ReverbNation Reviews 

Every opportunity they've ever offered has been fake every opportunity that I've actually seen has not answered me and has always said we're looking for someone else it seems like the only ones that ever get anything on this are the ones who pay out of their a** just to get it so it's a pay to win kind of thing which doesn't help an artist who's starving I would strongly suggest you avoid this place at all costs I was number 1 supposedly across the site but when I stop paying I they blocked all my good tracks and of course I lost 1st so again pay to play they are the new Crazy Eddie.

Reverbnation is a scam. Any time someone offers you a money making opportunity in the form of a contest but you have to pay an entry fee… well, that’s like paying a job resource web site a fee before applying for a job.

It would also be like a record label saying; “We’re thinking about signing you. Send in your demo and $35 and we’ll see”… That never happens. Trust me on this, no legitimate production company would EVER ask you for money when sending in your demo.

Here’s the other thing about Feedbacknation (see what I did there? LOL)… There are no fans who go there to listen. Maybe a fraction of its subscribers are fans, like 2%. And when someone becomes a fan of yours, they themselves are hopeful musicians and they expect you to become a fan of them. It’s all just musical community inbreeding.

My suggestion is to stay away from Reverbnation. Record your music, get a distributor to spread it on all the music professional platforms like apple and Spotify etc… and promote yourself on instagram and other social media. Spend your money where fans actually are present and you might get discovered by a label or promoter.

No matter how Reverbnation spins it (including their reply to my review), they are simply a money grabbing scam.
Remember this; If it’s too good to be true, it probably is. Don’t pay money for a contest that Reverbnation says could get your song in a movie or commercial or etc. Production companies and LEGIT concert promoters NEVER EVER do contests where you have to pay for an entry fee in order to get chosen to play. They do free auditions perhaps, but no money is exchanged.

Be loyal to yourself. Keep learning. Keep exploring. Keep on rocking in the free world, not the fee world. Stay clear of Rescamnation.

Biggest rip off since gas prices, i authorized a 1 time payment of $35 for advertisement and the results are like making love to a toilet seat, not to mention the recurring charge that keeps going on even after i checked the 1x payment option, and the fact paypal does not answer the phone for anyone needing to speak to a human so you can attempt to have the situation resolved. I do not take kindly to being robbed and will be contacting the proper authorities to find out what can be done about this abusive, shady, sorry excuse of a company whom operates on a healthy dose of daily open fraud. ReverbNation, After Your reply i have more to add. changing the contract does not change that the check box was there before and, i sent numerous emails asking why i was being charged when i thought you had done the respectful thing and trusted you made a mistake i found that you just didn't give a dam so please take your narcissist attitude and shove it with your misleading contract where the sun doesn't shine wile you refund my money .

I have never purchased any service from them.
I have been installed their app BandLab and that probably give them an access to my details - the transaction is 100% fraudulent but the PayPal has closed the case without any explanation!!! They set up the reoccurring payment for £9.xx without even sending me any email!!! That's is a criminal activity! I will speak to the Google to remove the fraudulent app from Play Store. How it is even possible to get a money without any confirmation - this kind of the activity should be illegal! The law needs to be changed as I can see from lecture of the TrustPilot reviews they doing it for years! So many people have been scammed by those robbers! It has to be stopped somehow - Only thing they offer is a shoot of the adrenaline - I am especially angry because they wasn't even offer me any proof of the transaction. It is not good for the online business needs to be STOPPED ASAP!

What a surprise! They refunded all money within 60 minutes 💵. I have no idea if TrustPilot review has helped or harsh criticism on the PayPal, but it gives me a hope that internet based transaction and online business still can survive and it is still possible to use the internet the and not being completely scammed.

In fairness, the features are useful, and I have been using the free package just to create a space where i can keep a log of all my original music for my followers / and my self to access/ stream.

What I HATE about it is that they always fish for upgrade fees by dangling "opportunities" in front of your nose. Once you enter for an opportunity you then get told you need to upgrade (like $13 pcm)....
an obvious ploy. If the upgrade was not so much money, I would go for it, like say $5 pcm instead...I mean i can sign up on other services for similar opps for about that...and it is probably just as good/bad.

Also the digital distro costs are very very high. Like to put a single out through RN, to most major DL platforms is 9.95 per year per track...compared to say Distrokid's one-time 50 year fee of about the same! So Distrokid is like 50 x less!

Still, I use RN just to keep a portfolio of work. I do like the media player and interface, but that is about it really.
I think I will likely continue to use it as a way of documenting my work, seeing as i am independent and not "famous" or mainstream in any way. No harm done I guess.

My RN page is Danny M Stewart / Innobassion here in case anyone wants to see how I use it.

The crowd review service is fake. The billing practices are shady (auto renewals with a short window 1 year later and no communication/warning). Their paid lists do not increase any visibility to listeners. The DPK is garbage and venues avoid bands/DPK's from reverberation. The contests to access labels are also fake. This is a scam site - stay away.

If I could, I would award ZERO stars. Their crowd reviews is the subject matter of laughter and not to be taken seriously. It casts a light on suspicion also, as I received an almost identical review that another artist received, who is also on these pages. The same thing happened with me - ABUSE after ABUSE after ABUSE. For one song I was awarded 4/10 and the second song 5/10. They claimed they didn't like anything about my songs or my music. It casts a shadow of a doubt over them because the abusive report I received was either orchestrated by a programmed AI robotic system or a bunch of nasty school children, because the report is IDENTICAL to the other review on this trustpilot site. I have been told independently by other people that I sound very good and I have the voice of an angel, that is not what it said in that horrible report. Why bother listening to something that one does not like? It is simpler to just turn off or stop playing it. If they were real people who reviewed me, all they had to do was to stop listening to it and just state that they didn't like the song. Not everyone has the same music tastes. I will not be using this crowd review service again and to anyone contemplating paying for a crowd review on Reverbnation, I strongly advise you to NOT do it, because you will become the victim of BULLYING ABUSE.

I used the site for about 3 years and have pretty good perspective. Obviously, I'm not rating it well for some strong reasons, so I'll start with those. First - many better music distribution options (CD Baby, Distrokid, etc) that have a 1 time setup fee and then perpetually collect royalties. Reverbnation charges more, charges yearly, and takes a bigger cut. And - if you don't use reverberation for distribution, you have NO WAY of collecting royalties for plays on their site...no matter how many. Second - the whole "charts" is a sham, and its a way for them to sell you promotion for plays that rank your chart. Third - you are primarily marketing to other musicians and bands, which is just kinda flawed entirely. Fourth - the yearly fees for use are not in line with other options. Fifth - opportunities - regardless of having many songs "curated" by the site, I've only been sent through to maybe a couple "opportunities" (which many of those opportunities are available free with just a little searching). There are SOME positives. Their AD sets seem to actually publish to decent sites, but I don't think are as cost effective as other marketing options. The ADs seem to be "rigged" to where they throttle the amount of ADs displaying your songs to achieve a certain amount of exposure and pull back AD count if you getting too many plays, I've seen this. They seem to allow 10%-20% views to plays ratios, but if you start exceeding that (and I have), they throttle back the amount of ads. It's a strange thing. So for 100 ad views, you can expect between 5-20 song plays, regardless of your weekly "budget." So I think there are other better marketing options too. Hope this is helpful

I would have given it no stars at all this platform is a scam and I just cancelled my account with them this is ridiculous…. As emerging artist we’re simply just trying our best to get ahead but it’s crooks like you people….

really bad, bands go somewhere else don't get scammed.

Should be 0 stars. Reverbnation seems to be linked with another scam site, Number One Music. Almost impossible to get out of. Unsubscribing does not work for N1M who continue to send emails. Searches for a solution are sent to Reverbnation, so there is a clear link between the two parasitic scam sites. Help!

I don’t like the way you pressure me into spending money on promoting my music. I upgraded to a premium account and I ended up paying extra for a promotion I didn’t want. I agreed to run a promotion for seven day s and you continued it going without my consent and it was difficult to cancel it. I’ve got dyslexia and I find this part of your service none user friendly and I feel I’ve been ripped off.

I wish i could give negative stars, for their crooked nature. Reverb Nation is a toilet bottom feeding website that preys on musicians that just want to do good , but have no idea how the industry works. They constantly bombard you with BS lines like "congrats, you've been selected" or "people are noticing you" or blah, blah, blah get your slot on a nowhere promotion that goes nowhere and impresses absolutely no-one . borderline criminal activity here.

NEVER JOIN HERE. TRUST ME.
This network scams you about everything. From PR services, to music distribution. They will steal your royalties for various reasons, while your music does not violate any policy. Even when contacting the DSPs, they say that the revenue has been paid to the distributors. That proves they are arbitrarily keeping the money that should be 100% yours.

Never spend money on this service. You will only LOSE, not GET anything in return.

The law of cause and effect will come.

Been a member of RN for at least 8 years. It serves as another social media exclusively for music. My stats are generally excellent while maintaining my status as a Top 3-5 artist locally & regionally (& sometimes Top 10 nationally & globally). Yet, my good reputation & stats have yielded nothing. I submit regularly to opportunities & was never accepted by anyone offering anything. On several occasions, I paid for the crowd reviews. My songs would get great comments except for 2 or 3 who would give me a 1/10 or some other abysmal review with comments that didn't even apply to the song or were clearly wrong ( poor off-beat piano playing - for a song with no piano, terrible recording quality - for a song recorded in a real studio by a pro with an "A-list" resume). These crowd reviews would never meet ReverbNation's own standards for the next level of attention because of the few destructive comments. I have never been contacted for gigs or received any attention for anything on ReverbNation.

Well I logged in after a hiatus from music.

We have been in lockdown on and off and times have been rough. But now music venues are opening again so I can play Open Mic and carry on with my music.

About Reverbnation.com, firstly something like 2 Albums worth of releases have been taken off all platforms because my card expired and received a new one recently. I guess because Reverbnation didn't get paid instantly they just pull all of your tracks.

Half my tracks were missing from my page as well or de-activated because I had a Premium membership too which didn't renew because I hadn't logged in to put my new card details in. So beware of that if you upload in Lossless formats like .Wav and you have a Premium account these tracks will disappear if you do not pay up.

Finally I ordered a couple of Crowd Reviews, on one track I was rewarded 4/10. It was baffling to read with some people saying that the Vocals and Singer were 'Excellent' and then I got this comment from someone

''The only redeeming thing about this song is the music which is lovely. The person "singing" has a voice that will give anyone a headache, like nails on a chalkboard.''

Now if you ask me that is just plain abusive and that wasn't even the worst comment that I received in this Crowd Review.

I understand that my voice isn't the best at the moment, just started vocal training again as my school has been closed for nearly 2 years in the pandemic. I know my music and vocal needs a lot of work and that is exactly what I am doing.

I paid for crowd reviews for constructive feedback, not to be straight up Insulted!

Thanks a bunch Reverbnation.Oh and goodbye, there
are much better platforms out there that don't hold take your music down the moment you stop paying.

Reverbnation is focused more on charging artists more than the work they claim after paying don't fall for their scam by telling you about how you could get promoted all they do is ripoff your money and nothing they promised ever happens no sign of promotions or whatsoever

Poor customer service- I had a recent issue where I was suddenly spammed in my yahoo with mails that normally landed on the site's mail. Customer Service told me that this was normal state of affairs and there was no way to alter this preference. I tried to confirm this was this case as it hadn't been for the previous 4-5 years, with no response.

I have to say, beyond this experience is the obvious fact that there business model only exists to commodify the artist as consumer. You always feel greasy when using it :(.

Update: two weeks after posting this review, they've added my email to their "do not contact list". That's one way to to solve the problem, but to not give this preference to the artist upfront is a little behind the times.

Hint: Get on their mailing list. For all the emails they send, submit your music directly to the company, just don't go through them. (That is, if that company even exists because a lot of time it doesnt.)

I paid 25 dollars for a promotion. money went out to them, it ended there. No sign of any promotion whatsoever. Ripoff Artists.