Walled Garden.
The walls are for the bots. The gate is open.
One $10 subscription. After costs, your money goes only to the artists you actually listen to.
Your money follows your ears.
A paying listener can be worth many times more than a pooled stream.
At a 5% share of a listener's activity, 10,000 active listeners could generate about $4,180 per month, versus roughly $90 under a central Spotify estimate. These are estimates, not guarantees. See the charts and the math.
See the artist economics →Yes, we know what a walled garden is
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.
Your money follows your ears
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.
Streaming with receipts
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.
Approved once, free to release
Walled Garden approves artists, not every song. Once an artist is vetted and approved, they can publish new releases without waiting for admin approval every time.
Curated by humans. Paid by listeners.
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.
The racket does not work here
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 $10 in and can only collect $8.36 of it back out. The racket is not just against the rules. It is against the math.
An artist-member co-op
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.
See the whole model
How money flows, what costs are deducted, why the catalog is curated, and how fraud is prevented. All of it public.