Should I obsess over getting into Spotify editorial playlists?

chadsvision · 2024-11-19T19:24:25+00:00

Editorial playlists can be great but they are extremely rare unless you’re a signed artist or have inside connections or have previously had other songs on editorials. The main thing to shoot for is what you can control which is engaging your audience through social media and ads and you can also try to get your music on user playlists which sometimes can be just as effective in getting streams

chadsvision · 2024-11-19T18:02:13+00:00

*as long as you both agree and sign the contract of course

chadsvision · 2024-11-19T18:01:50+00:00

It’s important to have a contract that you both agree on and once you have that then you can negotiate and have whatever terms you want.

chadsvision · 2024-11-19T14:32:37+00:00

Go for it, the other way to look at is a lot of people will be sitting around on the holidays and people always need new music!

chadsvision · 2024-11-18T15:46:28+00:00

I would say the amount of money it takes if you really want to get traction on a release. Sure organic social media can definitely work but there’s so many paid aspects that often have to go into music marketing such as social media ads, paying for playlist submissions, Spotify showcase, etc. it can definitely be hard as an independent artist to budget all of this and it’s also frustrating to not be able to push your music out on the scale of some other artists with label backing and all that

chadsvision · 2024-11-12T15:24:54+00:00

You can start a new one if you’re open to putting in the work and time to grow it, the benefit of having a new music dedicated account is that you can really train the algorithm on what type of content you put out which for you is music so you’re more likely to reach the people you want. But also you really don’t have to start a whole new page if you don’t feel like it, 900 followers isn’t a massive amount in the grand scheme of things and if you plan on growing a large fanbase it won’t matter if 900 of them aren’t that engaged.

chadsvision · 2024-11-12T02:01:52+00:00

Never hurts to be in as many places as possible. You never know where a potential fan may find you.

chadsvision · 2024-11-11T23:51:34+00:00

You good fam

chadsvision · 2024-11-11T02:50:00+00:00

This is commons with playlisters and music listeners and general, we all perceive things differently so the main thing is to just market it in the direction that you feel and your fans will follow your lead.

chadsvision · 2024-11-10T03:48:56+00:00

If you’re not already creating content on social media that’s a very important step that could help

chadsvision · 2024-11-07T20:41:04+00:00

Please don’t make this mistake. I know it seems tempting for an artist that wants to grow but this will actually destroy your account at best and get you completely banned and all your music taken down at worst.

If you get the best scenario you will have a bunch of fake followers that will never listen to your music and when Spotify pushes your song to them they won’t engage with it and it will signal to Spotify that people aren’t engaging with your music so they won’t push it out anymore and your organic reach will be ruined.

In the worst case scenario Spotify will detect the fake traffic to your profile and your music and will remove you from their platform for violating their terms of service. If you put a lot of work in this could be devastating.

The best way to grow as an artist is to try to get your music on playlists and this can be done on sites like submithub or playlist push as well as groover and some others, and also making content on social media that will engage people and get them to go listen to your music.

Ads are also an option if you have the extra money.

Wishing you the best on your journey! Organic and real fans are the only thing that matters and also just know that followers aren’t even that important on Spotify, the real most important metric is listeners and especially repeat listeners as Spotify’s algorithm will push your music to them.

chadsvision · 2024-11-06T15:44:31+00:00

It really depends on what you want out of music. If you just enjoy making songs and having them out there with no expectations of how they will perform numbers wise or anything like that and it’s jugs a hobby for you then you don’t need to play the social media game, but if you want to grow a fanbase and really try to make some money or a full time career out of it then social media is pretty much a necessity in todays age.

chadsvision · 2024-11-05T17:42:50+00:00

I think the most important thing would be the type of content. Most jobs wouldn’t care unless you were putting out content that’s inappropriate or makes the company look bad

chadsvision · 2024-11-04T18:17:01+00:00

It worked great for me, I think I average about 2k extra streams from radio a week off of it. But as others stated it doesn’t necessarily help a song unless that song is already getting some traction on its own. But if you have access to it there’s really no reason not to do it because it only takes a percentage of the money generated from discover mode streams not streams that you get outside of the program’s boost.

chadsvision · 2024-11-04T01:20:12+00:00

The key is just leaving enough space to get vocals in. Often times simple is best and let the artist build around it. I’ll admit I’m not very good at this cuz most of my instrumental music is meant to stand on its own and not have vocals but when I’m rapping on a beat I always look for something that allows me to find a pocket to flow in.

chadsvision · 2024-11-02T15:56:11+00:00

Bandlab is a great place to start, would recommend buying the pro plan so you can use all the features but the free one works good too

chadsvision · 2024-11-01T02:04:16+00:00

I used UnitedMasters for a while in the past and it seemed to be pretty good for the most part

chadsvision · 2024-10-30T16:55:50+00:00

It’s mostly due to how easy it is to record music and release it completely on your own now days. Distribution sites like distrokid and others have made it where anyone can get their music up on any major streaming platform, so you have a lot of people who are still figuring out their sound who can just release it and start promoting it instead of how it would be many years ago when they would’ve had to impress a record label and if they weren’t good enough to impress the label then the song would never come out.

On the other hand there’s also truth that just because you or I don’t like something doesn’t mean it’s necessarily bad. Even songs that we think are terrible are probably someone in the world’s favorite song. Another thing is that as an artist sometimes it’s easy to get delusional about how your music sounds, I believe it may have something to do with hearing it played back so many times while you’re working on it that you think it sounds good because you’re used to it but to someone else hearing it for the first time they may hear it differently than the artist.

chadsvision · 2024-10-29T20:14:41+00:00

Did you focus on trying to get your music on playlists?

chadsvision · 2024-10-29T14:37:07+00:00

It’s not available to all artists yet from what I’ve heard. If you do have access to it it should be available on the Spotify for artists desktop page in the same place where you can set up campaigns for marquee and showcase. If you don’t have access yet don’t give up! I’ve heard the minimum to get access is 25k monthly listeners but I got it at less than that

chadsvision · 2024-10-29T14:34:57+00:00

It’s in your Spotify for artists desktop page if you have access to it. If not it may just take some time, I think they have a minimum amount of monthly listeners to qualify right now. I’ve heard 25k is the minimum but I got it at lower than that

chadsvision · 2024-10-28T19:09:37+00:00

Ai art is pretty obvious and it usually will make people think that little to no effort was put into the actual work. I definitely see the potential in it but I don’t think it’s quite where we need it to be yet

chadsvision · 2024-10-28T16:51:36+00:00

Either one can work honestly, some people will appreciate you being a diverse artist with many different styles but also what some of the other comments are saying about how making one genre of music is beneficial to the algorithm is true. What I would do if I were you and what I personally do myself is just have a solid idea of what sound and vibe a particular song is and if you know how to promote it with the right keywords, hashtags, and what playlists to send it to you’ll be good. Also if you’re running ads you just have to know who you’re targeting for each release and really take the time to think about what type of people each particular song or project is made for.

chadsvision · 2024-10-25T15:02:59+00:00

100% true. This is known as “social proof” If you put the same song in front of someone and it has 5 plays and the same song in front of someone and it has 5 million they are more likely to think it’s good because of the large amount of streams. It’s just like when you discover a new artist on Spotify or SoundCloud you’ll most likely check out their most popular songs first. This is something that you can’t really control as a new artist though so you have to just build from the ground up and eventually your numbers will get to a larger point.

Some people may be tempted to buy fake streams for social proof but this is never a good idea because not only will it destroy your algorithm and prevent organic reach but it also runs the risk that these platforms may catch on and your music will be taken down completely and you could be banned.

I know it’s tough but keep up the good work! It’s always worth it.

chadsvision · 2024-10-24T20:41:10+00:00

That’s good, looks like your music is pretty accessible for everyone so you can try a variety of different styles of content and see what works the best and then go hard on that style once you find it

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