Festive Delivery Deadlines: 2024/2025

If you plan on releasing music on Apple Music and iTunes between November 29th 2024 and January 3rd 2025, remember to check the following festive delivery deadlines:

As usual, we ask that you try to give us as much time as possible ahead of release date to deliver your music to services, especially at this time of year. We will, of course, do our best to accommodate any requests but please note that if a particular delivery deadline is missed, we cannot guarantee exactly when the release will go live on digital services.

The deadlines stated above are when EmuBands must deliver releases to each digital service, so please factor in extra time in case there are any issues with your release that we need to clarify with you ahead of distribution.

EmuBands Office Closures

The EmuBands office will close on Friday, 20th December at 6pm, and will re-open on Friday, 3rd January at 10am (UK Time). We will be closed from Saturday, 21st December 2024 – Thursday, 2nd January 2025 (inclusive). During this period of shutdown, no royalty reports will be uploaded, no releases will be processed, and no customer support will be available.

Important Dates:

– Last Royalty Payout Date of 2024: Friday, 20th December
– First Royalty Payout Date of 2025: Friday, 3rd January

Last Royalty Reports of 2024:

– Friday, 6th December for Apple/Spotify
– Friday, 13th December for all other platforms

First Reports of 2025:

– Friday, 10th January for Apple/Spotify
– Friday, 17th January for all other platforms

To learn more about general processing times for each service, and to give you an idea of how long before your release date you should add your release to the EmuBands dashboard area, please read this guide – How Long Does It Take?.

We will update this post as more DSPs publish their festive delivery deadlines.