ReverbNation

Waste of money and time. They do not honor their agreements ( because they bury the lies with legal jargon in the T&C) by portraying themselves as a platform for growth. I have a dozen reasons why you shouldn't use this platform. I'm going to spare you the embarrassing details about this bot run service.
Take your music anywhere but here. Better yet, tell others not too. I'm not one for blacklisting, but please don't fall victim to this company. There are definitely ethics violations and fraudulent activities taking place. Bottom line. Don't lie to artists that pay your salary. Good luck having an actual person from the company contact you. Unless it's their lawyer, refuting all your claims. Please go elsewhere! And get your music heard and appreciated by another service. Keep making music!

Besides the mass amount of spam email I receive from them, the worst part about this website is how you can't get anywhere without them trying to empty your pockets - Go to upload a song, "file size too big. (greater than 8mb) please upgrade your plan to continue uploading". Or - "we thing your song is worthy of some free promotion, claim it here." Then you proceed to click and fill out pages and pages of garbage, just to get to the last page where you notice that they actually plan to charge you for it. No transparency! It's a setup. Illegitimate. BS.
Side note- I only ever had 1 fan on the platform and I'm pretty sure it was a troll.
I could go on for days about how useless this website is, but everyone else's comments pretty much sum it up. Don't waste your time like I did!

At one point I considered a merchant account but decided against it when I got to the end of the sign up and discovered the price. 9 months later, I find out from one of my fans in Belgium that she ordered one of my CDs several months ago. It was sent by a company called Audiolife. When she got the CD, it was just a blank disk and case with no graphics. I never authorized them to sell my music, and I never received any money for them selling my music. I've been in contact both with Audiolife and Reverbnation but neither can tell me how this happened. Neither will they pay me for my music or my fan for an inferior product.

Don't bother with Reverb Nation. I believe nothing that they do. I believe they invent opportunities for performers / bands. When I used them (for about 3 years) we reaped absolutely zero from entering into competitions. And sure, perhaps those reading this might think that perhaps our material wasn't good enough, but countless bands in the London area I know who have used RN have said the very same thing. A total waste of time and money. The music industry is the worst possible choice for anybody as we move into 2017. Absolutely ZERO money and quite possibly the most nepotistic industry on earth.

Their "opportunities" they send you are a scam. I was offered a recording deal by someone who wouldn't even offer me a contract to look over, wanted me to fly to NYC ALONE and pay for my own hotel and flight, on top of them keeping almost all of the profits and I had to market the album myself in order to make money. On top of that, another "opportunity" they sent me gave my computer malware when I visited the site of the "record company". I reported this via twitter and support ticket, and when I went to check the status I see they blocked my account for "fraud". If you are a serious musician do not do business with them. Use Soundcloud, or Bandcamp. You'll get more listens and better interaction.

I had an offer for a 3 day ''free'' trial to receive promotion for a new music video. After the 3 days there would be a charge, so I unsubscribed from the service 2 days before the paid renewal. And those lovely people charged me for the ''''free''''' trial. Even worse I got ZERO results from the so called ''campaign''. Not even a single view! This is a site designed to steal what little money musicians make these days and their features and 'tools' don't work in the slightest. You've been warned. You are a billion times better off paying that money advertising on youtube or facebook. At least there you'll see some results.

This site has great widgets that you can use on your own site, or does a decent job presenting your material if you don't have your own site, but when it comes to paid services is a ripoff. First, if you sign up for something that auto-renews, and you cancel mid-month, they stop the services right then instead of giving you the full month's worth that you paid for. Second, the opportunities seem to only ever go people who have done whatever they've done to accumulate ridiculous amounts of fans and there's no guarantee the promoters ever actually listen to your material when you submit. So, have an account there but don't bother to pay for services.

Horrible service taking advantage of and money from musicians. Our 'free trial' wasn't free at all as we began to realize they were charging us monthly. They've taken hundreds of dollars from us for a 'free' service we barely even used. When we wrote in about it they disabled and blocked our account so that we cannot see our billing history or any interactions. Since then they've answered no emails or phone calls from us. AVOID!

Reverbnation offered me a free trial for their services, then automatically charged me for the service as soon as the trial period was over. I never gave them any authority to charge me, they used my paypal account I registered for merchant services I had on their site. This site has nothing decent for free and is just a rip off, BEWARE! Artists trying to make a name for themselves are pretty poor and to try to take advantage of them with no guarantees of any return is just a rip off and taking advantage.

I found Maximillian r's review of Reverb Nation and had a similar experience. But in my case, I did not approve ANY recurring charges. I simply bought tickets to my son's show at Reverb. Reverb Nation uses paypal so I simply used paypal (though Reverb Nation) for a one time ticket purchase. BUT Reverb Nation/E Minor continued to charge 3 small charges to my checking account each month. One was like $9.95, and the other 2 were under $10. This happened for 2 years! We never noticed it and because too much time passed our bank would not reinstate our money. SO frustrating. We def. Look at our checking account closer now!

I've had my account for two weeks now then suddenly in one day my fan base grew to 30 members. But when I look back at my actual song plays it only recorded 17 plays. Now how can you have fans that haven't even listened to your music? The fan base members that I supposedly have aren't even in the same genre not even close. This simple observation has proven that there is an algorithm involved to make you the artist believe that you have fans so that they may encourage you to purchase packages to promote you're worthless music.