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How subTotem works
Where you're from
Where are you from?
So the artists you listen to know where to play. They only ever see totals, like "12 listeners from Brighton", never you, and a town only shows once 3 or more of their listeners are from there. You can change or remove it in Settings.
Not listed? Leave it blank.
Your plan
Pick a plan that fits
You can change this later from your account. Follower is free and takes a tap.
The price shown is the total you pay. The amount that goes to artists is fixed and comes out first.
Last step
Find some artists
Follow artists and their news comes to What's new. Choose up to three genres you like and we'll suggest five artists at random. Keep the ones you want: you can unfollow any time.
Who are you?
This is what fans see at the top of your page.
Where are you already?
Your website and socials go beside your name on your page. A YouTube channel lets you pick its videos for your page once you're in. All of them can wait: skip any you haven't got.
What do you do?
Your own skills and roles: what you yourself do in the music, such as singing, playing an instrument, writing or producing. Pick everything that applies; it helps the right people find you.
What do you sound like?
Your genres decide which playlists your music can appear in.
You can change your genres any time on your artist page, under What you do.
About you
Which are you?
Pick the one you meant. Nothing has been set up yet, so changing it is fine.
Who are you?
This is the top of your producer’s page, where your beats, stems and services go.
Your page will be at subTotem.pro/your-name. You can add your beats, stems and services, a bio, photos, videos, merch and links from it.
Who are you?
This is the top of your promoter’s page, where your gigs and tickets go.
Your page will be at subTotem.promo/your-name. You can add an About, photos, videos and links from it.
Your page
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Add
Sizes and options
Each one has its own stock, and sells out on its own. Leave this empty if the item comes one way only.
Photos
Posted
Your page
Videos
Paste a YouTube link. The title comes across on its own.
Add a video
From your YouTube channel
Every public video on it. Unlisted ones don't show here, as YouTube keeps them to you: paste an unlisted video's own link above to add it.
On your page
Your page
What fans see
Only you see this: the tools behind your page.
Your producer tools. The basic ones are free on Core; the full set is Encore, £15 a month or £150 a year, in Settings → Plan. Edit on your page, then Production, for beats, stems, demos and services; Files in Backstage, to send files to artists; and Royalty splits in Backstage, where artists' splits you're in are paid to you.
Producer tools are part of your artist account — nothing else to sign up for. On Core you can receive files from other artists and share a track's royalties; sending files and a catalogue of your beats, stems, demos and services come with Encore, and the full set is Encore+, £10 a month more. Edit on your page, then Production, for beats, stems, demos and services; Files in Backstage, for files from other artists (and to send yours, on Encore); and Royalty splits in Backstage, to share a track's earnings. The rest is coming, as promised on subTotem.com/artist.
With Core Yours
- A Production section on your page for your beats, stems, demo tracks and services, with 30-second previews: up to 5 beats, stems and demos
- 2 GB of storage, up to 500 MB a file
- Send and receive files with artists, up to 500 MB each — shared files clear after 30 days unless they end up on a release — Backstage → Files
- Receive files from artists, up to 500 MB each — download them before they clear after 30 days — Backstage → Files
- One service listed, with a price, and questions about it in your messages
- Royalty splits, agreed by everyone and paid to each — free on every plan — Backstage → Royalty splits
With Encore Yours
- A Production section on your page for your beats, stems, demo tracks and services, with 30-second previews: up to 5 beats, stems and demos
- 2 GB of storage, up to 500 MB a file
- One service listed, with a price, and questions about it in your messages
- Send files to artists too, and keep any file on a release of yours for as long as it's up
- Everything on Core
With Encore+With Encore Yours
- 50 GB of storage
- Then £2 a month for each extra 50 GB — Settings → Plan
- Unlimited beats, stems, demos and services
- Sell beats, stem packs and services — the same flat 5% — Production → Selling
- Standard licences on anything you sell: leases with the stream limit you choose, or exclusive
- A share page for each beat, stem pack and service, with plays, views and sales — Production
Your promoter tools. The basic ones are free on Core; the full set is Encore, £15 a month or £150 a year, in Settings → Plan. Gig pages, posters, guest lists, sales stats and the door list all start from Events on your page.
Promoter tools are part of your artist account — nothing else to sign up for. The basic ones come with Core and Encore; the full set is Encore+, £10 a month more. Gig pages, posters, guest lists, sales stats and the door list work now: Events → Gig page, Tickets and Door list on any event. The rest is coming, as promised on subTotem.com/artist.
With Core and EncoreWith Core Yours
- Pick artists from subTotem and build a gig poster in one press, using their own images — Events → Gig page → Poster
- One upcoming gig at a time, at
subTotem.show/yourgig, with the line-up from subTotem — Events → Gig page - Standard poster templates, with a small subTotem mark — and on Encore, your own fonts
- Sell tickets — the same flat 5% — and check names off on your phone at the door — Events → Tickets and Door list
With Encore+With Encore Yours
- Unlimited gigs, including ones that repeat — Events → Repeat
- Posters in your own fonts, photos on your page, and your own links
- Posters with no subTotem mark, your own background picture, and sizes ready for socials
- A short gig link,
subTotem.show/yourname, always to your next gig page - Scan QR tickets at the door, with a door link and PIN for your door staff — Events → Door list
- Ticket types, guest lists, refunds and sales stats — Events → Tickets
Your music
Music
Upload your masters. Each one is checked, then converted for streaming.
- Upload your tracks: several at once is fine, they go up one after another.
- Add the details: title, genre, credits and a release date, which can be in the future.
- Make it a single, or put it on an EP or album.
- Publish it, or an EP or album all at once with Publish all.
Add tracks
WAV, AIFF or FLAC — up to 90 MB each
Original music only: songs you wrote or co-wrote. No covers, and nothing made entirely by AI, like a song from Suno. AI in the recording or the mastering is fine.
Coming up
Each release with a day still to come, and everything that hangs off that day. Move the date here and the rest moves with it.
Tracks
Not a single and not on an EP or album yet.
Singles
A single can also be on an EP or album.
EPs & Albums
Section images
The pictures on your Top Tracks and Singles sections in the subTotem app.
Your page
Artist pageAbout youProducer page
What fans see when they find you.The top of your page, your About and your links.What artists and fans see when they find you.
It shows square everywhere, so you choose which part when you pick one.
Your fans
Message board
A place on your page for people to write to you. Nothing appears until you've read it — everything waits here first, and you decide what goes up.
Your fans
Reviews and photos
What Champions write about your releases, and the photos they add, up to four each. Nothing goes on your page until you put it up; on the Champion's own fan page it shows straight away, unless you say no here.
Your page
Credits
Other artists' tracks that credit you and link to your page. Your name on the track links here either way; it's on your page, under Credited on, only once you say yes, and you can change your mind at any time.
Your fans
Messages
Only you can see this: messages aren't open to everyone yet.
Messages
Conversation
Childline: call 0800 1111, free, any time, or talk to them online at childline.org.uk.
Samaritans: call 116 123, free, any time, day or night.
If you're in danger right now, call 999.
Before you message anyone, tell us your date of birth. We ask once, and messaging is for 14 and over.
Your fans
Message your fans
Goes to everyone who follows you, in their What's new. Not an email — it shows on their page and in the app, and they can clear it like anything else.
What you've sent
Your fans
Email your fans
Fans join your list from the box on your page, and confirm from an email we send them. Every tier builds a list; sending to it is part of Encore, up to 5,000 emails a month.
Only admins and test accounts can see this for now, while it's tried out. Nobody else's page shows the sign-up box yet.
The sign-up box on your page
Your list
Write to them
Sending is part of Encore. Your list keeps growing on Core, and it's all there when you go Encore.
What you've sent
Your account
Email lists
Every artist whose emails you get. Leave one or all of them here; following an artist is separate, and stays as it is.
Lists you joined from an artist's page without signing in show here once your email address is confirmed, in Edit profile.
Your music
Plays
What you've earned, and who's listening. A play counts when somebody has actually listened for thirty seconds, not when a link was handed out. A paid play sends you 1p; a play of your free track pays nothing.
What you've earned
A penny for every stream from a Patron or Champion listener, plus your share of what those listeners didn't play. It's paid to your bank once a month.
Your plays
Month by month
Your page
Photos
A gallery on your page. Add a picture, give it a caption if you want one, and put them in whatever order you like.
Backstage
Royalty splits
Share a track's 1p per play with the people you made it with. Everyone on subTotem in the split agrees first; from then on each play is shared, and everyone is paid their part with their own earnings. Anyone not on subTotem is invited by email, and their share is kept for them until they join. Free on every plan.
Your tracks
Your lists
To do
Tasks for you and the people you work with: your band and team, or your manager's or label's team. Anyone on a list adds tasks and gives them to anyone on it.
Settings
Your team
Your band and your team, each with a login of their own, and the managers and labels you work with. You choose what each can do in your account, change it or end it at any time, and see everything they've changed. Your bank details, payouts, refunds, splits, plan and account, and under-18s' fan messages stay yours alone. All the money stays yours.
Managers and labels
Manager
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Your artists
Demo inbox
Roster stats
Release calendar
Your label page
It shows whole in a square, so square works best: you can crop it when you choose it. A PNG keeps a see-through background.
Ask an artist from Your artists above. Each release shows on your page once they say yes.
PlaylistsTracks by the artists listed on your page. Playlists show on your page only, never in genre browsing.
Roster press kit
One private link for press, promoters and bookers: your label, then the artists you choose, from those who share Press kits with you, each with what they've written and a link to their own kit.
Showcases
Put your artists on one bill. One of them hosts it, so it's made in their account and the ticket money goes to them; the others are invited, as any host would invite them. Then add tickets and a gig page in the host's account.
Your team
Your details
Listening
Find artists
Choose up to three genres and we'll suggest five artists at random, none you follow already. Follow the ones you like; their news comes to What's new.
Settings
Your page on subTotem.fans
A page of your own for Champions over 18: the playlists you share, the artists you back, and more if you like. You choose every part of it. It isn't listed or searchable on subTotem; people find it when you share it.
Fan pages are for over-18s, so we need your date of birth first. It's asked once and never shown.
Backstage
Demos to labels
Send a label on subTotem up to three of your tracks, out already or not yet. They listen in their inbox, and nothing becomes public. Every demo gets an answer: a reply, a pass, or, if nobody gets to it in 60 days, it closes and you're told. One at a time to each label, and after a pass, 90 days before the next.
Put at least one track out on your page first: labels will want to look you up.
Backstage
Daily clips
subTotem posts 30 seconds of one artist's music on its Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and Facebook, with their picture, their name and their subTotem.link address: three days a week to start, then every day. Artists take turns, Core and Encore alike, and nobody can pay to go sooner. The day before yours, you're emailed the same clip to post on yours.
Backstage
Files
Send stems, mixes, masters, project files — anything up to 500 MB each — to other artists on subTotem, and get theirs. Files clear after 30 days, unless one of you marks one as on a release; then it's kept for as long as that release is up.
On Core you can receive files: download them before they clear. Sending files, and keeping one on a release, are part of Encore.
Sent to you
You sent
Your page
Links
Everywhere else fans can find you. These five show under your name on your page; your others are buttons on your subTotem.link page, in the order you put them.
More links
Bandcamp, Patreon, a shop, a label: anywhere else, in your own order. They're on your subTotem.link page, not your artist page.
Add a link
subTotem
Updates
What's changed, and what's coming. The newest is at the top.
Your account
Your feedback
Everything you've sent, and where it's got to: Received, Investigating, Fixed, then Rolled out once the fix is live for everyone. We email you when it's rolled out.
Extended bio
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Your page
Extended Bio
The longer story, told your way: paragraphs and pictures in whatever order you like. Fans reach it from a link at the foot of your bio, and it opens as a page of its own.
Your details
Profile
How you appear on subTotem.
Password
You'll need your current one to set a new one.
Your account
Plan
Your first month is taken by card. After that, your plan is paid by Direct Debit if you've set one up, otherwise by your card. Cancel any time: you keep what you've paid for until the end of the period.
Your account
Payment
How you pay for a plan, merch and tickets. Card and bank details go straight to Stripe, who handle our payments: subTotem never sees or stores them.
Test mode: no real money moves. Use Stripe's test card 4242 4242 4242 4242, any future date and any CVC, or sort code 10-88-00 and account 00012345.
Card
Pays for merch, tickets and top-ups, and the first month of a plan.
Direct Debit
Pays your plan from its second month, straight from your bank. It costs us less to collect than a card, and it never expires the way a card does. You set it up on Stripe's secure Direct Debit page, and your first month is always taken by card.
Your plan is paid by
Add a card
Your account
Settings
Your account
Delete account
This cannot be undone
Deleting closes your account straight away. You won't be able to sign in again, here or in the app.
Your data is removed within 30 days.
About subTotem
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About subTotem
How streams work
Your listening
Streaming stats
This calendar month.
Who you've listened to
Recently played
Your listening
Supported artists
How many streams an artist needs from you before you count as supporting them — and whether those streams are counted this month or over all the time you've been here.
Between 1 and 1000.
Counted
Artists you support now
Your music
PRS for Music
Whether your songs' performing rights are looked after by PRS. It decides how your plays are reported.
Your music
Your short links
On Encore, your artist page has a short address, subTotem.com/yourname. Every tier gets a link-in-bio page at subTotem.link/yourname for Instagram, TikTok and YouTube bios, and on Encore each release, single and event has its own page there too.
Two to twenty characters: letters, numbers and hyphens.
Choose carefully. A handle can't be changed afterwards, because links you've already shared would stop working.
Your basket
Outside the UK?
Your account
Your orders
Your order
Your order
Your music
Selling and orders
Your merch and tickets are sold through your own Stripe account: buyers pay you directly, Stripe pays it out to your bank, and Stripe's card fee and subTotem's flat 5% come off each sale. You're the seller: buyers message you here about their orders, and you can refund from here or from your Stripe Dashboard.
Getting paid
Discount codes
Orders
Your listening
What's new shows
Whose news appears on your page: new releases, videos, diary entries, gigs and merch.
Your listening
How you listen
Explicit tracks
Saved to your account, so it holds on every device you sign in on.
Sound quality
This one is kept on this device, because it's about the connection you're on rather than about you. Artists are paid the same 1p either way.
Your music
Where you're paid
The UK bank account we send your earnings to, once a month. Your sort code and account number are encrypted, and only ever read to make a payment.
Your listening
Your patronage
Whatever you don't stream in a month still goes to artists. You choose who, and how it's shared.
Your artists
Your page