&gt; I&#x27;ve never heard anyone complain about it being hard to get music published.<p>I can&#x27;t tell if you&#x27;re being sarcastic or not, but if not... that is absolutely not what I have ever heard.  The iTMS is brutal to independent artists and getting on it is a huge barrier to entry.  It&#x27;s perhaps an improvement from the 1990s system of record-label distribution (which perhaps keeps the complaints to a low volume; Apple can always point to that particular horror if the plebes get out of line), but it&#x27;s in no way an open platform.<p>Most independent music I listen to tends to be hosted on Soundcloud, largely as a result of Apple&#x27;s policies on the iTMS.