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Recently I was at an artists meet-up talking about what the best music marketing Loophole is that they know and it taught a lot.

The person next to me for example said : Spotify looks at popularity scores to place your track in algorithmic playlists so if you get above "25/30 popularity score" Spotify will automatically start placing you in 'release radar' and 'radio'

My Loophole was : starting an Instagram account in a niche where there's less content then viewers and then somehow attach your music to it. I for example started an introvert meme account and got millions of likes and a couple of thousand of followers. I just stuck my music to the posts and it helped a bit (maybe couple of 1000 streams) but I think if executed correctly could have a big impact.

Now I'm curious what is your Loophole?

Hey fellow musicians,

I am about to release a new EP in a couple of weeks and I'm trying to navigate what are the best websites to promote on. I know it's also good to run some meta campaigns but I'm now purely talking about playlisting because in most strategies I saw it was called a 'must' and a good thing to do while promoting new releases.

I have been searching and to be honest there seem to be much more options out there then I innitialy thought and that I found last time, probably also a lot of scams though.

I litteraly found over 40 websites on my research and now I feel pretty lost.. is it better to promote with a bigger more established one or to go more to a niche website or to a website from curators themselves.. I even saw some people selling curator contacts..

I did read some good things about Playlistspush, Submithub and Playlistsforyou I also heard about some other websites that where even doing 'scams' selling pure botted streams.

Now I want to be extra carefull with this release as I worked months on it and I don't want to get it banned so I'm looking for recomendations based on good experience but also people that actually checked if the websites don't use any botted tools whatsoever.

Any tips would be really helpfull, thank you and have a wonderful day!

keep creating music :)

Hey fellow musicians and marketeers,

I have been making music for 15 years now and have been actively promoting it for around 7 years.

I had plenty of ups and downs through this time but not as much consistent growth as I would have liked to see. Yes I could do more on Instagram and posts etc but it's not really my thing I want to touch people with my music not with reels.

The main streaming platform I actively promote on now is Spotify I switched from Soundcloud around 4 years ago.

So one of my songs recently hit 100k and I have a couple that reached 50k but it feels like it goes in peeks and drops so after a new release I run some promotional campaigns then it rises it boosts for a while and then it drops back to a steady 2/3k listeners a month.

It feels like the people who listened to my music just jumped onto the next thing and didn't really become 'fans' or just for a couple of weeks.

Now I see there's some new tools in Spotify like posting some short video behind your song or featuring a playlist are any of these things helping to retain listeners?

Are there any other tactics to convert casual listeners into fans?

Recently I ran some good playlisting campaigns with Playlistsforyou and Playlistpush and I got my listeners now to around 7k so I'm looking to convert some more to real fans, any tips & tricks are welcome.

Thanks and have a nice day

I have been producing on Logic Pro for the last 15 years and I absolutely love it, problem is recently I wanted to create a more and more professional sound and i feel like at some point I'm walking to a wall as in: The music doesn't get better anymore even if I spend more time mastering it. I also don't have the time to dive deep into 3 hour mastering You-Tube explainers. Some songs I feel like I can absolutely nail it and with others it feels like it's lacking something.

My question is what are the best ways of getting a cheap-ish mastering or quick ways to learn yourself so any shorter You-Tube explainers or maybe you know someone who masters good. I don't mind paying 100/200$ for a mastering on the song but then I want to know if it's better quality then how I do it and that's difficult to find. (probably also because a really good master is understandably quiet expensive)

Also curious what your thoughts are on promoting music and how to do it. I Recently got my music some traction on Spotify even reaching 7k monthly listeners after using playlistsforyou for playlisting and consistently posting on Social Media.

Let me know if you have any tips and if you are curious my artist profile on Spotify is : De Gast. Any tips on how to better master my songs are welcome :)

Wishing you a beautiful day and stay creative!