Yo appreciate this info! I've been wanting to release more tracks and i was getting to a point where i was about to say F it and just upload them all.. BUT... maybe i should schedule them out.. -Peace and Love!
I started basically the same strategy at the start of 2021. Putting out a new song on Spotify every 2 weeks, and also planning to collabprate with more people, did one allready. It’s a really underestimated strategy to have a release schedule. People have oversold the idea of putting out that new song tomorrow just because they can. It doesnt make any sense unless you are at the level of beyonce, the weeknd etc. Also putting out an album out of the blue is in general a bad idea. Spreading them out as singles are just way better 🙂👌
Just released my first EP to Spotify on 09/04/2022! Today I am consuming all of your Marketing videos to understand how to best gain traction on social media to drive followers to stream my songs on Spotify. I'm following your advice given in this video and will let you know the results soon. Thanks so much! 😀
L Dre thank you so much for all your advice, I've been hard at work the past couple months and I can testify that people who implement these things behind some good music GET RESULTS
It’s crazy thinking how we’re already 1/4 through 2021 😳 however, I love & respect these plans you got going for the rest of the year! Wishing you the best n nothing less! ✨🙌🏼
personally getting on a lofi beats editorial playlist on spotify hasnt helped me grow audience thats for sure, 2 years on the playlist and I've not reached over 400 followers on spotfy so growing my audience outside of spotify is something I really need to figure out, its just that I always think whats the point to make any content outside of spotify if I dont believe in other platforms like TH-cam & other social media. ( like the ethics behind it etc)
Dude you are just super inspiring! These promo videos of you are soo nice energy and honest compared to most of the other videos of that topic. Thank you ❤️🪐
Great information bro! Been making beats for 2 years, and trying to finally get my music on Spotify the right way. Just subscribed to your channel, Great stuff!!🙏🏾✊🏾🔥🔥🔥
This really helps me a lot. I appreciate you taking the time and making these kinds of videos. Keep making dope content and music!! Hopefully one day I can collab with you.
I definitely advise getting lofi label placements! I have a bunch of placements coming out this year with some labels I’m sure you’ve heard of and I’m extremely grateful for that opportunity ❤️
Andre, I just wanted to say big thanks! You were really a big inspiration and actually pretty much the last push I needed to sit down and try to make my own music and then also to not be afraid to actually release it into the world. So I really wanted to say thank you from the bottom of my heart for that! 🙏🏻Now, few months later I have actually released my own first instrumental mini album I guess, and it's in no small part thanks to you (Rhythms of New York on streaming, if you'll ever have some time to check it out I'd really really appreciate your feedback and thoughts). You were literally like the first beats/music producer who I've subscribed to 😀 So yeah, thank you, man, once again! Keep up the great work and I wish you even more success! Absolutely love the chill vibes of your videos and your music! 🔥❤️🔥
Preparing my fifth album/Beat tape and enjoying the process to just make music and share it with the world. The experience is always different :) Great infos, i'll try to not schedule a week before HAHA
I'd love you to collab with french lofi artists such as Pandrezz, l'Indécis, In Love with A Ghost to name a few ! Also, maybe more on a personal level : will your gf sing on your future song ? Because she have such a beautiful voice
Hey L. Dre! I’ve released a few singles and usually release songs and instrumental compositions. Lately I’ve been making a lotta beats and recently put out a short 4 track beattape and noticed the songs in the front have significantly more plays and it drops down with every track. I was thinking it would be fun to drop an hour long lofi beattape but I’m not sure people will play through more than the first few tracks. I don’t know 🤷♂️ Any thoughts on this?
I actually tried that strategy with beats in 2020 instead of songs and I’m pretty sure if I was releasing songs I’d garner more views and fans but instead i just dropped an instrumental a week and I went from 180 followers to 900 above and currently sitting at 1300 with no extra releases for this year. It works a bit tbh but if I had better content to promote and better ideas to present them to audiences I feel like I could have gotten more views and listens… either way you live and you learn and you get better ❤️🩹
Do you ever have periods of times when you work on something and then drop it and dont know how to approach it again / finish it? Its something i struggle with and was wondering if you have any advice for that. Love the vid btw 💪
We ran facebook ads for about 20$ a day during opening weekend or our release. We got on blogs, and we ended up getting on an editorial playlist, and then we scaled down the ads some after the first week. That seemed to help.
@@nigerianpicasso5794 I think the ad helped, we picked up about 10 followers before getting added to the playlist. Also, the artist increased her IG, and got on blogs. Plus it was a good song and all factors probably helped.
Make quality music and be consistent with your content. Be deliberate and strategic as well, focus on building your tribe (community) and the streams/monthly listeners will come. Truth is, to be successful (make a living from your music) as an artist/producer has no guaranteed steps. It's always different for everyone, what might work for A might not work for B, but the things that are essential include consistency, quality content, community. I pray our dreams come true 🧡🤞🏾
Hi guys I wanted to ask am a musician and I wanted to know if location matters when releasing on distrokid I feel like my music gets lost in the water because I make afrobeats , am from Ghana but am based or living in finland where no one or just a little of the population listen to my type of music. I need some help because I think am not in spotify Africa Ghana radar or spotify finland radar
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Yo appreciate this info! I've been wanting to release more tracks and i was getting to a point where i was about to say F it and just upload them all.. BUT... maybe i should schedule them out..
-Peace and Love!
You both do so much to the producer culture. Thank you both :)
Bro what’s good L. Dre ur the most underrated artist i’ve seen all your songs are bangers 👑🔥
Thank you !
More gems 💎 on the daily in the Table Gang Discord server discord.gg/gR2VdXJSxp
Seriously!! Learned so much already
I started basically the same strategy at the start of 2021. Putting out a new song on Spotify every 2 weeks, and also planning to collabprate with more people, did one allready. It’s a really underestimated strategy to have a release schedule. People have oversold the idea of putting out that new song tomorrow just because they can. It doesnt make any sense unless you are at the level of beyonce, the weeknd etc. Also putting out an album out of the blue is in general a bad idea. Spreading them out as singles are just way better 🙂👌
Yeah you're right man.Many artists prefer to just drop singles now.Hopsin being the example of this.
I live for your Avatars Love song and the Uncle Iroh one AND Korra
Thank you 🙏🏾
@@LDreTheGiant those songs cured the Covid that was in my veins 😂 (October 2020)
This video helped, and about the release schedule; I always release my music on TH-cam first anyway, but I do have a kind-of schedule :)
Just released my first EP to Spotify on 09/04/2022! Today I am consuming all of your Marketing videos to understand how to best gain traction on social media to drive followers to stream my songs on Spotify. I'm following your advice given in this video and will let you know the results soon. Thanks so much! 😀
Just binge watching your advice at this point bro! Thanks for be soing transparent with your process and knowledge it's much appreciated!
Your advice has been so valuable to me who just started posting to Spotify in the past year. Always appreciate these videos
L Dre thank you so much for all your advice, I've been hard at work the past couple months and I can testify that people who implement these things behind some good music GET RESULTS
yo yo yo, discord gang, notification gang... the OGs!!!!
GANG
yesss happy homer
Really dropping some gems in this one.
Very clever things to consider for releases.
It’s crazy thinking how we’re already 1/4 through 2021 😳 however, I love & respect these plans you got going for the rest of the year! Wishing you the best n nothing less! ✨🙌🏼
personally getting on a lofi beats editorial playlist on spotify hasnt helped me grow audience thats for sure, 2 years on the playlist and I've not reached over 400 followers on spotfy so growing my audience outside of spotify is something I really need to figure out, its just that I always think whats the point to make any content outside of spotify if I dont believe in other platforms like TH-cam & other social media. ( like the ethics behind it etc)
I love to watch you because you never sugar-coat stuff, just how it is
Thanks for these tips! :)
I really want to grow as a musician :)
Man your very helpful! thank you very much, iv watched a handful of your videos now and iv used a few things in them and they are working very well!
Bro you're the reason I started producing! Hopefully one day I can AT LEAST get your judgement on one of my beats.
Soon !
all of your explanations are sick!! gonna follow and step my online game up! thx man!
Thanks my guy 🙏🏾🙏🏾 AND CONGRATS ON THE DISCORD LAUNCH ITS FIRE 💎💎💎💎💎
Appreciate the video. Discord jumpin right now! Definitely recommend joining.
Dude you are just super inspiring! These promo videos of you are soo nice energy and honest compared to most of the other videos of that topic. Thank you ❤️🪐
Let’s get it all 2021 💪🏾
love your stuff
Thank you 🙏🏾
Great information bro! Been making beats for 2 years, and trying to finally get my music on Spotify the right way. Just subscribed to your channel, Great stuff!!🙏🏾✊🏾🔥🔥🔥
L.Dre embodies legitness. Seriously, thank you.
its our boy ldre back with another video
woohoo!!
This really helps me a lot. I appreciate you taking the time and making these kinds of videos. Keep making dope content and music!! Hopefully one day I can collab with you.
I definitely advise getting lofi label placements! I have a bunch of placements coming out this year with some labels I’m sure you’ve heard of and I’m extremely grateful for that opportunity ❤️
I found this very valuable. I would love to see more videos like this!
Ayee L.Dre always spits facts and gems
Needed this rn. Thanks for the gems. Bless up
Andre, I just wanted to say big thanks! You were really a big inspiration and actually pretty much the last push I needed to sit down and try to make my own music and then also to not be afraid to actually release it into the world. So I really wanted to say thank you from the bottom of my heart for that! 🙏🏻Now, few months later I have actually released my own first instrumental mini album I guess, and it's in no small part thanks to you (Rhythms of New York on streaming, if you'll ever have some time to check it out I'd really really appreciate your feedback and thoughts). You were literally like the first beats/music producer who I've subscribed to 😀
So yeah, thank you, man, once again! Keep up the great work and I wish you even more success! Absolutely love the chill vibes of your videos and your music! 🔥❤️🔥
Preparing my fifth album/Beat tape and enjoying the process to just make music and share it with the world. The experience is always different :)
Great infos, i'll try to not schedule a week before HAHA
Thanks for the info! I hadn't thought much about collabs, don't think i'm quite on the level for collabs yet though
We out here in South Africa waiting on that twitch stream bro 🔥🔥🔥🔥
I would LOVE to see you collab with Sarah the Illstrumentalist. I think your styles would mesh together very well!
Dropping gems as always 🙏🏽🔥
You’re an inspiration already bro.💯💯
Dropping gems. Thanks so much man! 🔥
Yessss. Thank you for this!
I'd love you to collab with french lofi artists such as Pandrezz, l'Indécis, In Love with A Ghost to name a few !
Also, maybe more on a personal level : will your gf sing on your future song ? Because she have such a beautiful voice
Join his discord 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
He is so helpful and friendly ...
Dope video dude! Thanks for sharing your plans and keeping it real! Would be stoked to see more marketing stuff from you dude! 😀🎉
Fire vid as usual 🔥
Yoo. I'm keen on this video. Thanks for sharing the journey and breaking what you've done. Also step a to z is mentioned when it's extensive. 😏
Breaking what you've done down*
Thanks for sharing your sauce !
Thank u L.Dre!
As a lofi producer aiming to grow on Spotify, do you think putting out singles is better than short EP's or longer albums? And does it matter at all?
I think ep's and albums are good for lofi because people like to listen to alot of it
@@LDreTheGiant Yeah that makes sense, thanks :)
Thank you bro🙏🏾
this video is a gem 💎
Great stuff!
Hey L. Dre! I’ve released a few singles and usually release songs and instrumental compositions. Lately I’ve been making a lotta beats and recently put out a short 4 track beattape and noticed the songs in the front have significantly more plays and it drops down with every track. I was thinking it would be fun to drop an hour long lofi beattape but I’m not sure people will play through more than the first few tracks. I don’t know 🤷♂️
Any thoughts on this?
Hi, thanks for the vid! Why only Spotify tho? Don't people use Apple music anymore?
No
You should make a playlist for videos like this on youtube
luv ur videos btw
Yo you are awesome! I just discovered your videos and music! Do you sell any of your beats for people to write music to also?
Thanks for the advice!
Back at it inspiring the youngins lookin to release like me. I’m 14
Amazing!!! Thank you
YEAHHHHH ! Let's gooooo
song every week, That's Russ. I see what you did there hahaha
Had to lol
@prod. morie✰ check out rapper's Russ strategy
I actually tried that strategy with beats in 2020 instead of songs and I’m pretty sure if I was releasing songs I’d garner more views and fans but instead i just dropped an instrumental a week and I went from 180 followers to 900 above and currently sitting at 1300 with no extra releases for this year. It works a bit tbh but if I had better content to promote and better ideas to present them to audiences I feel like I could have gotten more views and listens… either way you live and you learn and you get better ❤️🩹
I thought about doing that too
Bro you look hello fresh. Is that a new camera bro. Keep up the fire vids 😉
love your content bro
Do you ever have periods of times when you work on something and then drop it and dont know how to approach it again / finish it? Its something i struggle with and was wondering if you have any advice for that. Love the vid btw 💪
Its true. Im like the whole damn oven. Toaster oven.
Make a Lofi version of our new single "Bittersweet".. That would be Sick!
Best, Peter
Learned to not give up ever 🔥🔥🔥
Collab? 👀
Me ?
Wanna Collab ?
@@triquetraband9128 me?
Yoooooo
Never been this early 🦋
ITS HELL OUT THE HOMIES FRIDAAAAAYYYYYYY AAAAHGUEJOSHIFBDDODBDKSUWB btw good video l dre u da goat
Let's gooooo
Could you do a plan for making sample packs and how you make/sell them?
first letsss go
Thanks 4 your Advice
Ive been working on some collabs with Closed on Sunday!!
I love your steven universe song it's very very cool
Thank you !
Keep Helping The Kids 🙏
Releasing my first song on spotify this april 14! wish me luck!
Bro gives out so much important info like it's nothing 😫
but who is cactus jack
Maybe with sarcastic sounds could be a great collaboration
We ran facebook ads for about 20$ a day during opening weekend or our release. We got on blogs, and we ended up getting on an editorial playlist, and then we scaled down the ads some after the first week. That seemed to help.
Was this because of the Facebook ads
@@nigerianpicasso5794 I think the ad helped, we picked up about 10 followers before getting added to the playlist. Also, the artist increased her IG, and got on blogs. Plus it was a good song and all factors probably helped.
Good ,,
*Lil nas x just posted your LoFi remix on his TH-cam channel.* Congrats 🙌🏿🔥
That childish Gambino album on the desk is that a potential video ? 🤔
Comment for the algorithm!
Dude where did that intro come from? I don’t know why I love it so much
day 7 of asking for a video were you review subscriber beats :) also love the vid
I know what your idea is for twitch I think... and I’m down!!! 🔥🔥🔥
I’d love to see you and Homage Beats, Cookin Soul and KLIM 🔥🙏🏾
Or STLNDRMS
Make quality music and be consistent with your content. Be deliberate and strategic as well, focus on building your tribe (community) and the streams/monthly listeners will come.
Truth is, to be successful (make a living from your music) as an artist/producer has no guaranteed steps. It's always different for everyone, what might work for A might not work for B, but the things that are essential include consistency, quality content, community.
I pray our dreams come true 🧡🤞🏾
I have you a shout out in one of my videos. I thought you was from ATL, you down in L.A. right?
discord gang!!
Hi guys I wanted to ask am a musician and I wanted to know if location matters when releasing on distrokid I feel like my music gets lost in the water because I make afrobeats , am from Ghana but am based or living in finland where no one or just a little of the population listen to my type of music. I need some help because I think am not in spotify Africa Ghana radar or spotify finland radar
5:59 got me laughing hard af 🤣🤣🤣
Too many 💎💎💎.
Thanks! This is useful advice! I wonder how getting Tiktok and Reels plays works in the whole spotify traffic strategy.
L.Dre X Spencer Hunt collab would goooo
Step A-Z definitely *should* be the saying 😂
We need those FL Studio > Ableton hoodies
Excellent