Plan your next music release like a pro with this step-by-step campaign guide. Covers timeline planning, pre-save strategy, playlist pitching, social media rollout, email marketing, paid promotion, and post-release follow-up for independent artists.
A complete guide to promoting your music on YouTube in 2026. Covers channel optimization, YouTube Shorts strategy, SEO for music videos, monetization through ads and YouTube Music, and proven tactics to convert viewers into fans.
A complete guide to every artist dashboard platform in 2026. How to claim your profiles, pitch playlists, read your analytics, and turn streaming data into real career decisions.
The right music release frequency depends on your career stage, not some universal rule. Here's what the data actually says about algorithms, fan retention, and why Russ releasing a song a week built a career while most artists who try it burn out.
Master every stage of music marketing, from pre-release strategy and playlist pitching to TikTok promotion and email campaigns. A step-by-step guide built for independent artists who want real results without a label budget.
Master the art of playlist pitching with proven strategies for editorial, algorithmic, and independent playlists.
A Spotify deeplink opens your track inside a specific playlist context, not as a standalone play. This changes how Spotify's algorithm scores that stream. Here is how to build them, when to use them, and why it matters in 2026.
Learn exactly how streaming royalties work, what factors affect your earnings, and how to estimate income across platforms. This guide empowers independent artists, songwriters, and labels to plan releases, track revenue, and maximize streaming income.
Spotify playlist placement drives streams, algorithmic exposure, and listener growth. This guide covers every pitching method available to independent artists in 2026, from Spotify for Artists editorial submission to third-party curators, with the strategies that actually work.
A drop in Spotify streams is almost always explainable. This guide covers every major cause of declining Spotify stream counts, how to diagnose which one applies to you, and the specific actions that reverse the trend.
YouTube and Spotify are the two largest music platforms in the world, and they serve very different purposes for independent artists. This guide compares them across discovery, monetization, audience building, and effort required, and shows which platform deserves your attention first depending on your goals.
Look up any artist on Spotify. Explore their profile, songs, albums, playlists, and similar artists.
See your top Spotify tracks and artists across short, medium, and long term time ranges. Genre breakdown, side-by-side comparison, and exportable stats cards. Connects securely with PKCE auth.
Find and remove duplicate tracks from your Spotify playlists, sort by date added or alphabetically, manage your Liked Songs, and export sorted playlists. Three tools in one. Free, secure PKCE auth.
Ampsuite is an all-in-one music royalty accounting, label management, and promotional system based in Coventry, UK, founded in 2011. Now part of Beatport's distribution network, Ampsuite delivers to Beatport, Bandcamp, SoundCloud, Spotify, Apple Music, TikTok, YouTube, and more. Features label group management, Content ID and music recognition, contract management, royalty accounting with auto-assigned sales and auto-emailed statements, automated website generation, and management reports. Available on a no-contract monthly plan or free as part of distribution deals. Best for labels that want integrated royalty accounting and distribution from a single dashboard.
Armada Distribution is the distribution arm of Armada Music Group, based in Amsterdam, Netherlands, founded in 2003. A leading independent distributor dedicated exclusively to dance and electronic music. Part of one of the biggest dance labels in the world. Amazon Music Preferred Provider and Spotify Preferred Provider. Focuses on maximizing global reach, fan engagement, and visibility across all platforms. Custom deals with no public pricing. Selective about clients. Not a general-purpose distributor. Best for dance and electronic music artists and labels seeking premium distribution with major-label backing.
AudioSalad is a B2B music distribution and metadata management platform based in New York and London, founded in 2010. Parent company is SESAC Performing Rights, LLC. Built for record labels, aggregators, and label services companies, not individual artists. Apple Music Preferred Partner and Spotify Preferred Delivery Platform. Distributes to 100+ DSPs with DDEX-compliant delivery. Supports WAV, FLAC, MP3, Dolby Atmos, MQA, and video formats. Offers white-label capability, multiple label and sublabel management, powerful API, bulk ingest, complex delivery scenarios, detailed royalty reporting, and physical and digital distribution. No public pricing. Best for labels with 50+ releases per year.
