1. Finish the track before you think about distribution
Export the highest quality file your generator gives you — a WAV or a high-bitrate MP3, not a screen recording or a re-encoded download. Most platforms, ARTIFONIC included, transcode once for streaming, and every extra re-encode you do before that is quality you never get back.
Give the song a final listen end to end. AI generators often leave an abrupt tail, a repeated bar or a few seconds of silence at the end; trimming those is the single easiest way to make a release sound deliberate rather than dumped.
2. Write down which model made it
Note the tool and version you used — Suno, Udio, Riffusion, Stable Audio, ElevenLabs Music, Mureka, or anything else — and what you changed by hand: your own lyrics, your own vocals or instruments, arrangement, mix, mastering, stems, sound design.
You need this information anyway. Streaming services, stores and app platforms are all moving toward mandatory AI labelling, and having it written down at upload time is far easier than reconstructing it a year later. On ARTIFONIC this declaration is required for every upload, and listeners can filter and sort the charts by the tool that made a track.
3. Make sure you actually hold the rights
Check your generator's terms: some plans give you commercial rights to what you generate, free tiers often do not. If you used someone else's lyrics, a recognisable voice, a sample or a cover version, you need permission for that part — the AI tool does not clear it for you.
If several people worked on the track, agree in writing who holds which share before it earns anything. On ARTIFONIC you confirm the rights and can list rights holders as part of the upload.
4. Prepare artwork and metadata
You need a square cover, an artist name, a title and a genre or mood. Keep the artist name consistent across every release and every social profile — that consistency is what lets a listener who liked one song find the rest of your catalogue.
Avoid cover art that imitates an existing album or uses a real person's face. It is the fastest route to a takedown, and it tells listeners nothing about your sound.
5. Publish where AI music is welcome
Traditional distributors will place AI tracks on the big services, but policies there change often, uploads get flagged, and a brand new AI project competes against the entire history of recorded music for attention.
ARTIFONIC is built only for AI-generated music. Register your artist name in Studio, upload the song with its declaration, and it goes into a catalogue where every listener arrived specifically to hear music made this way. The free artist plan lets you publish 3 songs in your first month and 1 a month after that; paid artist plans raise that limit and unlock audience insights and editorial submission.
6. Get paid for listening, not for uploading
ARTIFONIC pays out 30% of eligible revenue — subscriptions and advertising — into a royalty pool, split pro rata across verified streams in a closed monthly period. Uploading more songs does not increase your share; being listened to does.
Streams flagged as artificial by our integrity checks are held out of the pool and reviewed rather than silently paid or silently punished. You can follow counted streams and your balance in Studio.
7. Give people a reason to come back
Post in the ARTIFONIC community feed when you release something, link your TikTok, Instagram, X and YouTube profiles on your artist page, and tell the story of how the track was made — the process is genuinely interesting to this audience.
Release regularly rather than all at once. Discovery on ARTIFONIC rewards completion, repeat listens and follows relative to exposure, so a steady stream of tracks that people finish beats a single large dump.
