Four of the eight self-serve music distributors most likely to sign a Nigerian artist state no revenue-share rate in any retrievable document. Two more advertise a full-rights or “100 per cent of your royalties” promise on the page that sells the plan while their own terms name a real cut of 20 to 25 per cent, and a further two state a cut only on a plan or in a document other than the one marketing to the artist. This desk checked two surfaces for each of eight companies, Freeme Music, Fresible Music, Songdis, InterSpace Distribution, ORB Entertainment, J. Sam Industry, Viral Playlists and Dvpper Digital, on 21 August 2026: the page that sells the plan, and the terms or distribution agreement sitting behind it.
What eight companies actually say, checked against what they write down#
Checked across eight self-serve distributors' own marketing pages and terms, 21 August 2026.
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| Disclosure status | Count |
|---|---|
| States a rate somewhere retrievable | 4 |
| No rate stated anywhere retrievable | 4 |
Source: Computed from this desk's nigeria-distributor-disclosure dataset (Freeme Music, Fresible Music, Songdis, InterSpace Distribution, ORB Entertainment, J. Sam Industry, Viral Playlists and Dvpper Digital, checked 21 August 2026), retrieved 28 Aug 2026 · download the data
| # | Company | Signup | Where the rate is written | Cut on a paid plan, % | Largest cut elsewhere in the same documents, % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fresible Music | Self-serve | Terms | 25 | |
| 2 | Freeme Music | Self-serve | Terms | 20 | |
| 3 | Songdis | Self-serve | Terms | 0 | 10 |
| 4 | InterSpace Distribution | Self-serve | Distribution agreement | 0 | 30 |
| 5 | ORB Entertainment | Self-serve | Marketing only | ||
| 6 | J. Sam Industry | Self-serve | Marketing only | ||
| 7 | Viral Playlists | Self-serve | Terms, deductions only | ||
| 8 | Dvpper Digital | By enquiry | None found |
Source: Own websites and published terms of Freeme Music, Fresible Music, Songdis, InterSpace Distribution, ORB Entertainment, J. Sam Industry, Viral Playlists and Dvpper Digital, checked 21 August 2026, retrieved 21 Aug 2026 · download the data
The split is exactly even. Fresible Music, Freeme Music, Songdis and InterSpace Distribution each have a document somewhere, a terms page, a distribution agreement or a pricing FAQ, that names a specific percentage the company keeps. ORB Entertainment, J. Sam Industry, Viral Playlists and Dvpper Digital do not. Nothing retrievable from any of the four states what share, if any, the company takes from an artist’s streaming revenue.
Where the number is written contradicts where the promise is made#
Fresible Music’s distribution page promises artists “guaranteed 100 per cent rights.” Its own terms set a different figure: the company retains 25 per cent of net royalties from paying artists. Freeme Music runs the same pattern at a different rate. Its homepage tells artists they keep 100 per cent of the rights; its terms set a revenue-sharing formula on net revenue that retains an explicit 20 per cent company cut, a figure that never appears on the page that sells the plan.
Two more companies complicate the picture without contradicting it outright. InterSpace Distribution’s distribution agreement remits everything, 0 per cent retained, on its paid plans, matching what its pricing page promises; but the same agreement keeps 30 per cent on the free plan, a figure the pricing page does not mention because the pricing page only describes the paid tier. Songdis’ terms remit everything on its Starter and Growth plans and keep a tenth, 10 per cent, on Professional, but the plan names on its terms page do not match the plan names on sale, and its pricing FAQ states a different floor again, making it possible to sign up without ever seeing the 10 per cent figure attached to the plan being purchased.
The remaining four state nothing. ORB Entertainment’s marketing says “every artist keeps 100 per cent of their royalties with no platform cut,” and no terms page was retrievable on the day to check that claim against. J. Sam Industry makes the identical promise, “100 per cent of your royalties, forever,” in its own guide, while its terms and conditions set no revenue share at all. Viral Playlists’ terms define net receipts after a partner charge that varies by server location, but state no artist share anywhere. Dvpper Digital takes submissions by email rather than self-serve signup, and its own domain returned no address record when queried from two separate networks on the day this desk checked, so no terms document could be retrieved at all.
The counter-reading#
Two things could break this finding, and both were tested. The first is whether the even four-four split is coincidence, one row away from looking completely different. It is not: the check is binary per company rather than a sum sensitive to one large row, and removing either side of the split still leaves the fact that exactly half state nothing.
| # | Scenario | Rows | Total | Mean | Largest row share, % | Change in mean, % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | All rows | 2 | 8 | 4 | 50 | 0 |
| 2 | Excluding the top 1 (States a rate somewhere retrievable) | 1 | 4 | 4 | 100 | 0 |
Source: Recomputed from nigeria-distributor-disclosure-summary, retrieved 28 Aug 2026 · download the data
The second is whether the size of the disclosed cuts, among the four companies that do write one down, is itself just one company’s number wearing a group average. It is: the mean disclosed paid-plan cut across those four is 11.25 per cent, but Fresible Music alone accounts for 55.6 per cent of that total, and dropping the three largest, Fresible Music, Freeme Music and Songdis, collapses the mean to zero, since only InterSpace Distribution’s 0 per cent paid-plan figure is left standing.
| # | Scenario | Rows | Total | Mean | Largest row share, % | Change in mean, % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | All rows | 4 | 45 | 11.25 | 55.56 | 0 |
| 2 | Excluding the top 1 (Fresible Music) | 3 | 20 | 6.67 | 100 | -40.74 |
| 3 | Excluding the top 3 (Fresible Music, Freeme Music, Songdis) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -100 |
Source: Recomputed from nigeria-distributor-disclosure, retrieved 28 Aug 2026 · download the data
This measurement carries real limits. It covers eight companies commonly pointed to by Nigerian artists, not a census of every distributor operating in the market; two more, Sound Genie and Afrobeats Distro, were excluded because their sites returned no nameservers or no rendering plan table on the day this desk checked, not because they were judged clean or unclean. It is a single-day snapshot, 21 August 2026, and terms pages change without notice. And “no rate stated” is not the same claim as “takes 100 per cent,” or as “takes nothing.” It means exactly what it says: this desk could not find a document that says either.
What this means for an artist about to sign#
The page that sells the plan is marketing copy, not the contract. On four of eight distributors checked here, it is also the only document an artist is likely to read before clicking sign up, and on half of those four it actively overstates what the artist keeps. An artist evaluating any self-serve distributor, in Nigeria or elsewhere, has one concrete check available before signing: ask for the terms or distribution agreement specifically, search it for a percentage rather than a promise, and treat “100 per cent of your royalties” as a statement about who owns the copyright, not about what the platform deducts from the revenue that copyright generates. Where that document cannot be produced on request, as with four of the eight companies checked here, that absence is itself the answer to what the company charges.
