ABOUT
WHAT PLASTIC HEAD MEDIA OFFERS:
• Distribution to all major online digital stores and streaming services
• Reaching local stores in all territories worldwide
• Transparent and monthly accounting
• Earn income from our direct partnership with YouTube
• In-store promotional opportunities and front store placing
What makes Plastic Head Media unique is we do not charge you for making your music available!
We give you the profits and take a small percentage. So you can leave your catalogue online for as
long as you like and you won’t pay a penny upfront.
LABELS
SOME LABELS DISTRIBUTED BY PLASTIC HEAD MEDIA INCLUDE:
Aftermath Music • Apocalyptic Witchcraft • Bad Omen
Be Music Group • Black Bow • Blaze Bayley Records
Cold Spring • Detour Records • Ghost Music
Invisible Hands • Nocturnal Art Productions
Punishment 18 Records • Resurrection Records
Right Said Fred Recordings • Rise Above
Setsuzoku Records • Stacking Sterling
Tin Toy • Vic Records
PAST AND PRESENT ARTISTS INCLUDE:
Ghost • Libera • Electric Wizard • Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats • Insomnium • Blaze Bayley
Orange Goblin • Peter Hook and The Light • Slaves • Inkubus Sukkubus • Diablo Swing Orchestra
Ingested • Ace Hood • Hagalaz’ Runedance • Witchcraft • Busta Rhymes & The Conglomerate • Blood Ceremony
Emperor, Pestilence • The Damned • Music For Cats • Twin Temple • Gene Loves Jezebel • Djevel
Conan • Ramzi • Coil • Mortiis • Nicole Williamson • Onslaught • S.A.S • Cruachan
Scary Bitches • Penguin Cafe Orchestra • Dreamshade • Arkona • Grand Magus
Diamond Head • Dismember • Wytch Hazel • Parkway Drive • Killing Joke • Mayhem • Hawkwind • Primordial
Marilyn Manson and the Spooky Kids • Brutality Will Prevail • Necro • Sleep Research Facility
Church Of Misery • October Tide • Nine Inch Nails • Ihsahn • Limbonic Art • Bleed From Within
Million Dollar Reload • Necrophobic • Thyrfing • Cam’ron • Penguin Cafe • The Gathering • Danko Jones
Anaal Nathrakh • Havok • Pungent Stench • Dvne • In Mourning • Opeth • Doom • Trouble • Destroyer 666
Chelsea • King Prawn • Dimmu Borgir • Steve Grimmett’s Grim Reaper • Kublai Khan • Psychic TV • Sacrilege
Hecate Enthroned • Ruts D.C. • Defeated Sanity • BRIDEAR • Dissection • Fozzy • Malevolent Creation
Hell Is For Heroes • Cathedral • Winterfylleth • MZ- 412
CONTACT
FAQ
WHAT ARE THE ACCEPTED AUDIO FILE SPECIFICATIONS?
PHMs standard audio spec is:
WAV (.wav) Format
16-bit or 24-bit
44.1 kHz
Microsoft PCM codec
Stereo
To ensure proper quality, please source your audio directly from a production master export.
Audio files created from a compressed format (e.g. MP3, AAC, or WMA) will have an inferior sound quality.
WHAT ARE THE ACCEPTED IMAGE FILE SPECIFICATIONS FOR ARTWORK?
PHM’s image spec is:
TIF (.tif) or JPG (.jpg or .jpeg) format
Minimum 3000 x 3000 pixels and maximum 6000 x 6000 pixels
300 dpi
RGB colour
Square
Please remove any crop marks, references to physical packaging, or promotional language from your cover image.
WHAT IS THE NECESSARY LEAD TIME FOR NEW DIGITAL AUDIO RELEASES?
PHM typically recommends submitting audio releases 6-8 weeks before street date.
Please note that delivery times can vary from one store to another.
WHAT IS AN ISRC?
An International Standard Recording Code, or ISRC, is a 12 character alphanumeric
code that identifies a unique sound recording or music video. An ISRC should never change once assigned.
If a master sound recording or music video has been distributed before, by you or another record label,
then you must re-use the previously-assigned ISRC when building your products in Workstation.
This is very important for rights management and royalty collections.
I DON’T HAVE AN ISRC. IS THAT OK?
Yes. PHM can assign an ISRC to a track if it’s the first time the track is being made available commercially.
I REQUESTED UPDATES TO MY TITLE ON ONE OR MORE STORES.
WHY AREN’T I SEEING THESE CHANGES REFLECTED?
After you request an update to a title, The Orchard is responsible for sending the revisions to the store(s).
The stores have final control over making the revisions to a release in their systems,
however, and update times vary from one store to another.
Spotify, for example, requires 2 business days lead time for updates.
If the changes you requested aren’t live over a week after your request
please contact your Label Manager with the links to where you’re seeing it.
WHAT STREAMING STORES DOES PHM DISTRIBUTE TO?
These are the streaming stores to which PHM distributes digital audio.
The availability of these services can vary by territory.
24/7 Entertainment GmbH • 7 Digital • Altacom • Amazon Digital Services Inc. • AMI Entertainment
AWA • Beatport Digital Download Network • BounDEE (Space Shower) • Bugs Corporation
Deezer • eMusic • Fizy • Flipagram • Google Music • Grammofy • iMusica • InternetQ SA dba Akazoo
iTunes/Apple • Juno Records • KKBOX • MediaNet • Mix&Burn • Mondia Media • MONSTAR LAB, INC.
Napster • Next Music (Pty) Limited • NMusic • Pandora Media, Inc. • PCM Technologies
Psonar Limited • Qobuz • Saavn • Simfy Africa • Slacker • SoundCloud Go • Spotify
Taihe Music Group • Telecom Italia S.p.A • Tidal • Touchtunes • TurkTelekom • UMA • Xbox Music
HOW DO I REMOVE A SUBMITTED PRODUCT FROM MY CATALOGUE?
If you lose rights to a product and wish to remove it, please contact your label manager.
HOW IS PHM / THE ORCHARD INVOLVED WITH YOUTUBE?
We deliver video and audio content to YouTube.
While we make video content available on the platform, we deliver audio only in the form of special fingerprints
that YouTube uses to recognize your music in user-uploaded videos on their platform
(also known as user-generated content, or “UGC”). We also fingerprint video content to identify video UGC.
WHAT DOES YOUTUBE DO WHEN THEY IDENTIFY VIDEOS THAT CONTAIN OUR AUDIO?
When YouTube’s system recognizes that a video contains music from PHM / The Orchard,
an automated email is sent to the video’s uploader notifying them that their
video contains a track controlled by The Orchard.
At this point, the content has been “claimed” by The Orchard.
YouTube then uses that connection to apply The Orchard’s preferred policy: either “monetize” or “block”.
If you want to block a video, contact your Label Manager. Otherwise, the video will start to monetize by default.
Two automated processes will then occur:
YouTube will place an advertisement next to the video and pass a portion of that
advertisement revenue to you via The Orchard.
The artist and track name will appear below the video with a link to buy the track
on iTunes & Amazon (if the track has been delivered to those outlets).
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