The Gatekeeper's Pledge

Music United uses a single, transparent rate — 10p per megabyte— the same unit artists pay to store their music. The price is the size of the file you download. Every penny goes to the artist.

Your streams, your follower counts from connected platforms like Mixcloud, your global reach, your real-time listener activity — everything in one Engagements dashboard, unrestricted. All your data, always accessible.

Push your content out to other platforms through Distribution, then pull the engagement data back in through Social Connectors. See the full picture of your reach without leaving your dashboard.

Artists create their own events — gigs, listening parties, meet-ups — and sell digital tickets directly through the platform. Tickets are tied to the buyer's account and verified at the door with a live phone scan. The price you set is the price the listener pays.

Every Listener Patron subscription goes straight into the Patron Fund. That fund pays artists to perform at live events, covers venue hire, and makes sure listeners have great nights out — all at no extra cost. If there’s money left over from a gig, it goes to a local charity in the area where the event was held.

Artists can propose gigs — large or small. Once approved, the Patron Fund Manager takes care of everything end-to-end: booking the venue, booking the artists, setting up the tickets, handling every transaction, and paying all bills from the fund. No artist pays out of pocket, no listener pays at the door. The community funds the music, and the music gives back.

Artists go live and perform directly to anyone who tunes in — intimate sessions, DJ sets, acoustic showcases, and everything in between. Every broadcast gets its own page in the events listing with the date, time, and artist details.

When it’s live, listeners tune in. When it’s not, they can see the schedule and plan to catch the next one. Real music, happening in real time.

Artists who opt in flag their tracks as licence-free — ready for any DJ or radio station with a Music United membership to play with total creative freedom. A growing catalogue of music that wants to be heard, with direct connections between the artists who made it and the people spinning their tracks.

This is how we unlock creativity. A growing catalogue of licence-free music, and a direct line between artists and the people who play their tracks.

Every great platform needs a map. Ours is drawn like a transit line — clear stations, honest progress, and a destination shaped entirely by the community. See where we've been, where we are now, and where you can take us next.

When you press play, the music should just be there. Cloudflare's Bandwidth Alliance with Backblaze means content delivery costs us nothing — so streaming is genuinely free for every artist, and we're building a global edge network so your music plays fast wherever your listeners are.

Streaming is already free for every artist — Cloudflare's Bandwidth Alliance with Backblaze eliminates bandwidth charges entirely. The next step is bringing the platform closer to every listener on the planet. It's on the roadmap, and it's coming.

Music United is built by a small team that listens. We move fast, stay lean, and respond to the community in real time — because the people who use this platform should be the ones shaping it.

Patron and Artist Pro members submit feature requests and vote on what gets built next through the Road Map Forum. The highest-voted ideas move into active development. You are not just using the platform — you are steering it.

Being on Music United means being discoverable — not just on our site, but across the internet. Every artist profile and release is readable by search engines, smart assistants, and music apps. When someone looks for your music, we make sure they find it.

Your music, delivered every way we can — open to every tool and service that helps people discover music.