Popey wrote: β21 Sep 2023
Do submit hub do distribution rnw? I thought it was more promotion based and potentially getting on spotify playlist etc? Is it promotion you are after or distribution (Spotify, iTunes releases etc)
I have zero experience with services which try to beat the bushes with curators and influencers. Until now I did not even realize that might be a thing, though in retrospect
of course it is. But I am suddenly very interested in hearing whether this works.
Frankly, money is a non-goal for me and I would be happy if my tracks merely didn't languish completely unheard on SoundCloud like those of almost everyone else. So I don't care much about making sure pennies flow toward me from streaming services.
However, it strikes me that if you want to be a success with curators/influencers then table stakes are probably for a track to be well-distributed beforehand. If a curator/influencer can't provide a link to your track on their platform of choice or put your track into a playlist on their platform of choice, the track might as well not exist.
That said, after scrolling their list of currently popular tracks and sampling the "Where to Listen" field, it looks like you could do worse than submitting to just Spotify (far and away the most common) and SoundCloud (probably the next-most-common, and you were going to upload there anyway).
(I find it interesting that Bandcamp barely exists in this universe.)