
But if you’re an independent artist, digital music aggregators such as TuneCore, CD Baby, and Record Union offer to upload your music to these platforms for a small fee or percentage. If you are signed to a major record label, your music is already on its way to being listed or placed on Spotify, Apple Music, Google Play Music, etc. Placement on a popular playlist on either of these platforms can take your music and career, as Drake would say, “from 0 to 100 n**** real quick!”īelow are some steps and tips that can land your music a spot on a popular playlist.
Spotify artist aggregators drivers#
If you own both the rights to your master recordings and the publishing rights to your songs, you will find that these platforms are currently amongst the biggest drivers of song engagement. With these platforms boasting zillions of subscribers, many playlists generate millions of streams on a weekly basis. Songs on a curated playlist on streaming platforms like “Spotify” and “Apple Music” are grouped together to attract specific audiences.

Today “playlisting” is one of the most vital aspects of an artist’s content release strategy. As a result, I thought an article on getting your music on popular digital music playlists would be super helpful.Īs of 2016, digital streaming has rapidly overtaken downloads and physical CD sales as the primary way fans consume music.

Streaming revenues have increased the major record labels’ bottom line and luckily for music attorneys like me, these labels are signing artists with substantial streams to record deals.

What’s popping? Miss me? I know its been a minute since my last newsletter but I’ve been busy doing a lot of deals and one of the main reasons why is because of the increase in music streaming.
