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 $1 fee. The same flow distributes tracks from 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 adds a $1 generation credit on top of the $1 base distribution fee. Roughly $0.92 of every OMG dollar is routed to the Artist Compensation Fund, which pays real, working musicians.
Uploading a Suno or Udio track is $1, the standard ONCE distribution fee. OMG releases add a $1 generation credit per generation on top of that base fee, because that extra dollar is the entire point. Roughly $0.92 of every OMG dollar funds ONCE's Artist Compensation Fund. Generation is free; you only pay the credit when you release the track.
The Artist Compensation Fund is a dedicated, audited fund that holds every dollar of OMG generation surplus. 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 OMG dollar. (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 $1 once to distribute, plus a $1 generation credit per generation if the track was created in OMG. 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.
$1 per song to distribute, forever. Tracks generated inside OMG add a $1 generation credit per generation, so a typical OMG release is $2 total, with roughly $0.92 of every OMG dollar going to the Artist Compensation Fund. 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; (3) pay-once pricing of $1 per song to distribute 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.