Drop your track
WAV, MP3, AIFF or FLAC. Give it a name, say it’s yours, done. No pitch to write, no bio needed.
Find where your sound belongs.
Tracks matched to labels, on the sound alone.
How it works
Three steps. That’s the whole thing.
See where it fits
Foundry compares your track to the actual releases of every label on the platform and ranks the closest ones. It only listens to the audio. Your name and your numbers never enter into it.
Send it
Tick a box and your track lands in the label’s own inbox here, playable, with its score next to it. Already know who you want? Skip the ranking and send it straight to any label or artist taking demos.
Where it lands
Your track doesn’t go to a dead email address.
Labels on nine71 read their demos in this inbox. When you hit send, this is where your track shows up — ranked against everything else they got, ready to play.
Drop a track
The Foundry workspace — drag a file in, name it, test it. This screen is the real thing.
Read it, send it, anywhere
The shortlist on your phone, with the measurement behind it and one tap to send while the idea is still warm. A real result for a real upload.
The label reads it here
Your track arrives in the label’s own inbox, ranked against everything else they got, playable on the spot. Illustrative data.
Pricing · for artists
Testing is free. Always, and without a limit.
Score a track against every catalogue on Foundry as often as you like, on every tier including the free one. What a tier meters is how many of those tracks you then send out — because a send spends somebody else’s attention, and that is the part worth rationing.
Never metered
Testing a track
Score it against every catalogue on Foundry, as often as you like, on every tier. It costs us a second of compute we were going to spend anyway, so capping it would make the product worse for no saving.
What a tier buys
Sending it out
The one number that changes between the three. A send spends somebody else’s attention rather than our compute, and that is the scarce thing in this market — so it is the only thing worth rationing.
Free
An account, and nothing else. Where everyone starts.
$0a month
Free, and staying free.
- Unlimited testing against every catalogue
- 5 sends a month
- Every test kept, playable, with the score it got
- Your music stays private until you send it
Premium
You finish tracks on a schedule and send most months.
$9a month
or $90 a year — two months free
- Unlimited testing against every catalogue
- 50 sends a month
- 1 track report a month, against a label you pick
- Everything on Free
Pro
You are shipping constantly and the send cap is in your way.
$19a month
or $190 a year — two months free
- Unlimited testing against every catalogue
- Unlimited sends
- Track reports included, as many as you want
- Everything on Premium
Paying does not move you up anyone’s list.
A label’s inbox is ranked by how well a track fits that label’s own catalogue, and nothing on this page changes that ranking. A paid tier buys your own throughput — how many tracks you can send — and buys nothing on the receiving side. It does not raise your score, it does not reorder anybody’s inbox, and it will never put your track in front of a label it did not match. If money could buy placement, the ranking would be worthless to the labels who rely on it, and then it would be worthless to you.
Pricing · for labels
Your whole team, on every tier.
A label pays for the inboxes it runs, the catalogue it scores against, and the volume of demos it takes — never for the size of its A&R team. Every tier keeps your handle, your page and your demo address.
Open inbox
One label, one catalogue. What every label on Foundry has right now.
$0a month
Free, and staying free.
- 1 label workspace
- Unlimited team members
- 50 demos received a month
- Up to 100 tracks in your catalogue
- 50 of your own uploads scored a month
Label
One label with a real back catalogue and a real A&R team.
$49a month
or $490 a year — two months free
- 1 label workspace
- Unlimited team members
- 500 demos received a month
- Up to 1,000 tracks in your catalogue
- 500 of your own uploads scored a month
- The drop box for your own site
Imprints
A group running several imprints, each with its own sound and inbox.
$149a month
or $1,490 a year — two months free
- Up to 5 label workspaces
- Unlimited team members, across all of them
- 2,500 demos received a month, pooled
- Up to 2,500 tracks per catalogue
- 2,500 of your own uploads scored a month, pooled
Label group — by contract, invoiced
More than five imprints, a distributor, or a group whose finance team pays annually against a purchase order. Unlimited workspaces, unlimited team members, catalogue sizes and demo volumes by agreement. We quote it, you get an invoice on thirty-day terms with your PO number on it, and nobody types a card into a web form.
Three followers or three million.
Same answer.
23
label catalogs your track is scored against
4,721
catalog tracks the matcher has listened to
740
real sets charted on nine71charts
0
follower counts, names or bios read
What you get
Made for the track, not the résumé.
A real shortlist
Not “here are 400 labels in your genre”. The handful whose sound your track actually sits inside, in order.
Test against one label
Wondering about a specific label? Score your track against just their catalog before you send anything.
Send to artists too
Some artists take demos directly. They show up next to the labels, and sending works the same way.
Your music stays private
Nothing is public. Only a label or artist you choose to send to can hear your track. Nothing is ever sent unless you tick the box.
Every test is kept
My tracks holds everything you’ve tested — playable, with every score it got. Re-test a new version any time.
Free to test, always
An account is all it takes, and scoring a track against every catalogue is unlimited on every tier. Sending is what carries a monthly number — five a month on the free tier.
Questions
Questions producers ask
Does it cost anything?
The account is free and testing a track against every catalogue is free and unlimited, on every tier, forever. What a paid tier buys is more sends: the free tier sends five tracks a month, and that is the only limit on it. Nothing is charged today at all — see pricing.
What does “matched on sound” mean?
Foundry listens to your audio and compares it to the music each label has actually put out. It is not matching genre tags or keywords, and it never reads your name, your bio or your follower counts. The track is the whole application.
Who can hear my track?
You, and any label or artist you tick “send” for. That’s it. Your tracks are never public, never searchable, and never shown to anyone you didn’t send them to.
Do labels actually look at this?
Labels on nine71 run their demo inbox here — it’s the same product, from the other side. When you send a track it appears in that inbox with its score, and they can play it on the spot.
What files can I drop?
WAV, MP3, AIFF, FLAC and most other audio formats. One track at a time.
I already know which label I want.
Use “Send it straight”: pick the label or artist and send, no scoring involved. Your track, their inbox, done.
My track scored low. Does that mean it’s bad?
No. A low score means your track sounds far from that label’s releases, nothing more. Plenty of great records don’t fit a given catalog — that’s exactly what the ranking is for: finding the ones they do fit.
I run a label, an agency or a management company — or I take demos as an artist.
Organizations work in the nine71 platform — labels, agencies and management companies alike — and it takes the same nine71 account this page does. Make one, pick “I’m an organization” at the first screen, and your workspace opens there under the same sign-in; write to [email protected] if you would rather we set it up. If you’re an artist who wants to take demos, request an inbox of your own from your profile.