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TuneCore—owned by Believe, one of the world’s leading digital music companies—is the leading development partner for self-releasing artists to build their audiences and careers, with technology and services across distribution, publishing administration, and a range of promotional offerings. How We Are Different: - TuneCore Music Distribution helps artists, labels and managers sell their music through Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, YouTube Music, Deezer, TikTok and more than 150 download and streaming stores worldwide, while retaining 100 percent of their rights for a low annual flat fee. - TuneCore advocates for diversity, equity and inclusion across all of our platforms and throughout our company. As part of our commitment to gender equity, since 2021, Believe and TuneCore have sponsored BE THE CHANGE: Gender Equity in Music, a groundbreaking study that explores the challenges and experiences of women and gender expansive creators and professionals in the music industry. - TuneCore is committed to the well-being of our employees and aims to create a workplace that fosters both personal and professional growth. Our inclusive benefits package includes, but is not limited to: • 4 ½ day work week with “Wellness Fridays” year round, paid time off, unlimited paid sick days, and week-long company-wide time-off between Christmas and New Years. • 4 month Universal Paid Parental Leave for both parents • 401k match starting at day 1 and $125/month direct to student loan repayment • Comprehensive health, vision, dental, FSA and dependent care • Weekly catered lunches, happy hours & in-office performances, and employee showcases - TuneCore is proud to be included in Fast Company’s top ten list of Most Innovative Music Companies in 2023 and 2024, and recognized on Crain’s Top 100 Places to Work in NYC list from 2022 through 2024. Our Artist Support Team makes things easy for you. Submit a request here: https://support.tunecore.com/hc/en-us/requests/new

As a leader in global rights management, PPL ensures those who invest their time, talent and money to make recorded music are compensated where it is used in public by businesses and organisations or broadcast on TV or radio. We are the UK music industry’s collective management organisation (CMO) for performers and record companies, representing both independent and major record companies together with performers, ranging from emerging grassroots artists through to established session musicians and festival headliners. In addition to operating UK-wide, our market-leading international collections business helps members to maximise their revenue overseas. Within PPL, we recognise the importance of hiring, developing and promoting the best people, from the widest possible talent pool – regardless of someone’s race, gender, sexuality, age, disability, background or any other characteristic. We also remain committed to maintaining and further developing a working culture that is fair and considerate to all. We are focusing on a number of key areas including recruitment and career opportunities; how we develop, reward and train our staff and support their wellbeing; and how we engage on equality, diversity and inclusivity issues. In recent years PPL has received a number of awards, including: • Employee Engagement Awards 2018 – Winners of the Leadership category for PPL’s Management programme • Music Week’s Women in Music Awards 2018 – Winners of The Company Award: Diversity in the Workplace • Employee Engagement Awards 2017 – Winners of Company of the Year Small to Medium Business • Employee Engagement Awards 2017 – Highly commended in Customer Engagement • UK Employee Experience Awards 2017 – Silver Award for Voice of the Employee • The 2016/2017 Peer Awards for Excellence – Judges Accolade for Customer Engagement • UK Business Awards 2017 – Winners of Delivering Business Change • UK Business Awards 2017 – Silver Award for Customer Centric Culture

SoundExchange is the premier music tech organization on a mission to power the future of music. It was independently formed in 2003 to build a fairer, simpler, and more efficient music industry through technology, data, and advocacy. As the only organization designated by the U.S. government to administer the Section 114 sound recording license, SoundExchange collects and distributes digital performance royalties on behalf of 650,000 music creators and growing. Through proprietary music tech solutions that turn data into accurate revenue, SoundExchange has paid more than $10 billion in distributions to date.