Horus Music Reviews 

After months of chasing missing royalties, I finally had a meeting where a Horus representative admitted fault in their calculations and promised to fix it. 2 Weeks later, I followed up only to be told he “no longer works here” and that everything is now “correct.” Their own raw Spotify data shows I’ve earned far more than they’ve paid ~$4000 in royalties ~$300 in royalties paid, yet they refuse to explain the discrepancy. In my view, this is deeply unprofessional and suspicious. I've moved all my music elsewhere and I am pursuing legal action.

I'm an music artist by the name of Poshbwoy and this is my Second year working with Horus Music, the team are amazing to work with especially Bethany my account manager who always over delivers on every release. The pitching team has manage to get me on some of the biggest Editorial playlists in the world, such as - New music Friday India on Spotify & Amazon music +44 playlist. & I have had a music video on Vevo official UK rap playlist on YouTube for a year now which is amazing as I'm not signed to a major or have a huge backing, Horus is for the independent artist and I'm always recommending to every artist I speak too as I've used a lot of distros and never had this much support. The only thing I would say is that the platform itself and analytics reporting tool is slightly clunky but I'm sure Horus will improve that overtime and not such an issue as they exceed in everything else.

Hey, my name is Gaurav Pandey, and I go by the artist name DEVIL AARYA across all major streaming and social platforms.

I’ve been using Horus Music’s Catalogue Plus model for my independent record label, and we distribute 15+ songs every month through their platform. From my experience, Horus Music is not just another aggregator – their support system is outstanding. Anytime I’ve faced an issue or needed assistance, their team has responded and resolved it very quickly and professionally. It’s clear they genuinely care about their clients and their success.

I’ve noticed some negative reviews from people who may not have followed the correct processes or were involved in violations – but as someone working consistently and transparently with Horus, I can confidently say their service is reliable, fast, and artist-friendly. In fact, they’ve helped me grow my label operations more efficiently than other distributors I’ve tried in the past.

If you’re an independent artist or label looking for a trustworthy distribution partner with real human support and transparency, Horus Music is an excellent choice.

Thank you to the Horus team – keep up the great work!

Alara was amazing in her support to me from start to end of process of my song publishing.
I am grateful to her.

Their editorial pitch team is amazing Big Kudos to Matt! A great and amazing guy

When so much music is being distributed, it's hard to find a company that offer genuine customer support. These guys do just that!

The process to distribute was simple, and if I encountered any issues or had questions regarding the process, the team at Horus is on hand to respond to queries within hours.

The team was really responsive and held my hand through out the process, being novice in all this distribution business myself...even had a video call with a member of the team whilst building my release at the time...

Royalties have been paid in time since then each month....the layout is not the most intuitive I must say and it took me a while to get used to it...but now all good.

I've been using Horus for almost 5 years now and they have been nothing but fantastic in their services and customer service. I have previously had a query from Spotify about artificial streams, but there clearly weren't any and Horus dealt with the issue quickly for me. I also spotted a dodgy playlist add and Horus got me removed. There's always an actual human being to help - which I have needed when someone distributed a spam song under my name and when I (stupidly) uploaded the wrong audio for a release - they were quick to help and I can't fault them. I have many musician friends using other distributors who have had nightmares when something goes wrong as they have to wait ages for communication/help. I will continue to recommend Horus as I really think they've got musicians at the heart of what they are doing.

So I just got charged by you guys again after you guys banned me for no reason and took my money a year ago.

And now it just happaned again. What a shame! Ban people for no reason, and just ripping them off.

Please for god's sake, cancel peole subscription if you decided to ban them! Please!

And I want a refund, for real, I let you guys ripped me off the last time, but not this time!

Truly amazing music distribution company having a highly professional and cooperative staff members, I've been enjoying their services since my beginning and I'll continue it forever.

We are a large publishers and we use a wide range of distributors.

This is the order we would place them in and recommend others to use

1. Distrokid
1. Tunecore

If you are a single artist or band use Tunecore; if you are a record company use Distrokid

3. Offstep
3. Landr
3. Ditto

All will do what they advertise but a little trickier to use - but all are reliable

6. Freshtunes

We had some early problems but they do what they promise to do

7. CD Baby
7. United Masters

We find them a bit expensive for us but suitable for single artists and bands

We would not recommend using Horus or Soundrop

The human customer service is very good. It has been used for about 9 months, but most platforms have not received royalties. I have never received royalties from a single stream from soptify. Only Apple Music and NetEase Cloud Music have serious discrepancies between the royalties data and the playback data. Revenue per stream is one-tenth of the previous distributor's, and per stream only 0.001eur from any country on Apple Music.from previous distributor is 0.005-0.01$, I ask they twice , they didn’t give me any explanation.

Scam. First they show fast processing/distribution of your releases. But when your songs start getting streams, they suspend your account. The bad thing is they don’t notify you about this, you only know when you log in. Also they keep your releases on the platforms without taking them down. They want to steal your royalties as much as possible. No notice or response to this. Or they don’t dare to respond to me because I caught them doing it.

EDIT: They replied my feedback saying they have contacted me. That's a lie. As I said, there has been no response, despite my attempts to reach out 3 times and sending emails to all the addresses they have LOL

Using the excuse of "artificial streaming" is ridiculous. I've been in the music industry for over 5 years, don’t try to fool me. Everything is normal. They’re using "artificial streaming" as an excuse but still keeping my release up without taking it down LOL. Now I have to file a DMCA to stop them from stealing my songs.

Edit 2: I hope people can see that they’re just trying to argue here and don’t care about user feedback. My releases are still live on the stores. Now they’re blaming me for using threatening language. It’s ridiculous. It’s like a thief stealing your money and then demanding you treat him well.
If they only responded to "friendly" emails they would have replied to me from the first email. I was fine then.

EDIT 3: They tried to cover up by reporting my review. It's embarrassing. My review is now verified by TrustPilot. Horus can't do anything about it.
A warning to everyone who is considering using this distributor.

So far, not impressed. I made enquiries before signing up, asking what I thought were straightforward questions. Such as copyright issues with use of samples legitimately bought, and what the censorship policy was, etc. I did not even get a reply. It all seems geared toward convincing people churning out the same old same old that they have a chance. This is not rock ‘n’ roll.

EDIT

Got the response shown, which completely misses the point that I already did ‘reach out’ and contact Horus. So either that was ignored, or somehow vanished within their system. I’ve since read numerous reviews from others who are not at all happy, so I think I’ll make my own way.

They were initially very good, but about 10 months ago, suddenly in September, royalties dropped by around 70%. When I contacted them, they had one response: YouTube Red hasn't sent royalties since that time, and the royalties have been continuously declining.

I tried many music distributors, in my opinion Horus is the most professional, reliable and cheap.
The support is awesome, I always get a response in 24h.
I'm with Horus from more than 7 years, and I will never change.

I've been with Horus Music for a few years now and I've only got positives to share. The UI is super simple, the customer service is incredibly quick and efficient, and they're great value for money. I've not yet used any of their add-on features, but their standard features stand up against anyone's. I can highly recommend using them.

I didn't care about the bad comments here and I continued and I was idealizing Horus in my mind for they have an Asian market and they have adding team member feature to manage my profiles... It was all good in theory but in practice, this is a huge disappointment. I released my first song and released as an album as I was inspired from this model: (see. Meduza - Pegasus album on Spotify, trustpilot didn't let me put links)

And here is mine: (see FVRKAN - Anger)

And although everything in this song is 100% original, they claimed because I released also extended mix, and because these are together in an album, sending these to Content ID is not possible and they sent me some unuseful Content ID rules which doesn't collide anything with what I submitted. They didn't send my song to instagram and facebook and yt content id by saying it goes against their policy. It's totally original, how it can go against their policy? They said if I released this track as one song then it would be possible for me to get Content ID. It's unbelievable.

But in the first example I showed above, Meduza, has released their song like this and they have Content ID for their tracks, moreover they have Content IDs separately for their both tracks and they do both appear on Facebook and Instagram.

Definitely do not use Horus.

Horus Music has provided me with the best service, opportunities and support from all my previous distributors I could ever ask for. They have really helped my brand to grow and it’s always a pleasure to work together. I would definitely recommend Horus Music to you whether you are a beginner or already established artist . Trust me they are one of the best in the game right now in the Indian music distribution market . Thanks

After getting robbed and bullied by the ceo of UnchainedMusic.io distribution company, Horus is a breath of fresh air. They're systems are set up a bit confusing but they are competent and helpful. I have been there two months and so far have had a wonderful expierence.