When a submission is signed up with a future release date, your release will not be made available with our partners before that date. Amazon and YouTube Music will both put up basic pages with "expected release date" information, but will not have any further functionality. Soundrop also offers digital pre-order for all content with a future release date to Amazon and iTunes.
To guarantee that your project is made available on the set release date we recommend submitting all materials to us at least one month in advance of the date.
We deliver releases immediately after they've been licensed. After all tracks are licensed and delivered to our partners, it typically takes 1-3 business days to go live on their sites!
Both previous and "ASAP" release dates will have your content go up as quickly as it's delivered and ingested by our partners. Please note that previous release dates require already having a barcode.
Release Date Changes
When signing up for a project to be released on a specific date, we strongly suggest looking at how long our process takes when selecting a release date. Changing the release date can be done manually for your upcoming release if its status is 'In Delivery' or 'Live' on the various music stores. If the project is processing then you'll need to reach out to submit a request to our support team to make the update. Please bear in mind that release date changes cannot be guaranteed within two weeks of the original or new release date.
Global Release Time
Spotify and some other platforms accept a global release time for your release to activate simultaneously worldwide. You'll have the option to select a global release time in the submission process in your account.
Releases without a global release time activate at midnight on the release date relative to local territories' time zones.
Please note that at this time, global release times are only currently supported by Spotify. If you select a global release time before 00:00 UTC, platforms that do not support global release times (such as Apple Music/iTunes) will activate your content 1 day early.