so i recently released an EP to itunes and spotify and all those places using DistroKid and i thought
i would document the process of doing the actual upload so in this video i'm going to show you
how to upload an EP or single to spotify using DistroKid i'm zane welcome to simple green tech
and this video is not sponsored now let's jump in all right so the first thing you want to do
is click on upload and then when you're in here you just need to change the number of songs that
you're going to be uploading so because this is an EP i'm going to choose four songs and if you're
not sure what a ep is versus a single versus a full album i actually have another video that
covers that topic i'll be sure to link that down in the description so you can check that out but
my ep is 4 songs has it previously been released no the artist band name is already there for me
because i have uploaded other music for this band name is the artist already on spotify yes mine is
if yours wasn't you would just choose no and then it would create the spotify account for you
don't worry distrokid makes it very easy for you to log in and then you can update your
spotify account and you get that verified artist badge as well when you do it so don't worry about
letting distrokid's set up your spotify for you it does work i've done it with two bands now
and it's worked great and as you can see here it shows i'm already on apple music
so for the release date you can choose today if you want it but i'm going to
make sure this is released later in the week so i want to release it on the 22nd
so i'll change that and i can do a release time if i want let's say 8 in the morning on that day
you can see here there's a pre-order option in order to use this you have to set it for at least
five days in advance i've only set it for i think three days in advance so i can't use the pre-order
option record label if you have one of the artist plus or higher accounts you can set your record
label here if not then it's just i think listed as distrokit as your record label now for your
album art you can just click and drag it into there and that's what i'm going to do right now
album title and album price you can set your language the primary genre
so mine is punk you can choose whatever you can see there's a very big variety of styles of music
you can choose from and you can also give it a secondary genre and you should really do this
because your ep or song may show up in these other genres so why not choose a secondary one
then you just go through your track one title and then you would just click choose file to upload
the file for that song another thing to note here is the songwriter section where yes you wrote this
song if it's a cover song then you'll see there's a whole other list of things you need to do
but because i wrote this song i don't have to go through all that and then i just set music and
lyrics and you put your real name in here but if you just wrote the music somebody else wrote the
lyrics you could choose to separate it like that and you can add another songwriter or whatever
explicit lyrics yes or no is this a radio edit yes or no instrumental now if there's a specific
part in your song that you want to have as the preview clip you can choose this and then enter
in the time code for that section of the song where you want it to start but i'm just going
to let the streaming services decide for mine and you can change the track prices if you want
and you do that for all of the songs on your ep and now down here there are some optional things
that cost extra and you can see some of these cost extra per year and this one here leave a legacy is
a one-time fee but it is 49 so you can choose any of these you want the one thing that's kind
of interesting here is the youtube money where you pay 14.95 per year and if your songs ever used on
youtube by somebody else or even by you if you're not monetized yet and you have your song posted
on youtube you can get the ad revenue from that song through this but if you don't have the views
really that can justify the 14.95 per year plus distrokid also gets 20 of the revenues
then maybe this really isn't worth it but if you do select this and you give the right to
some other content creator to use your song and it gets flagged i believe there is a way that you
can white list that video so that person can still monetize their content because you've given them
the right to and then you just have to make sure you're okay with all of these things down here
and one of them is about you realize you're uploading to youtube music which means they
automatically create a video on youtube or it's a youtube topic video i believe is what it's called
it's just the album art with your song so you can watch that video but it also appears in youtube
music so people can listen to it as well and then once you're ready you just click done now the one
thing here is if you're already on spotify is going to ask for your spotify artist uri
and you can enter that in there if you have it but if you don't you can click on the what's
that then distrokid has this tool where you click on there if you've already uploaded through
distrokid you can just select whichever release it is and you can find that information that you
need on this page here so they make it pretty easy to do that and that's pretty much it now
you just wait for your release date if you chose today as your release date usually your song will
end up in a lot of the stores within that day or the next day so it doesn't take too long of a time
i chose three days in advance and it's saying that that's still cutting it close there are
some stores that might not arrive in right away but i'm pretty sure it will arrive in most of the
major ones by that time so i'm not too worried now if you're just getting started in music production
and you're looking for some free tools to get you started in creating your own single or your own ep
click up here or click down here to see what youtube recommends if you like this video
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thank you so much for watching for simple green tech i'm zane keep creating and we'll talk soon