125 Ways to Promote Your Music

Finding creative ways to promote your music can be a struggle for many artists. To get the creative juices flowing, here are 125 ideas to help you out. Here’s the rundown…

125 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 official playlists
7. Spotify Codes
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 an message on Pandora
17. Stream on Amazon
18. Get on Amazon Playlists
19. Create an Amazon Station
20. Sell Merch on Amazon
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 in YouTube
26. YouTube Channel Memberships
27. Virtual meet and greets
28. Promote on Soundcloud
29. Soundcloud Ads
30. Monetize on Soundcloud
31. Join a SoundCloud repost network
32. Sell on Bandcamp
33. Bandsintown
34. Press with Qrates
35. Traxsource Charts
36. Beatport Charts
37. Beatport Mixes
38. Shazam the song from the artist’s profile with a message
39. Submit your music for Sync Licensing
40. Repurpose music video content
41. Distribute your Music Video
42. Create teasers of music videos
43. Create BTS content on your video
44. Create a lyric video
45. Create an visualizer video
46. If it’s an acoustic song, create a remix. If it’s a produced song, create an acoustic version.
47. Create visual content on the remix and acoustic versions
48. Promote on Facebook
49. Share on Facebook Groups
50. Advertise on Facebook
51. Do a Facebook Live
52. Do a Facebook Group Meeting Room conversation
53. Create content on Instagram
54. Create IG Reels
55. Create IGTV
56. Instagram Ads
57. Do an IG Live
58. Start a Instagram DM Group with super fans
59. Do a giveaway
60. Create a filter for Reels/Stories
61. Create Snapchat videos
62. Snapchat Ads
63. Share on Twitter
64. Twitter Ads
65. Twitter Voice Messages
66. Google Ads
67. Display ads in blogs
68. Get your music on TikTok
69. Create your own TikTok Challenge (or create your own hashtag)
70. Advertise on TikTok
71. Go live on TikTok
72. Start a Podcast
73. Feedback groups (ex. Facebook)
74. Link your music on dating apps (Literally – this is a thing.)
75. Splice’s Community Section
76. Twitch
77. Stageit
78. Patreon
79. Reverb Nation
80. Meta Pop
81. LinkedIn
82. Artist Union
83. MixCloud
84. Songkick
85. Create Memes of the song and share to socials
86. Share on Google Groups
87. Share on Reddit
88. Mailchimp (Use it to create a newsletter for your fans)
89. Have a call (listening party, meet and greet with your fans)
90. Promote on Clubhouse
91. Gigs
92. Host a listening party
93. Do a pop-up show to perform the song in a public or private location
94. Get a billboard
95. Capture live footage at a show and repurpose it with the single in the background
96. Encourage people to create UGC (user-generated content)
97. Printing CD’s
98. Pressing vinyl
99. Making cassettes
100. Share it with close family and friends
101. Start an SMS campaign and give the song to your superfans early via text
102. Word of Mouth
103. Merch
104. Collaborating with other artists
105. Networking at music conferences
106. Reach out to blogs
107. Secure a premiere
108. Utilize a press partner to do a social takeover a gig
109. Start an influencer campaign
110. On your website
111. Online Radio
112. Radio
113. Hire a Radio promoter
114. Hype Machine
115. Sending your music to well-known artists
116. Play MPE
117. EPK
118. Competitions (ex. Unsigned Only)
119. SubmitHub
120. Spinnin Records Talent Pool
121. Create a station on Stationhead
122. Partner with a popular station on Stationhead
123. Instagram Stickers
124. Create custom GIFS for socials
125. Hire a publicist