A holistic system built for artists
Collaborate with Shambalia — a partner in your sound, your growth, and your journey toward fully expressing who you are as an artist.
Our BluePrint
Why Most Artists Stay Stuck
To build a fulfilling and sustainable music career, multiple elements need to come together.
From the quality of your music and performances,
to your artistic identity and connection with your audience,
to consistency, marketing, promotion, and even your personal well-being.
The most reliable way to succeed isn’t focusing on just one of these —
it’s developing all of them steadily, consistently, over time.
Our Comprehensive Approach
We’ve created a reliable path for artists to bloom into their most authentic expression.
Our unique model goes beyond music production and promotion; it provides a comprehensive ecosystem designed to sustain your growth, amplify your voice, and foster a fulfilling creative practice—one that is deeply rooted in the process yet consistently delivers results.
The Partnership
Most labels take total control of your rights; most agencies take your money without a stake in your success. Shambalia is different.
We’ve built a collaborative model for artists who need a full-time team but want to remain independent. By combining a transparent service fee with a small, time-limited revenue share, we are able to provide a a complete approach for every release.
This "skin in the game" approach ensures our goals are perfectly aligned: we only win when you do. It’s a competitive, sustainable alternative to the traditional label deal—designed to give you the infrastructure you need now, without giving away your future.
The Partnership Structure
Our model is built on shared investment:
Service Fee: A transparent monthly fee based on your release pace.
Streaming: You receive 60% of the streaming revenue, while the label keeps 40%. This split applies for the first three years. After that, you keep 100% of all streaming revenue from the release.
Publishing: You retain 100% ownership of your solo-written work. (Standard 20%–50% splits apply only to songs co-written with our team).
Sync: The label retains 40% only on Film & TV placements secured through our network. If you land a deal independently, we take 0%.
Performance: The label retains 40% only on live opportunities we actively seek out and negotiate for you. If you secure a performance independently, you keep 100%.
What's included
Every partnership includes our full-service development suite. We act as your dedicated team, handling everything so you can focus on the music making, the performances and the content.
Live Virtual Studio Sessions
Real-time, low-latency remote sessions that allow us to write, record, and produce together as if we were in the same room, regardless of your location.
Professional Production
Every track is produced, mixed, and mastered by the Shambalia team.
Artist Collaboration
Songs are released with Shambalia as a featured artist, leveraging our established audience.
$500 Minimum Promo Budget
Every release is allocated dedicated promotional funding, invested in line with the artist-specific strategy. The label may add extra funds in select cases. The budget primarily supports advertising and playlisting, with portions potentially allocated to PR or other audience-building opportunities when appropriate.
Development
For every release, you’ll receive a minimum of six personalized, one-hour strategic development sessions designed to map out and accelerate your long-term growth.
Campaign Execution
Fully managed promotion including strategy, events, content guidance, ads, and playlisting.
Live Opportunities
We actively seek and secure performance opportunities.
Professional Sync Pitching
Every track is submitted to our Film & TV music supervisor network for licensing.
Creative Assets
Access to music educational resources and co-writing opportunities.
Creative Resilience & Well-being
Access the Inner Engineering program from Isha Yoga, a practical, secular technology for well-being that requires no religious beliefs or faith-based elements. It equips you with simple yogic tools and a 21-minute daily practice (Shambhavi Mahamudra Kriya) to effectively manage your internal state, boost creativity through enhanced brain synchronization, sharpen mental clarity and focus, and achieve emotional balance for a sustainable music career.
These outcomes are supported by peer-reviewed scientific studies, including research from Harvard-affiliated institutions and publications in journals like Frontiers in Psychology, showing significant reductions in stress, anxiety, and depression, along with sustained improvements in well-being, mindfulness, and positive affect after regular practice.
You can find out more about the research and the results below:
Inner Engineering Research Results
How it works
Consistency compounds. Every release builds the foundation for the next.
1. Identity Mapping & Strategy
We begin by excavating your musical roots and defining your sonic identity. By mapping your "Why" and core inspirations, we establish the foundation needed to create music, live experiences and content that shares your most authentic self with the world.
2. Collaborative Creation
We create, experiment, produce, mix, and master your song together. This is a high-touch process designed to translate your newly mapped identity into a world-class professional standard.
3. Targeted Launch
We execute a custom campaign using your $500 promo budget. We handle the technical ads, playlisting and live opportunities while guiding you through the rollout of the content strategy we built together.
4. Commercialization & Outreach
Our work continues beyond the release. We actively pitch your music for Sync & Licensing (Film/TV), seek out Performance Opportunities, and bridge connections for Artist Collaborations to expand your reach.
5. Growth & Repeat
We analyze the data, refine the identity if needed, and carry that momentum into the next project.
This is how an independent career scales.
Pricing
Choose your Tier
The only difference between our tiers is the release frequency and the scheduling of strategic development sessions. Choose the rhythm that fits your current creative output and budget:
Foundational Path — $500 / mo
- Rhythm: 1 Professional Release every 3 months.
- Strategy Sessions: 6 Strategy & Development sessions delivered over a twelve-week period.
- Best for: Building a strong foundation and refining your brand identity.
Steady Growth — $750 / mo
- Rhythm: 1 Professional Release every 2 months.
- Strategy Sessions: 6 Strategy & Development sessions delivered over an eight-week period.
- Best for: Consistent growth with a balanced schedule.
Monthly Momentum — $1,500 / mo
- Rhythm: 1 Professional Release every month.
- Strategy Sessions: 6 Strategy & Development sessions delivered over a four-week period.
- Best for: Rapid growth and high-frequency market presence.
Work with us
Be Among the First to Join
We’re currently onboarding a limited number of founding artists who will work closely with us in this exclusive new program.
This program is designed from the ground up with one clear focus: delivering an exceptional experience for the artists who join us now.
We may be new, but we guarantee that the level of care and quality you’ll receive when working with us is unlike anything else in the industry today. You’ll also enjoy full creative freedom to be exactly who you are, with simple, artist-first deals that keep all ownership and the majority of every revenue stream in your hands.