Promotion isn't buying ads — it's owning your data and your audience. Every tool here is the free version of something labels pay teams to do.
Claim your artist dashboards — all free, all essential
Your streaming data, playlist pitching, and profile control — claiming this is day-one mandatory.
Same job for Apple — plus Shazam data, which shows where strangers are discovering you.
Free show listings that notify every fan who's ever tracked you, automatically.
Analytics & research
Industry-grade artist analytics with a genuinely useful free tier — see playlists, growth, and comparables.
Own your audience
Free email marketing up to 1,000 subscribers — the email list is the only audience an algorithm can't take away.
Free design for cover art drafts, social posts, and show flyers — good enough that fans can't tell.
One link in bio, every destination behind it — or better, use a link page on your own website.
Pitching — with eyes open
Pitch blogs, playlists, and channels — free credits exist, results vary, and honest feedback is the real product.
The rule that saves you money: never pay anyone who guarantees placements, streams, or virality. Guaranteed results in music promotion is the oldest scam running.
This page is part of the No-Money Music Resource Library — free, working links for every corner of a music career, checked by hand.