When you’ve submitted music for distribution to Apple Music and claimed your Apple Music for Artists profile, head over to the Promote part the place there are instruments that will help you promote your music and share moments to rejoice in your socials.
Making ready for Promotion
As you’re ready to your launch to go reside, optimize your Apple Music for Artists (AMfA) profile, then put together for promotion with the next:
Construct hype with pre-adds: CD Child Members can launch an Apple Music pre-add marketing campaign by way of Present.co to permit followers to save lots of your upcoming launch to their libraries forward of your launch. This might help drive launch day streams. Study extra about Present.co right here.
Set your cowl artwork in movement: CD Child artists get unique entry to Apple Music Album Movement Artwork to animate cowl artwork and make releases extra partaking. Animated art work sees 30% extra engagement when shared over social media. Study extra about CDB Video Creator right here.
Replace your Apple Music for Artists profile: Submit any lacking or incorrect lyrics to make your music extra discoverable when followers seek for it. Think about different methods to optimize your artist profile forward of your launch, akin to updating your profile picture or filling out one other Q&A portion.
Create customized advertising and marketing belongings
As soon as your launch arrives, you possibly can create skilled advertising and marketing belongings by way of the Promote part on Apple Music for Artists. Customise templates with quite a lot of colours, orientations, and codecs to share your new launch, then rejoice milestones akin to being added to a playlist.
You may share finalized designs on to your socials or ship them over e-mail for future use — proper from the Apple Music for Artists iOS app or net.
Share your songs seamlessly from Apple Music Advertising Instruments
As soon as your launch is out, Apple Music permits you to dynamically promote your launch throughout channels and join with followers in all places—on and off the Apple Music platform—by way of quite a lot of instruments. Based mostly in your on-line presence, establish which of the next sharing strategies work greatest for you.
Hyperlinks
Ship listeners on to a music, album, or playlist with hyperlinks that mechanically open Apple Music on any gadget. Hyperlinks are nice for social posts and e-mail advertising and marketing, and there’s the choice to generate a shortened hyperlink the place wanted.
QR Codes
Generate a QR code you possibly can publish anyplace that hyperlinks on to your profile on Apple Music.
Badges and icons
Assist followers discover and obtain your music by embedding an Apple Music badge in your web site, socials, emails, and extra. Badges are mechanically linked to direct customers to obtain your music.
Embeddable previews
Supply a preview of your music anyplace on the internet with embeddable previews. Listeners not logged in to Apple Music can play a 30-second clip of a music or see a preview of a whole album or playlist with the complete record of songs displayed. Logged in Apple Music customers can hear full tracks with out ever leaving your web site. Listeners may also open Apple Music straight from the participant to log in or join a free trial.
MusicKit
Take embeds one step additional with MusicKit. Permit your followers to play Apple Music and their native music library straight out of your web site. When customers present permission to entry their Apple Music account, they’ll use your web site to create playlists, add songs to their library, and play any of the thousands and thousands of songs within the Apple Music catalog. In case your app detects that the person isn’t but an Apple Music member, you possibly can supply a trial membership from inside your web site.
From the stage to your streams: Apple Set Lists
Maybe you’ve organized a launch present or tour in assist of your newest launch. You may create a Set Listing playlist in Apple Music for Artists that lives in your Apple Music artist web page, Shazam, Highlight Search and Apple Maps. These playlists might help you promote tour dates, let followers relive or preview exhibits, and join with new listeners in an genuine method.
You’ll want just a few issues to get began:
- An artist picture: Your picture will function the quilt artwork of your Set Listing playlist. In case you are importing an artist picture for the primary time, enable as much as three days after your picture is accredited to create and publish your playlist.
- A Bandsintown account: The best option to create your Set Listing is by connecting your Bandsintown account to relay knowledge round live performance dates.
Discover ways to create Set Listing playlists on Apple Music right here.
When you’ve printed your Set Listing, share it along with your followers on social platforms utilizing Apple’s customized belongings present in Apple Music for Artists!
Apple Music for Artists has every thing it’s good to assist promote your launch
From customizable advertising and marketing belongings to a playlisting software that brings a little bit of the reside expertise to followers at house, Apple Music for Artists is flush with promotional instruments you should use to seamlessly promote your music throughout channels.
Should you’re a CD Child Artist, declare your official Apple Music for Artists profile and begin selling your subsequent launch at present!
