Buying a SoundCloud Account for Uploading or Listening

Artist accounts and listener accounts

SoundCloud is both a place to publish music and a place to stream it, and listings reflect that split.

If you make or release music

An artist account is about what is already on the profile: uploaded tracks, followers, reposts, comments and a profile URL people recognise. Producers, DJs, small labels and podcast teams look for one to publish under a name, to separate a side project from a personal profile or to give a label imprint its own page.

If you mainly listen

A listener account is about the subscription. SoundCloud Go and Go+ add ad-free listening and offline playback, and Go+ opens up the wider catalogue. Upload history hardly matters here; the plan, its renewal and the account country do.

Artist plans, Go+ and profile URLs

SoundCloud's creator plans, currently called Artist and Artist Pro, raise upload limits and add tools such as detailed stats, monetisation and distribution to other streaming services. If a listing mentions one of these plans, check whether it says who pays for it, when it renews and what happens when that payment stops. The same applies to Go and Go+ on listener accounts. A plan billed to someone else's card or app store account is a temporary extra, not part of the account itself.

The profile URL is the other detail artists care about. SoundCloud lets you edit it when the new name is free, but links already shared on flyers or in bios point to the old address, so a matching URL is part of what you are paying for.

Upload history and play counts to question

Figures on a profile are only worth something if they are real. Before you buy a SoundCloud account for publishing, read the track list with a critical eye:

• Play counts that do not fit. Huge plays with almost no likes, comments or reposts often point to bought or automated plays, which break SoundCloud's rules and can be removed.
• Copyright history. SoundCloud takes down tracks that infringe copyright and applies a strike policy to repeat cases. Look for a clear statement on whether the account has received takedowns.
• Tracks you do not own. Music the previous user uploaded belongs to them or their collaborators. Plan to remove anything you have no rights to.
• Genre fit. Followers who came for trap beats may not stay for ambient piano. A relevant history is worth more than a large but unrelated audience.

Checking a store before ordering

Offers from independent stores are listed on the SoundCloud category page; check it for current offers. Every store passes platform approval and every listing is reviewed before going live. Look at each store's rating and sales count, read buyer reviews (refunded orders are labelled) and note the insurance balance, which is money the store keeps with the platform as a trust signal. The best descriptions separate artist and listener accounts clearly and say which plan, if any, is included.

To pay, verify your email on rStock and top up your balance with cryptocurrency through Cryptomus; the balance is credited in USDT and is the only way to pay. Select one product, choose a quantity and confirm. The login appears on the order page as a delivery record, and your payment is held rather than released to the store immediately.

Transferring the account into your name

When you buy a SoundCloud account, the aim is to make it clearly yours as quickly as possible:

1. Log in and compare the profile with the listing.
2. Change the password and the account email, and check any linked Google, Apple or Facebook sign-in.
3. Turn on two-factor authentication if SoundCloud offers it for your account, and protect the email inbox the same way.
4. Update the display name, profile URL, bio and artwork.
5. If the account has monetisation or distribution, put payout and tax details in your own name and follow SoundCloud's rules on who may receive earnings.
6. Remove tracks you do not hold rights to and keep the delivered details private.

SoundCloud is a trademark of its owner, and rStock is an independent marketplace that has no affiliation with SoundCloud. Use the account within SoundCloud's own terms of use, including its copyright rules.

Disputes and refunds to your rStock balance

If the login fails, the plan described is missing or the profile differs from the listing, open a dispute from the order within the dispute window. The store answers first; if you cannot agree, ask for a moderator. The outcome can be a full refund, a partial refund, release of the payment to the store or a split. Any refund is credited to your rStock balance, where it can go toward a different listing.