The reason I’m updating the blog post is because of the 7 playlists the track was accepted, the song has since been removed from 4. I ran another song on Soundcampaign and this time the results are depressingly different: My best success came with a playlist that had 69k likes and I went in at number 2. So again, that playlist referred zero.Īn approval on Soundcampaign went in at position 50 of a 50 track playlist and was removed a day later. On Groover one of the approvals never got added to a playlist. All my Submithub approvals were ‘shoutouts’. The caveat here is that some approvals on Submithub are called ‘Shout-outs’ and they are like the curator saying “we really liked your track but we have no more room on our main playlist” or somesuch – a bit like baby Jesus. I went in at position 200+ for only a few days. On Submithub an approval went into a playlist which had over 2000 songs and 44 likes. Some playlists tick all the boxes and some tick none You’ll see this under the date added column: On this note, look out for warning signs your targeted playlist is transient. The nearer number 1 you get means more streams The more songs means you’ll get less streams How many streams you get depends on a few things The cost per stream is my key metric and for that we observe Soundcampaign is the clear winner. I submitted the same track 10 times to Submithub, Groover and Soundcampaign: This is why approval rates are lower on these types of service. Submithub is incredibly competitive as the number of artists vastly outnumbers curators. You cannot target individual playlists with Soundcampaign which makes for a ‘lucky dip’ experience (which I actually quite enjoyed truth be told).Ī word also needs to be said that Submithub and Groover appear to use the same types of curators as I recognised some names on both platforms. But it’s much more expensive at about $9 per submission. Soundcampaign works very differently: you select a genre(s) and declare a budget and the system comes up with a shortlist of curators for you which it then sends your track. Groover and Submithub work much the same way: you pay about $2 or $3 to submit to an individual playlist curator. I used three pitching services: Soundcampaign, Groover and Submithub. There are folks on Fiverr who will get your music onto 1934828 playlists for $$$ but I didn’t choose this route as I feared they were crazy high risk. I have yet to be picked up by the big Spotify algorithms though. I got onto lots of playlists and my monthly Spotify plays went from under 10 to over 2,000.
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