Help and FAQ

RateThisSong is a platform for live reactions. Fans send you songs or clips and you react on stream. The waiting list is free. Anyone who doesn’t want to wait pays for a spot further up, and 80% of the price goes to you.

For creators who react live to songs, demos or clips: music reviewers, rappers, producers and reaction streamers. Fans and musicians use RateThisSong to submit their songs.

Nothing for creators. No subscription, no base fee. Of every paid request, 80% goes to you and 20% to RateThisSong. We also pay the card fees out of our share.

Anywhere you go live: TikTok LIVE, Twitch, YouTube Live and Kick. Your RateThisSong link works wherever you can share a link, for example in your bio or in chat.

You get 80% of the full price, not 80% minus fees. Fans only pay if their song actually plays. RateThisSong is operated in Germany, with an imprint and support in German.

German and English. Your fans see your page in their language and can switch at the top right.

Sign up, choose your link and display name, set your prices and connect Stripe for payouts. It takes about two minutes, plus a few minutes for Stripe’s check.

Your page sits right under the domain, for example ratethissong.com/yourname. Every name exists only once. Lowercase letters, numbers, hyphen and underscore are allowed.

Yes, in the dashboard under Profile. Note that the old link stops working, so update it everywhere you used it.

Ideally in your bio on TikTok, Twitch, Instagram or YouTube. During the stream you can also share it in chat or show it in the overlay.

You get an overlay link that you add to OBS as a browser source or to TikTok LIVE Studio as a window capture. It shows the current song, the next songs and new priority buys.

Yes. You then see and run the queue on a second phone or tablet. The dashboard is built for phones and can be added to your home screen like an app.

A session is your live stream on RateThisSong. You start it in the dashboard when you go live. Fans can only submit for free during a session. When you’re done, end it with one tap.

80% of what the fan pays. If someone pays €5 for priority, you get €4.00. With the referral programme your share goes up to 85%.

RateThisSong. Fees for cards, Apple Pay and Google Pay come out of our 20%, not your share.

You do. For priority you set a minimum, from €2. Fans can pay more to move further up. “Next up” has a fixed price from €5.

Priority puts a song ahead of the free waiting list; paying more moves it higher. “Next up” plays right after the current song and has a fixed price.

At purchase the amount is only reserved. It is charged once the song plays. If you skip it or the session ends first, the reservation is released and the fan pays nothing.

Once a week, automatically via Stripe to your bank account. Your dashboard shows every request, your share and the next payout.

Stripe is one of the big payment providers. Money never passes through a private account; it goes straight from Stripe to you. To set it up you need an ID document, your IBAN and your tax ID.

Invite other creators with the invite link in your dashboard. Once 5 of them are active and have received their first payout, you get 85% instead of 80% for good.

You get a monthly statement of your earnings. Paying tax on them is up to you. As a platform we report earnings above the legal thresholds to the tax office (DAC7). If in doubt, ask your tax adviser.

First “next up”, then priority sorted by amount, then the free waiting list. With equal amounts, whoever came first goes first.

Yes, any of them. For a paid song nothing is charged. You don’t have to explain why.

No. You can switch off the free waiting list in your dashboard. Then only paid requests are possible.

Free submissions that didn’t play expire. Paid requests that didn’t play are not charged.

Fans can submit Spotify links, which you open in your Spotify app. Whether you may play other people’s music on stream depends on the platform and the rights. Check the rules of Twitch, TikTok and YouTube.

You can skip any song. Our filter blocks offensive names and titles at submission. Blocking individual people comes with the new live dashboard.

No. Enter your name and your song, done. An email address is optional.

Open your creator’s RateThisSong link, tap “Submit a song”, enter your name, the song title and a link or file, and confirm you have the rights. It takes under 30 seconds.

Links from YouTube, SoundCloud, Spotify and TikTok, and audio files as mp3, m4a or wav up to 20 MB.

After submitting you see your position. Keep the page open; it updates by itself and your song is highlighted.

With Apple Pay, Google Pay or card. The amount is only charged once your song plays.

Then you pay nothing. The reservation on your card is released when the creator skips it or the session ends. Some banks take a few days to remove it.

Yes. Only submit songs you made yourself or are allowed to submit. You confirm this when you submit.

You need to be an adult to receive payouts; Stripe requires it. Fans can only pay from 18 or with a parent’s permission. Submitting for free has no age limit.

Songs and clips the sender has the right to use. Insults, hate, violence and sexual content are not allowed. A filter checks names, titles and messages at submission.

The website runs on servers in Germany. We only store what the service needs. Payment details are handled by Stripe and never reach us. Everything else is in the privacy policy.

RateThisSong carries the risk. Money already paid out stays with you, unless it’s fraud.

RateThisSong is operated by WEB-LOUIS, Louis Beermann from Oelde, Germany. All details are in the imprint.

Yes, any time. Send us a short note through the contact form and we delete your account and your data.

Tap “Forgot password?” on the login page. You’ll get an email with a link to set a new password.