Publishing your music
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Publishing your music
Don't know if there is such thread already...
What do you guys use apart from youtube? Does it get you the exposure you were hoping for?
Interested to hear from people who have used Spotify and other similar paid services...
What do you guys use apart from youtube? Does it get you the exposure you were hoping for?
Interested to hear from people who have used Spotify and other similar paid services...
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Re: Publishing your music
We're about to release a single. Our focus is Spotify and a YouTube link to a lyric video at the moment.
Bandcamp will come later if we want to sell merchandise or audio downloads.
As far as promotion, we aim to gig as much as possible and post on Facebook and gonna open an Instagram account. It's all a bit of a learning curve for us to be honest man.
Bandcamp will come later if we want to sell merchandise or audio downloads.
As far as promotion, we aim to gig as much as possible and post on Facebook and gonna open an Instagram account. It's all a bit of a learning curve for us to be honest man.
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Re: Publishing your music
How do you find the process to get your single on Spotify?griff wrote: ↑Sat Sep 03, 2022 11:34 am We're about to release a single. Our focus is Spotify and a YouTube link to a lyric video at the moment.
Bandcamp will come later if we want to sell merchandise or audio downloads.
As far as promotion, we aim to gig as much as possible and post on Facebook and gonna open an Instagram account. It's all a bit of a learning curve for us to be honest man.
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Re: Publishing your music
Distrokid has gotta be the easiest and cheapest way to get stuff out there on the streaming platforms!
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Re: Publishing your music
Yeah, had a look at that. I am just wondering what playtime you would achieve with just one single out...
Edit probably once every blue moon
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Re: Publishing your music
Depends on your audience, if it’s the youth then you need to be on TikTok, if it’s boomers then targeted ads on Facebook, and so forth
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Oooh - I use CDbaby and DistroKid, but Ditto looks fantastic. I wonder if there's any way to transfer your songs from DistroKid to Ditto, without losing your play stats?Jay wrote: ↑Sun Sep 04, 2022 2:30 pmHave a read of ditto
https://dittomusic.com/en/ditto-music-v ... gJm6fD_BwE
Also... manually targeted platforms are a very interesting subject and worth testing and exploring. For example my electronic project gets over 5000 plays a month on Soundcloud, but only a few hundred on Spotify, Apple Music and Bandcamp etc. So for whatever reason our audience seems to be almost exclusively on Soundcloud. We did no promotion or anything, it's just grown that way. Recommend you just put your music everywhere and see what happens!
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Does SoundCloud pay you something?MogwaiBoy wrote: ↑Sun Sep 04, 2022 4:56 pmOooh - I use CDbaby and DistroKid, but Ditto looks fantastic. I wonder if there's any way to transfer your songs from DistroKid to Ditto, without losing your play stats?Jay wrote: ↑Sun Sep 04, 2022 2:30 pmHave a read of ditto
https://dittomusic.com/en/ditto-music-v ... gJm6fD_BwE
Also... manually targeted platforms are a very interesting subject and worth testing and exploring. For example my electronic project gets over 5000 plays a month on Soundcloud, but only a few hundred on Spotify, Apple Music and Bandcamp etc. So for whatever reason our audience seems to be almost exclusively on Soundcloud. We did no promotion or anything, it's just grown that way. Recommend you just put your music everywhere and see what happens!
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Re: Publishing your music
Only if you have the 'Pro Unlimited' artist subscription which is whatever it is ($12-13 a month or something?), then you can monetize your tracks. We might get half that back in royalties if we're lucky, but we're in it for the other benefits. Well I am anyway, it's charging to my credit card
They have a "low and high contributor" super-user type scheme where you get more for people devoting their time on the platform to your music (and if they're also paying subscribers). This is something Spotify should implement.
If someone clicks on an advert while listening to your song, you should get a cut, especially if they buy anything - but nup, Spotify just pays you 0.000013 or whatever for the single stream - divided by the number of songs on the platform, so the per-stream pot gets smaller each year.
Similarly, if a Spotify subscriber spends most of their time on the platform listening to your music, in fairness you should get a cut of their subscription payment.
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I used Distrokid. Shit UI. Does the job I suppose. I resented them, but I think that was a reflection of my passionate hatred of Spotify. We barely covered the fees so Bandcamp was our only source of actual revenue. YMMV and all that.
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Re: Publishing your music
Ok...I'm in the right place now. Ty Jay for the directions.
Dotto seem a good contender, but I'm leaning towards these guys https://drm.co.nz/. Mainly as they are based NZ.
Dotto seem a good contender, but I'm leaning towards these guys https://drm.co.nz/. Mainly as they are based NZ.
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Re: Publishing your music
Yep. Same experience here. I’d have to check but I think I’m sitting at around 0.001c per stream from Spotify.Darth Sabbathi wrote: ↑Sun Sep 18, 2022 9:10 am … but I think that was a reflection of my passionate hatred of Spotify. We barely covered the fees so Bandcamp was our only source of actual revenue. YMMV and all that.