If you want to retain your royalties and have control of your publishing without costing you a penny, but a bit of time, you should go to bmi.com and register yourself a publishing company. There is no fee. The will ask you for a few different name suggestions. One could be perhaps Steve C's Music Publishing.

After you do that you should then register yourself as an artist at bmi.com. Once that is established you should then head over to a section where you can register your works. You can register the entire album in order song by song. Be sure that you have all of the times of each song available since they will ask for this.

For letting the world have access to your music I would suggest through personal experience that distrokid.com is quite reasonable for the amount of exposure/web music portals your album will be exposed to.

Since you are blogging on an international platform, you might find it interesting where people may be checking out your tunes by looking at some of the stats distrokid has for Spotify and Apple music and if anyone purchases a track or the whole album there's a section where you can see what part of the world it was purchased from.