Your music stays yours.
Your masters, your rights, your catalogue. Uploading gives us permission to stream it to subscribers. That's the whole deal.
Music streaming is broken. We fixed it. Now everyone wins.
Attention over streams.
Join the free waitlistStreaming is broken. Let’s stop pretending it isn’t.
You pay £12.99 a month. Do you know where it goes? Into a pool. Divided by total streams. The artists with the most plays take the biggest share. Not the artists you actually listened to. The machine rewards the machine. 1,000 streams on Spotify pays for a coffee. Your favourite independent artist sees fractions of a penny. The producer who made the beat? Often nothing. The songwriter? Don't even ask. That's not a music industry. That's extraction. We're done pretending it has to be this way.
How It Works
Your favourite artist knows your name.
Rate, save and share to push tracks up. Points unlock early drops and access. Artists see exactly who got them there.
For listenersArtists get paid attention.
See the actual people listening. Real fans fund you monthly, splits sorted the day you upload. No label. No gatekeeper.
For artistsTastemakers curate.
Reputations on the line. No algorithm.
For tastemakersCredits get paid.
On a released track? Claim your credit and earn from it every month.
For producers and songwritersEveryone above gets paid from one subscription.
Where the £9.99 goesSome things we'll put in writing.
Never used to train AI.
We will never train AI on your music, and we will never license it to anyone who would.
Uploading is free.
It costs nothing to put your music on RAAYDR, and it never will.
The artist money always moves.
Every fan's subscription follows their own listening, and the artist money in it reaches the artists they play. Monthly. We don't sit on it and we don't absorb what goes unplayed.
Join the first wave
People are the algorithm.
No black box deciding who gets heard. Real people, real taste, real money following both. The listeners who find it first. The tastemakers who back it early. The community that rates it. They are the engine.
See the maths// The real numbers
You don’t need a million streams. You need people who actually care.
This is what attention pays.
What your fans are paying
Day Ones lock a lower price forever, so a Day One fan sends less your way than a standard subscriber does. Standard is the steady state, which is why it’s the default here.
Attention share is your slice of each fan’s total listening. 40% means you are close to half of everything that person plays. It happens. It is not the average. Attention share is an assumption, not an observed rate. RAAYDR is pre-launch, so there is no measured average yet.
Spotifythe same people, paid per play
£48/month
Assumes 16 plays of your music per fan a month, 4 times the 4 plays a real Spotify monthly listener averages in our own Spotify for Artists data. The 4 is measured. The step up to a committed fan is our assumption.
RAAYDRthe same people, paid for attention
£712/month
£8,544 a year
Side income
The same 1,000 people, either way. To earn the RAAYDR figure through Spotify instead you would need roughly 237,000 plays a month.
55% of every subscription goes to artists, after tax, publishing royalties and card fees. Attention decides how that splits: the share of a fan’s listening you hold is the share of their money you earn. Play count doesn’t decide it. Devotion does.
Figures are projections based on your inputs, not a guarantee. Your share is 55% of every subscription, after tax, publishing royalties and card fees, divided by how much of each fan’s listening you hold. The Spotify comparison is per monthly listener, the number Spotify for Artists actually shows you, not per stream.
On RAAYDR, your earnings don’t depend on how many times a button gets pressed. They depend on real people choosing you.
// Find your place
Everyone wins.
The Artist
Get paid for the people who actually listen. Automatic splits for everyone who made the record.
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The Producer & Songwriter
Credited, found, and paid the moment your work plays. The split is built in, not begged for.
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The Tastemaker
Back music early. Build a reputation. Earn from a fund that rewards your taste.
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Fair is not radical. It just looks that way because the bar is underground.
The old system was built to concentrate value at the top. RAAYDR sends it to the people who make the music, find the music, and fund the music.
Join the first wave
Be one of the first 1,000.
The first 250 Day Ones pay £6.99 a month. The next 750 pay £7.99. Both locked in forever. When RAAYDR opens to everyone, it goes to £9.99. You were early. On RAAYDR, that counts.
No payment required to join the waitlist. We'll let you know when Day One spots open.
Frequently asked questions
RAAYDR is a new music streaming platform built to pay artists, songwriters, producers and tastemakers based on real listener attention, not just play counts. Spotify pays for streams. RAAYDR pays for attention.
On Spotify your money goes into a global pool and gets averaged out across everyone. On RAAYDR your subscription goes to the artists you actually listen to, in proportion to how much of your listening each one holds. A fan who gives you a fifth of their listening is worth 71p a month. Earning that from Spotify instead takes around 237 plays. A fan who plays nothing but you is worth £3.56, or around 1,187 plays. That is 55% of a £9.99 subscription after VAT, publishing royalties and card fees. Actual earnings depend on your share of each fan's listening.
Not yet, we're in waitlist mode right now while we finish building the platform. Joining the waitlist locks in Day One pricing and early access.
The first 1,000 listeners are the Day Ones. The first 250 get RAAYDR at £6.99 a month locked forever, the next 750 at £7.99, against the standard £9.99. The first 100 artists, 100 producers and songwriters, and 25 tastemakers get RAAYDR+ free forever.
RAAYDR is open worldwide for the waitlist, though our active marketing right now is focused on the UK.
55% of every subscription, after tax, publishing royalties and card fees, goes to artists, split by how much of each fan's listening they hold. Payouts run monthly once an artist passes £50, straight to their bank through Stripe. You can see what your own audience would look like on the calculator.
No. You keep full ownership of your masters and rights. Uploading grants RAAYDR a limited licence to stream your music to subscribers. Take a track down and that licence ends with it.
No. We will never use your music to train AI models and we will never license or share it for that purpose. And because nothing on RAAYDR plays without a subscription, there's no public catalogue sitting out there for anyone else to harvest.
No. Uploading is free and stays free. RAAYDR+ is a separate optional product and has nothing to do with getting your music on the platform.
Independent artists, songwriters, producers, tastemakers and the listeners who back them. Each has their own page built around how RAAYDR works specifically for them.
Someone whose recommendations genuinely move listeners to discover and stick with new artists. RAAYDR pays them from a ring-fenced share of every subscription, up to 15%, and anything nobody earns goes to the artists.
No. Playing music requires a subscription. That is deliberate: it is what makes fake accounts pointless here, because a subscription costs more than any account could ever extract.