I'm having a problem with SoundCloud: my account shows a balance, but the transfer to PayPal hasn't been made! All document verification steps are complete, yet the money still hasn't been sent.
Payments above $500, and $200 for new accounts, will be sent for manual review. If everything in your account is in order, the payment will reach your PayPal around the 4th of the month.
I wasn't aware of this manual verification, since my previous payments were under $500 and were processed on the same day. Thanks for the help, as SoundCloud support has been difficult to deal with.
hey bro, what do they do when they review the payment? i do song promotion, but its not licensed as labels wouldnt accept it, however i get permission from other artists to upload their song and soundcloud, and do a better split for them, as they dont have artist pro and i do, so if soundcloud looks at my account and sees me earnings about $1500 a month from other peoples songs, what will happen?
Let me tell you that at least where I’m at soundcloud’s used primalry for some low quality demos, remixes or sometimes leaks of songs, deadass can’t even remember when I saw anybody using it as an serious streaming platform, rarely you’ll see somebody using it to listen to
Music on a daily basis, not just time by the time looking for some easter eggs. Focus on major platforms if u want to reach the most „sexy” regions with your music
i am at most of the streamings. i am distribute with distrokid, what helps me to reach wider, but soundcloud still my most listened streaming, so i try to reach more people for there and make them listen to me the better streaming for them. i always let my links and a linktree.
Try to get your music on spotify playlists, youtube playlists etc. from the regions you’re targeting. Those Distrokid playlists aint shit in my opinion tbh, u dont get too many listeners and they are pretty random, not really quality based so people dont care about them. And if you’re trying to make music in English, make sure your language skills are on the level that allows you to do so, cause it might be significantly harder to achieve something using broken English. But I think Portuguese speaking sector is so huge it has to be profitable if you’ll direct listeners to the platforms that pay proper money
i will try. dont really know how to get my music on playlist that fit on my music our something like that. and worry about my english — i not that good at — but my music is only instrumental, so nothing to worry lol
The easiest way is to search for some playlist with minor or major (but it might be tough to get there) popularity within your genre in the region/country u would like to sell your music to and contact their creators, sometimes they’ll want money, sometimes they’ll check the sound and decide by themselves, sometimes they’ll ghost u, but thats the easiest way. U can also make a playlist yourself and place your music in there, surrounding it by the most popular ones at the moment
On the other hand, 700 bucks for 3 million streams sounds funny now, it’s basically nothing compared to the same amount of streams even on spotify, you should make a really good bag already
They aren't bots; the only issue was the payment transfer that SoundCloud failed to send to PayPal this month. I discovered that the process undergoes a manual review once the $500 threshold is reached.
Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Switzerland, Germany, Denmark, Spain, Finland, France, UK, USA, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Mexico, Norway, New Zealand, Portugal, and Sweden
That's pretty awesome, congratulations. Although every time I see this I always think, "Well there's where my subscription dollars actually went."
I know Soundcloud has advertising and maybe subscription/ads are in two different buckets. But just like household finances, everything is ultimately commingled. Money is money.
I cringe a little with Soundclouds marketing: "Make Money. Get Paid."
I'd be willing to bet a TINY fraction of Soundcloud's paying members actually 'get paid', and an even tinier subset that get a nice payout like you got.
So that's awesome, well done. And I hope they come through on your payment. I'm sure they will, it probably just requires manual review to prevent the bot people from taking advantage of their system.
can we connect ourselfs? i dont got much followers our streams but i want to grow a community, and i would appreciate to have some friends of my own country
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u/Important-Common-172 Jul 02 '26
Payments above $500, and $200 for new accounts, will be sent for manual review. If everything in your account is in order, the payment will reach your PayPal around the 4th of the month.