Join The Independent Music Revolution
NFT MARKETPLACES | WEB 3 MUSIC SOCIAL MEDIA | WORLDWIDE MUSIC DISTRIBUTION
Be Social and Earn
Join our social community on the Hive blockchain and earn cryptocurrency for being social!
Fans can discover new music while earning $MUSIC and artists can earn while connecting with fans and building their reputation!
NFT Marketplaces
NFTs give music the collectible value it deserves. After all, music is art, so it should be treated as such.
Music NFTs can be resold on the market and be used for special downloads and even tickets!
Shop and Stream
At the heart of it all is our BlockTunes is our music and merchandise store! This is where we list music for sale, link to your NFTs, sell your gear and more!
Fans can shop for the latest releases and gear and stream directly on the store!
Anyone Can Earn the $MUSIC Token
Join our music social community on the Hive blockchain and earn our $MUSIC Token! $MUSIC is used to purchase NFTs or can be staked to earn a percentage of our DAO revenue!
Instant Transactions
Delegated Proof of Stake (DPoS) technology enables near instant transactions with HIVE’s 3 second block times!
No Fees To Use
DPoS technology is also what makes it possible to transact with ZERO FEES! Just stake some $HIVE and $MUSIC and you are good to go!
Limited Supply
Like Bitcoin, $MUSIC is in limited supply. There are only 420 million $MUSIC tokens in total with burning features to decrease supply!
Staking Rewards
Earn passive rewards just by staking $MUSIC. Stake the token in your Hive Engine wallet and receive a portion of the monthly earnings!
Worldwide Music Distribution Service
You create and upload your music, we do the rest! Using our BlockTunes PLUS Release Service, we send your music to more than 30 of the most popular outlets. We collect and convert all earnings for the reporting period into HBD and distribute the funds to your Hive wallet, minus our 5% cut which goes to our DAO and is added to the $MUSIC token and $BTUNES token payouts. Some of those networks include but are not limited to:
Spotify
iTunes/Apple Music
Amazon
YouTube Music
TikTok Music
Soundtrack by Twitch
Pandora Radio
Deezer
Tidal
iHeartRadio
Instagram & Facebook
Boomplay
Are you ready to bring your music to the next level?
Sign up as a BlockTunes PRO artist today and you can get the following:
Mint Polygon NFTs
NFTs on our Polygon markets give creators and users more advanced utility and use cases such as special access content and tickets!
Music File Hosting
Host your music files on our servers or upload them to IPFS! You can then post using the file URL to Hive and earn some crypto!
Retail Store
Artists get their own retail store to sell their music, merchandise, and link to external NFTs on other NFT Marketplaces and other blockchains!
Artist Bio Page
An artist bio page with full bio information, pictures, links, direct tipping, RSS feeds, playlist of BlockTunes releases, and more!
Not ready to go PRO just yet? Get started for free today by getting a free Hive blockchain account and earning some $MUSIC Tokens by getting involved in our awesome community!
Once you are all set up on Hive, you can come and apply for an NFT whitelisting. When approved, you can mint NFTs on our Hive NFT market.
Get $pHDB on Sushiswap or Bridge from Hive to Polygon
pHBD is a Polygon wrapped version of the Hive Backed Dollar or HBD, which is our main stablecoin of choice for our Polygon NFT marketplaces. It can be traded on Sushiswap or bridged to HBD on Hive using the wLEO bridge from the team at Leofinance.io
Frequently Asked Questions
If you still have questions, then feel free to reach out on Hive, Discord, or Twitter and we will be happy to help!
BlockTunes is a platform that is trying to liberate the independent music industry and show artists a new way to earn a living through traditional and not-so-traditional means. Our mission is to turn music into fine art again.
Fans can discover and connect with new musicians, and get rewarded in $Hive, $HBD, and $MUSIC tokens using our blockchain social media network! Those rewards can then be used to purchase NFTs, or music and merchandise from the store!
We offer artists a way to distribute their music to the global stage through mainstream distribution as well as the option to mint limited edition NFTs that give their fans ownership of their music in a way that they never have before! These NFTs can then be used for special access memberships, event tickets, and more!
Our BlockTunes Release service is open to all musicians and will get your music distributed not only on our store but to mainstream streaming platforms as well! We convert all earnings into stablecoins and pay you accordingly.
If you want to step up your game, become a BlockTunes PRO artist and get your own retail store, artist bio page, access to our Polygon based NFT collection, media hosting on hour servers or on our IPFS connections. Artists can then post to our on-site feed which also goes to the blockchain and earns crypto! This makes a great place for cover performances, DJ mixes, and more!
NFTs, or non fungible tokens, are a digital representation of ownership, like a certificate of authentication. Unlike a normal crypto token, NFTs give creators the ability to actually tokenize their music and art and sell in a limited fashion like the old days of vinyl and CDs, just in a digital way.
NFTs give music the collectible value it deserves. After all, music is art, so it should be treated as such. Music NFTs can be resold on the market and be used for locked content, special downloads, memberships, and even live concert tickets!
Artists have a choice to create collectible music NFTs on our Hive NFT marketplace simply and easily with a Hive account and some $MUSIC tokens. They can also mint a more ‘advanced’ NFT on the Polygon blockchain, which can give creators and collectors a lot of extra utility.
Artists are encouraged to mint on both blockchains to maximize their exposure, we just ask that you only mint your NFTs on our markets! Other marketplaces frown on minting NFTs in multiple places. We are fine with it as long as it is using our marketplaces.
Polygon NFTs also connect with Opensea, the largest NFT marketplace in the world, which can enhance your exposure to millions of NFT collectors!
Artists also have the ability to mint one-of-a-kind pieces as rare collectibles using our BlockTunes RARE Marketplace (ERC-721) or mint multiple copies in our EDITIONS Marketplace (ERC-1155), both built on the Polygon blockchain. Collectors can resell and both you and the DAO earn royalties.
Fans can show off their collection in their Hive or Metamask wallets, as well as get special bonuses and benefits for being a collector! Plus you are just helping further the decentralization of the music industry.
We have 2 ways you can become a part of the BlockTunes family, the free way, or the paid way with a PRO account.
Whitelisting can take 1-3 business days as this is a manual process on our end.
Free account
You can become a BlockTunes artist for free by simply creating a free Hive account and getting started posting your music to our social network and earning $HIVE, $HBD, and $MUSIC tokens. Once you have your Hive account, you can get whitelisted on our Hive-based NFT marketplace and get started minting your music with $MUSIC tokens. When you whitelist on the NFT marketplace on Hive, we will automatically create an account on the main site, which then opens you up to being able to mint on our Polygon NFT markets.
Free accounts also get access to the BlockTunes Release Service which gets your music distributed to all of the major streaming platforms like Spotify, Apple Music, Pandora, and more.
PRO account
The PRO version of the BlockTunes artist account comes with other benefits. One, if you do not yet have a Hive account, we will set one up for you and send you the private keys. We also send you your first 10 $MUSIC tokens which will represent your ownership in the BlockTunes DAO. $MUSIC holders receive a portion of the monthly revenues after expenses from DAO.
PRO artists also get the ability to have their own retail store in which they can sell their music and merchandise, as well as link external NFTs on other markets and blockchains.
They also get an artist bio page that is manually created by our team that lists your social links, links to your artist store, showcases a playlist of your work, and a post feed from your Hive account! Not only that, there is a section where people can tip using $Hive, $HBD, $MUSIC, and other select Hive Engine tokens, as well as a QR code to tip using the Bitcoin Lightning network, which gets automatically exchanged and you receive the tip in Hive!
PRO artists can also store their music and video files on our servers as well as push them to IPFS using our nodes! These files can be used for NFTs, downloadable products, production packs, and more. Audio files stored on our servers can also be used when posting to your music blog.
Other benefits include discounted artist services like song mixing, mastering, cover creation, NFT video creation, website services, PR services, and more!
Artists can get paid in a few different ways. We have rewards from blog posts and curation on our community, NFT sales, store sales, streaming services income, and DAO income from staking the $MUSIC token and $BTUNES token.
Blog Posts and Post Curation
Artists can get paid by simply sharing music-related content on our blockchain-based community! All you need is a HIVE account and you can start posting your music on the blockchain! Other users in the community upvote your post and that’s how you earn! The more popular you get in the community the more you can make! Artists can also get paid by upvoting and commenting on other musicians’ posts. This is called post-curation and is another form of income on the Hive blockchain. Both artists and other community users will earn not only the $MUSIC token but also $HIVE and $HBD which is the Hive Backed Dollar stablecoin.
NFT Sales
When an artist mints and sells an NFT on either of our marketplaces, they get paid directly in their wallet. So if they mint and sell NFTs on our Hive based market, they are paid in $MUSIC tokens.
If they mint and sell on our Polygon marketplaces, they are paid in $pHBD to their Metamask wallet. With these markets, when items are resold by a collector, then both the artist and BlockTunes get a 5% royalty cut on the sale for a total of a 10% cut of the resale.
Store Sales
Sales of either music or merchandise on the BlockTunes store are paid out on a monthly basis around the 1st of the month. Sales of music or digital merchandise incur a 10% fee for the BlockTunes DAO and any print-on-demand products are a 50/50 split of the profit between the DAO and the artist.
Streaming Services
Artists that use our BlockTunes Release Service get their music distributed to the world stage via all the major platforms. Revenue from streams and sales is paid out every 3 months. It can take up to 6 months after a release to see revenue. This is something that we do not have control over and is how the services operate.
When we get those funds, we transfer the fiat into HBD and pay the artist 95% of the revenue. The additional 5% goes to the DAO to be paid out to $MUSIC stakeholders and $BTUNES token holders.
DAO Income
Our DAO, or decentralized autonomous organization, is a Hive account that will receive and handle payments from the store as well as handle back-end fees for NFT creation on Hive. The @blocktunes account will serve as our primary posting account and the @blocktunesdao account will be set as a 30% beneficiary for those posts. That account will also be set to follow the voting trail of the main account to accumulate curation rewards in addition to the posting rewards.
On a monthly basis, a percentage of these funds in addition to sales and royalties from the store, NFT collections, and streaming services are paid out to $MUSIC stakeholders.