How Long Does It Take for My Music to Go Live on Streaming Services?

After you submit a release through DistroVibe, our team reviews it before it is sent to the stores. The review takes up to 7 days, or 24–48 hours with Fast-Lane.

Once your release has been approved and delivered, each streaming service and digital store processes the release independently.

Because every platform has its own ingestion, moderation, and processing systems, your release may become available on some services earlier than others.

Every release date must be at least 7 days from the day you submit. To help ensure your release is available everywhere on time, we recommend choosing a release date at least 2–4 weeks in advance.

This gives you additional time to:

• Complete any required corrections

• Resolve copyright or metadata issues

• Allow stores enough time to process the release

• Submit your music for editorial consideration where available

• Prepare your marketing and promotional campaigns

Fast-Lane

With Fast-Lane, DistroVibe review is done within 24–48 hours instead of up to 7 days. Fast-Lane is included free on Artist Pro, Label and Label Pro, and available as a paid add-on on the Artist plan.

Fast-Lane only shortens our review. It does not allow a release date earlier than 7 days ahead, and it does not control how quickly a streaming service or digital store processes the release after receiving it.

Store Processing Times

After delivery, each platform still needs to ingest, review, process, and publish the release through its own systems. Most stores need a few days, and times vary by service.

Platforms may occasionally need additional time due to:

• Internal moderation

• Metadata review

• Copyright verification

• High submission volume

• Artist profile matching

• Regional processing differences

• Platform-specific technical delays

Important

A release showing as Delivered to stores in DistroVibe does not necessarily mean it is already publicly available.

Delivered to stores means that your release has been sent to the selected platforms and is scheduled for its release date.

The platform must still process the content before it becomes publicly available. This also applies to Fast-Lane releases.

Your release moves to Live once it goes live on the stores.

However, even after a release is marked as Live, some platforms can take a few days to show it everywhere.

Claiming Your Artist Profile

For most services, you will need to wait until your first release becomes publicly available before you can claim or access your artist profile.

Spotify may allow artist profile access before the release date once the release has been ingested into Spotify's system.

If you need help locating or verifying your artist profile, contact DistroVibe Support through your account.

YouTube Content ID

If your release is eligible for YouTube Content ID, Content ID processing generally begins after the release has been delivered to YouTube.

Claims usually start appearing within a few days, but this can vary.

YouTube uses automated systems and additional review processes to identify eligible matches.

Because of this, some videos may receive Content ID claims later than others.

Delivery to YouTube Content ID also does not guarantee that every use of your music will be detected or claimed immediately.

Recommended Release Lead Time

Even when using Fast-Lane, we recommend submitting important releases at least 2–4 weeks before your planned release date whenever possible.

Fast-Lane shortens DistroVibe's review, but it cannot bypass or speed up the ingestion and moderation systems of third-party platforms.

Submitting early remains the best way to give stores enough time to process your release and to avoid release-day issues.