TuneCore is having a good year. Following appearances at The Great Escape in the UK and MIDEM in France, the indie digital distributor has also recently revealed its Q1 2016 results, with global artist earnings up 16% to nearly £3 million.

The New York-based service has now paid out £470m to artists, based on 31.1 billion streams and downloads over the past decade, while in the UK - where it launched with a region-based platform in September last year - ...