Two connected sides, one purpose
Publicly, World Indie is the World Indie Chart and artist discovery platform. For artists, it is a professional profile and private Career Workspace that provides the structure for artists to develop their career over time.
Create your free artist profile
Build a professional public home for your music, biography, videos, releases, photographs and links. The profile is free and permanent — there is no trial to run out.
Be listed in the artist directory
Once your profile has the basics in place it is listed in the World Indie artist directory, where listeners browse independent artists by country and genre.
Add Career membership when you want more
Career membership (€49 per year) gives you the full artist-development workspace: build your audience, communicate with followers, develop financial support and track progress through clear milestones and recommended actions. It also provides chart participation once the chart requirements are met.
Build your career with a clear plan
The full Career Workspace helps you understand where you are, what needs attention and what useful action to take next. Your goals and next steps stay private.
Keep developing
Build your audience, publish updates, add releases and content, develop your profile and continue taking meaningful career actions. Genuine development is encouraged over activity for its own sake.
Public progress
The World Indie Chart reflects the result of that development through a Development Score out of 100, chart position and movement. Positions cannot be bought and advertising spend does not buy chart position.
Four things, in order
These are basic principles involved in building something sustainable, applied here specifically to an independent music career. The Career Workspace shows you where you are on each one and what useful action comes next.
- 01
Foundation
Establish something credible to build upon before constantly trying to be discovered.
Photos, biography, music, video, releases, contact and booking details.
- 02
Audience
Build a genuine audience you can reach directly, not another vanity number.
Followers who choose to hear from you inside World Indie Chart.
- 03
Communication
Maintain that relationship through genuine activity, without constantly chasing an algorithm.
Artist updates published to your profile and the public activity page.
- 04
Support
Give the people who care genuine ways to back the work.
Supporters, customers and direct sales through your artist store.
You take the useful action. The public chart and discovery pages reflect the development that follows. You build the career — World Indie provides the structure and environment around it.
Build where you are. Be discovered beyond it.
With Career or Lifetime entitlement and the chart requirements in place, one profile can count towards your World Indie Chart position, your home-country chart and the genre and discovery pages listeners browse. Your country and local identity remain part of your profile while the same work can be found through one international system.
What we believe
- The same tools. The same opportunity. What you build with them is up to you.
- No pay-to-rank or buying positions.
- Progress matters more than hype.
- Build something sustainable.
- Clear scores, private plans, public discovery.
Your score, explained. Your next steps, private.
The Career Workspace is your own development environment. It helps you see where you are, what to work on next and how your career is developing over time. Your Development Score out of 100 and your four area scores appear publicly beside your chart position, and each area counts for 25%. Your goals, next steps, contact details and payments stay private to you.
Guided, not complicated
Spend more time on your music and less time on settings.
Discover independent artists from around the world
Most charts show who is already popular. This one shows who is building. Position reflects genuine artist activity and progress — not a judgement of musical quality, streams or votes. Explore, listen and follow the artists you want to hear more from.
World Indie Chart also helps promoters, venues, managers and record labels discover independent artists who are actively developing their careers.
Artist profiles can bring together music, videos, biography, live performances and booking information, while Development Scores provide another perspective on an artist's progress.
The chart measures development, not musical talent, commercial potential or guaranteed audience draw.
Start exploring — or start building.
Discover independent artists, or build your Foundation and public artist profile for free. Choose Career when you want to develop Audience, Communication and Support or participate in the chart.
The artist profile is free and permanent. Career membership is €49 a year. No hidden fees.