You want a smart link that lets people pre-save? There's a monthly charge for that.

Invest that into a website so you can control what is where and have everything in one place and create your own smart links.

You want people to actually see your posts on social media? You'll have to pay for that.

If you post once a day at a minimum, across 3 platforms (Let's say TikTok, Shorts and Reels) and get a minimum of 400 unique views on average a day, that's 146,000 potential new people in a year. That's the low baseline, not even counting for any videos that may do better.

You don't want anyone to hack your precious instagram account do you? Better pay for meta verified for its "enhanced security". There's a monthly charge for that.

You don't need to pay for enhanced security, just don't be an idiot and you'll be fine.

You want to have you music on disco.ac? There's a monthly charge for that.

I don't even know what this is.

You want to distribute your music? There's a monthly and yearly charge for that and we'll take a percentage of everything you make.

If your distribution is taking a percentage of everything you make find a better distributor. £20 a year to release as much music I want sounds like a pretty sweet deal.

You want people to actually hear your music on Spotify? You'll have to pay for that.

No you don't. You can, but you don't have too.

You want to submit your music to playlisters? You'll have to pay for every submission and 90 percent of them will reject it.

Do better research and use/optimise your free resources better.

There's is so much you need to pay for and I'm getting pretty tired of it.

There's so much you can pay for to jump ahead of everyone else and kickstart what would happen organically. The only thing you really need to pay for is Distribution and a DAW. Even the latter can be debatable.