Do THIS and Spotify Can’t Ignore Your Music

Some artists struggle to ever get their music noticed by Spotify and their algorithm.
In this video we cover tips on how to expose your music to Spotify and start gaining more streams from music fans.

[@Burstimo]

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[@ryanxhchew]

This is great ! Gave some really great ideas ! Thank y’all always for great insight . Cheers

[@datemonthyear]

I always like the really pragmatic, granular advice that you give.

[@Keith-cc8ud]

Guys, can you give advice to someone starting out at zero, i mean absolutely none prior social media presence? I have been making music for quite some years but never bothered sharing. I have an album done now but no idea how to get anyone to recognize that music. Made an Instagram and tiktok account and am trying to be active every day, did upload on Spotify but 0 plays lol. A video on that topic would be so super helpful. Anyways, appreciate your videos, I'm slowly learning from you. 👍

[@taniadiamond6393]

Hello 😊😊What kind of music u make btw??🎉🎉😊😊😊

[@Keith-cc8ud]

OK, so apparently someone (the creator?) deleted my reply for me posting a link I believe. So I just let you know without it, I make electronic music, multi genre kind of.

[@OfficialStevenCravis]

@@Keith-cc8udKeith, start off with releasing a single, and when that’s out build your Artist followings with Pandora, KZbin and Spotify before releasing more of your music.

[@sumsumab1809]

​@@OfficialStevenCravishe's asking HOW 😂

[@MiddleReligion]

You both have been so good and consistently honest with the music community that’s for hard work!

[@yourboylb]

That's interesting about the LinkedIn stuff, have you guys gotten good resukts from it, and how much of a budget do you think is good enough to spend?

[@inphasesmusic]

Hey guys! How do you find how many premium listeners I have on Spotify for artists? Really want to get your feedback on my audience. Thanks!

[@cblanchhiphop]

Helpful info - thanks again!

[@parlorclub]

How does one check the breakdown of premium subscribers?

[@christopherruiz6467]

Does Spotify take into account the shows and bands an artist plays with when listed under the events section of an artist’s page?

[@nathayes1061]

Anyone has contacts at Spotify or in general in the Alt/Folk/Indie scene

[@robertlarsson7861]

Where does the screenshot of the percentage come from? A specific distributor? I have never seen that information available anywhere before. Also a topic that I have seen very little information about is the "Like-percentage", you can calculate this yourself by taking likes/listeners from spotify for artists. I think this is a very good metric but havn't seen so many artists share this data to compare. Keep up the good work!

[@Burstimo]

Hard to answer this because every distributor is different. I find that like % can be faked too easily so we haven't focussed on it.

[@robertlarsson7861]

@@Burstimo What distributor does the premium screenshot come from? I have used many distributors but haven't seen it before. Regarding like-percentage, of course likes on songs can be faked, but I don't believe it is a common issue, since it is only available to the artist self in Spotify for artists. And it is the number 1 factor I use to see how popular my different songs are, but depends on how things where the song gets it streams from, algorithmic or playlists etc.

[@nathayes1061]

Can you pitch a song after it has been released?

[@Burstimo]

Not yourself via S4A na, but a good distributor may be able to give it a bit of a post-release push but you have to have some momentum already for that.

[@nathayes1061]

@@Burstimo thank you

[@shatings5605]

Very informative thanks

[@ilyasibrahim6404]

but how if the music is from overseas and has a different languages? is it still had chances?

[@Burstimo]

Not unless you're capable of creating a bop as good as this: open.spotify.com/track/52Zr0sinhWTCRrQhRRY4EP?si=20e23785d26c46b8

[@mrfleamino9350]

thank you guys

[@WendyMoore]

If you send a pitch, do only people from your country that work at Spotify see it? Or does it go everywhere. I heard that my country is so small, there is only one person currently working for Spotify. 1+1= 2 as in, labels are friends and get one step ahead. Not a lot of spots left for independents in our playlists. I actually see almost none. But if I pitch, could they also put it in broader playlists? Does It go to other people? Or are the independents from my country just F*cked?

[@faysha612]

When you say 'you might have to pay them'... How much are we talking? And what do we do if we don't have the disposable income to pay these people?

[@AnjaKotar]

the LinkedIn tips are GENIUS!! mind = blown Would you guys recommend editing the SFA editorial pitch once it's been submitted? Thank you so SO much for everything you do, you guys are AMAZING!

[@Burstimo]

Thanks Anja! Maddy did also drop you an email earlier today about the survey I mention at the end too.

[@AnjaKotar]

@@Burstimo that was going to be my second question hehe I can't see the email on my end, SO sorry about that!!

[@DazzleRebel]

Okay, I'm digging thr Indian Motorcycle shirt. Which model do you ride?

[@Burstimo]

Bah sorry to let you down but I don't ride motorbikes. My Caterham is maintained by a company called Krazy Horse who also sell motorbikes and merch and I really liked the T-shirt that they had for sale lol

[@DazzleRebel]

@@Burstimo ah, yeah. I know the guys at Krazy Horse. Paul's built a sweet business there, a real adult playground 🤘

[@rom_ash_ca]

Guys, thank you very much for this gold mine of knowledge! All these insights are so invaluable and really boost confidence and desire to try even more strategies as an artist❤️🙏!

[@Marvonibeats]

🔥🔥🔥

[@LilZzzQ]

Sent a nemail but never got a reply unfortunately.

[@nathayes1061]

Anyone know indie folk playlist

[@emg5570]

I really learn alot from your videos thank you

[@nathayes1061]

Very insight

[@INTER.NET_TONY]

Love you ❤

[@timmyxamm6049]

Great

[@ActiveMeditationMusic]

Fuck spotify, phisical media is the way to go! Buy and own your music!

[@Burstimo]

tard

[@ActiveMeditationMusic]

@@Burstimo Fuck you too for promoting Spotify

[@folliblanc2447]

@@Burstimo😭😭

[@professorflitch]

So now we have people spending a lot of time DMing their mediocre music to random strangers in order to get streams on Spotify. Then Spotify pays them 12 Cents for all those streams and keeps the lion's share. Wouldn't it be better to spend that time making good music? I am asking for a friend.

[@cosmicmatemusic]

Spew

[@Burstimo]

There are literally more letters in your comment than you have monthly listeners

[@1337murk]

Shame its not worth using these parasitic streaming platforms. Better to go direct to audience.

[@SL004]

Man that's so true but it's also very hard to get an audience 😢

[@1337murk]

@@SL004 But if only one person buys your album on CD, that is like getting 5000 streams. If two people buy your CD, that's 10k streams. Etc

[@eltonwild5648]

Such a long video for saying nothing

[@rossmusic25]

You didn’t watch the video

[@eltonwild5648]

@@rossmusic25 what did I miss? The right way to pitch to Spotify? The credibility? So many fake artists with alias get in editorial playlists without any presence anywhere

[@rossmusic25]

@@eltonwild5648 you can tell who is fake and who isn’t if they actually have a social presence where they have videos of them on their socials interacting with their viewers

[@Burstimo]

You must've had the video muted, at least I hope you did, otherwise there is no hope for you my profile picture-less friend.

[@eltonwild5648]

@@Burstimo you too