Best Services for Independent Artists Ready to Go Beyond Basic Distribution

I spend most of my time thinking about a fairly narrow question: what does an independent artist actually need from a distribution platform once “upload and wait” stops being enough? I’ve been building the DIY product for artists at Amuse for years, and the honest answer keeps changing as the artists themselves change. But the pattern that shows up over and over is this: the artists who outgrow basic distribution fastest are the ones who needed more than an upload button in th