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 can assist you promote your music and share moments to have fun in your socials.
Getting ready for Promotion
As you’re ready in 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 via Present.co to permit followers to avoid wasting your upcoming launch to their libraries forward of your launch. This may 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 track extra discoverable when followers seek for it. Think about different methods to optimize your artist profile forward of your launch, equivalent 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’ll be able to create skilled advertising and marketing belongings via 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 have fun milestones equivalent to being added to a playlist.
You’ll be able to 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 internet.
Share your songs seamlessly from Apple Music Advertising Instruments
As soon as your launch is out, Apple Music lets you dynamically promote your launch throughout channels and join with followers in all places—on and off the Apple Music platform—via quite a lot of instruments. Primarily based in your on-line presence, establish which of the next sharing strategies work greatest for you.
Hyperlinks
Ship listeners on to a track, album, or playlist with hyperlinks that robotically open Apple Music on any system. 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’ll be able to submit wherever 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 robotically linked to direct customers to obtain your music.
Embeddable previews
Provide a preview of your music wherever on the net with embeddable previews. Listeners not logged in to Apple Music can play a 30-second clip of a track or see a preview of a complete album or playlist with the complete listing of songs displayed. Logged in Apple Music customers can hear full tracks with out ever leaving your web site. Listeners can even open Apple Music instantly 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 instantly out of your web site. When customers present permission to entry their Apple Music account, they will use your web site to create playlists, add songs to their library, and play any of the tens of millions of songs within the Apple Music catalog. In case your app detects that the consumer isn’t but an Apple Music member, you’ll be able to 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 help of your newest launch. You’ll be able to create a Set Checklist playlist in Apple Music for Artists that lives in your Apple Music artist web page, Shazam, Highlight Search and Apple Maps. These playlists may help you promote tour dates, let followers relive or preview exhibits, and join with new listeners in an genuine manner.
You’ll want a couple of issues to get began:
- An artist picture: Your picture will function the duvet artwork of your Set Checklist playlist. In case you are importing an artist picture for the primary time, permit as much as three days after your picture is authorized to create and publish your playlist.
- A Bandsintown account: The best option to create your Set Checklist is by connecting your Bandsintown account to relay knowledge round live performance dates.
Learn to create Set Checklist playlists on Apple Music right here.
When you’ve revealed your Set Checklist, share it together with your followers on social platforms utilizing Apple’s customized belongings present in Apple Music for Artists!
Apple Music for Artists has all the things it’s essential 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 dwelling, Apple Music for Artists is flush with promotional instruments you should utilize 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 right now!