Core
Open nowFree
For good. No trial, no time limit.
Everything in the Core column.
Open now.
For artists Open now
Your music.Your money.
For self-releasing artists who own what they make. Your first play from a paying listener earns the same 1p as your millionth, on every plan. Upload as much as you like, and keep your music everywhere it already is.
- 1pFrom your very first playFrom every Patron and Champion listener, with no threshold, the same on Core and Encore. Paying buys tools, never a better deal.
- 5%On merch and tickets, and that's allLess than most platforms take. The same 5% on every tier, plus the card processing fee.
- 100%Your music stays yoursUploading never changes who owns your recordings or your songs.
What changes
Every play counts.
So does every fan.
- Ten fans here are worth the same as anyone’s ten.One rate for every artist, big or small, and paying for a plan never buys a better one.
- Tell your fans something, and it reaches them.No algorithm in the way. Your messages and your email list go straight to the people who chose you.
- Real people, telling you it landed.Fans message you and you reply, one to one. Champions who ask for your kind of music can review what you send them.
- Every track here has a person behind it.Original music only. You wrote it or co-wrote it, and music made entirely by AI isn't allowed.
- Close the five tabs. Go and write something.Your page, links, posters, tickets and email list, in one place with one login.
- No deal to sign. Nothing to leave. Nothing to lose.Core is free for good, you keep every right to your music, and it stays everywhere it already is.
Where we are
Get set up now.
Be here on day one.
We’re bringing artists on board first, so there’s plenty to hear the day listening opens. Everyone who joins before then is part of how it starts.
Today Open now
- Upload as much music as you like
- Your artist page and your subTotem.link
- Gig pages and posters
- Tickets, at a flat 5%
Listening Next
- Patrons and Champions can play all your music
- Every one of those plays pays you 1p
- Everything you’ve set up is ready and waiting
What you get
Core is free.
Encore does more.
Every artist starts on Core, free for good: your music, page, gigs, merch and fans in one place, at your own address. Encore gives you the full page and more ways to reach fans. Encore+ adds the full producer and promoter tools.
| Feature | CoreFree | Encore£20 a month | Encore+£30 a month |
|---|---|---|---|
| Your music | |||
| Upload unlimited tracks, paid 1p a stream | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Play stats | Basic | Advanced | Advanced |
| Your page | |||
Your artist page, with banner and bio, at subTotem.com/artist/yourname | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Link in bio at subTotem.link/yourname | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
The short link subTotem.com/yourname | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Your own domain | Forwarded to your page | Your page at it | Your page at it |
| Videos | One, your showreel | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Photo gallery, extended bio and links page | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Diary and events | The last and next 30 days | Everything | Everything |
| A share page for each release and gig | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| A press kit at its own private link | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Logins of their own for your band and team, each with only what you choose | 1 | 4 | 4 |
| A to-do list shared with your band and team, and a morning email of what's due | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Your fans | |||
| Fan messages, with one-to-one replies | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Your own email list | Fans sign up | Email it, 5,000 a month | Email it, 5,000 a month |
| Send review copies of a release to Champions who ask for your kind of music, up to 20 a release | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Champions' reviews and photos on your releases, on your page once you say yes | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| A fan message board, and messages to all your fans | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Edit your replay videos, covers cut, and add a title card of your own picture and words: sell them, give them away or download them | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Hang-out rooms with your fans: free for them, up to an hour, on camera or just typing, and the chat is yours to save | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| An inner circle for the listeners who back you alone: diary posts, tracks they hear before they’re out, and hang-out rooms only they get into | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Live streams, free or with tickets, and chat, from the subTotem Live app or a computer | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Selling | |||
| Merch | One item | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Merch and tickets at a flat 5% | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Promoting | |||
| Gig posters in one press, from artists' own images | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Gigs at subTotem.show/yourgig | One at a time | One at a time | Unlimited, and repeating |
| Poster templates | With a small subTotem mark | Your own fonts | No mark, your images, sizes for socials |
| Tickets, names checked off at the door | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| QR scanning, door-staff logins, guest lists and sales stats | — | — | ✓ |
subTotem.show/yourname, always your next gig | — | — | ✓ |
| Producing | |||
| Beats, stems and demos, with 30-second previews | — | Up to 5 | Unlimited |
| Storage | — | 2 GB | 50 GB, then £2 a month per 50 GB |
| Send and receive files with artists | Receive only | ✓ | ✓ |
| Services listed, with questions about them in your messages | — | One | Unlimited |
| Sell beats, stems and services at 5%, with standard licences | — | — | ✓ |
| Royalty splits on your tracks | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Every plan pays the same 1p a stream: Encore gives you more ways to reach fans, never a better rate. Items marked Soon are on the way. Make beats or put on gigs? It's all part of your artist account, nothing else to sign up for; promoters who don't make music, and producers who don't release it, have accounts of their own: promoters, producers.
The price
Start free.
Pay when you're ready.
Encore
Launch offer£20
A month, or £200 a year, saving £40.
Founding rate: £100 a year, for as long as you keep it without a break, if you go yearly before listening opens. That's half the yearly price.
Opens soon: start on Core today.
Encore+
Soon£30
A month, or £300 a year: Encore, plus £10 a month for the full producer and promoter tools.
Founding rate: £150 a year.
Opens soon.
The price shown is the total you pay. Every plan earns 1p per stream from paying listeners, and subTotem takes a flat 5% on merch and ticket sales either way; card processing fees apply. Managers and labels have accounts of their own, from £30 a month: see managers and labels. An artist's own plan is unaffected by who manages them, and every penny still goes to the artist.
Compared
One place.
One login.
That’s Encore, at £20 a month. The same tools bought one at a time could easily cost £53.74 a month, with five logins to keep track of.
| What you get | Elsewhere | A month |
|---|---|---|
| Link in bio, without someone else’s branding | Linktree Pro | £9.00 |
| Your page at your own domain, with a shop | Squarespace Basic, paid yearly | £12.00 |
| Email your fans, 5,000 emails a month | Mailchimp Essentials, with VAT | £11.74 |
| Posters and graphics in your own fonts | Canva Pro | £13.00 |
| Send files to other artists, kept 30 days, or for good on a release | WeTransfer Starter, kept 3 days | £8.00 |
| Elsewhere, together | £53.74 | |
| All of it on Encore, with a press kit, fan messages and a page for every release | £20 | |
Each company’s own price on 25 October 2026 (linktr.ee, squarespace.com, mailchimp.com, canva.com, wetransfer.com), in pounds, for its cheapest plan that does the job, paid monthly unless it says otherwise, with 20% VAT added where the company says its price leaves it out (Mailchimp); card fees aren’t included. Some have free plans with tighter limits; WeTransfer’s is for personal use only. Selling costs a flat 5% on merch and tickets on every plan, where Bandcamp keeps 10% of merch. Founding Encore is £100 a year: £8.33 a month.
Join
Ready when
you are.
Join free on Core today. Encore and Encore+ open soon: you'll choose them in Settings, and the founding rates are there until listening opens.
Good to know
The small print, in plain English.
Original music only
subTotem is for music you wrote or co-wrote. Cover bands and tribute acts can't join, cover versions can't be uploaded, and music made entirely by AI, like a track from Suno with nobody in it, isn't allowed. AI used in the recording, through a plugin or for mastering is fine. The one exception is live: you can play covers in a live stream, and they're cut from the recording afterwards.
What a play is worth, here and on the big services
The big streaming servicessubTotem
What one play pays
About 0.2p to 0.4p to whoever owns the recording, before a label or distributor takes its share.
1p, to you, because you released it.
Quiet tracks
A track with under 1,000 plays a year can earn nothing at all.
Paid from the first play. No threshold, ever.
How the money is shared
Pooled and split by total plays, so the biggest artists take most of it.
Your listeners' money goes to you, and the rest of their allowance can too, as patronage.
Merch and tickets
A separate shop, typically 10% to 15% commission.
On your own page, at a flat 5%.
Your rights
Depends entirely on your deal.
100% yours. Uploading changes nothing.
Per-stream figures are the reported industry range for payments to rights holders. What an artist actually receives is usually less, after a label or distributor share.
Your links, explained
You choose your name once. Going Encore shortens your link, it never changes it, and nothing you've shared ever stops working.
subTotem.com/artist/yourname
Your artist page. Always works, on every tier.
CoresubTotem.link/yourname
Your link-in-bio page, for Instagram, TikTok and YouTube: your latest release, your next gig and everywhere else you are.
CoresubTotem.com/yourname
The short version of your artist page, for posters and socials.
EncoresubTotem.link/yourname/single
A share link for a release, an event or a live stream.
Encoreyourband.com
A domain you already own, forwarded to your page. You set it up where you bought it, and it costs nothing.
Corewww.yourband.com
Your page at your own domain, with your address staying in the bar. You add one record where you bought it, and we look after the padlock.
EncoresubTotem.show/yourgig
A gig's own page, made for sharing: date, doors, line-up, set times and tickets. One upcoming gig at a time, or every gig with Encore+.
CoresubTotem.show/yourname
A short link that always goes to your next gig, for posters and bios.
Encore+subTotem.com/epk/k7m2x9…
Your press kit, at a private link only the people you send it to can find.
EncoreIs Core really free?
Yes, for good. No trial, no time limit, and no cap on how much music you upload.
Does paying for Encore change my rate?
No. Every artist earns 1p per stream. Encore adds tools to your page and your reach — nothing more.
Can I upload covers?
No. subTotem is for original music. You can play covers in a live stream, and they're cut from the recording afterwards.
Can a cover or tribute band join?
Not as an artist on subTotem. Your own songs are welcome.
What about AI?
subTotem is for music people make. A track made entirely by a song generator like Suno, with nobody in it, has no place here. AI used along the way, in the recording, through a plugin or for mastering, is fine: there's no telling whether it was, so we'd rather say so plainly than pretend. Every upload is checked for the signs a song generator leaves, and you're asked before each one whether it's your own work. Beyond that, we rely on your word.
Do I get paid when someone plays my free track?
Not when it's played for free. Anyone can play your free track, the one track you choose, with or without an account: on your page and your subTotem.link. It's how new listeners find you, so those plays pay nothing, but they're counted (you'll see them in Plays) and reported to PRS for Music, so the songwriters are paid. Tracks you put in a press kit work the same way for whoever you send it to. When a Patron or Champion listener plays your free track, it pays 1p like any other stream.
Do you take a cut of merch or tickets?
A flat 5%, whatever your tier — less than most platforms take. The only other deduction is the card processing fee on each sale.
Who owns my music?
You do. Uploading to subTotem doesn't change who owns your recordings or your songs.
I'm a producer. Which account do I need?
If you release music of your own, an artist account: the basic producer tools come with Encore, and the full set comes with Encore+. On Core you can still receive files from the people you work with and share a track's royalties. If you don't, a producer account: your own page, free on Core, or Encore at £15 a month. It opens soon.
I manage artists, or run a label.
You'll get an account of your own, from £30 a month for up to five artists — see managers and labels. Every penny still goes to the artist.
Can I use my own domain?
Yes, one you already own, bought from anyone. On every tier you can forward it, so yourband.com takes fans to your page. On Encore you can connect it instead, and your page shows at www.yourband.com with your address in the bar: you add one record where you bought it, and we do the rest. The domain stays yours, and we don't sell domains.
What if I move back to Core?
Your music, page and fans stay put, and links you've already shared keep working. A connected domain keeps taking fans to your page for 30 days, then it's disconnected, and you can forward it for free instead. Your name is never passed to another artist.
When can listeners hear me?
We're bringing artists on board first, so there's plenty to hear on day one. Listening opens once the catalogue is ready.