Direct-to-fan monetisation

A thousand real fans beats a million passive streams.Sell to them directly.

Backline turns your listeners into paying members. Tiers and exclusive releases, private gigs, pledge campaigns to fund the album or decide the show, your own forum and street team, and paid DM replies — all from one artist page, priced by you.

Revenue streams
7
Platform cut
10%
Payout
Direct
Setup
Minutes

Every revenue stream in one studio

Turn on what fits your career. Exclusive releases behind a tier, a show funded by pre-pledges, a sync licence, or a paid reply to a fan.

Up and running in three steps

01

Claim your page

Handle, bio, genres, photos. No approval queue, no waiting list.

02

Price your access

Set tiers, upload exclusives, list gig packages, open paid DMs.

03

Share one link

Everything you sell lives behind a single URL your fans already have.

For fans

Stop scrolling past the music you love.

Back the artists you actually listen to and get something real for it: unreleased work, stems, a seat at a house show, your name on the record, a reply that isn't a copy-paste.

Join as a fan

For artists

Your career, off the algorithm.

One studio for every income stream, one inbox for every enquiry, and prices you set yourself. Turn features on and off as your year changes.

Start an artist page

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