How to Get Your Gospel Song on Spotify, Boomplay, iTunes’s Playlist

Getting your song music store’s playlist is one of the most effective ways to promote your gospel song online and there are different ways to achieve this.

Of all the digital platforms out there, Spotify, iTunes, AudioMack, and Boomplay happen to be the most popular among artistes and music listeners, especially in Nigeria. So as an emerging artist, you need to focus on the platforms I mentioned above.

While there is really no guaranteed way, hack, or method to get your song on the playlist of music stores, you still need to try your best to push your song to the face of playlist curators. 

So here are some steps you can take to increase the chances of getting your song on a playlist.

1. Distribute your music to digital stores
2. Get your account verified 
3. Submit your song to curators
4. Create your own playlist

1. Distribute Your Music to Digital Stores 

This is the first step you need to take if you want to get your song out there – release and distribute your song to digital stores.

This may sound basic but before anyone can listen to your song even after serial promotion it needs to be readily available and accessible to your audience.

Once your song has been distributed to digital stores, you can then talk about promotion, or playlisting your song on your preferred music store.

There are many digital store distributor companies out there such as Ditto Music, Distrokid, Tunecore, CD Baby, etc. You can visit any of these websites, create an account and start distributing your song.

But, If you have no clue how to get your song on these digital stores with any of the companies mentioned above, you can hire us at an affordable rate to distribute your song to digital platforms.

 2. Claim and Get Your Account Verified

Now that you have distributed your song on digital stores, the next step you want to take is to further strengthen your profile on these stores by claiming your profile and getting verified.

Getting verified on these digital stores distinguishes you from other users, gives you more authority organically, and shows that you’ve been approved on the stores.

It also gives you control over your profile – you can change the profile photo, edit your bios and tweak your profile to your taste. With a verified account or profile, you also have access to insights and stats of fans and how well you are performing on the music store.

To claim and verify your profile on any of these digital stores, you need to fill out a form and submit it for review, once your application is approved you will be given the verification badge.

For Spotify, Click Here

For iTunes, Click Here

For Audiomack, Click Here

For Boomplay, Click Here

After successfully verifying your profile on the platforms, you can then pitch or submit your song directly to their editorial team for playlist placement.

3. Submit Your Song to Curators 

Alternatively, you can also get your song on playlists by reaching out to playlist curators in your preferred music digital stores.

On each music store, there are thousands of music listeners who create playlist and has been able to gain huge followers over time. Getting your song on their playlist will be a huge plus for your music.

Before you reach out to any playlist curators, you must take note of a few things because you want your song to be placed in the right playlist otherwise you won’t get the kind of result you want.

You need to keep in mind that you should only reach out to curators with your target audience, stuffs like genre, mood, and audience demographics should be considered. Once you have all these figured out, then you can go ahead.

While reaching out to any playlist curators, you must be professional. Send them your song with a caption like “Hello, My song is trending, I want it to be on your playlist” which will only get your song rejected.

Instead, you should start your write-up by introducing yourself and letting them know why they should consider your song on their playlist. Another plus to this is the production quality of your song, if the curator like your song, they will definitely consider adding your song to their playlist.

4. Create Your Own Playlist 

Don’t forget you can always create your own playlist on the major music platforms. Here’s an advantage for you give your song more exposure.

You can create as many playlists as you want but you must make sure that each song you are adding to your playlist goes well with your own song.

While creating your playlist, you shouldn’t make it all about your song, adding one or two of your song to a playlist of about 50 songs is good enough.

You can also collaborate with other artiste who is in the same genre or audience as you by cross-promoting your songs on each other’s playlist. 

Here’s a bonus tip – to increase the visibility of the playlist you create, you can share it to your social media pages and also reach out to the artiste you featured in your playlist; this will encourage them to share the playlist with their audience too.

If you don’t know how to create playlists, below are some articles that can be of help to you.

• How to Create Spotify Playlist
• How to Create Boomplay Playlist

• How to Create iTunes Playlist

Wrapping Up:

Getting your song on a playlist that is greatly engaged is a sure-fire way to promote your song as an emerging artiste.

You will easily get playlisted on digital stores after distributing your song on stores if you also have your profile verified.

If you can’t get your song on the playlist organically, then you can consider sending your song to playlist curators or creating your own playlist.

Now that you have learned how you can get your song on playlists, which of these methods are you going to try first?

Let me know in the comment below.