payouts are generated for all artists from all track listens/playlists of the previous month.
- For example with these track from 2 tunes.fund users:
User Track Artists Payment Dan A Fake Song with 2 Artists Artist 1, Artist 2 $4 Jan A Solo Song Artist 1 $5 -
Artist 1 would get a $7 (minus a service charge) payout ( $5 + $4/2 ) from the tracks that Dan and Jan listened to.
Artist 2 would get a $2 (minus a service charge) payout ( $4/2 )from the track that Dan listened to. - tunes.fund only processes payouts (after all user payouts are combined) of at least $5.
- tunes.fund will notify artists of the payment and will make payments according to what the artist specifies on their Spotify Fan Support Link.
- tunes.fund will store where the payment went and will be visible to the artists receiving the payment and users contributing to the payment
Payouts rollover
- tunes.fund attempts to contact artists for payouts at least monthly for 6 months.
- Payouts will rollover month to month during that time.
- Payouts that cannot be made will be converted to credits for the following month. For example, if you have a $5/month subscription and a $1 payout to an artist is refused by the artist, the following month $6 will be distributed to the following month's artists.
- Payouts over 6 months old be be redirected to donations to Save The Music
- tunes.fund takes a 10% service charge to any payout to an artist approved account.
- tunes.fund will not take a service charge for expired payouts to Save The Music
Payouts Privacy / Transparency
- Payouts to artists are viewable by any tunes.fund user who contributed to the payout.
- Artists can contact support to see a report of their payout totals.
- Users who contributed to that payment will not be shared.
- tunes.fund will not share any data about our individual users to any third party.