Put Your Own Music On Spotify For Free

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How To Upload Music To Spotify
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Not everyone's lucky enough to be a signed music artist. Fortunately even if you're not signed to a label there's still ways to get your music on streaming services. Distribution services offer that and a lot more, including physical releases, statistics and marketing tools. Some services even offer marketing help for artists who start to 'catch' after a few releases - like adding tracks to Spotify playlists. Here's a comparison of what the best distributors have to offer.

Note: Spotify supports.mp3,.mp4, and.m4p files.If QuickTime is installed on your computer then.m4a files are also supported. How to Upload Music to Spotify Free on Windows. For Windows users, Spotify will automatically scan your Downloads, Documents, and Music. Spotify has announced a new beta feature that will allow independent artists to upload their music directly to the platform instead of through a label or digital aggregator. The upload feature. Add Songs to Spotify: Step 1: Download Spotify software Go to web and search “Spotify download”. Simply scroll down the search results. Step 2: Download Spotify software. Then browse to select the folder where you saved your local music and click 'OK'. You can go back to the main menu of Spotify and click 'Local Files' and you should see the music you imported. Note: Spotify only supports to import MP3 and MP4 music files. If your files are in other formats or with DRM encryption, they won't be supported. Add Your Own Songs To Spotify Playlist 1. Go to the Local Files in your Spotify app and click on the three-dot icon (more) in front of the file that you want. Now click on Add to Playlist and then select the playlist in which you want to add the file.

Distrokid

Distrokid allows you to upload as many tracks as you want for a yearly membership fee. What’s good about them as well is that they take no commission from your music - you get all the money you earn from your music. Unfortunately they don’t offer marketing help or playlist plugging possibilities.

+ No commission (you get all the money you earn)

+ You can upload as many songs as you wish for one yearly price

Special Discount on DistroKid: How to upload Your Music to Spotify, iTunes, Apple Music, Google Play and more.

+ They're about to introduce SMS message marketing tools for artists

– No additional marketing help for artists who gain traction

Pricing: $20 per year membership fee

Tunecore

Tunecore is the service for you if you’re interested in proper revenue and analytics reports. They’re very easy to use, detailed and helpful. Although they take no commission the price is a bit higher compared to Distrokid.

+ No commission

+ Very good revenue and analytics reports

Pricing: $30 first year, $50 next years

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AWAL (Artists Without A Label)

AWAL might be for you if you’re trying to get your music on Spotify playlists. They don’t take any fees for putting up your music on streaming services, but charge a 15% commission (15% of everything you earn goes to AWAL). Also, they offer one of the best analytics report tools of all.

+ Possibilities to get your music on playlists

+ No additional fees

– Must be accepted to get in

Pricing: 15% commission

Btw, if you're mastering your own tracks for streaming services, make sure you know how to set the right loudness for your track.

Ditto

Ditto is a bit like Distrokid - you pay one price a year and you’re able to upload as many songs as you wish with no commission. The difference is that they seem to have better revenue and analytics reports + are a buck cheaper than Distrokid.

+ No commission

+ You can upload as many songs as you wish for one yearly price

+ Very good revenue and analytics reports

– No additional marketing help for artists who gain traction

Pricing: 19$ per year

LANDR

LANDR is a company which offers an automated mastering service. If you’re already their subscriber you can distribute your music to all streaming services for free. They also offer you possibilities to get your music on Spotify playlists which is very nice.

+ No commission

+ Possibilities to get your music on playlists

+ Free for LANDR Mastering subscribers

– Does not provide mechanisms for you to release a cover song

Pricing: $1/month ($12/year) minimum. $3/month ($36/year) gives you access to all streaming sercvices

Stem

Stem is one of the newer services here and seems to be a cheap service (5% commission) which gives you access to a direct representative to support you. You have to apply and get in though.

+You have a dedicated representative who you can communicate with

+ Possibilities to get your music on playlists

+No fees or up front costs for anything

– Invite-only

Pricing: 5% commission

Symphonic

Symphonic doesn’t charge you any commission but makes you pay $25 for signing up and their release prices start at $11. It’s a very simple service.

+ No commission

Pricing: $25 'Sign-up fee' + Release fees staring from $11 for a 5 track album

CD Baby

CD Baby was one of the first ever services to let DIY musicians release their music in a physical format like CD or Vinyl and get it to record shops around the world. Nowadays they also let you release music on streaming services and you can do it all in one place.

+ It's a 'one stop shop' to get your music on streaming services as well as physically in stores (CD, Vinyl)

– No marketing help for artists who gain traction

Pricing: $5 per single, $20 per album + 9% commission

Reverbnation

Reverbnation is a service meant mostly for bands, but electronic producers can use it too. They offer you very nice packages - for 20 bucks a month you get access to their distrubition, mailing list tools and awesome opportunities. They also have very good revenue and analytics reports.

+ In a package you get distribution of 2 releases per year, a mailing list service and the ability to submit to opportunities such as TV placements, label submissions and festival slots

+ Very good data analytics, especially useful for demographics & venue finding

+ No commission

– Everything you release with them is branded with ReverbNation

– No professional help for bigger artists

Pricing: $9.95/month to get your music on streming services, $19.95/month for a full package

Freshtunes

Freshtunes is one of the newer services here. They claim to offer you everything for free (yes, no fees and no commission) with an option to get objective feedback from an expert for $25 a track. However you’re never too sure about how long is this kind of company going to last, so we would recommend going for one of the more “trusted” ones. If this service loses its investor it’s going to probably be closed. Another service like that is Amuse which claims to give you possibilities of signing you to a label with a 50/50 deal (if you “catch” after a few releases). Again, I would think twice before joining one of these investor funded services.

+No fees

+ No commission, except from China

+ Distribution to Chinese streaming services

+ Their experts will review your music for $25/song. It could be useful to get objective feedback

– No marketing help for artists who gain traction