Finding creative ways to promote your music can be a struggle for many artists. To help get your creative juices flowing, here are 124 ideas to help you out. Check them out right here…
124 Ways to Promote Your Music
1. Distribute to online stores with Symphonic
2. Include your lyrics with distribution to be included in Genius, Spotify, etc.
3. Utilize social banners to direct traffic to your music
4. Stream on Spotify
5. Promote your personal Spotify playlists
6. Get featured on Spotify’s official playlists
8. Spotify Ads
9. Share on Spotify Playlist Exchange
10. Ask your artist friends to add your music to their playlists
11. Sell Merch on Spotify
12. Create a Spotify Green Room
13. Stream on Pandora
14. Create a Pandora Radio Station
15. Create a Pandora Ad
16. Create a message on Pandora
17. Stream on Amazon
18. Get on Amazon Playlists
19. Create an Amazon Station
21. Encourage fans to use Alexa for streaming your music (Voice Strategy)
22. Create YouTube Videos
23. YouTube Networks (ex. Trap Nation)
24. Monetize your videos on YouTube
25. Community feature on YouTube
26. YouTube Channel Memberships
29. SoundCloud Ads
31. Join a SoundCloud repost network
32. Sell on Bandcamp
33. Bandsintown
34. Traxsource Charts
35. Beatport Charts
36. Beatport Mixes
37. Shazam the song from the artist’s profile with a message
38. Submit your music for Sync Licensing
39. Repurpose music video content
40. Distribute your Music Video
41. Create teasers of music videos
42. Create BTS content on your video
43. Create a lyric video
44. Create a visualizer video
45. If it’s an acoustic song, create a remix. If it’s a produced song, create an acoustic version.
46. Create visual content of the remix and acoustic versions
47. Promote on Facebook
48. Share on Facebook Groups
50. Do a Facebook Live
51. Do a Facebook Group Meeting Room conversation
52. Create content on Instagram
53. Create IG Reels
54. Create IGTV
55. Instagram Ads
56. Do an IG Live
57. Start an Instagram DM Group with super fans
58. Do a giveaway
59. Create a filter for Reels/Stories
60. Create Snapchat videos
61. Snapchat Ads
62. Share on Twitter (X)
63. Twitter (X) Ads
64. Twitter(X) Voice Messages
65. Google Ads
66. Display ads in blogs
68. Create your own TikTok Challenge (or create your own hashtag)
70. Go live on TikTok
71. Start a Podcast
72. Feedback groups (ex. Facebook)
73. Link your music on dating apps (Literally – this is a thing.)
74. Splice’s Community Section
75. Twitch
76. Stageit
77. Patreon
78. Reverb Nation
79. Meta Pop
80. LinkedIn
81. Artist Union
82. Mixcloud
83. Songkick
84. Create memes of the song and share on socials
85. Share on Google Groups
86. Share on Reddit
87. Mailchimp (Use it to create a newsletter for your fans)
88. Have a call (listening party, meet and greet with your fans)
89. Promote on Clubhouse
90. Gigs
91. Host a listening party
92. Do a pop-up show to perform the song in a public or private location
93. Get a billboard
94. Capture live footage at a show and repurpose it with the single in the background
95. Encourage people to create UGC (user-generated content)
96. Printing CD’s
97. Pressing vinyl
98. Making cassettes
99. Share it with close family and friends
100. Start an SMS campaign and give the song to your superfans early via text
101. Word of Mouth
102. Merch
103. Collaborating with other artists
104. Networking at music conferences
105. Reach out to blogs
106. Secure a premiere
107. Utilize a press partner to do a social takeover of a gig
108. Start an influencer campaign
109. On your website
110. Online Radio
111. Radio
112. Hire a Radio promoter
113. Hype Machine
114. Sending your music to well-known artists
115. PlayMPE
116. EPK
117. Competitions (ex. Unsigned Only)
118. SubmitHub
119. Spinnin Records Talent Pool
120. Create a station on Stationhead
121. Partner with a popular station on Stationhead
122. Instagram Stickers
123. Create custom GIFS for socials
124. Hire a publicist
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