Music streaming has redefined how we consume songs, but for most independent artists, especially in Africa, it hasn’t redefined how much they earn.
Platforms like Spotify and Apple Music boast billions of plays, but payouts remain painfully low.
On average, artists receive between $0.001 and $0.005 per stream, meaning a million streams can still translate to less than the cost of a good microphone.
For emerging talents in Afrobeats, Amapiano, and Afro-House, this model makes sustainability nearly impossible.
Introducing Chune.xyz, a new Web3-powered music discovery and distribution platform designed to flip the script.
Instead of replacing the big players, Chune complements them by giving artists direct earnings, fans real ownership, and the industry a more equitable future.
What problem is Chune.xyz solving?
Traditional streaming funnels revenue through layers of middlemen, leaving creators at the bottom of the pyramid.
Independent artists without label deals must fight for visibility and often wait months to receive fractions of what their music truly generates.
Chune.xyz was built to solve this imbalance. The platform lets artists mint limited digital editions of their songs, like modern vinyl pressings, but fully digital, collectible, and global from day one.
Imagine this: an artist sells 200 editions of a track for 0.01 ETH each. In one drop, they’ve raised enough to cover studio costs and marketing, without a label advance, without waiting for monthly royalty statements, and without surrendering ownership.
Digital vinyl: Scarcity that matters
Collectors have always loved exclusivity, first-press vinyl, numbered CDs, and autographed copies. Chune brings that same energy into the digital age, powered by blockchain technology.
Each track minted on Chune is transformed into a tamper-proof token on the Ethereum blockchain, complete with the artist’s name, artwork, and verifiable proof of ownership.
These editions can include perks like:
Early access to unreleased tracks
Behind-the-scenes content
Private livestreams or meet-and-greets
Even fractional royalty shares on future streams
For fans, owning a Chune isn’t just about playback.
It’s about proving you believed in an artist early and holding a digital badge of loyalty that could grow in value as their career takes off.
How Chune works: The five-step artist journey
Chune has stripped away the blockchain complexity to keep the experience simple:
Sign up & verify – Artists create a profile in minutes using an email, then fill the onboarding form to verify who they really are.
Create a drop – Upload your song, add artwork, set edition size (100, 250, or 500), and attach perks.
Mint on-chain – Chune automates all blockchain processes; no coding required.
Sell directly to fans – Your drop goes live instantly, with payments landing directly in your wallet.
Listeners enjoy the same simplicity: sign in with email or wallet, fund their account by sending ETH directly to their unique address, and start collecting exclusive digital editions.
Before its public launch, Chune quietly ran on Ethereum’s Sepolia testnet for six months. In that period, over 1,000 song editions were minted to 50+ early adopters.
Some tracks minted out in less than 12 hours, proving that fans are eager to support artists directly when given the chance.
Now, Chune is live on Ethereum mainnet, which means every edition carries real, tradable value. Artists get paid instantly in ETH, while fans own verifiable digital music assets.
To showcase its mission, Chune is debuting with Amapiano Groove Records, a South African Record Label blending human musicianship with AI-assisted production across Afrobeats, Amapiano, and Afro-House.
Their inaugural release, Groove Genesis Vol. 1, will drop exclusively on Chune with just 100–250 editions per track. Miss it, and you miss owning a piece of Afro-dance history.
Chune is not another streaming clone. It’s a complementary platform that works alongside Spotify, Apple Music, and YouTube.
Artists can keep their catalogs on traditional DSPs for discovery while using Chune to unlock a 24/7 global digital merch table.
Artists keep up to 90% of primary sales.
Fans gain verified “day-one” ownership.
Producers and collaborators benefit from transparent, automatic royalty splits.
This approach ensures that value flows fairly and instantly from listener to creator, without middlemen slowing things down.
Join the Movement today, head to beta.chune.xyz now as a user to sign up and mint a music collectible from Africa’s next stars.
