DistroKid's bank export is a raw line dump — one row per store, country, month and track, often tens of thousands of rows, with earnings quoted to twelve decimal places. This page documents exactly what is in that file, and the free converter turns it into a clean, reconciled Excel workbook without your statement ever leaving your browser.
CSV, TSV or the zip DistroKid emails for large reports — format detection is automatic, and parsing runs locally in your tab. No account needed to see your results.
Drop your DistroKid TSV here — freeGo to distrokid.com/bank and click "SEE EXCRUCIATING DETAIL", then Download. If your report has fewer than 50,000 records, the file downloads immediately as a CSV. At 50,000 records or more, DistroKid generates the report in the background and emails you a link (also available at distrokid.com/bank/priority); the generated report is delivered as a .zip containing a .csv and stays available for seven days. You can drop the zip into the converter as-is — it is unpacked locally.
Since roughly July 2025 the export is a comma-delimited CSV with every field double-quoted. The header carries these 15 columns, in this order:
| # | Column | What it contains |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Date Inserted | Date the row was added to your bank, YYYY-MM-DD. |
| 2 | Reporting Date | Date DistroKid received or posted the store's report, YYYY-MM-DD. |
| 3 | Sale Month | Month the activity actually happened, YYYY-MM. |
| 4 | Store | The DSP, e.g. "Spotify", "Apple Music", "YouTube (Ads)". |
| 5 | Artist | Artist name; may contain several comma-separated names inside the quotes. |
| 6 | Title | Track or album title. |
| 7 | ISRC | Track identifier; may be blank on album rows. |
| 8 | UPC | Release identifier, 12–13 digits. |
| 9 | Quantity | Units (streams/downloads); an integer that can be negative on adjustments. |
| 10 | Team Percentage | 0–100 — your split's share of this row. |
| 11 | Source Type | "Song" or "Album". |
| 12 | Country of Sale | Two-letter ISO country code. |
| 13 | Songwriter Royalties Withheld (USD) | Decimal, usually 0.00000. |
| 14 | Earnings (USD) | High-precision decimal, e.g. 0.002642885330 — nine to twelve decimal places. |
| 15 | Recoup (USD) | Usually empty; recoupments when present. |
Source: DistroKid Help: Saving your earnings information as a spreadsheet file — transcribed and checked against the engine's parser on 2026-08-16.
One caveat worth knowing: rows are inclusive of your share receivable, so on split releases the Team Percentage must be applied to reach your payable share — the converter surfaces the column so nothing is hidden.
Before the July 2025 cut-over the same download produced the famous tab-separated .tsv in latin-1 encoding, with unquoted fields — essentially the same layout minus Date Inserted and Recoup (USD), and with a Song/Album column where Source Type now sits. The converter detects each file by header fingerprint, so old and new exports can go into the same session and come out as one normalised dataset.
Every row is normalised into a common earnings schema — period, store, territory, track, units, amount — and summed in exact decimal arithmetic, never floating point, so twelve decimal places of Spotify micro-earnings do not drift. The output is a six-sheet Excel earnings tape: Summary, Tie-Out, By Period, By DSP, Top Tracks and the full line items, plus a normalised CSV if you prefer to run your own analysis.
Tested on a real 9,053-row export in the current post-July-2025 15-column layout (Date Inserted … Recoup (USD)). Earnings values carry 9–12 decimals; YouTube rows often report $0.002–0.003 per play. Header-fingerprint detection means the older 13-column TSV is recognised too.
Parsing runs in your browser — files are never uploaded. What the tie-out does and does not prove.
DistroKid's bank works on an accrual basis: rows are grouped by reporting date, while withdrawals happen whenever you request them, so a withdrawal will rarely equal the sum of any one report window. The By Period sheet makes the accrual picture explicit.
Excel parses Earnings (USD) as floating point and rounds the display, turns long UPCs into scientific notation, and (on legacy TSVs) can garble latin-1 characters in artist names. Converting to a proper workbook first sidesteps all three.
DistroKid is one of four distributor layouts the engine reads natively. The other three are documented column by column in the same way:
Background reading: how to read a royalty statement — or go straight to the converter, which takes all of these in one session.
Drop your DistroKid export — and any other distributor statements — into the free converter. Everything is parsed locally; nothing is uploaded.
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