Spotify Submit thing ?

spark240

Someone enlightened me to this today...pay a month sub an apparently get your music played here there everywhere etc....

Is this a thing?.....anyone using it with any success ?

roberty

Yep Distrokid is a good one, it's $20/year for a basic plan and you keep all the proceeds.  Goes on all the major platforms

There's probably some other more trendy ones and ones with better analytics now but that's what I signed up to a couple of years ago

roberty

Oh do you mean like for playlists and stuff?

spark240

So I’ve looked at Submit hub, which you pay a small fee to get your material to various people with large audiences apparently ....all sounds a bit iffy but I’ll Gove it a go for a few quid .

roberty

spark240 said:

So I’ve looked at Submit hub, which you pay a small fee to get your material to various people with large audiences apparently ....all sounds a bit iffy but I’ll Gove it a go for a few quid .

Cool mate good luck!

PolarityMan

Interested to know what results you see. 

spark240

PolarityMan said:

Interested to know what results you see. 

Well I submitted a song which I collaborated on with a mate, admittedly it wasn't exactly  happy pop song but I selected the genres I though were best.

Result....either declined / reject mostly, ...I think out of about 10 -15 submissions I had 2 written responses, I could keep going but as a quick experiment I didn't like it.....basically paying influencers...

I know someone who does a lot of electro pop stuff, he reckons it works for him...

Im dubious.

Cirrus

These "gatekeeper" type services are usually a waste of money.

10 years ago our drummer signed us up or a month to one where professionals would give you feedback on your tracks and pass them on to agencies/ labels etc if they were good.

We submitter a song called "Radiostasis" which started and ended with bursts of radio tuning noise, and the only feedback we got back was that in this day and age, there's no excuse for having static on a recording. They thought we were so incompetent that we'd accidentally produced a mix with a noise floor of about -15dBFS. 

DulcetJones

I have mine with Routenote, you can either pay for the deal that gets you all the money or go for the free deal and get a hefty percentage of each play.  I'm with the latter, they put your music everywhere (practically) that plays online music.  That includes iTunes, Spotify and so many more I can't keep up.  Been on there for 6 or 7 years with zero issues or complaints(and have no affiliation).