Questions about releasing your music? Our guides help you along the way.
Setting up a release in Make Waves
A quick video walkthrough on releasing your music with Make Waves
Submitting your music for playlist consideration
Getting featured in the right playlist can really give your release a head start
Moving your music from a different distributor to Make Waves
Moving your music to Make Waves is easier than you think. Find out how easy in this guide!
Claiming your artist profile(s)
Confused on how to claim your artist profiles? Read this guide!
Updating an existing release (post delivery)
Updating an existing release (post delivery): yes, it's possible!
Samples, covers and copyright: what is allowed?
Find out more about samples, licenses, uploading covers, remixes and avoiding copyright infringement.
Our best tips to promote your own music
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.
When and where to find your pre-save links
You get a pre-save link! And you get a pre-save link!
Requesting a YouTube Official Artist Channel
Get verified and get access to tools such as Analytics for Artists.
What are YouTube Topic channels?
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.
Learn more about artificial streams
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.
How to reuse tracks on multiple releases
Sometimes you want to reuse certain tracks on multiple releases. Here is how you set this up correctly in Make Waves.
How to set up royalty splits in Make Waves
Add royalty splits directly to the platform and invite collaborators to receive their share.
Setting up a Waterfall Release on Spotify
Use this popular release strategy on Make Waves
How to takedown your release
How to takedown and delete your release from stores and from your Make Waves catalogue.
How to change your artist name
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.
How to add and sync lyrics in Musixmatch
Adding lyrics is free and easy to do. Follow our steps to get them linked to your songs!
How to generate your own AI artwork
No resources to create your artwork? Try a free AI model to create a unique image for your release!
What makes good artwork
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.
How to add a Spotify Canvas to your release
Give your release something extra
How to get verified on Instagram and Facebook, TikTok and Twitter
Get the famous checkmark
How to get set up on Bandcamp
All about setting up on Bandcamp
Shopify and Spotify: how it works
Get started with selling your merch through Spotify
How to use YouTube Shorts as an artist
The ins and outs of shorts