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Top 25 Music distribution platforms based in the United States
RevenueBase identified 466 music distribution platforms headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 7,757 professional contacts across them, including 2,085 with verified work emails and 1,925 with mobile numbers. Los Angeles is the largest hub.
This list covers music distribution platforms headquartered in the United States, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 5, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest music distribution platforms based in the United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
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| 1 | 1,163 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “DistroKid provides musicians, managers, and record labels with online tools and services that are innovative, easy-to-use, and affordable.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 796 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The Orchard is a full-service music distribution company operating in 47 cities worldwide.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 556 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “UnitedMasters is a new music industry alternative that provides independent artists with premium music distribution services, a suite of tools to help them directly connect with…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 515 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “TuneCore-owned by Believe, one of the world’s leading digital music companies-is the leading development partner for self-releasing artists to build their audiences and careers…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 445 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Home to more than 1 million artists and 9 million tracks, CD Baby has paid out over $1 billion in artist royalties since its founding in 1998.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 340 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Virgin Music Group is the world’s leading partner to independent music companies and artists who require a standalone team with global infrastructure and local expertise in every…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 301 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in 2004 as the principal source of music for DJs, Beatport is today the worldwide home of electronic music for DJs, producers, and their fans.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 285 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Symphonic is a leading independent music distribution and marketing company founded in 2006 by music producer Jorge Brea in Tampa, Florida.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 255 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “TIDAL was founded for artists by artists as the next innovative streaming platform to bring value back to the music industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 192 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Audiomack is a youth-driven, artist-first music streaming platform that allows creators to share unlimited music and podcast content for free, along with tools to help them expand…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 134 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 111 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Vydia is an end-to-end music technology platform and services company that provides labels with the infrastructure and tools to power their business.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 103 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “As part of Downtown, Downtown Artist & Label Services is now proudly part of Virgin Music Group.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 86 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Purveyors of fine digital entertainment wares from independent artists worldwide.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 83 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “More than ever, music travels – crossing boundaries of geography, genre, and context.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 64 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Based in Hillsborough, NC (near Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill), Redeye began in 1996 by focusing on the rich independent music of the southeast and providing the artists that made up…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 58 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Supporting great independent music is at the core of Secretly Distribution’s DNA.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 48 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in 2015 by CEO Milana Rabkin Lewis, Stem empowers artists & labels to thrive while retaining full control over their music careers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 46 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Launched in 1993 as a fan site for authorized live music trading, nugs turned professional in 2002 when Phish teamed up with Brad Serling to officially release downloads of every…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 45 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Thirty Tigers: independent music marketing/distribution and artist management.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 33 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Digitally Imported, also known as DI.FM, the premier online radio destination for electronic music fans around the world, is the only electronic music platform to integrate…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 33 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in 1998 with the goal of being the #1 music service and brand for independent-minded fans, eMusic has served a community of 50 million users with personal music journeys…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 28 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Venice is an all-in-one music distribution platform that provides intuitive tools for distributing music, monitoring streaming performance, and receiving royalties.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 28 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Our mission is to change how music is created in today's digital world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “gamma, founded by CEO Larry Jackson and President Ike Youssef, is a modern media and technology enterprise created to revolutionize the way artist-entrepreneurs create…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: music distribution platforms. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names music distribution platforms.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of music distribution platforms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name music distribution platforms. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Music distribution platforms based in the United States at a glance
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How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among music distribution platforms, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in the United States whose own description of what they do matches “music distribution platforms”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names music distribution platforms), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among music distribution platforms, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United States are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 2,085 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 5, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
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Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names music distribution platforms, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many music distribution platforms are there based in the United States?
RevenueBase identified 466 music distribution platforms headquartered in the United States as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Distrokid, headquartered in New York, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most music distribution platforms?
Los Angeles leads with 70 headquartered companies, followed by New York (45) and Miami (16).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 2,085 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 466 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 5, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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