Tunecore

Artist services platform TUNECORE is partnering with electronic music platform for DJs, BEATPORT, enabling TUNECORE artists to distribute their music to the platform.

Dami Fresh, who was the runner-up at Afrochella’s Tunecore competition in 2022, said other ways DJs earn money is through building a brand, which could require hosting weekly, quarterly, or yearly events.

If an artist is self-distributed, they might pay a small fee to an aggregator, or upload service (some popular ones include DistroKid and TuneCore).

Digital music distributors TuneCore said World music, the category under which African music is mostly classified, is one of the fastest-growing music genres with a 57% increase in 2018.