YOUR
MONEY,
YOUR
ARTISTS.
Your subscription pays only the artists you play - split by your own listening time, with half going straight to them. All indie. No megastars skimming the pot.
Free, or £5 / £12 a month
Making music? Every subscriber who plays you pays you, in proportion to their listening. See the maths
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FEATURES
INDIE ARTISTS
Built for independent musicians who deserve fair pay.
PLAY IT, FUND IT
Your subscription only pays the artists you actually play.
STRAIGHT FROM ARTISTS
Posts and new releases from the artists you follow. No feed deciding who you hear.
NO MEGA STARS
Discover underground talent. Support real artists.
THE SYSTEM IS BROKEN.
$0.003
AVERAGE SPOTIFY PAYOUT PER STREAM
At that rate a thousand plays earns about three dollars. That's not a rounding error. That's a system designed to funnel money to the top while indie musicians subsidise major-label playlists.
78%
OF SPOTIFY ROYALTIES GO TO THE TOP 1% OF ARTISTS
When indie artists share one pot with the world's biggest stars, the money only flows one way: up. The bigger the star, the bigger the pull. Everyone else splits the rounding errors.
We built dela.fm because we were tired of watching talented musicians quit. Tired of “exposure” as payment. Tired of platforms that treat art as content and artists as inventory.
On dela.fm, each fan's money goes to the artists that fan actually played - split by their own listening time, then shared 50/50. Your listeners' pounds can't be diluted by someone else's favourites - and with no majors and no megastars in the catalogue, the money stays underground. See exactly how a fan's fiver reaches an artist in how it works.
ARTISTS GET HALF. ALWAYS.
THE EXPERIENCE
LOSSLESS
AUDIO
FLAC for Pro subscribers. Every frequency, every detail. No compression artefacts. No compromise.
listening nowLIVE PRESENCE
See who's listening right now. Your mates, strangers, the artist themselves.
ARTIST POSTS
Direct updates from the artists you follow. Behind the scenes, new releases, tour dates. No algorithm in between.
YOUR MONEY, ITEMISED
Every month, see exactly which artists your subscription paid and how much. This is a £5 month with 10 hours of listening - half of it split by time.
- KELP DIVISION · 6H£1.50
- MOTH ORBIT · 3H£0.75
- 4AM DUB CLUB · 1H£0.25
OFFLINE MODE
Download tracks for the tube, the plane, the middle of nowhere. Pro subscribers get offline access on mobile.
DEVELOPER FRIENDLY
> API ACCESS FOR EVERYONE_
Upload tracks, read the catalogue, manage playlists, scrobble plays, and get webhooks when a release goes live or a payout lands. Typed. Versioned. Documented from day one.
FOR PLAYERS & APPS
catalog:readTracks, artists, albums, shows, search, charts24 endpointslibrary:readLikes, history and saved shows3 endpointsplaylists:readRead a user's playlists2 endpointsplaylists:writeCreate, reorder and edit playlists6 endpointshistory:writeScrobble plays from any player3 endpoints
FOR ARTISTS & LABELS
ingest:readPoll transcoding jobs1 endpointsingest:writeUpload tracks, episodes and artwork5 endpoints
44 endpoints. Every key carries only the scopes you give it. Read the API docs
TIMED COMMENTS
React to the exact moment that hits. Comments pinned to the waveform, visible as the track plays. Like the crowd at a gig.