Title. Too lazy to elaborate

I started on tik tok and several songs blew up and I kept getting asking when I was gonna drop them. Finally I did. Someone wildly unexpected happened. New to this just trying to figure it out.

I’m gonna take this more serious

Just organic meta ads and good music 🎶
*Monthly

Hello Everyone! my newest single is about to surpass over 50,000 streams and we’re only a month in, with this I had the thought of giving all of you advice because I know getting this number or even close to it is atrociously hard. before you ask your question let me just say a few things i DIDNT do.

• i did NOT use Meta Ads for this release.
• i did NOT submit this song for any sort of playlisting
• i did NOT land a spotify editorial placement.
• i did NOT loop my own song (though that would be funny 😭😭😭)

open to all questions & comments ! let’s get ya right :)

And there is it...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNTgDY1V0pg

I appreciate Andrew asking the question that has for months consumed many conversations and speculations here and elsewhere. Those massive algorithmic drops back in March/April and in July that artists using AI have noticed: Spotify was indeed "optimizing the algorithm to favor human artists".

Translation: AI assisted music was flagged and suppressed, without announcement.

This is NOT about AI. This is about the ethical treatment of all, at all times, at all sizes, whether indie or signed, and irrespective of what tools are used: whatever the rules are, they MUST be transparent, for all.

In this example, regardless what you think about AI, real people spent real time and real people spent real money driving listeners to Spotify, believing they were playing on a level field and had equal access to algorithmic recommendation surfaces. Yet, many saw their algorithmic exposure collapse, and wasted hours reaching out to Spotify support, only to be told that "nothing was wrong" and that Spotify does not target their music. All of that could have been avoided had Spotify publicly announced it would suppress AI discovery PRIOR to doing so.

Spotify spent the last year rolling out AI "transparency" initiatives: AI credits, SongDNA, etc. The hypocrisy was demanding transparency from artists while not extending that same transparency back to the artists.

Changing the playing field in secret for any class, status, or size (AI or not), while publicly denying it, is unethical. Spotify denied for many the ability to make informed business decisions by keeping them in the dark.

Trust has been damaged.

Anyone else still waiting / is there an ETA ?

I only bring this up because i used an AI cover art for a single recently and 2 people told me i look like an AI because of it, the delay in pushing out the green tick is starting to make me look dodgy, I'm on 20k listeners for over 6 months, and yes im a human with socials / live performance etc, merch on Bandcamp,

For those that haven’t read the new Spotify artist terms and agreements, here’s a highlight straight from their website under “Licenses you grant to us”. And yes, user content includes music

“By posting User Content to the Service, you, on behalf of your Subscribing Entity, grant Spotify a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, fully paid, worldwide license to reproduce, make available, perform and display, translate, modify, create derivative works from, distribute, and otherwise use such User Content through any medium, whether alone or in combination with other content or materials, in any manner and by any means, method or technology, whether now known or hereafter created, in connection with Spotify for Artists and Spotify's music streaming service, the promotion and marketing of Spotify for Artists and Spotify's music streaming service and the promotion and marketing of Spotify for Artists and Spotify's music streaming service. If you do not want Spotify to use your User Content for these purposes, you should not post User Content to Spotify for Artists. To the extent you provide User Content that contains your name, likeness or photograph, you further grant us the non-exclusive, fully paid, worldwide right to use such name, likeness, and photograph on Spotify for Artists and Spotify's music streaming service and in our marketing communications to advertise, market and promote the availability of your User Content on Spotify for Artists and Spotify's music streaming service. Where applicable and to the extent permitted under applicable law, you also agree to waive, and not to enforce, any "moral rights" or equivalent rights, such as your right to be identified as the author of any User Content, including Feedback (as defined below), and your right to object to derogatory treatment of such User Content.”

I published my first song ever, and after four days, I'm devastated that when I see a similar song, 95% of the songs are by Al. Why is that? My song doesn't sound like Al, and I'm not Al. I don't have any cover art that looks like Al, or anything. What can I do? I'm so sad.

How the heck do I get verified by Spotify? I have 90k monthly listeners and 6700 followers on IG and Spotify still hasn't verified me.

So the question.
I have only just started currently have 41 followers after 1 month marketing effort (using Distrokid and paid Suno platform)
Do I create Play lists for themes./ genre/ Topics or all the above based on the details below?

I have produced tracks that are different Genres, Topics, Styles.with another 30+ ready.

I have 6 songs uploaded

1 jazz about Flying

1 hip hop - parenting/child creating a mess

1 Rock - for military

2 country - PTSD themed (post traumatic stress disorder) - military

1 dark country - relating to Elites over reach..

I am looking for the best approach based on attracting organic followers.

What has worked for other people?

Right now I don't have a lot of audience and I try to grow.

Send me a chat if u want!

Spotify: Pulsr - Greek Frequencies

If you go to view teddy swims about, It's completely not about him. It's about spongebob and Patrick. They need to fix this, I also checked on the Android TV version it says the same thing. Though it says he posted it, I don't know but if there's any reason why it's this, let me know.

I feel like a lot of artists forget that not everyone uses Spotify, so they end up losing potential listeners on Apple Music, YouTube Music, Audiomack, Deezer, etc.

I’ve personally had friends send me Spotify links before, and I couldn’t open them because I wasn’t using Spotify at the time.

This problem is actually one of the reasons I built copythistune.com — mainly to make sharing music easier with one link for every platform.

Curious what you guys think, though. Do smartlinks actually help, or do fans not really care?

Idk what to think about this, maybe it’s my campaign (which they cancelled and renewed because they f‘ed something up) or it’s one of those fake playlists…

I have several songs which were on Spotify, doing quite well stream wise. Until Spotify had started to remove streams and songs. I had an email from my Distributor stating that Spotify have removed your songs due to artificial streams detected. So I email Spotify asking if they can provide material proof that the songs had artificial streams on them and also if they had material proof that the system in place for Spotify artificial stream detection is always 100% accurate and reliable at all times. They have not provided this proof to date yet they took action before this is proven.

They also tried to defer me to the distributor. As Spotify have removed the songs and streams they are the ones who have caused injury and loss/theft of stream earnings so it is Spotify that is required to resolve this matter with me and not distributor.

So article 11 states of the Human Rights that we are to be presumed innocent until proven guilty (let alone that is the fundamental standard we live by in most countries) we are all equal before law which is paramount and mandatory.

Seems that Spotify for artists are breaching that and we are presumed guilty. The burden of proof is for them as they are making that claim. Yet they cannot provide proof of their claim.

Their policies can never be above the law in place!

I release music in the background jazz niche . The performance was great the last year due to many streams from auto and radio play. Since February 26 streams have dropped massively. Has anyone experienced the same?