—:—:—until this record is gone
A new record every day, made of independent artists you have not heard of yet. At midnight it goes to the archive and a different set of artists takes its place.
10 tracks34:00 running time10 countries
Each ring is a track · tap one to play it
Everyone here is on the same record right now. The artists read this, and it stays with the record after midnight.
Pinning to track 01 at 0:00 — your note marks the exact moment.
That turn at 1:14 is the whole track. I had to go back twice.
Sequenced beautifully after 08 — it would not land the same anywhere else.
Opening a record with this takes nerve.
Every record that has left the front page. Each one keeps its running order, its sleeve notes and its room.
Ten tracks a day, ten artists who have never met, in a running order somebody sat down and got right. Your track is on the front page for twenty-four hours. The room closes at midnight; your page does not.
Five steps, about ten minutes. While we are invited only a placement costs nothing, and we would tell you long before that changed.
Not a playlist slot. A place in a running order of ten, between two other people, chosen so it lands.
Everyone subscribed gets the day’s record in their inbox on the morning it airs — every artist, every track, in the running order. The whole list, not a slice of it, and you are in it because you are on the record, not because of how well you did.
Up to three photographs, your words, the lyrics if you want them, and every link you have — unshortened and untracked.
Notes pinned to the exact second, from people who had never heard of you that morning. You keep them after the room closes.
Nothing is deleted at midnight. The record leaves the front page and the room closes — the music, the sleeve notes and your page stay up.
A non-exclusive licence for one record. Copyright, masters, publishing and distribution stay yours. Release the same track anywhere else the same day without telling us; withdraw it with seven days’ notice and it comes down.
Nothing from your streams, your sales or your publishing. No sync, no sub-licensing, and nothing trained on it.
No advertising, ever. Your links point away from us, and we do not sell what we know about the people who listened.
Almost every place that will take music from an artist nobody has heard of wants something for it. A cut, an exclusive, a rights window, your email address to sell on, or just your track parked in a playlist of ten thousand where no one will ever reach the end of it. We wanted to find out what is left if a place takes none of that.
The Flip publishes one record a day. Ten tracks, ten artists who have never met, in an order somebody sat down and got right. It is on the front page for twenty-four hours and then it is not. The ending is the point: a record that expires is a record people listen to all the way through, on the day, while it is still there.
Nothing is deleted at midnight. The record leaves the front page, the room closes, and your page, your words and the notes strangers pinned to your track stay up.
We are not a label, and we are not trying to become one.
You grant a non-exclusive licence to include one recording on one record, and to keep that record in the archive. That is the entire grant. Your copyright in the recording, your copyright in the words, your masters, your publishing and your distribution are untouched and stay yours.
You can release the same track anywhere else on the same day and you do not have to tell us. You can withdraw it with seven days’ notice and we take it down. There is no box in our form that signs any of this away, because we never built one.
If we ever want to do something with your recording that is not put it on one record and leave it in the archive, we will email and ask, and no is a complete answer that costs you nothing.
While The Flip is invited only, a placement costs nothing. There is no charge on any of the first records, and nobody will be asked for one without being told first. What follows is how it will work when it opens.
We do not make money from your music. No advertising, no cut of your streams or sales, no sub-licensing, no data sold to anyone.
What we charge for is a placement: a position in a running order, held for a specific date. It pays for hosting, for levelling every track to a common loudness, and for the people who listen to every submission and sequence the records. It does not buy a better position, a kinder listen, or anything a free placement would not get.
We would rather say this plainly than bury it. Yes, you pay to be on a record. No, we are not taking a piece of your music. Those are different things, and the difference is the whole business. If we decline your track, you are refunded in full the same day.
And if the fee is the reason. If the placement fee is what is stopping you from sending us this, write to hello@theflip.me and say so. We will put you on a record when we have a position for it. We will not ask you to prove anything, we will not ask what you earn, and it will not be a worse position or a slower listen than anybody else’s. Listeners pay for those positions, and some months there are more of them than others — that is the only reason we would ever say not yet.
If you look after an artist: there is nothing here that should trouble an existing deal. The licence is non-exclusive, it covers one record, it can be withdrawn in seven days, and it does not touch a distribution agreement or a publishing split. If you would rather we heard it from you than from them, write to hello@theflip.me and we will deal with you instead.
If you want to work with us: we are interested in anything that helps ten strangers a day get heard, and not interested in anything that requires us to take a piece of an artist to do it. Same address.
While placements are free there is nothing to refund. This is what will happen once they are paid.
We do not decline for taste in a way that costs you money. If a track is good and simply does not belong on the date you booked, we offer you another date or your money back, whichever you prefer.
This is a plain-language summary of how we behave, written so it can actually be read. It is not the contract. The Terms are the binding version, and where the two ever disagree, the Terms win.
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A record is on the front page for twenty-four hours and then it is not. Nothing is deleted — it moves to the archive — but if you were not here that day you will not know it happened. There are two ways to be told.
One email each morning with the day’s record — every artist, every track, in the running order. It goes to the whole list, not a part of it.
One a day and nothing else. We do not sell the list, rent it, or put tracking pixels in the mail. Leaving takes one click, in every email.
A record should not be missing somebody because of what a position costs. When the fee is the reason, we cover it, and nobody is asked to prove anything.
Not an artist — a position. Your money keeps a place open for somebody the fee would otherwise have stopped. It goes into the same account as the hosting, the levelling and the people who listen, and the given positions come out of it; we will not claim it became one particular place on one particular record, because accounts do not work that way. Every month we publish how many were given and what they cost.
We choose who gets them, from the submissions we would otherwise have turned away. A position bought toward a particular artist would be a favour, and a record made of favours is not worth listening to.
The cost of one placement, credited to your name on the records it helps pay for.
Somewhere to keep the notes you pinned and to change what we send you. There is no profile, no followers, no feed, and nobody can see what you listened to.