Applications open · The Founding Twenty

Your followers aren't yours.
Fantemo fixes that.

The permanent home where artists own their fan relationships — and fans see only the artists they chose. No algorithm. No noise. Own your fans, don't rent them.

Live in under 30 minutes. No developer required. $19/month — and only when you're ready.

A Fantemo Lander shown in perspective: artist homepage, merch, updates feed, ticket links and a revenue dashboard.
~3%
of your own followers see a post you make
6
platforms holding pieces of one audience
0
of those fan relationships are yours to keep
100%
of your Fantemo fans leave with you, by name
The problem

Social media solved distribution.
It never solved connection.

Because it was never paid to. Platforms need engagement; artists need relationships. For fifteen years those two forces have been sold as the same thing. They are opposites.

An artist with 80,000 followers owns nothing. They post, and around three per cent of their own audience sees it.

Your data lives in four different rooms. Streaming on Spotify. Fans on Instagram. Purchases on your store. None of it together. None of it yours.

You can't leave with what you built. The most valuable asset in music sits on infrastructure you don't own and can't take with you.

This is not a technology failure. It is an incentive failure — and Fantemo is built to correct it.

Chris Read · Founder
The product

Two surfaces. One power shift.

Your website, link-in-bio, merch store and fan club — retired in one move. Plus the screen no one has ever given you.

01 — The Lander

Your headquarters, not another page.

A permanent HQ on your own domain, live in under 30 minutes, no developer required. Built as a conversion system, not a website: identity, proof, action.

  • Every section drives to one click — "Follow for direct updates, no algorithm in between."
  • Music, shows, video, merch and tickets in one place your fans can bookmark.
  • That click starts an owned relationship — not a follow you're renting.
yourname.fantemo.com
Follow for direct updates →
02 — The Feed

The direct line you were promised.

Only the artists a fan chose. Strictly chronological. No ads, no discovery, no comments, no algorithm deciding what matters.

  • You post once. Every single follower gets it.
  • Clean and quiet by design — the reason fans come back daily.
  • Social media promised this and never delivered.
Your Feed · chronological · 100% reach
F
FMOF
2 hours ago
Vegas tickets go live to this feed 24 hours before anyone else. That's the whole point of being here.
SuperFan first
R
Rockstar
Yesterday
Studio take three. Rough mix, unmastered, yours before the label hears it.
B
Brill Records
3 days ago
Tour dates added: Manchester, Glasgow, Dublin.
03 — The Dashboard

Where the power actually lands.

Every fan, by name — email, purchases, SuperFan status — on one screen, owned by you.

  • Cross-platform fan data consolidated into one place for the first time.
  • Export the whole list in one click. No permission required.
  • The exit door is the proof of the promise: this audience leaves with you, or it never has to leave at all.
Your fans · 4,218SuperFans · 611
FanSpendStatus
Maya Ellison$248SuperFan
Dev Raman$96SuperFan
Chloe Barrett$41Follower
Tom Fielding$187SuperFan
Owned by you. Not by us.Export all ↓
What makes it different

We're not asking you to move.
We're asking you to own.

Integration, not replacement

Spotify, Instagram, Bandsintown, your merch stack — they all stay. They become the doors; Fantemo becomes the house. We never build what we can integrate.

First-party fan data, consolidated

Cross-platform fan data by name, in one place, owned by you and your team — the most valuable infrastructure the talent industry doesn't currently have.

Aligned incentives

No advertising model. No engagement farming. Every dollar Fantemo makes is a dollar an artist made first.

Who it's for

Music only. Focus is the entire strategy.

Artists

Working musicians who've outgrown the feed

Professional, releasing, touring or selling — spread across six platforms with diminishing returns from all of them.

Roughly 1,000–500,000 monthly listeners
Managers & labels

One view of every client on the roster

Teams running 1–20 artists post for artists, see every fan and every dollar, and run the whole operation — while the artist keeps the keys.

The first consolidated first-party fan layer across a roster
Fans

The 5–10% who already show up

The people buying tickets and merch who want closer access — and a SuperFan inner circle: badge, direct access, exclusive content.

A direct line to the artists they chose. Nothing else.

Not for (V1): superstars with infrastructure teams, casual listeners, brands, or non-music creators.

How it earns

We only earn when you earn.

Four streams. No advertising in any of them.

Pro
$19 /month

Your HQ on your own domain, full control, team seats.

SuperFan
You set it

The inner circle — your price, your perks. Small platform fee; you keep the rest, paid weekly.

Merch
Small fee

A small fee on checkout that never leaves your Lander. No redirects, no lost fans.

Sponsorship
Shared

One brand per Lander, hand-placed and artist-approved. Revenue shared between artist, label and Fantemo.

Every dollar Fantemo makes is a dollar an artist made first.

Where it stands today

We don't demo. We perform.

Live proof

FMOF runs entirely on Fantemo

Fifteen Minutes Of Fame — a real band, a real release ("Rockstar," Brill Records, January 2026) and a real campaign (The Big Encore: Road to Vegas) — runs its whole estate on the platform, end to end.

fmof.fantemo.com →
Structure

Venture-ready by design

Registered as a Delaware C-corp, with the founding team and partner circle now being assembled.

Cohort

The Founding Twenty

Twenty hand-picked independent artists and their managers, invitation only, working directly with the founding team — weekly access, same-day fixes, fingerprints on the product.

What success looks like — 90 days, on the record

The scoreboard is published, not hidden. Instrumented from day one, in the open.
75+
paying artists
4 in 10
with an active SuperFan
7 in 10
posting weekly
70+
NPS
<8%
churn

And the number the whole thesis stands on: fans returning daily, with no algorithm pulling them back.

Invitation only · 20 places

Apply for the Founding Twenty

Twenty artists and managers who build this with us. Weekly access to the founding team, same-day fixes, and your fingerprints on the product. When Fantemo works for twenty artists it doesn't control, it works.

We read every application personally. You'll hear back within 48 hours.

Application received.

Thanks — we'll be in touch within 48 hours. In the meantime, see the platform running live at fmof.fantemo.com.

The founder
Chris Read
Founder, Fantemo
  • StageLead singer of Ultimo — shared stages with Nickelback, INXS (with JD Fortune) and Peter Frampton.
  • LabelsWorked alongside Virgin and EMI.
  • BusinessSales, executive leadership and growth.
  • TodayRead Global — including RGX and Brill Entertainment, home to Brill Records.

He has lived both sides of this industry: holding the room, and assembling it.

Fantemo isn't a product built by people guessing at what artists need. It's built by someone who spent years on the wrong side of the same arrangement — making the work, building the audience, and owning none of it.

The Founding Twenty exists because the correction has to be proven, not claimed. Twenty artists we don't control, using it weekly, telling us where it breaks.

The next era of this industry will be owned by its artists. The only question is who helped build it.

Apply for the Founding Twenty