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Resource Library · Promotion

Promote Your Music — Free Tools

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.

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Claim your artist dashboards — all free, all essential

Spotify for ArtistsFree

Your streaming data, playlist pitching, and profile control — claiming this is day-one mandatory.

Apple Music for ArtistsFree

Same job for Apple — plus Shazam data, which shows where strangers are discovering you.

YouTube StudioFree

The analytics engine for the world's biggest music platform.

Amazon Music for ArtistsFree

Often-forgotten, growing platform — claim it in ten minutes.

Bandsintown for ArtistsFree

Free show listings that notify every fan who's ever tracked you, automatically.

Analytics & research

ChartmetricFree tier

Industry-grade artist analytics with a genuinely useful free tier — see playlists, growth, and comparables.

SongstatsFree tier

Cross-platform release tracking in one clean feed.

KworbFree

Raw, free chart and streaming data the industry quietly checks daily.

Own your audience

MailerLiteFree tier

Free email marketing up to 1,000 subscribers — the email list is the only audience an algorithm can't take away.

CanvaFree tier

Free design for cover art drafts, social posts, and show flyers — good enough that fans can't tell.

LinktreeFree tier

One link in bio, every destination behind it — or better, use a link page on your own website.

Pitching — with eyes open

SubmitHubFree tier

Pitch blogs, playlists, and channels — free credits exist, results vary, and honest feedback is the real product.

Groover

Paid pitching to curators who must respond — budget experiment, not a strategy.

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.

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