SUBMIT YOUR ALBUM ONLINE:

The first step is to create your free account at Catapult and login to your control panel. Just click on "Sign Up" in the top right of the page if you are ready to begin.

You then submit your album's information such as Artist Name, Title, Track Listing, etc.

You'll be asked at that time to make payment for the $25 setup fee.

PROCESSING:

Once the album has been submitted, you would then either upload your album's audio and cover art files OR ship us two (2) copies of each album submitted to our encoding facility.

When we receive the album(s), we begin our work of encoding, scanning(if necessary), generation and assigning of ISRCs, metadata generation, and ingestion and delivery into the stores. This process normally takes about 7 business days to complete.

After we deliver your album(s) to the music stores it can still take several weeks before your album(s) appear online in each music store (Average of 4-8 weeks for iTunes). This is due to each music store's own ingestion procedures and queues. If timing is important for your realase, we do offer a 14 day iTunes Expediting Service for a nominal fee.

RECEIVE PAYMENTS FROM SALES:

Once your music is purchased and downloaded on each music store, they then report back to us for each download of your album or track. We then parse the information and report it back to your control panel. Payment is then sent to your PayPal account at the end of each month.

From then on, you'll receive reports in your control panel and payments via your PayPal account every month...as long as there have been downloads of your music.

A PayPal account*. PayPal is the global leader in online payments, and it's free to setup a new account. You will not be charged any transaction fees by PayPal as we cover all of the fees when we send you your payment. To create a new PayPal account, please visit www.paypal.com.

A UPC for each album submitted. The UPC is the numerical representation of a barcode and all of the stores require each album have one as a method of tracking your album within their music stores. If you do not have a UPC, no problem. We can provide you with one for only $20 during the album submission process.

Cover Art for your album.

Ready to begin?  Click Here to create your free Catapult account.

What Others Are Saying About Catapult:

"...Where other digital distributor payouts were laughably small, Catapult's were more than fair and actually skewed rates in the artists' favor; imagine that. I'm glad to be associated with these folks. Their payouts are prompt (once a month on the dot) and they are accessible whenever I have questions/concerns, unlike many other faceless corporations whose empty promises of "customer service" fail once they get your money."

Eric Peters - Independent Artist