r/musicminutes

I'm trying to grow my social media account and I want to help out small artists by sharing songs I like! [free]

Please don't send me AI songs.

To submit:

1. Follow my IG @ musicminutes
2. Leave a comment/save/like my reels
3. Send me your Song on IG DMs with something cool about it/you!
4. If I make a video on your song, please allow collaboration posts (even if you delete from your feed it's fine) - it helps drive more reach for both of us!

All genres welcome but Pop, Rock, Indie and R&B preferred.

I'm anticipating a lot of DMs but currently have only a couple of songs in my list so far! I am limited by my ability to make videos fast but I will try to support you on IG too, even if I don't post!

See you on IG! < 3

Spotify rolled out “Verified by Spotify” with real human review and it's supposed to show who is not AI.

Initially they published articles saying we need 10k monthly active listeners, but a few days ago they updated it and I got the verification on my music profile which only has 1.7k monthly listeners.

It could be because I'm a pre-AI artist (I released music before AI got good), but independent artists can still take steps to improve their chance of getting verification!

A quick checklist is:

- Increase social media posting and run meta ads to increase external traffic to Spotify

- Make sure profile images have your face!

- Avoid AI generated cover art

- Make a website if you can

- Use playlisting to drive listener volume (MusicMinutes, SubmitHub)

- Report any suspicious spikes you get where it's from a single playlist and looks like bots

- Add your social links to your Spotify for Artists (you can only do it on the web platform)

...and more

This is most of the info but to see how it meets their published guidance and extra checklist points, I posted a blog on our MusicMinutes site 😊

Good luck!!