Avoid getting your music rejected by a digital distributor or Spotify + AWAL upload 2023
Avoid getting your music rejected by your digital distributor / Spotify in 2023, I will walk you through the most important factors of uploading your music to a digital distributor / AWAL.
If you're not experienced, uploading your music to a digital distributor can be time consuming and frustrating and you can end up either having your music rejected days after you’ve submitted it or worse, taken down after launch. I’m going to walk through how I uploaded my single "When We Were Together" to my digital distributor – AWAL - and show you all the mistakes to avoid to ensure the upload of your music is successful.
I'm going to take you through:
How to create a product on my digital distributor?
How to avoid mistakes when uploading your music?
Why has my music been rejected after upload?
What will I need to upload my music to a digital distributor / Spotify?
Why does music get rejected by digital distributors or taken down?
What do all the different codes for music mean?
What is the difference between the P line and the C line in music?
What does the digital distributor mean by “imprint” for my music?
How to set your Tik Tok time stamp
What are UPC and ISRC codes in music?
What format should my lyrics be in?
Other videos you should see:
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THE INFO:
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🌎 1-1 music consultation (by submission only): [email protected]
👇 ABOUT ME:
I’m Sharon Watkins and I’m a recording artist that achieved 100s of 1000’s of stream, national radio plays and global press coverage in the first year of releasing my music. How did I do that? I am also a global marketer and have an MBA, and I applied my knowledge of business and marketing to my music to make it successful. Following my success, I have had so many independent artists reach out to me for advice, so I decided to start a You Tube series to share all of that advice and show you how to be successful with your music. If you’re a recording artist with limited time to spend on the business aspect of your music then make sure you subscribe so you don’t miss out!
I also do 1 on 1 consultations with a select number of artists (by submission only) if you think you’re music has the potential to go far submit it to my email address for an outline of the services I offer.
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Chapters:
00:00 How to make your music successful
00:46 Creating a project on AWAL
01:47 Linking your project to previous releases
02:29 Creating a product and ISRC code
02:42 What should you enter in Version for your song?
02:52 Do I need a UPC to upload my song?
03:01 Product Overview screen on AWAL
03:21 Filling in the Basics for your Single
03:39 Do I need to enter a product version for my music?
03:49 Linking your single release to your existing releases
03:58 Should I add someone as a featuring artist?
04:11 Your music will be rejected if you don't get this right!
04:31 Selecting the genre & what is the "Imprint" for my music?
04:51 What is the c line / copyright line for music?
05:18 What format should my artwork be in for my single
05:37 Uploading my music to a digital distributor
06:04 Setting the Tik Tok preview start time for my music
05:54 Make your music successful - subscribe!
06:40 Uploading my lyrics to my digital distributor
07:02 Adding contributing artists to my single release
07:22 What is the p line of my single?
07:40 What is the ISRC code for my music?
08:07 Setting the release date & pre-save date of my music
08:40 What should I enter for the price of my single?
09:08 What countries should i release my music in?
09:45 Save my single & make corrections
10:24 What should I enter in explicit content for my music?
10:40 Saving and checking your single is set for release
11:30 How to make your music successful