Upload a song to Spotify became the first step to a successful career as a musician. For more than 15 years, the streaming platform represents a true revolution in the music industry. Any artist can put their work in the app, and Magroove offers a music distribution service that does this job for you. Reaching new audiences and making money are just some of the advantages of the platform.
Spotify supported the fall of music piracy with the easy legal streaming. Before, many people used to download tracks illegally. Today, this number is smaller, which helps to preserve artists rights and earnings. The service also broke Apple’s monopoly in the music streaming and made it more democratic, with free plans - besides the paid ones.
Why is it important to upload your music on Spotify?
First of all: Spotify has more than 450 million subscribers. You have to put your tracks available to a public this huge, right? Also, people from all over the world compose this crowd. Before, to listen to a song or album, CDs were the most popular tool. Although, they were expensive and not accessible for everyone. Buyers needed to be more critical in choosing which CDs they would buy.
With the streaming platform, the public can explore new artists and musical genres. It is free or cheaper - if you have a paid plan. This way, the scenario helps new musicians to reach fresh and bigger audiences. The mechanism of autoplay - which consists in a song automatically playing after the one you are listening to - contributes as well. Maybe the algorithm can define that the user will like to know your song next.
Another golden opportunity provided by the app is the playlists. Spotify has many playlists, some of them even curated. Plenty of them are pretty famous, like “Today’s Top Hits”, and all the chart and mood ones. Being part of a playlist turns the path of the new listener to your tracks easier. It increases the chance of your work being found.
A very important part of music distribution for artists is the correct disclosure of credits. And Spotify does that. The platform also offers tools like retrospectives, lyrics, and mini videos with the songs. As you have a musician account, you can put a picture and biography. As well as build playlists for your followers. This brings the audience closer to their favorite artists. The service even offers buttons for fans to share their favorite sounds on their social medias.
The platform shows analytics too. So, you can find if a track is doing good or not, where people are listening more, and other data. As time passes and your success increases, you might even get verified.
Making money from royalties
Okay, you got it about how relevant it is having a song on Spotify. But how do you make money from it? The answer is simple: royalties. There are two kinds of them: recording and publishing.
Recording royalties are the money owed to rightsholders for recordings streamed on the platform. These payments are issued to artists typically through their record label or distributor.
Publishing royalties are the ones owed to the songwriter(s) owner(s) of a composition. They are paid to publishers, collecting societies, and mechanical agencies based on the territory of usage.
When a song is played on Spotify, the rightsholders receive its royalties. Does not matter if the user is premium or ad-supported. These payments might vary according to how their music is streamed or what are the agreements they signed with labels or distributors. Usually, the platform pays monthly.
Magroove makes your work easier
Magroove distributes music for free to highly accessed demand-side platforms (DSPs) worldwide including Spotify, and more than 40 others. Is easier for the DSPs to work with distributors than with musicians directly, because it avoids unstandardized metadata and facilitates the payout distribution.
But how does the company’s service work? You create an account for free and upload your songs. Magroove you put them on Spotify and you will only be charged if it makes more than USD 5 a year per release, unlike other platforms that charge upfront. So, in this case the firm will keep USD 5 and all above it is yours. A release can be a music, an album or an EP.
Once the musician reaches USD 50, the money is able to be withdrawn, through wire transfer. If the musician makes less profit than USD 5, the company will only keep the amount earned, without taking the release down or charging in any way. Also, there are no legal attachments. The firm did not take any part of the song, and the paperwork is free as well.
The artist can upload unlimited songs. And the app will generate the International Standard Recording Code (ISRC) if they don’t have it. It is an unique identifier that can be permanently encoded into a recording or music video. Without an ISRC issued and attributed to your song, it does not have any trail where to forward the royalties to, so it could be played for free indiscriminately.
So, finally answering "how to upload my song to Spotify?"
Got curious about how a song is uploaded to Spotify? Here is a step-by-step!
- Prepare your files: song and cover art.
- Create a Magroove for Artists account.
- Fill the form in 5 quick steps and choose a release date.
- Click submit and we'll send your music to 50+ digital platforms!
If you want your music to be released immediately, we can guarantee it won't take more than a few days. If it's the first time you're uploading music to Spotify, take into consideration that now Spotify will create an artist profile for your release. You can claim that artist profile in the Spotify For Artists platform and customize it as ou wish. Creating a Spotify For Artists account is also important for you to pitch your releases to editorial playlists and use a few of other Spotify features exclusive for artists!
Boosting your numbers
And Magroove does not just upload your song on the most accessed spaces - like Spotify, Instagram, and TikTok. The company also offers tools to boost your engagement! The user can pick a plan and have access to the popular Spotify pre-saves on the package. This mechanism became famous in the last few years. It increases expectations and boosts a music release.
Pre-saves guarantee that the track will automatically be in the library or playlist of the listeners who signed up. When a song receives a high amount of them, the streaming platform understands that it will have a good repercussion. It drives Spotify to deliver the release to a wider audience.
Magroove also provides full analytics reports about the song stats, link trees and a website builder. The artist can create a press kit as well.
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