Six platforms a music distribution company can run its business on, compared on what each vendor publishes about itself. Every cell was read from the vendor's own live pages in August 2026, and where a vendor publishes nothing the cell says so.
How to read this
Every platform here rebrands. The question is how far the rebrand goes. Labelcamp publishes the narrowest scope in its own words: "you can customize the logo, web domain and e-mail notifications". SonoSuite adds a background image and your corporate colours. LabelGrid publishes the widest branding set of the group, down to fonts, product name and layouts. Beyond branding sits a second layer that changes what the product is rather than how it looks: which modules exist for a tenant, how navigation is modelled, how pages are composed, and what the objects are called. The tables below keep those two layers apart, because a shortlist built on the first will not survive contact with the second.
| LabelLedger | SonoSuite | FUGA | Revelator | Labelcamp | LabelGrid | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sells to | Distribution companies only | Labels, distributors, aggregators | Labels, distributors, rights holders | Labels, distributors, music companies | Distribution companies and their labels | Labels, distributors and artists |
| Legal entity | Forward Digital SAS, France | SONOSUITE, S.L., Barcelona | Independent IP BV | Revelator Enterprises Inc. | IDOL Tech Services | LABEL GRID, LLC, Denver |
| Owner in 2026 | Independent | Not published | Downtown, Virgin Music Group | Warner deal signed April 2026 | Subsidiary of IDOL | Independent |
| Owned by a distributor or a major | No | No | Yes | Partial | Yes | No |
| Founded | Forward Digital, 2018 | Not published | Platform launched 2008 | 2012 | IDOL founded 2006 | 2017 |
| LabelLedger | SonoSuite | FUGA | Revelator | Labelcamp | LabelGrid | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Branding controls published | Identity, sign-in door, portals | Logo, background, colours, domain | Interface, dashboards, sender email | Domains, subdomains, visuals, logos | Logo, domain, email notifications | Domain, logo, colours, fonts, name |
| Own domain | Yes | Yes | Sender domain, embedded portal | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Structural changes beyond branding | Navigation, pages, modules, vocabulary | Not published | Sub-accounts, dashboards | Per-client feature toggles | Not published | Layouts |
| Branded artist and label portals | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Seat or account limits published | 5 to unlimited by plan, portals unlimited | Not published | No limit, 4 permission levels | Unlimited portals | Unlimited user accounts | No limit, 4 staff roles |
| LabelLedger | SonoSuite | FUGA | Revelator | Labelcamp | LabelGrid | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deliver under your own DSP deals | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Route each store to a different deal | Per store routing | Yes | Own direct deals | Yes | Bring your DSP list | Merlin member, top tier only |
| Delivery status reporting | Per target state machine | Real time tracking | 8 per-DSP statuses, webhooks | Status and ingestion, webhooks | Six delivery statuses | Real time, signed webhooks |
| DDEX ERN versions supported | ERN 3.8.2 and 4.3 | ERN 4.3 on Spotify feeds | ERN 3 and 4.3 | ERN 4.3 | ERN 3.8 | ERN 3.8.2 to 4.3.2 |
| DSP count published | 110+ on the managed network | 220+ and 200+, two figures | 70+, 260+ and hundreds | 100+ and 80+, two figures | No number, hundreds | Not published |
| LabelLedger | SonoSuite | FUGA | Revelator | Labelcamp | LabelGrid | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Royalty features published | Double entry, splits, recoupment, FX | Splits, reports, payment blocking | Statements, self-billing, multi-currency | Splits, statements, royalty runs | Statement ingestion, label shares | Splits, statements, recoupment, ledger |
| Who pays the artists | You do, instruction exported | You do, PayPal and Stripe | FUGA pays, 100 EUR threshold | Tipalti, PayPal, bank, stablecoin | Not published | You do, monthly wire to you |
| Price published | From 499 EUR per month | No | No | No | No | Engine API from 139 USD monthly |
| Minimum term published | 24 months | Cancel anytime | Not published | No minimum published | Not published | 2 years on Imprint and API |
Choosing between them
This page is published by Forward Digital, which builds LabelLedger, so read the competitor cells rather than the conclusions: each one quotes that vendor's own published wording and can be checked against the source. On most rows these platforms are closer than their marketing suggests. All six rebrand, all six run artist and label portals, and all six let a distributor deliver under its own DSP contracts. The differences that decide a shortlist are narrower and more specific than the category talk implies.
Navigation model, page composition, module availability and tenant vocabulary are decided per tenant. LabelGrid publishes layouts, FUGA publishes sub-accounts and dashboards, Revelator publishes per-client feature toggles. None publishes the full set.
Draft to Staging to Live with one-click rollback, and every published version stays restorable. No other platform in this comparison publishes any configuration versioning.
Others list royalty features by name. LabelLedger publishes how they behave: double-entry postings, a period that locks when its statement is issued, corrections by reversal insert, and basis-point splits totalling exactly 10000.
Whoever created or submitted a statement or payout cannot approve it. Only the workspace owner overrides, with a written reason, audited at high severity. No other vendor here publishes a separation-of-duties rule.
Four packages with capacities, both service-fee schedules, term and notice. LabelGrid also publishes prices: its Engine API tiers start at 139 USD a month and include a white-label platform, while Imprint, its turnkey reseller portal, is custom-priced. SonoSuite, FUGA, Revelator and Labelcamp publish nothing.
FUGA states it is part of Downtown and Virgin Music Group. Revelator has an announced Warner agreement. Labelcamp is a subsidiary of IDOL, itself a distributor. Forward Digital answers to none of them.
LabelGrid sells distribution self-service from 99 USD a year with a 7-day trial, and a label can grow inside that product before ever needing a white-label portal. LabelLedger starts at the platform tier, at 499 EUR a month with an implementation plan.
LabelGrid publishes the broadest branding controls of the group, down to fonts and product name. If the rebrand is the whole requirement, that is a shorter path than composing ten panels.
FUGA executes SEPA transfers above a 100 EUR threshold. Revelator publishes Tipalti, PayPal and bank rails. LabelLedger authorises the payout and exports the instruction; an operator settles it outside the system.
SonoSuite publishes 220+ and FUGA publishes figures up to 260+. LabelLedger routes per store across your own contracts or the managed network, which is more control and fewer numbers to quote.
LabelLedger is sold to the company that distributes them. LabelGrid and SonoSuite also serve labels and artists directly. If you are choosing a distributor rather than the platform a distributor runs on, this is the wrong table.
Choosing a white-label music distribution platform is a decision about how deep the rebrand goes. Every platform in this comparison lets a distributor put its own logo and its own domain on the product. The scope diverges sharply after that. Labelcamp publishes the narrowest set in its own words, "the logo, web domain and e-mail notifications". SonoSuite adds a background image and corporate colours over what its own blog calls an application where "there are menus and categories that prevail". LabelGrid publishes the widest branding surface of the group, including fonts, product name and layouts. Beyond branding sits a second layer that changes what the product is rather than how it looks: which modules exist for a given tenant, how navigation is modelled, how pages are composed, and what the objects are called. That is the layer LabelLedger is built as, and it is why two tenants on one codebase can behave like two different companies without a per-tenant fork. The second axis is ownership, and 2026 rearranged it. FUGA states that it is part of Downtown and Virgin Music Group, inside Universal Music Group. Warner announced an agreement to acquire Revelator in April 2026 that Revelator's own site does not yet describe as closed. Labelcamp is a subsidiary of IDOL, a distributor. SonoSuite publishes no ownership information at all. For a distribution company putting its entire operation on someone else's infrastructure, whether that someone is a competitor or a major label group is a commercial question worth asking in the first meeting rather than the last. The third axis is what the vendor is willing to put in writing. Two of the six publish a price. Two publish a minimum term, and two publish that there is effectively none. Four of the six publish a DSP count, and four of those publish figures that contradict each other elsewhere on their own sites: SonoSuite states 220+ in two places and 200+ in a third, FUGA states 70+, 260+ and hundreds in different places, and Revelator states 100+ and 80+. Royalty accounting is the least documented dimension of all: the group publishes feature names rather than behaviour, so a distributor evaluating platforms should ask what happens to a statement line that turns out to be wrong after the statement has been issued, and whether anyone can approve a payout they created themselves.
Software a distribution company runs its own business on, then delivers to its own labels and artists under its own brand and domain. The distributor keeps the client relationship, the catalogue, the contracts and the payouts. It is a different purchase from a distribution service that delivers on your behalf, and a very different one from an artist-facing distributor.
Two of six. LabelGrid publishes Engine API tiers from 139 USD a month that include a white-label platform and a sandbox, alongside distribution plans from 99 USD a year; its turnkey Imprint portal is priced at onboarding. LabelLedger publishes four packages from 499 EUR a month plus both service-fee schedules. SonoSuite, FUGA, Revelator and Labelcamp answer pricing with a demo request or a tailored quote.
FUGA states in its own words that it is part of Downtown and Virgin Music Group, inside Universal. Warner signed a definitive agreement to acquire Revelator on 1 April 2026, expected at the time to close the following quarter; as of August 2026 no completion has been announced and Revelator's own site does not mention Warner. Labelcamp is a subsidiary of IDOL, itself a distributor. SonoSuite publishes no ownership. LabelGrid and Forward Digital are independent.
It depends on the platform, and the gap is wider than the category language suggests. Labelcamp publishes the logo, the web domain and email notifications. SonoSuite adds a background image and corporate colours. LabelGrid publishes the widest branding set including fonts, product name and layouts. Beyond branding, LabelLedger decides navigation model, page composition, module availability and tenant vocabulary per tenant.
Every platform here supports it in some form, so this row rarely separates a shortlist. SonoSuite states you can deliver using your own Merlin contract. FUGA publishes direct deals, its own aggregation, or both. Revelator publishes direct DSP deals, Merlin deals or Revelator deals. LabelGrid publishes SOBO and bring-your-own deals on its top tier. Labelcamp asks for the list of DSPs you already work with. LabelLedger sets the channel per store, so one release can ship to three stores on three different agreements.
Most publish the features by name rather than the mechanics. Splits, statements and multi-currency appear across the group, and LabelGrid also publishes recoupment and an expense ledger. What is rarely published is behaviour: whether a period locks when its statement is issued, whether a correction is an edit or a reversal, and whether anyone can approve a payout they created. LabelLedger publishes all three.
It splits the group. FUGA executes SEPA transfers above a 100 EUR threshold. Revelator publishes Tipalti, PayPal, bank rails and stablecoin options. SonoSuite, LabelGrid and LabelLedger leave execution with the distributor: the platform authorises and exports the instruction and you move the money. That difference decides who carries the payment licence and the reconciliation work.
SonoSuite publishes that you can cancel anytime. Revelator publishes no minimum and termination on written notice. LabelGrid publishes a two-year term on its white-label and API product. LabelLedger publishes a 24-month initial term with 90 days' notice. FUGA and Labelcamp publish no term at all, which is worth asking about before a demo rather than after.