Want to know how to upload your music to Spotify, Apple Music, and more
Well stick around because in this video I'm going to show you how you can quickly and easily upload your music to streaming platforms and digital stores
Hey, I'm Ricky Ram with OrpheusAudioAcademy.com, helping you make better music and grow your
fan base online. And today I'm going to show you really quickly how you can get your music uploaded
Now first of all, just know that you can't directly upload your music to any of these
streaming platforms or stores. They require you to go through a third-party company through what is called a music distributor
And so there's a bunch of different companies out there. One I've used before is Speedy Baby
Another big one is TuneCore. The one I'm currently using is called Digital Kid because I think this is the best one for
indie artists like me. So I'm going to show you how then you can use Digital Kid to upload your music
But a lot of these same steps will apply if you're using a different distributor
So with that in mind, if you decide to use Digital Kid yourself, just be sure to use
my link, which is OrpheusAudioAcademy.com slash DistroKid, as this will get you 7% off
your first year of membership. All right, so let's do that right now. So let's go to DistroKid, so OrpheusAudioAcademy.com slash DistroKid
And that will take us to a page right here. You'll see this yellow bar at the top
That means you are using my link and you will get 7% off
And so then you simply want to sign up here. You put in your email and you create a password
And then you confirm your password and then click Sign Up. And then that will take you to a pricing page where you can choose different pricing options
If you're not sure which one is best for you, then just check out my video up here
I'll also link to it in the description below. And this walks you through a complete DistroKid tutorial, including a breakdown of all the
different pricing options and which one might be best for you. All right, with that in mind, I'm going to go ahead and log into my account now so I
can show you how you can upload music. All right, so here I am in my account and I'm just going to click this little Upload
button right here. Pretty simple. And then you can immediately choose what services you want to be able to use
So here you've got Spotify at the top, Apple Music, iTunes, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok
YouTube, Amazon, and so on, Pandora, so on, and so forth, Tidal
I keep interrupting myself. And so you can see there's a lot of different stores you can get your music on here through DistroKid
And so then you're going to choose how many songs you want to upload. So if it's going to be a giant album or just a single song
So how many recordings have not been previously released? So I'll say no. And then I choose my artist or band name
If you just have one artist name, you'll just have your own artist
I actually have two, so this is going to be a Soul Ray Dragons song, which is my little
fun side project that I do on the side. I guess that's why I called it my project, isn't it
And then I can choose the release date. So let's say August 30th, so about a month and a half from now, not quite
This way I can give myself extra time to submit to Spotify's editorial playlist team
and use time synchronization on Spotify so that it is always going to be the same time
every day for everyone else around the world. And for the sake of this video, I'm not going to do a pre-order because this isn't going
to be a daily launch. I'm just kind of putting out music with this particular artist that we're trying to grow
My Soul Ray Dragons is just somewhere where I put out just random music, so we're not
going to worry about that. And here I can put in the album cover, so with any album art you have, you can simply
drag it in here or upload it from your computer. Alright, where's my album cover, languages, English, genre
So I guess my particular song here falls under new age, unfortunately
I don't like that term, but anyway, secondary genre. And I guess folk because this is mostly piano
The song is called Skeleton Sons. I have no collaborator. And then version, this is a normal version, so nothing else here
And then here is where I actually upload the audio file, so it's where you upload the Lossless
you know, .wav audio file. And I'm a songwriter, so I'm going to do that check
No lyrics, not a radio edit. And yes, this song is an instrumental and contains no lyrics
And I'm just going to let streaming services decide when to preview. Here's some extras you can add on if you want to
I'm not interested in any of these, so I'll just skip these, but you can look at these for yourself, decide if you want to do these different add-ons
And then here's just some important mandatory disclaimers that you have to check off
So I'll check these, and we'll just go back up, review this real quick, and then click Done
And now it is uploading. The artwork is done. The artwork has been uploaded
All right, so it has finished uploading, and it says Done. That was easy, wasn't it
And yes, it was. Pretty darn easy. So you can see when the album will be released, and then it says Get to Work
Get to Work, we made a pre-save page to help you get more listeners, and this is something
that's awesome about this toolkit. This lets you share it, so you can get people excited about the release and following you
on different social media platforms or even pre-saving your song on Spotify, which can
really help boost your stream. So this is really great. So you can also, it says What's Next
So you can check on the status and also add credits or lyrics to your song
I don't have lyrics on this song, but you can see here where you can add in your lyrics
if you want to. So here's credits. You can also download it if you want the actual song
And then if this was a lyrics song, I specified it was instrumental, you can then come in
here and edit the lyrics and add in your lyrics to the song. And we'll go ahead and preview that pre-save page
So here, people can pre-save their song on Spotify, so when it comes out, it's already
saved to a favorite and they get a notification. And you can customize this and add where people can share this
So you can do Edit Page, and you can see all these different things you can add
So you can have Spotify pre-save on, have audio previews on. You can even have a YouTube URL embedded here
It has different links where people can hear the music. So if you have your music on other streaming platforms like Apple Music, you can add these
in here too once it's been uploaded and submitted to that store
All right, and that is it for uploading your song. From here, the next thing is logging into your Spotify for Artists and checking your
upcoming releases so you can submit this song to Spotify's editorial team for consideration
and potentially being a song added to Spotify editorial playlists, which can boost your stream
Now, if you don't have a Spotify for Artists account, you just have to get verified with
Spotify, and Just For Kids actually makes that very easy to do
So if you want to learn how to do that, then just click the link above or in the description
below, which will take you to another one of my videos which shows you how you can quickly
and easily get verified on Spotify. So you can get access to Spotify for Artists, which lets you submit your songs to playlists
data on your listeners and your streams, and it also gives you that nice verified blue
checkmark on your Spotify profile. Otherwise, if you're wanting more help with growing your Spotify streams, then be sure
to grab my Spotify playlist placement checklist in the description below. This will walk you through a proven step-by-step process for getting your music on Spotify
playlists, even if you're a very small indie artist. Otherwise, drop a like if you found this video helpful, and feel free to subscribe
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And don't forget to keep creating and have an awesome day. Bye