Great music needs great support.
One $11.99 subscription. After costs, your money goes only to the artists you actually listen to.
Are you a label, or a songwriter or producer owed a share?
At a 5% share of a listener's activity, 10,000 active listeners could generate about $5,070 per month, versus roughly $90 under a central estimate of typical streaming rates. These are estimates. Real income depends on real listeners.
See the artist economicsestimates, not promises. the math is published in full.
The old walled gardens locked you in and hid the money. Ours is inverted: the walls keep out the bots, the slop farms, and the fake artists. Everything inside is glass. Receipts every month. Public transparency reports. Leave whenever you want.
Most streaming services put your subscription into a giant pool. Walled Garden does it differently. Each month, your subscription is divided only among the artists you actually played. No black box. No platform-wide popularity contest. Just direct listener support.
Every month, you get a receipt showing what you paid, what costs were deducted, how much reached artists, which artists you supported, and how your listening shaped your payout.
Walled Garden vets the artist once. From then on they publish new releases freely, without waiting for admin approval each time.
Every artist on Walled Garden is a real human artist, band, composer, producer, ensemble, or human-led creative project, reviewed and approved by people. AI is allowed as a tool. Fake artists, stolen voices, and mass-generated slop are not.
Stream bots and fake AI artists get rich by skimming the giant shared pool most platforms pay from. Here there is no pool to skim. Money moves only with each listener’s own real listening, so a bot account pays $11.99 in and can only collect $10.14 of it back out. The racket is against the rules here, and the math makes it a losing trade anyway.
Walled Garden is designed as an artist-member streaming co-op. Member artists vote on the things that matter: payout policy, admission standards, transparency rules, grant programs. The mission is written into a charter so it stays the mission.
How money flows, what costs are deducted, why the catalog is curated, and how fraud is prevented. All of it public.
Read the transparency pageOne $11.99 subscription. Cancel whenever you want. Your receipt arrives at the end of the month.