ReverbNation

This is of NO BENEFIT to any musician songwriter performing artist other than getting your stuff seen and heard by others just like you that are looking for the same exposure you were looking for. So it is a inward circle. This is not a valuable promotional tool. Take a look at any of the acts/talent reverb page and you will find that the overwhelming majority of any one acts fans or any one that has interacted with this act/talent on their particular site will be primarily other musicians songwriters etc. This may make you feel good about yourself but it does nothing for the promotion of you product. FB and a web site with a little creative work on your part will do far more for you especially if you are a performing artist. I personally am part of a group that has a fair amount of success in our region of the country and I can honestly say that Reverbnation has done absolutely nothing of any benefit as for bringing me a larger fan base other than other musicians. Bar owners and other regional venues and event promoters may have a reverb page but even they see just how un effective it is and they stop interacting with it. I am not telling you not to join Revebrnation just understand what it is and what it won't and can't do for you

Reverbnation is a fraud! So, we were #1 in our region by a LONG shot before ever paying ANYTHING except for $3 promotion monthly however reverbnation found some way to use my EXPIRED credit card and proceeded to weasel $350 out of my bank account for four weeks straight before I noticed. I proceeded to stop payment and fortunately my bank got my money back. Like I stated earlier we were #1 by far in EVERY category but when they figured out I got my money back they locked me out of my band account and destroyed our ranking. I asked them why they locked our site down they said I ordered their service(my account was hacked) and I owed them money. I did not order any services from them. These SCUMBAGS are not here to help bands... period. They are here to PREY on hard working musicians. Most likely a basement geek with a paypal account who is stealing from us. This is the scum that is rampant throughout the entire modern day music business. They all need to be hung by the balls!
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Collaborating with other artist is great Artists work hard to build their online Reverb music account some take years and have over a hundred tracks.
In other word the artist build, promote the reverb site with their own musical product the artist being the life blood of the ReverbNation site.

They are rewarded with promotion, and credit card scams which why you should never give Reverb your credit card they wait a year and then steal when you are not looking. Sure Reverb understands this is wrong which why they created the "Artist First" after they were caught stealing and adding unauthorized charges on artist accounts.

The artist that noticed and reported the card theft were unlocked out of their fan and music site and told if they accepted the fraudulent charges and withdrew their complaints the could be unlocked.

Extortion? You decide this is a real locked out Artist conversation with Reverbnation:

Hay Reverb my account is locked.

ReverbNation's shocking response: Did you, at any point, contact your bank (or Pay Pal) to claim that charges from ReverbNation were unauthorized? If so, this is considered a "charge-back", and once we receive notice of a charge-back we must suspend the profile from which the charges came. In order to get your account back active, you must reach out to your bank (or Pay Pal) in the same fashion as you did when filing the charge-back, and let them know that the charges were NOT unauthorized.

Steven Billing Support

Wow!

They just do not mean anything and pulled from Slicethepie. As a reviewer myself at Slicethepie I know that there is a time limit of 90 seconds to listen to a song. Then they have to review it with the most sophisticated words they can use in order to make more cents for one review. Actually it doesnt matter "what" they are writing as long the system is catching the programmed words. I was so stupid to pay for 5 song reviews twice. 2 and 3 songs. I did not read the last review anymore as I got upset like hell. The "reviewer" (guess there are only a few real musicians) writing rude, nasty, weird and disrespectful to your hard work. Its seems some of them really do not get the point of ART which sometimes CAN be out of the norm. I am a musician with 40 years experience. As a 80th child and producing music such like that but with quality. To produce old school music does not automatically mean its bad, so why they are giving low rates only the music is a kinda outdated? To be honest I really HATE that I joined and I hate them for making money from artists. Its a money machine. Not for us artist, no, for them indeed! I still have the account but cancelled all money related features! Do the same, its better for your wallet!

After doing many crowd reviews on reverbnation, the reviews are obviously fake.
ALL of my songs are INSTRUMENTALS, yet many of the so-called crown reviews compliment or criticize the VOCALS and LYRICS?! Now how is that possible when ALL OF MY MUSIC HAS NO VOCALS AT ALL?! And after researching the web, I found TONS of SCAM and RIPOFF reports about Reverberation, even info about them being banned from operating in the United States! YIKES!
My account has been in the number one spot on their site for a long time locally, regionally, and bounces around the #2 to # 5 spots nationally (USA) yet, even after all the opportunity submissions, ZERO return on all my efforts. Now I know its hard to compete etc, but how am I #1 then? OBVIOUS SCAM. (see sample photo I have posted here showing some of the reviews about my vocals (which don't exist lol) This pic is a literal screen capture from their site.
Stay away from them, promote yourself where everyone is at on youtube instead.

Reverbnation are Thieves Crooks aND will Steal your Money. They promise you that which they can't Deliver. They STOLE my Money. There Fans are FAKE. Their Charts dont mean Anything. And they get Mad when you Leave their Bull$#*! Scam Business. BEWARE DON'T DO BUSINESS WITH REVERBNATION. YOU WILL REGRET IT. BIG TIME CROOKS. THAT'S WHAT THEY ARE. NEVER DO BUSINESS WITH REVERBNATION IF YOU ARE SMART. THEY WILL RIP YOU OFF YOUR MONEY.

I have had an account with Reverbnation for several years. I publish/distribute my music via an annual distribution fee charged to my credit card. It has worked well and consistently since 2014. All of a sudden, they started pulling my music down from the distribution channels (iTunes, Amazon, etc.). Their claim was that they didn't have a valid credit card number for me. They never asked me for a current credit card, expiration date may have changed, and I have been paying like clockwork. I was very upset. Worked to make SURE they had a current credit card number, and I asked them to "put it back up". They said they can't and I'd have to go through the whole registration, etc. again. I said "DON'T LET THIS HAPPEN WITH MY OTHER MUSIC. You have my credit card now!" Sure enough, they took my next publication down when it was renewing--same excuse. I had a fit. When I write to the *******@reverbnation.com, they answer me with some nonsense a few times and then just stop responding. I proactively wrote to them asking to ensure they have my credit card information correct since I have my latest single coming up for renewal in a month. They told me how to check, and there instructions weren't correct. HERE is the kicker though, they charge my credit card EVERY MONTH for my membership fees, but somehow can't connect that with my music distribution fees? WOW! I could go on and on, but they used to be an awesome company with superb customer service. NOW? I can only say horrible things about them. BE WARNED.

Paid for promotion campaigns weeks ago. Never honored. Emailed them 26 times no response. They are a dead stick.

Just a thought, but one's experience with Reverbnation is SOLELY based on the intentions and ambitions of the artist. I love playing and writing music so I post songs to get feedback, give feedback, and discover new music. Yes, I understand a lot of the "fans" who clicked didn't like the first 10 seconds and moved on or those moving from artist to artist hoping to get more clicks on their page. I simply post my music for anybody who will genuinely listen to it and appreciate it (which from my experience is a small percentage). However, it makes it that much more gratifying when someone listens to my songs and gives helpful feedback or criticism. If you are utilizing the platform in hopes of a record deal or international super-stardom, then you are likely naive. If you think you have a chance of going to the top, you shouldn't need promoters and advertisements. It should be grassroots and blowing people away with your recordings and gigs... you can't be hostile toward the site for advertising a product that has worked for a portion of the artists on the page (regardless of the percentage) because that's literally what advertising is... It does NOT work for everybody. I've been enjoying the site for a few years now and have never been charged a penny and have made some cool, interesting connections I wouldn't have made otherwise.
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The terms and conditions state "By registering for any ReverbNation service, either a free trial or otherwise, you authorize ReverbNation to bill the payment info that you provided at the time of sign up". And they did just that. I signed up for a free trial and they instantly attempted to charge me. I'd never had a free trial before. I didn't want to pay for their joke of a service so I canceled the account right away. They kept attempting to charge me for more than a week and even sent me multiple emails saying it was canceled due to non payment. I got paid the next week and they charged me. I tried contacting their customer service about it, but the number they have online is disconnected and they never responded to my emails. So I disputed the charge. At which point they deleted my account all together. (Just to have an account is supposed to be free). They told me to contact them so I did and all they did was sent me an email saying chargebacks violate their terms but charging for a free trial is legal. Their service is a joke. The only "audience" it ever brings is within their site. They feed lies to keep the gullible paying them money.

I would rate the service I received subpar at best. In all actuality I feel that not only I, but my band was gypped out of lasting memories because of some fine print in terms of use which essentially translate into legal theft. We purchased a service and canceled said service before renewal, which was well within our rights to do so. However, money was still drafted from an account that was no longer permitted to be used and ended up causing $200+ in overdraft fees. After reaching out to ReverbNation, they said tough luck so we had no choice but to deny the charges with our financial institution. We never heard anything from ReverbNation again. Our page was up, everyone could still see it and purchase songs from it, but we had no access to it. Fast forward 5 years and an attempt to log in to check old statistics and upload some old demos I get an alert that the account is frozen. I make a request to have it unlocked and then get cold stiff "tough luck" again and that our page has been terminated. I am very disappointed in this company, and can never recommend such a shady service to anyone.

I am writing this review because I like Reverbnation and would like to see it improve. The platform did undergo some improvements over the years but has now become stagnant in a format that is probably the least beneficial to bands. #1 main problem is, as a social media site, it does not offer anything to non-musicians. The people that use Reverbnation are mostly bands, and scams. My band has been around a few years and has a nice size fan base but none of them have a Reverbnation account. The platform doesn't offer our fans any reason to join. #2 biggest problem is Reverbnation needs to send it's solicitations to someplace other than the mailbox. It needs to have its own separate notification box because the site sends too many solicitations. Bands eventually have no choice but to stop reading any and all mail. It takes up too much time to sort through the Reverbnation "special offers." In the past we would get messages from bands, venues, and twice from different TV shows that wanted us to perform. Now if they are messaging us it is being lost in the junk pile of messages from Reverbnation wanting us to pay them for something that will never benefit us. #3 biggest problem is the chart system on Reverbnation is easy to manipulate. In my area in my genre the top three bands are always the same and not one of them plays live. Not one of them has any real fans. My band's position goes from 30 up to 4 then back and forth all the time based on what we are doing in the real world. Somehow these three unheard of bands (that only exist on a laptop in a kids bedroom) stay in the top three spots on the charts for a few years now. Clearly not playing live offers this person more time to figure out how to game the system. Lastly, when Reverbnation started it seemed like a sincere project that wanted to help bands and make a profit in the process. At first we got gigs via Reverbnation and met bands with similar interests. Along the way they became focused on making as much money as possible. Now they straight up lie in their advertising saying things like "Artists launch careers here." I have got paying gigs off Reverbnation but not a single person has ever "launched a career," earning enough money to completely support their family via Reverbnation. This is just an empty promise used to get money out of kids.