Most musicians make this mistake on YouTube: Official Channel vs Topic Channel (how to merge)

A few of you asked how to claim your official YouTube artist channels, so here is the guide for artists using LANDR, DISTROKID, CD BABY, and every other distributor as the process is the same 🎉 Leave your questions in the comments and open the full description for discounts and freebies ⬇️

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[alexkissmusic]

Something worth noting is that your Topic channel never goes away. Your music distributor uploads your music to the Topic channel, but YouTube makes it look like the releases appear on your Artist channel. However, if your distributor uploads your track to a wrong Topic channel (something that happens more often than people would think), it is worth having your Topic channel ID / URL handy. So make sure you store it somewhere, because it will be harder to find once you make the merge 🙂.

[VaChiee]

O my god someone is finally gonna answer this question, I've always never understood it right thank you

[JEEYONGPARKMUSIC]

Unfortunately there are too many YouTube channels called Jeeyong Park so I am not able to change my youtube channel name to my Distrokid artist name. I contacted Distrokid TWICE this month August 2024. Have not heard back

[xxitoosoundz]

So if we post our corresponding music / lyric video on our personal channel, we won’t get hit with a copyright strike? Even though our “topic” channel uploaded the same audio ?

[kalevon]

Great and compact video, everything I wanted to know regarding this matter. I was wondering and this might be a foolish question, but will my distributor automatically create an account for each streaming platform I choose for it to distribute to, or do I need to make an account for all the streaming platforms I’m distributing to and then link my distributor to them somehow? I might be missing something, but I don’t know how this works

[nosungod]

My bad, I replied on the wrong thread, but good video, it's a very easy process. Just takes a little time to merge.