Altitude Music · Independent Label & Distribution · Est. 2017
Curated releases, real royalties, and a label collective built for the streaming era. Artists keep their masters, get paid weekly, and ship to 220+ stores in 24 hours.
By the numbers · 2018 → 2024
A record of execution rather than promises. Every metric below is a contract we have already fulfilled with the 184 artists currently on roster.
Roster Case Studies
Bedroom pop, electronic, jazz revival, and hip-hop — the roster is deliberately broad, but the operating standard is identical. Read the four breakouts below and you will see the shape of what an Altitude release looks like.
Featured Case Study · 01
"I came in with a six-track EP and a SoundCloud following. Eighteen months later I'm sitting on a platinum single and a sync on a Netflix original. They did not change my sound — they cleared the runway."
In-house Dolby Atmos mix on the Lattice EP drove 38% of its first-month streams from Apple Spatial Audio.
Service: Atmos Mix · Distribution
Distribution-only deal — masters and publishing 100% retained. Three sync placements in 2024 from the Altitude pre-cleared library.
Service: Distribution · Sync opt-in
Label services deal with full A&R. Cathedral placed on 14 editorial Spotify playlists in week one and earned a multi-platinum certification.
Service: Label Services · A&R
The Deal Terms · On The Page
Skim the contract terms below. If a clause matters to you, it is already in writing — not in a sales call.
100% master ownership retained by the artist. No buyouts. No reversion clauses hidden at clause 47. Publishing splits are negotiated case-by-case and written in plain English.
From delivery to live in Spotify, Apple, YouTube Music, TikTok, Beatport and 214 more — average turnaround is under 18 hours, with full per-store, per-territory status reporting.
Royalties accrue, settle and land in artist accounts in 6.4 days on average. Every artist gets a live dashboard with per-stream, per-store and per-territory breakdowns.
22 full-time A&Rs across Brooklyn and Stockholm. Demos receive a written response in under four days — from a person who listened to the record, not a triage bot.
Closed in 2023. The capital structure is built around artist payouts and label infrastructure — not growth-at-all-costs. Financials available under NDA for serious inquiries.
340+ placements in 2024 across Netflix, Apple TV+, Riot Games and Adidas. Sync is opt-in — your track joins an 18,000-track pre-cleared library searchable by mood, BPM and key.
Founders' Note · 2017
"We built Altitude because the split sheets we inherited didn't add up. We'd watched artists we believed in sign deals that paid them 12%, on cycles that took 90 days, for masters they would never see again. We thought — this is a contract problem, not a music problem."
