Do you put your song tracks on Spotify?

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Do you put your song tracks on Spotify?

Post by funsongs » Wed Jun 08, 2022 8:05 pm

From The Peanut Gallery - representing the President of The Procrastinators' Club...
and not savvy about social media platforms beyond Soundcloud & Bandcamp.

I still have login access to tunecore from the 2016 release of my first CD; so:
what's 'the plan' recommended for putting, say, 100 song tracks on Spotify...?

In advance; thanks for any help and advice.
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Re: Do you put your song tracks on Spotify?

Post by HogTime » Thu Jun 09, 2022 7:51 am

I recently "got with it" and used DittoMusic.com to put about 12 songs on multiple sites like Spotify. One reasonable price covered all. NFI.
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Re: Do you put your song tracks on Spotify?

Post by Casey H » Thu Jun 09, 2022 8:08 am

Yes. For me, as a non-artist, it probably doesn't accomplish much, but I decided to do it. I use Distrokid to distribute to all the streaming sites-- Spotify, Apple Music, Pandora, etc. All my exclusive libraries except one have no problem with this.

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Post by funsongs » Thu Jun 09, 2022 8:50 am

HogTime wrote:
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I recently "got with it" and used DittoMusic.com to put about 12 songs on multiple sites like Spotify. One reasonable price covered all. NFI.
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Thanks, Ralph. Hadn't heard of that one.
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Re: Do you put your song tracks on Spotify?

Post by funsongs » Thu Jun 09, 2022 8:53 am

Casey H wrote:
Thu Jun 09, 2022 8:08 am
Yes. For me, as a non-artist, it probably doesn't accomplish much, but I decided to do it. I use Distrokid to distribute to all the streaming sites-- Spotify, Apple Music, Pandora, etc. All my exclusive libraries except one have no problem with this.
Thanks, Casey - I think I may have bounced around with Distrokid (and Songtradr) - but sites that require lots of data input (unlike the simplicity of Soundcloud & Bandcamp),
for me, are just too cumbersome.
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Re: Do you put your song tracks on Spotify?

Post by Casey H » Thu Jun 09, 2022 9:12 am

funsongs wrote:
Thu Jun 09, 2022 8:53 am
Casey H wrote:
Thu Jun 09, 2022 8:08 am
Yes. For me, as a non-artist, it probably doesn't accomplish much, but I decided to do it. I use Distrokid to distribute to all the streaming sites-- Spotify, Apple Music, Pandora, etc. All my exclusive libraries except one have no problem with this.
Thanks, Casey - I think I may have bounced around with Distrokid (and Songtradr) - but sites that require lots of data input (unlike the simplicity of Soundcloud & Bandcamp),
for me are just too cumbersome.
Distrokid requires very little data if I recall. A lot is optional. Songtradr is pretty intense on the metadata.

Also ask yourself what the reason is for wanting to do it. Unless you have a decent number of songs and are building a fanbase, there isn't really any money it. I admit I did it more for fun & ego and for one of my libraries that likes a Spotify link though it's not essential.

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Re: Do you put your song tracks on Spotify?

Post by Paulie » Thu Jun 09, 2022 5:32 pm

I use Distrokid to publish music to the main services like Spotify, Apple Music, etc. I publish projects, full albums worth of stuff at a time. Some of the libraries I'm with also put their stuff out there as well. But you first need to create a Spotify Artist account. It's little kludgy... I did it so that I could easily access my music and share with others. Soundcloud has limits, Spotify has more playback features.
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Re: Do you put your song tracks on Spotify?

Post by cosmicdolphin » Fri Jun 10, 2022 12:26 am

No but some Libraries put them up on Spotify, maybe all micropennies add up and make it worth their while but I can't see the point personally.

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Re: Do you put your song tracks on Spotify?

Post by Kolstad » Fri Jun 10, 2022 2:29 am

I've started to put songs on streaming platforms, and one of them got on a couple editorial playlists on Spotify, it got over 50k streams in the first month of release. In just 1 month it payed 3x what a sync got me in the same year. So, it's not either/or - it's both/and. Pursue all avenues, don't kid yourself.
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Re: Do you put your song tracks on Spotify?

Post by Casey H » Fri Jun 10, 2022 6:24 am

Vocal songs are much more suited to streaming such as Spotify and if you want an artist presence, a must. Instrumentals may as well, more so than cues-- for example, chill, jazz, etc... Something that people would want to stream as playlists for mood.

If you write instrumental cues for TV background, I probably wouldn't bother. I welcome commentary on this.

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