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First Song Out There! (And Lessons Learned)

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...
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First Song Out There! (And Lessons Learned)

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 says "Available Soon" and doesn't have a link for the actual track

Finally, a good thing 😅 I've just discovered the HyperFollow page has a Preview feature added at some time during the process, and that makes sense... I haven't use HyperFollow so far because I have ZERO fans, ha ha, but if it shows an extract of the song it might make sense after all

Anyway, first step done... let's see how the path keeps going!

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