For artists

An artist's profile page is incredibly flexible.

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Want more information on how to set up an Artist profile? Read our guide here.

Your artist pages

Have aliases, several bands or unrelated projects?

From a single user account login, you can generate as many artist pages as you need or want.

Customize your page.

Want control over what your page looks like?

Style your page! Mirlo's default theme is designed to work well even without adding any visual should you want to keep things minimalistic, but feel free to personalize your page by adding custom backgrounds and changing the default colors.

You can go further and rearrange the page itself: rename the tabs (Releases, Merch, Posts, Support), reorder them so the one that matters most loads first, and choose how many releases sit side by side in your grid. If you've got news that shouldn't wait, pin an announcement to the top of your profile.

Links and locations

Let your community know where you are on the internet. Add links to your own website, social media, and an email address to let people contact you.

You can also tag the places you're from or based in. Listeners browsing Mirlo by location will find you there, which makes it easier for people nearby to discover you.

Releasing music

Have a lot of music to upload?

You're prolific! We get it. Or you're a label! Batch upload an album in one click just drag and drop the content of your album folder and you're good to go! The upload process is quick and painless to make it easy for you to upload your catalogue.

Already have your album zipped up? Drop the zip in instead, and we'll show you what we found before anything gets created.

Pre-orders

Releasing something in a few weeks?

Put a release up for pre-order so supporters can buy it before it's out. The people following you get told it's available, and everyone who pre-ordered gets access the moment it goes live.

Add bonus content

Got more than the music to give?

Attach extra files to a release or a merch item: liner notes, a PDF zine, artwork, stems, whatever you'd like. Buyers get them along with their download.

Tags and licenses

Tag your releases so listeners browsing by genre and style can find them.

You can also set the license for each of your tracks, so people know exactly what they're allowed to do with your music. If the license you use isn't in the list yet, you can add it.

Decide how much is free

Want people to hear a track before they commit?

Set how many times someone can listen to your tracks before they're asked to buy or add them to their collection. Leave it blank and listening stays unlimited.

Selling your work

Flexible pricing.

You decide how much it costs.

Artists get to choose how much of each sale goes to us. So if you want 10% of your release sale to go Mirlo, and you sell it for $10, we will get $1. If, instead, you need 100% of the sale, you get to keep it! Our payment processor (Stripe) takes a 2.9% + 30c cut. We trust artists to know how much of their sales they can afford to give to us.

Set a default cut once for your artist page, and apply it across everything you sell in a single click.

Releases, tracks, and your whole catalog.

Sell a release as a whole, or price the individual tracks on it so people can pick up just the one song they came for.

You can also set a price on your full catalog, so that a supporter can pay one price and get your entire current catalogue in one go.

Changing your mind about pricing across the board? Edit the minimum price on every release and merch item from one page rather than opening each one.

Merch

You can sell Merch using Mirlo. Merch shows up on your profile page, you can set flexible prices, track how much quantity you have remaining, set different types and categories, set custom shipping costs, etc.

Promo codes

Want to share your music with press or close family and friends?

Use promo codes to share your music for free with press or your proud family members and friends. You can generate an unlimited set of promo codes for your music. Distribute it with your merch or send it to your press contacts.

International payments

Need to interact with an international audience?

We can support artists from 46 countries around the world. If you're one of these countries you can sell to people anywhere in the world.

Keeping track of sales and orders

See what you've sold

Every sale across all the artist pages you manage lands in one place: releases, tracks, merch, subscriptions and tips. You can see what each sale actually earned you, with the platform cut and the payment processor's fees broken out, and download the whole lot as a spreadsheet for your own bookkeeping.

Ship what people buy

Selling physical merch means someone has to put it in a box.

Your orders page lists every merch purchase waiting on you, across all your artist pages. Move each one through its stages as you go, add a tracking number and a link so buyers can follow their parcel, message a customer if something needs sorting out, and export the order data when it's time for a post office run.

Your community

Posts and email lists

Have a community of supporters you want to stay in touch with?

Keep your community engaged through blogposts that appear directly on your artist page, and are RSS feed compatible. Blog posts can be made public or sent to specific supporter tiers. You can embed music hosted on Mirlo directly in your blog posts.

Don't want to manage another mailing list? Us neither. You can migrate your current supporters' emails to Mirlo and do everything from one platform. And if you ever want to take that list somewhere else, you can export it — it's your community, not ours. Your list is for keeping supporters up to date on your news and releases; for one-on-one conversations, use direct messages.

Monthly support

Want to have a predictable source of income?

Setup subscriptions so people can support your work, add multiple tiers for premium exclusive contents, or just keep it light and easy with a simple newsletter that your listeners can subscribe to for free even if they don't have a Mirlo account.

Want your users to automatically get every new album you release? You can do that too.

Know who's supporting you

See everyone supporting you in one list, subscribers and followers alike, along with what's actually coming in each month and each year — after the platform cut and payment processor fees, not before.

One-off tips

Not everyone wants a subscription.

Let listeners tip you once, without committing to anything ongoing. You can suggest a few amounts, and they're free to choose their own.

Say thank you, in your own words

Write your own thank you message for people who buy from you and for people who subscribe. We'll include it in the email they get, so the first thing they hear after supporting you sounds like you.

Messages from listeners

Want to hear from the people listening to your music?

Turn on direct messages and logged-in listeners can write to you from your profile. Messages reach you as a notification and by email, and you can reply to that email to answer the listener directly. Direct messages are off until you switch them on, so if you'd rather not have an open inbox, just leave them off.

Keep your own inbox manageable

Getting an email for every single subscription payment adds up. You can switch to a single monthly summary instead, and still get told whenever someone new starts supporting you.

Reaching beyond Mirlo

Embed across the web.

Need your work to appear somewhere else than on Mirlo?

Embed your tracks and albums on your own website or anywhere else.

The social web

Want to be discoverable across the social web (Mastodon, etc.)?

Enable social web following from your profile page so that fans can follow you from any ActivityPub-compatible platform and get your updates in their feed.