ReverbNation Reviews 

The crowd review service is fake. The billing practices are shady (auto renewals with a short window 1 year later and no communication/warning). Their paid lists do not increase any visibility to listeners. The DPK is garbage and venues avoid bands/DPK's from reverberation. The contests to access labels are also fake. This is a scam site - stay away.

If I could, I would award ZERO stars. Their crowd reviews is the subject matter of laughter and not to be taken seriously. It casts a light on suspicion also, as I received an almost identical review that another artist received, who is also on these pages. The same thing happened with me - ABUSE after ABUSE after ABUSE. For one song I was awarded 4/10 and the second song 5/10. They claimed they didn't like anything about my songs or my music. It casts a shadow of a doubt over them because the abusive report I received was either orchestrated by a programmed AI robotic system or a bunch of nasty school children, because the report is IDENTICAL to the other review on this trustpilot site. I have been told independently by other people that I sound very good and I have the voice of an angel, that is not what it said in that horrible report. Why bother listening to something that one does not like? It is simpler to just turn off or stop playing it. If they were real people who reviewed me, all they had to do was to stop listening to it and just state that they didn't like the song. Not everyone has the same music tastes. I will not be using this crowd review service again and to anyone contemplating paying for a crowd review on Reverbnation, I strongly advise you to NOT do it, because you will become the victim of BULLYING ABUSE.

I used the site for about 3 years and have pretty good perspective. Obviously, I'm not rating it well for some strong reasons, so I'll start with those. First - many better music distribution options (CD Baby, Distrokid, etc) that have a 1 time setup fee and then perpetually collect royalties. Reverbnation charges more, charges yearly, and takes a bigger cut. And - if you don't use reverberation for distribution, you have NO WAY of collecting royalties for plays on their site...no matter how many. Second - the whole "charts" is a sham, and its a way for them to sell you promotion for plays that rank your chart. Third - you are primarily marketing to other musicians and bands, which is just kinda flawed entirely. Fourth - the yearly fees for use are not in line with other options. Fifth - opportunities - regardless of having many songs "curated" by the site, I've only been sent through to maybe a couple "opportunities" (which many of those opportunities are available free with just a little searching). There are SOME positives. Their AD sets seem to actually publish to decent sites, but I don't think are as cost effective as other marketing options. The ADs seem to be "rigged" to where they throttle the amount of ADs displaying your songs to achieve a certain amount of exposure and pull back AD count if you getting too many plays, I've seen this. They seem to allow 10%-20% views to plays ratios, but if you start exceeding that (and I have), they throttle back the amount of ads. It's a strange thing. So for 100 ad views, you can expect between 5-20 song plays, regardless of your weekly "budget." So I think there are other better marketing options too. Hope this is helpful

I would have given it no stars at all this platform is a scam and I just cancelled my account with them this is ridiculous…. As emerging artist we’re simply just trying our best to get ahead but it’s crooks like you people….

really bad, bands go somewhere else don't get scammed.

Should be 0 stars. Reverbnation seems to be linked with another scam site, Number One Music. Almost impossible to get out of. Unsubscribing does not work for N1M who continue to send emails. Searches for a solution are sent to Reverbnation, so there is a clear link between the two parasitic scam sites. Help!

I don’t like the way you pressure me into spending money on promoting my music. I upgraded to a premium account and I ended up paying extra for a promotion I didn’t want. I agreed to run a promotion for seven day s and you continued it going without my consent and it was difficult to cancel it. I’ve got dyslexia and I find this part of your service none user friendly and I feel I’ve been ripped off.

I wish i could give negative stars, for their crooked nature. Reverb Nation is a toilet bottom feeding website that preys on musicians that just want to do good , but have no idea how the industry works. They constantly bombard you with BS lines like "congrats, you've been selected" or "people are noticing you" or blah, blah, blah get your slot on a nowhere promotion that goes nowhere and impresses absolutely no-one . borderline criminal activity here.

NEVER JOIN HERE. TRUST ME.
This network scams you about everything. From PR services, to music distribution. They will steal your royalties for various reasons, while your music does not violate any policy. Even when contacting the DSPs, they say that the revenue has been paid to the distributors. That proves they are arbitrarily keeping the money that should be 100% yours.

Never spend money on this service. You will only LOSE, not GET anything in return.

The law of cause and effect will come.

Been a member of RN for at least 8 years. It serves as another social media exclusively for music. My stats are generally excellent while maintaining my status as a Top 3-5 artist locally & regionally (& sometimes Top 10 nationally & globally). Yet, my good reputation & stats have yielded nothing. I submit regularly to opportunities & was never accepted by anyone offering anything. On several occasions, I paid for the crowd reviews. My songs would get great comments except for 2 or 3 who would give me a 1/10 or some other abysmal review with comments that didn't even apply to the song or were clearly wrong ( poor off-beat piano playing - for a song with no piano, terrible recording quality - for a song recorded in a real studio by a pro with an "A-list" resume). These crowd reviews would never meet ReverbNation's own standards for the next level of attention because of the few destructive comments. I have never been contacted for gigs or received any attention for anything on ReverbNation.

Well I logged in after a hiatus from music.

We have been in lockdown on and off and times have been rough. But now music venues are opening again so I can play Open Mic and carry on with my music.

About Reverbnation.com, firstly something like 2 Albums worth of releases have been taken off all platforms because my card expired and received a new one recently. I guess because Reverbnation didn't get paid instantly they just pull all of your tracks.

Half my tracks were missing from my page as well or de-activated because I had a Premium membership too which didn't renew because I hadn't logged in to put my new card details in. So beware of that if you upload in Lossless formats like .Wav and you have a Premium account these tracks will disappear if you do not pay up.

Finally I ordered a couple of Crowd Reviews, on one track I was rewarded 4/10. It was baffling to read with some people saying that the Vocals and Singer were 'Excellent' and then I got this comment from someone

''The only redeeming thing about this song is the music which is lovely. The person "singing" has a voice that will give anyone a headache, like nails on a chalkboard.''

Now if you ask me that is just plain abusive and that wasn't even the worst comment that I received in this Crowd Review.

I understand that my voice isn't the best at the moment, just started vocal training again as my school has been closed for nearly 2 years in the pandemic. I know my music and vocal needs a lot of work and that is exactly what I am doing.

I paid for crowd reviews for constructive feedback, not to be straight up Insulted!

Thanks a bunch Reverbnation.Oh and goodbye, there
are much better platforms out there that don't hold take your music down the moment you stop paying.

Reverbnation is focused more on charging artists more than the work they claim after paying don't fall for their scam by telling you about how you could get promoted all they do is ripoff your money and nothing they promised ever happens no sign of promotions or whatsoever

Poor customer service- I had a recent issue where I was suddenly spammed in my yahoo with mails that normally landed on the site's mail. Customer Service told me that this was normal state of affairs and there was no way to alter this preference. I tried to confirm this was this case as it hadn't been for the previous 4-5 years, with no response.

I have to say, beyond this experience is the obvious fact that there business model only exists to commodify the artist as consumer. You always feel greasy when using it :(.

Update: two weeks after posting this review, they've added my email to their "do not contact list". That's one way to to solve the problem, but to not give this preference to the artist upfront is a little behind the times.

Hint: Get on their mailing list. For all the emails they send, submit your music directly to the company, just don't go through them. (That is, if that company even exists because a lot of time it doesnt.)

I paid 25 dollars for a promotion. money went out to them, it ended there. No sign of any promotion whatsoever. Ripoff Artists.

Three songs from my debut music album Fractured, were selected by Reverbnation Curators, over five years ago. I have heard nothing since.

I have been the number 1 music artist, in every music category, for the whole of the United Kingdom, many times, in those six years.

I have been, the number 1 songwriter in the world, on Reverbnation.

And still, I don’t have a song good enough, for a crowd pick on Reverbnation🤔.

The songs I tried for crowd picks were songs called, Pride Comes Before The Fall, You Say We’ve Lost Our Touch, Political Correctness. The songs scored 7.3. You need 7.5. Check the songs out for yourself. Search for 1Spike😘

Kind of makes you wonder, if the number 1 artist in every music category in the United Kingdom, and the number 1 songwriter in the world, hasn’t got a song good enough for a crowd pick on Reverbnation, then what chance has anyone else got?

Also, when you check out a lot of the artist being selected for crowd picks and opportunities, on Reverbnation, the profiles look very, very, suspect.

The people at the top of the charts on Reverbnation, don’t seem to have any other online presence, except for Reverbnation🤨🤔🤔🤔

I have removed a lot of my songs from ReverbNation.

After six years of being on Reverbnation, I am starting to feel like, it’s been 6 years wasted 😥

Also, I had six years of having an account with #Reverbnation, with very little problems at all. But as soon as I got to be, the number 1 songwriter in the world, the account gets suspended, and I have to start again from scratch.🤨

Sounds like a very big con. #ConArtist

They restored me back to 1 1 1 4 this afternoon. But they can stick their rankings, up their ass.

Reverdnation is an absolute rip off and when your account expires if your files are too big you can't even listen to them as the owner of the profile. I have gotten way better results from YouTube and Facebook for free.

I personally believe that reverbnation is a scam 100% after using their service for months I didn’t see or get any results.

They will continue to charge you after cancellation. Months of $20 charges on my account while my account status is CLEARLY "inactive" (even says so on their site) and I have gone back and forth with their "help center" a number of times. RIP. OFF. Oh, and they do that thing where you can't get into your account and delete your credit card info after you sign up for a service.

I’ve had music on this site for years and nothing has came from it. I’ve paid money to promote songs submitted for thousands of offers just for me to NEVER get one yet I have a 100k streams on a few platforms but on reverbnation it seems like they just sale you dreams and ideas to get your money knowing nothing will manifest