How to upload your music to Spotify, Apple Music, Itunes, TikTok, Instagram, and pretty much,
actually not pretty much, how to upload your music to all streaming services in the entire world.
I'm going to show you exactly how to do that today. If you're also an indie musician you're looking to
get your music out there on the streaming services and you're also looking to get people to hear it
right, because you want people to hear it, then feel free to subscribe to this channel because these
are the videos i make. Let's now focus on how to upload our music to spotify, apple music, itunes
TikTok, and every single other streaming service out there. The way we do this is through
a middleman, also known as a music distributor. This person/company, actually it is a company, acts
as this middle ground between you and spotify and you and apple music. For example, you give them
your song, your artwork, and all the information and then they'll go to spotify and apple music
And itunes. You might be asking yourself, why can't you just go to spotify, apple music, amazon
music and youtube music and just upload your song there? You can't. And I don't really have a
good answer for you, other than, the middleman music distributors will control what you need. For instance,
the requirements for those streaming services. I use two distributors to release my music right now.
They are Tunecore and Distrokid. To keep things simple i'm going to show you how i upload a song
on tunecore. The the process how they will go and get your music on spotify, apple music, and every other
streaming music platform. Tunecore is at Tunecore.com. We’ll go “sell your music worldwide”.
These are the answers to exactly what we want, to get our music on spotify, itunes, apple music, tidal,
youtube music, amazon music, tiktok. Tiktok is especially really important nowadays. So,
you would sign up. Now this is what the inside of a Tunecore account looks like. Here are some
singles that I have released on tunecore. If this is your first time signing up for tunecore then you
won't see anything here. We can go to music, or we can go create an album. If you do have an album you
want to release or create a single. So let’s say we just want to release a single.
I’m going to go create single and i'm going to start filling out the information that tunecore needs.
Most of this information is quite simple. Like your song title, your artist name,
your artwork, the language, the genre, when you want to release your song, etc. The codes down here
are codes that tunecore will actually provide you. The ISRC code is just a unique identifier
to your specific song that tracks how many streams the song has. Then we would say, create my
single. This is where you actually choose the streaming services.
There's a check box, so I want to go to spotify, I want to go to youtube music, i want to go to itunes, i
want to go to apple music, amazon music, tiktok, instagram stories. And there's an option just to
distribute everywhere if other streaming services come into the fold you can automatically have
those added for a small extra cos. However, you don't have to, you can just go for the main ones
Then you will pay Tunecore for your release. So how much does it cost you ask?
It is $9.99 US dollars per year to release one single. So if we were uploading our single here we'd pay
the 9 dollars now and then we would pay $9.99 every single year until we don't want our music on
Spotify, apple music, and everywhere else. If we wanted an album, we could pay $30 a year, 29.99.
and then 49.99 for each following year. There are some other services that tunecore offers that are
also unique to tunecore. Some are also just standard across the industry too. Unique features would be,,
youtube monetization, and publishing, which are unique to tunecore. I think. Both are very helpful
if you are an intermediate stage artist and you have your music being played in many different parts of
the world. Especially, on streaming services as well and radio and that kind of thing.
Once you’ve checked out and paid for the single your music will be uploaded to spotify, apple music and all the
other streaming services. It takes sometimes within 4 or 5 days, up to 2 weeks. What I
would recommend you do is, upload your single in advance of 4weeks before your release date.
So if it's january 1st, and you want your song out on February 1st. Then I'd have it uploaded by January 1st.
Which is 4 weeks in advance. This gives tunecore enough time but also more, from a marketing perspective,
gives you enough time to plan for the release to tell your fans. You can rest assure, 100%,
that it will be released on that date so you can tell your audience about it. So, leave it in Tunecore’s
hands and they'll go and give it to spotify, apple music, and they'll start uploading it
on their end. Continuing on, for you to get an idea of when the song will be out on spotify, you can go to
your artist profile. Inside, i'll show you what it looks like for me and my music.
You'll see an upcoming section. Go to this upcoming section.
In about four or five days it will be in this upcoming section. Actually,
here is where, in the spotify for artists dashboard, where you should pitch the Spotify Curators.
with the hope of getting your song on a Spotify Editorial Playlist. If your release date
has come and your song is still not available on TikTok, Instagram or Spotify. Or maybe
it's on one but not on the other, then i would recommend going back into tunecore, or whatever
distributor you used, go back in and then they'll show you the links to the song. So maybe
you just actually didn't see it or that they might give you a message saying your song is still not
available on this platform yet. It could take a few more days. For example, in my case this song, “What
Love Is”, that was distributed on tunecore, i can see all the stores that it is available on and then I
have the store links. You might be wondering what if you messed up on your artwork or a song name or
maybe artist name or something. That's possible, so you can also just go back in here and
do the edits. But because they're a middleman then you have to make your edits to tunecore
and then Tunecore has to go make their edits to the store. So, it will take a few days to make
these changes. For example, the artwork, that once happened to me. I accidentally messed up on
the artwork and then I had to change it. I think it only, in total, took about 10
days to actually, from the day i fixed it on tunecore, to the day it was fixed on spotify.
That's how to upload your music to spotify, apple music, tiktok, instagram, itunes all the streaming
services. If you watched this video and made it this far, and you're looking to upload your music
locally to each of these streaming services you can do that as well and you don't need a distributor for
that. You can do that on spotify, itunes, apple music, all locally on your computer. All these streaming
services will have an option where you can have the music on the platform but only locally on your
computer. It won't be available for anyone else to stream. Perhaps
if you're a singer songwriter and you want your demos up on spotify. For example, I do this to my
demos because I'm listening to music on spotify regularly, i'll have a different playlist for my
demos that i've been working on in the studio. For example, in spotify you can see “local files”
Under local files, these are some demos that I've been working on. If you don't see that in the
right hand menu, go to the top right here, go to Settings, and then under settings, scroll down
and you should see “local files”. This is clicked on, if this is clicked off, then you won't see it.
In the right, click it on, “show local files” and then here you can add a new source folder and
this source will open up a finder window or a browser in windows and you will add the
folder to where your songs are. Then that folder will be available in “local files” for you
to listen to. Keep in mind, don't worry, no one will find these songs, it's only locally on your
computer. If you're trying to get your music heard or you're making music as a singer songwriter or
producer then please subscribe to this channel and i hope to see you in the next video.