Guides

A quick video walkthrough on releasing your music with Make Waves

Getting featured in the right playlist can really give your release a head start

Moving your music to Make Waves is easier than you think. Find out how easy in this guide!

Confused on how to claim your artist profiles? Read this guide!

Updating an existing release (post delivery): yes, it's possible!

Find out more about samples, licenses, uploading covers, remixes and avoiding copyright infringement.

In this article, we’ll share the best tips to promote your own music. Including pitching directly to stores such as Spotify and Amazon, updating your artist profiles and social media pages and what to post when.

You get a pre-save link! And you get a pre-save link!

Get verified and get access to tools such as Analytics for Artists.

Are you confused about the YouTube Topic channel that was created for your music? We got you covered. After reading this guide, you'll know everything about YouTube Topic channels and what you can do with them.

An artificial stream is a stream that doesn't reflect genuine user listening intent, including any instance of attempting to manipulate DSPs by using automated processes (via bots or scripts). The consequences of opting into (paid) services that promise more streams, followers or playlist placements can be quite severe. Learn more about the risks in this guide.

Sometimes you want to reuse certain tracks on multiple releases. Here is how you set this up correctly in Make Waves.

Add royalty splits directly to the platform and invite collaborators to receive their share.

Use this popular release strategy on Make Waves

How to takedown and delete your release from stores and from your Make Waves catalogue.

It can happen that you want to change your artist name, for whatever reason. Learn how you can action this yourself for Spotify and Apple in your own Make Waves account.

Adding lyrics is free and easy to do. Follow our steps to get them linked to your songs!

No resources to create your artwork? Try a free AI model to create a unique image for your release!

Artwork is an important visual element that can say more about an artist and their music. But what makes good artwork? Find out more about the relevant spec and some of our do’s and don’ts in this article.

Give your release something extra

Get the famous checkmark

All about setting up on Bandcamp

Get started with selling your merch through Spotify

The ins and outs of shorts

How to start and grow on TikTok as a music artist?