Waterfall is a valid strategy, never fails tbh, i see too many people asking me what to do and I recommend waterfall, then they just release the whole project and do not receive what they could have by drip feeding ;-;
waterfall method is okay but keep in mind if you are releasing in a + timezone, spotify will say that your new music has been released before it has (the single art and "new release" will come up) when people click on the new release they will only see the already released songs in the waterfall until the new song is out in their timezone! Had this happen to me on my previous release and found it very annoying, almost a big enough reason to not go ahead with the waterfall strategy.
The reality is that the music industry is doing much worse lately. With Spotify giving us these fake tools like Discovery Mode (their algorythm became much worse since they implemented that, so that we are technically forced to use it and give them 30% from our royalties), things keep goind downhill. It's getting hard for us to release music. For me personally, It's even hard to reach my own audience. My LP will wait for better times to be released.
l dre, you've motivated me to start music production as a hustle. i don't really know what lies ahead for me but i'll hope for the best. i hope everyone else can also become successful music producers.
so my question would be, why can't you use the same artwork? if it's going to be a singular album anyways once they're all under that umbrella, why do they need separate artwork? won't the new track just show up in your listeners release radar and discovery which is the most important thing anyways?
My personal reasoning is because I feel like people don’t really pay close enough attention so if they keep seeing the same artwork they might just think it’s the same song
Great Video once again, love how transparent you broke down your real stats. I noticed how many playlists you've got, i would love to know how you manage these many Spotify playlists, is there a tool for something ?
I mispoke a little there, those werent all my playlists. I only have like 3 playists and I dont do anything special with them. The rest of the playlists shown where mostly my fans personal playlists that they add me in
There is a major problem with stacking up the tracks with every release. Spotify categorizes 1-3 tracks as a single, 4-6 tracks as an EP, and 7+ tracks will be an album. If you want to do this strategy with 7 tracks you'll drop an album, if you want to add another track next week, you're dropping another album. If you do this for a 12 track project in total this means you've just dropped 5 albums in a row, and each time only 1 track is different. I'd suggest the strategy of just doing separate singles and then bringing it together in your EP or album. :)
@@LDreTheGiant can I ask why? asking bc I released a single and have another one uploaded to distrokid to release on april 11 for which I did not include the previous one haha. but want to make sure I can still add them to the same EP later on.
@@vegetablepark157 a simple explanation is so that the previous singles can basically get streamed by accident since they are together. If you do each single separate they might listen to it and carry on.
Imma leave my argument - do not waterfall. Here’s why, if your song does well, people will want to hear more. No one cares if you release one or ten, so why not release ten, and have people who like it listen to everything else. Then Promote each song like a single, while at the same time snagging multi track plays from fans. If u release one track, you’ll get one play. This advice is for those building a catalog. Don’t sell yourself short because of trends that are dead already. Nothing wrong with releasing singles. But the waterfall technique implies you have a full deck of songs ready to go. Release them, make an impact.
I’ll leave my counter argument - when you release 10 tracks it’s a lot less likely that people will make it to track 10. I can say from experience almost every album I’ve released the last few tracks usually have way less streams than the first ones. That’s just how it is. While I’m not sure if I will continue water-falling a full album worth or not, I cannot deny the benefits of giving every single track its on shine and release date.
I'm so really bored. I'm pitched more than 38 songs to editorial Playlist consideration during two years but they've not accepted any of them yet. 😔😔😔😞
I started releasing Music early 2018 I didn’t get into an editorial till like 2020 and it was only because my song went viral on TikTok lol but there’s also stories of people that got into them on there 2nd or 3rd release 🤷🏽♂️
I got on several big lo-fi editorial playlists in 2022, just 4 months after releasing my first beat on spotify. My monthly listeners went from 100 to 150 000 in a few months. But since 2023, my beats were removed from those editorial playlists and my monthly listeners dropped to like 4000. I’m still releasing and pitching music but didn’t get any beats on an editorial since 2023… I really have no idea why.
@souljunglemusic Editorial playlist pitch can be weird some times. I got 3 of my songs pitched 2022 to some lofi playlist. The funny thing is 2 of my songs are still on the playlist since 2022
Waterfall is a valid strategy, never fails tbh, i see too many people asking me what to do and I recommend waterfall, then they just release the whole project and do not receive what they could have by drip feeding ;-;
Gotta get that drip!!
waterfall method is okay but keep in mind if you are releasing in a + timezone, spotify will say that your new music has been released before it has (the single art and "new release" will come up) when people click on the new release they will only see the already released songs in the waterfall until the new song is out in their timezone! Had this happen to me on my previous release and found it very annoying, almost a big enough reason to not go ahead with the waterfall strategy.
My Spotify grew from 20 monthly listeners to 333🎉
Congrats!!!
I’ve been listening to these singles and been waiting for a breakdown 🙌🏿 appreciate these gems fam🙏🏿
Much love G!
Currently rolling my first debut album out with this strategy! I’ve released 2 songs on it so far, can’t wait to keep dropping the rest!
The reality is that the music industry is doing much worse lately. With Spotify giving us these fake tools like Discovery Mode (their algorythm became much worse since they implemented that, so that we are technically forced to use it and give them 30% from our royalties), things keep goind downhill.
It's getting hard for us to release music. For me personally, It's even hard to reach my own audience. My LP will wait for better times to be released.
You are 100% right tbh
spotify really been struggle street for me lately too
I’m glad I watched this before I upload my whole project all at once. 🙏🏽
That was my downfall 😢
It’s better to release all at once
@@Prodby.1takeonthetrack not a downfall just a mistake, next time you can try it. 💯🙏🏽
@@suicideheaven7 you think so?
Thanks man for your valuable info. I just released my first single yesterday. Looks like I’ve got a lot to learn. 😎🎶
Thank you L.Dre
Thanks for watching 🙏🏾
@@LDreTheGiant always welcome 😇
CHAMPLOOOOOOOO
really appreciate your transparency with your numbers/ graphs!!
l dre, you've motivated me to start music production as a hustle. i don't really know what lies ahead for me but i'll hope for the best. i hope everyone else can also become successful music producers.
Word, perfect timing for this!
I was going to get table merch awhile ago but when I went to the website it was gone 😂
You should add more to the design too!
I gotta bring it back!!
Keep going 🎉
Always!!
so my question would be, why can't you use the same artwork? if it's going to be a singular album anyways once they're all under that umbrella, why do they need separate artwork? won't the new track just show up in your listeners release radar and discovery which is the most important thing anyways?
My personal reasoning is because I feel like people don’t really pay close enough attention so if they keep seeing the same artwork they might just think it’s the same song
@@LDreTheGiant gotcha. maybe I'll try both and just see if people notice one more than the other or not
Great Video once again, love how transparent you broke down your real stats. I noticed how many playlists you've got, i would love to know how you manage these many Spotify playlists, is there a tool for something ?
I mispoke a little there, those werent all my playlists. I only have like 3 playists and I dont do anything special with them. The rest of the playlists shown where mostly my fans personal playlists that they add me in
There is a major problem with stacking up the tracks with every release.
Spotify categorizes 1-3 tracks as a single, 4-6 tracks as an EP, and 7+ tracks will be an album.
If you want to do this strategy with 7 tracks you'll drop an album, if you want to add another track next week, you're dropping another album. If you do this for a 12 track project in total this means you've just dropped 5 albums in a row, and each time only 1 track is different.
I'd suggest the strategy of just doing separate singles and then bringing it together in your EP or album. :)
I use canva pro for cover art, I know it’s not photoshop but it’s really easy to use
I’m seeing that After Laughter in the thumbnail hold up
The link to download your strategy guide isnt working :( it says "sent an invalid response."
Do I upload one track a day or one track a week for this method?
Once a week would be better
Thank you man, keep it up. Big inspiration. 💯🙏🏽
Still waiting on that shot to rap on one of your beats G, i won't disappoint 😢 ❤
Legend
😘
What about promotion
Do you play for playlisting sometimes
When you release the singles, do you have to put them all together every time? Or can you just add them all together once you drop the EP?
All together everytime
@@LDreTheGiant can I ask why? asking bc I released a single and have another one uploaded to distrokid to release on april 11 for which I did not include the previous one haha. but want to make sure I can still add them to the same EP later on.
@@vegetablepark157 a simple explanation is so that the previous singles can basically get streamed by accident since they are together. If you do each single separate they might listen to it and carry on.
That beard is getting there bro
Thank you 🥲🙏🏾
@@LDreTheGiant Keep it up! Thanks for being such an amazing inspiration to me and many other beatmakers out there too!
When I upload the second or third single to the DSP do I just include the same project file as before? Does the System read it as the same tune?
Thank you for pronouncing Nujabe's name correctly.
I got the sauce with the AI art bro👀 ill cook up one for you
It’s the way
Do you take down your previous single release as you upload a new one? Makes me nervous.
Nope you you can do that after the new one is up
Imma leave my argument - do not waterfall. Here’s why, if your song does well, people will want to hear more. No one cares if you release one or ten, so why not release ten, and have people who like it listen to everything else. Then Promote each song like a single, while at the same time snagging multi track plays from fans. If u release one track, you’ll get one play. This advice is for those building a catalog. Don’t sell yourself short because of trends that are dead already. Nothing wrong with releasing singles. But the waterfall technique implies you have a full deck of songs ready to go. Release them, make an impact.
I’ll leave my counter argument - when you release 10 tracks it’s a lot less likely that people will make it to track 10. I can say from experience almost every album I’ve released the last few tracks usually have way less streams than the first ones. That’s just how it is.
While I’m not sure if I will continue water-falling a full album worth or not, I cannot deny the benefits of giving every single track its on shine and release date.
@@LDreTheGiant respect 🫡
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I can help you to save your Crucial time throughout my editing skills
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I'm so really bored. I'm pitched more than 38 songs to editorial Playlist consideration during two years but they've not accepted any of them yet. 😔😔😔😞
I started releasing Music early 2018 I didn’t get into an editorial till like 2020 and it was only because my song went viral on TikTok lol but there’s also stories of people that got into them on there 2nd or 3rd release 🤷🏽♂️
I got on several big lo-fi editorial playlists in 2022, just 4 months after releasing my first beat on spotify. My monthly listeners went from 100 to 150 000 in a few months. But since 2023, my beats were removed from those editorial playlists and my monthly listeners dropped to like 4000. I’m still releasing and pitching music but didn’t get any beats on an editorial since 2023… I really have no idea why.
@@souljunglemusic it's not certain what's their qualifications for acceptance. 😞😞😞
@souljunglemusic Editorial playlist pitch can be weird some times. I got 3 of my songs pitched 2022 to some lofi playlist. The funny thing is 2 of my songs are still on the playlist since 2022
How do I get my music made in vinyl form ?
i am a table bby
Thank you for all the tips!
Promo>SM 😎
it’s smart but i just hate it 😭 want my songs to be where my songs should be
Understandable lol
WATERFALL RELEASING IS NOT A STRATEGY! PLEASE STOP LYING TO PEOPLE!
Huuuuhh???
What’s with the irritating pop sound on this video.