Hey guys - I produced this song last year and my buddy is the singer .. it randomly just got added to a couple big Spotify playlists. Would appreciate any and all ears, thoughts, etc! 🙏
open.spotify.com/track/0h32uhmiATtEFA3gfPrj1x?si=ciPGKwO_QJS8RpbxeOVJIQ&dl_branch=1

posting for when the link gets fixed in OP so i can go back to it lol

open.spotify.com/track/0h32uhmiATtEFA3gfPrj1x?si=ciPGKwO_QJS8RpbxeOVJIQ&dl_branch=1

just remove the !

there is no spotify embed

shout outs

any advice for making it on playlists?

Appreciate you all, fixing now!

oh s*** u made the young & free editorial. that's fire you boutta eat

We try to release a single every month and got lucky honestly.. we distribute through United Masters and they helped place us in NBA 2K last year .. I think that had a lot to do with it

Appreciate it! 🤞 we’re always looking to work if anyone in here makes music or knows someone who does!

Congrats op!! Good work

Thank you for listening, means a lot!! 🙏

Real one 💯 Keep grinding fr

Whats the pros vs another like Distrokid, CDbaby etc?

Mainly the sync opportunities for TV, movies, video games, etc. Still keep 100% of the royalties and masters for $50/year. Everyone is in a different situation but it works for us

52000 monthly listeners

280 followers

he's on a spotify editorial playlist though. this is what happens when you first get added, the followers slowly trickle in as people check the playlist out and find you.

only like some small % of people who hear the track are gonna actually care enough to check out the artist page and give a follow but every one of those people who plays the track will count as a monthly listener. so this ratio is pretty normal for a new artist who got added to an editorial for the first time

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Real Glendive hours

That’s still an extremely bad ratio

regardless they’re building up their fan base, good work @op

yeah and that's what it looks like to be a new artist lol. idk what point youre tryna make here

we can’t all start like Olivia rodrigo

lmao forreal like spotify followers are one of the hardest things to build up, and monthly listeners are a notoriously fickle stat. but OP's song is on a very legitimate spotify editorial which means he's on the right path

that’s true, heard it’s a random process but I heard once you’re in one then they’ll add you to more editorials like nothing

nah its not random honestly. there are a few different ways to do it (get on good blogs that spotify curators read, go viral somewhere or have your song be somewhere, be signed, have a plugged in manager or distributor, etc) but from OP's point it sounds like it was aided by the distributor (united masters) + being in 2k potentially which is dope

but yea once you make one they have an eye on you, so when you submit your next song as long as the quality stays up there's a great chance it'll get playlisted again. that's what happened for me, it's really a slow, consistent build at least in my experience