When you first open melabel, you're not looking at a dashboard. You're looking at a system — one that's built around how music actually gets made, released, and grown.
Everything in melabel lives inside four feature areas. They're not arbitrary categories. They map to the four real jobs you're doing as an artist or label: managing your work, getting your music out, promoting it, and understanding what's happening with it. Once you know how those four areas fit together, the whole workspace clicks into place.
The four feature areas
Planning & Management is where your work lives before it's ready for the world. Files, projects, tasks, collaborators, contracts — all of it organized around your releases. If you're working on an album, a single drop, or a tour, this is where that work gets planned, tracked, and shared with your team.
Distribution & Monetization is how your music gets to listeners — and how money comes back to you. Upload your releases here, send them to every DSP, set royalty splits, manage your merch, and track what you're earning. This is the highest-stakes area in the product, so it's built to be thorough.
Promotion & Outreach is everything that happens after your music is out. Run campaigns, schedule social posts, build and publish your artist website, and create Smart Links that send fans straight to wherever they stream. Your release doesn't promote itself — this is where that work happens.
Workspace is the layer that ties it all together. Your dashboard gives you a read on everything at once. Your calendar shows you what's coming. Analytics breaks down your streaming, revenue, and audience data across every platform. And Team Settings is where you manage who has access to what.
How Tansen fits in
Tansen — melabel's AI — isn't its own separate section. It lives inside the workspace, available wherever you're working. Drafting a contract in Planning? Tansen can help write it. Building out a release in Distribution? Tansen can suggest metadata. Putting together campaign copy in Promotion? Tansen can get you to a first draft fast.
Think of it less like a chatbot and more like a collaborator who's already familiar with your project.
How these docs are organized
These docs are built to mirror the product exactly. Every section here maps to a feature area you can see on your screen. So if you're in the middle of something and need help, you don't have to translate between "what the app calls it" and "what the docs call it" — they're the same thing.
The section order follows the natural flow of how most people use melabel: get set up, build your workspace, plan your work, distribute your music, promote it, and then dig into what's working.
If you want a quick map of where everything lives, the sidebar is your guide. If you're just getting started and want a more structured path, head to Getting started as an artist or Getting started as a label or manager — those walk you through the workspace in the order that makes sense for your situation.