Today, as scheduled, my first song got published in Spotify - and some other platforms for sure, but I just checked Spotify... Here is the link, hope you like it! Big Bang on Spotify Now, a few things catching my attention that might need fixing... First, I feel my song is a little bit too quiet compared to others around... I have been mixing for a final Integrated LUFS around -20dB, so I guess I should target something higher instead, maybe around -16dB. Not a big issue, at least I can't hear clipping or other conversion artifacts Second, lyrics don't show up - in Spotify at least - but that might be part of the processing time of the platform for lyrics, as well as the ability to claim my artist's page which I still can't... I supposed those would happen sometime this week Third, DistroKid HyperFollow page, which seems like a good idea, can't be used for already published songs? The one for Big Bang ( https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/jc6beats/big-bang ) still say...
As mentioned in a previous post, amateur musicians like me now have the possibility of easily - at least from a tools perspective - composing and producing almost any kind of music they feel inclined to... but even more, with the success of Spotify and other streaming platforms you can also publish and share your songs with the whole world!
And that's my next step... not to become famous or earn money, that's beyond my wildest dreams! But to understand how all this thing works, kind of a research project
A few initial finds that somehow shocked me were:
- It is reasonably cheap to start (I'll post from time to time how much I have expended into it)
- The existence of companies that track any usage of your music all over Internet
- The many streaming services are out there, besides the obvious ones
- How fuzzy seems to be the match between you and your accounts in those services
As an example of that last bullet, I remember watching a YouTube video where someone mentioned his song was published into another musician page... the guy said it was fixed in no time, but just the possibility of such incident to happen really surprised me
One of the best videos I've found - of course IMHO - was this by Damian Keyes... it even got me searching through his full library for more tips and any interesting topic that could show up
Next week I hope to tell you about the music I will publish, and if time allows, how it went the first time I tried.. see you then!
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