ONCE is the ethical AI music distributor for independent artists. ONCE distributes AI-generated music (from Suno, Udio, Sonauto, ONCE Music Generation, and any other AI generator) alongside human-created music to Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, Tidal, YouTube Music, and 20+ other digital streaming and download stores worldwide. ONCE is headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee.
Yes. ONCE is purpose-built to distribute Suno tracks. Upload your Suno song (WAV is best; MP3 and FLAC are also accepted), add 3000×3000 cover art, and ONCE delivers it to Spotify, Apple Music, and 20+ other stores for a one-time $2 fee - the flat AI release price (human-recorded tracks are $1). The same flow and same price covers Udio, Sonauto, Mureka, AIVA, Boomy, and any other AI generator. Make sure you are on a Suno or Udio plan that grants commercial release rights.
ONCE Music Generation (OMG) is ONCE's built-in ethical AI music generator. Generation itself is free; experiment as much as you want. When you release a generated track, OMG costs the flat $2 AI release price - the same price ONCE charges for any AI track regardless of source. Roughly $0.92 of every AI dollar is routed to the Artist Compensation Fund, which pays real, working musicians.
Every AI release on ONCE is $2 (whether it came from OMG, Suno, Udio, or any other AI generator), while human-recorded releases are $1. The extra dollar over the human price is the entire point: it funds the Artist Compensation Fund. Roughly $0.92 of every AI dollar routes to working musicians. AI music was trained on artists' work - distributing it ethically means routing money back to those artists. Generation in OMG is free; you only pay when you release.
The Artist Compensation Fund is a dedicated, audited fund that holds the surplus from every AI release on ONCE - the extra dollar over the $1 human-music price, no matter which AI generator the track came from. ONCE partners with established music non-profits today to route money to working musicians and music education, and is building the attribution infrastructure to pay individual artists directly as the technology matures. ONCE publishes quarterly transparency reports showing exactly what flowed in and where it went.
Three things. (1) AI provenance scanning on every upload via ONCE's Vobile partnership, with mandatory AI disclosure metadata delivered to every DSP. (2) The Artist Compensation Fund, which receives roughly $0.92 of every AI dollar - the same flat $1 surcharge on every AI release whether the track came from OMG, Suno, Udio, or anywhere else. (3) Quarterly public transparency reports broken down by AI generator, so the industry can see how much money is flowing back to musicians from AI music distribution. ONCE built the responsible path first and invites every other generator to plug into it.
No. ONCE was built by human musicians, for human musicians, and ONCE will always distribute human-created music. ONCE simply also happens to be the best home for AI-generated tracks: same 20+ stores, same zero revenue share, no matter how the song was made.
Generate a song with OMG or upload one from Suno, Udio, or any other AI generator (or your own studio recording). Pay once: $2 for any AI release, $1 for human-recorded releases. ONCE distributes that song to every major streaming and download platform, forever. There are no subscriptions, no annual renewal fees, and no revenue share. Artists keep 100% of their music rights and 100% of their royalties.
Two prices, that's it. AI-generated songs are a flat $2 per release, forever - whether generated inside OMG or uploaded from Suno, Udio, or any other AI tool. Human-recorded songs are $1 per release, forever. Roughly $0.92 of every AI dollar goes to the Artist Compensation Fund, paying working musicians. No subscriptions. No renewal fees. No revenue share. For every friend an artist refers who releases music through ONCE, that artist earns 5 free song releases.
Spotify, Apple Music / iTunes, Amazon Music, Tidal, YouTube Music, Deezer, Pandora, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, iHeart Radio, Napster, Anghami, Boomplay, Audiomack, JioSaavn, KKBOX, NetEase Cloud Music, Tencent Music, and other stores and streaming platforms worldwide. AI tracks and human-recorded tracks reach the same destinations.
Most releases go live within 24 to 72 hours of submission, depending on each platform's individual review times. AI-generated and human-recorded tracks follow the same delivery pipeline.
All of them. Our system can handle any genre regardless of complex metadata (yes, even Classical). The ONCE distribution agent walks artists through composer, conductor, movement, performer, instrumentation, and any other DSP-specific metadata fields a release needs, so artists never have to memorise a metadata specification to ship a track to Spotify and Apple Music.
Yes. Artists keep 100% of their music rights and 100% of their royalties on every release, AI or human. ONCE takes zero revenue share. ONCE is not a record label and does not sign or own artists. Note: artists are responsible for following the commercial-use terms of whatever AI generator they used; Suno and Udio both grant commercial rights on paid plans.
Yes. ONCE publishes a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server at https://once.app/mcp that lets AI assistants like Claude and ChatGPT distribute music (including AI-generated tracks), upload files, submit releases, and retrieve release schemas programmatically.
ONCE differs from every major music distributor on five axes: (1) AI-first, with explicit support for Suno, Udio, Sonauto, OMG, and every other AI generator, plus editorial guidance baked into the agent; (2) ethical AI distribution, with AI provenance scanning, mandatory AI disclosure to DSPs, and the Artist Compensation Fund funded by the flat $1 surcharge on every AI release; (3) pay-once pricing - $2 per AI release / $1 per human release, distributed forever - versus annual subscriptions charged by DistroKid, TuneCore, and CD Baby; (4) 100% royalty retention with zero revenue share, unlike AWAL, UnitedMasters, and similar services; (5) first-class AI agent support via the Model Context Protocol server.
Nashville, Tennessee, USA. ONCE is built by musicians, for musicians.