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What’s the best way to get your music out there in 2026?
Like, I suspect, a lot of people who make music, I need to stop being scared of rejection and release some of my music out into the big, scary world so that others can hear it. I have so much music (lots of it unfinished of course!) made over so many years and I really need to finish some of my favorite pieces and get some opinions on them (as well as tips about mixing etc.).
As such, what are the best, most used, platforms for doing this? Is it still largely SoundCloud that people use? What do you use and why?
I know there are aspects such as monetizing and getting things listed on platforms like Apple Music etc, but I’m not sure I need to worry about that just yet.
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Not so much getting it out there, more getting people to listen to your out there among the millions of other out theres. :-/
The quality of the listen is probably more important than than the numbers, a few engaged listeners that give feedback is more satisfying/useful than a few hundred that listen and skip.
On here 'song of the month club' is great for that and the platform doesn't matter that much if you have a link to your song on YouTube, soundcloud etc though I'm less likely to listen if you have to download the song. It is a mutual feedback thing and usually very kind.
Depending on your style some reddit groups eg synthesisers, are welcoming to actual music instead of just photos showing of your gear and sometime go wild over 30 seconds of bleep bloops
Feedback can be both good and bad, the 'bad' is usually the most useful because it can suggest new elements/approaches/technical improvements you might not have thought about, and the great thing is, you have absolutely no obligation to agree/accept their suggestions!! :-)
Very helpful, thanks @deadpoetlive. Yes, I definitely appreciate that putting it out there doesn’t at all guarantee that it’ll get heard by anyone! I definitely plan to post tracks here (via SoundCloud or whatever) as a first course of action. Obviously YouTube clips can be pasted here and I assume the little SoundCloud player thing can be used to avoid listeners having to download? Cheers.
Yes neither of those have to be downloaded....in fact...do it now... https://forum.loopypro.com/discussion/68336/song-of-the-month-club-may-2026#latest ... upload a song, link it and make a start but don't forget to listen and comment to others as well...go on, what are you waiting for... ;-)
Nepotism and networking. The former is ideal.
Rick Beato just covered this sad truth. 'Why only rich kids make it in music' :-(
If you just want to put your music up so you can share it with others then Soundcloud is a good place to do it. It’s a community of people into music. Just be prepared for a little spam bot communication when you post. But, I have found in the past that it is a good active space. And the player usually embeds pretty well on sites like this forum when you want to share it with others.
Rick Beato works hard to keep his subscriber base up. He tends to put things in a way to try and get reactions from people. I tend to stay away from him most of the time. I have watched the odd intrerview…
Same tbh, regarding Rick Beato. Though I think that it's uncontroversially true that it's much harder now for working class people to enter creative industries than it used to be, certainly in places like Britain. If you look at Britain the 1970s, for example, society was so much more conducive to spawning creativity. Easy access to fairly generous (compared to now) unemployment benefits, more availability of squats, much cheaper city center rents, were just a few of the factors.
Excerpt from Mark Fisher's essay, The Slow Cancellation of the Future':
Despite all its rhetoric of novelty and innovation, neoliberal capitalism has gradually but systematically deprived artists of the resources necessary to produce the new. In the UK, the postwar welfare state and higher education maintenance grants constituted an indirect source of funding for most of the experiments in popular culture between the 1960s and the 80s. The subsequent ideological and practical attack on public services meant that one of the spaces where artists could be sheltered from the pressure to produce something that was immediately successful was severely circumscribed. As public service broadcasting became ‘marketised’, there was an increased tendency to turn out cultural productions that resembled what was already successful. The result of all of this is that the social time available for withdrawing from work and immersing oneself in cultural production drastically declined. If there’s one factor above all else which contributes to cultural conservatism, it is the vast in ation in the cost of rent and mortgages. It’s no accident that the e orescence of cultural invention in London and New York in the late 1970s and early 80s (in the punk and postpunk scenes) coincided with the availability of squatted and cheap property in those cities. Since then, the decline of social housing, the attacks on squatting, and the delirious rise in property prices have meant that the amount of time and energy available for cultural production has massively diminished.
As nobody's mentioned Bandcamp yet, I will.
They still seem to be, from what I can see, the "good guys", in terms of music distribution - free or paid, especially for independent artists.
Personally, I'd avoid the streamers (especially Spotify) unless you have a massive budget to promote your music and you're comfortable with how they operate.
Edit: Bandcamp has a nice feature where you can make tracks available as free (or very cheap) downloads, but let folks pay more if they want.
From what I read and watched, YouTube is the best to promote your music.
Recently they are forcing artist to drop PayPal to Stripe for their sales payment. In Canada, Stripe is not very popular. I had never heard of it. Stripe is asking you to submit way too much details for my taste.
Also I get 10x more plays from SoundCloud then Bandcamp. Which one gave me more money ?
SoundCloud - I am not a paying member of SC so I can’t make any money.
Bandcamp - I made about a dozen dollar total. 😆
The best way to get your music out there is to play it loudly in public. Otherwise, you gotta market yourself.
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PayPal is also getting too inquisitive.
Apologies for late response to all - went out to work after my last post.
Thanks again @deadpoetlive. I have a few pieces I know are in a state I can share but I do want to try mixing them again before doing so. Hopefully won’t be long though!
@egobeats, ha, yes, a bit of nepotism seems to do wonders!
@Mountain_Hamlet, thanks, SoundCloud was my first assumption but I just wondered whether I was wildly behind the times!
@Gavinski, yep, I agree. The cost of rent and housing is having, and has had, a catastrophic, destructive effect in so many ways here in the UK.
@Rob_Jackson_Music, Bandcamp hadn’t occurred to me at all, thanks for the suggestion, I’ll definitely look into it. Thanks.
@ecou, yeah, I’ve read things which suggest YouTube is one of, if not the best ways too. I need to investigate it more though as I still encounter more people using SoundCloud in reality. Thanks for the info about payment concerns regarding Bandcamp (and @baliw), these are always relevant and worth paying attention to.
@timfromtheborder, yeah, it’s difficult though eh?
Thanks to all so far, really helpful, cheers.
It’s always been hard. I enjoyed cheap rents and decent dole money, but the hippy noises me and my mates made meant gigs were a no-go, and record deals totally unavailable.
It wasn’t until I started playing pub gigs in ‘normal’ bands in the 90’s, that I made any cash from music - and then most of that came from selling home-made cassettes at gigs. Still no record deals though.
Ironically I find it easier, and more lucrative now with a home ‘laptop studio’, selling albums on Bandcamp, and promoting them via social media. And, I get to do the weird stuff again!
I do agree though, high property prices and rents, and a higher cost of living has been a death-knell for creativity in general.
I use Soundcloud myself for uploads. Just easier and I get more plays there. Gotta know how to market yourself on social media and other places. It helps to make contacts (fellow musicians for instance).
But in my experience, the best way to earn money from your music are performing live gigs. Whether that's playing an instrument solo, in a band, DJing, etc.
Anyways, I wish you the best of luck with your endeavors.
we can always go the Corey Feldman route and invest millions in marketing and promotion and pray that at least 12 people show up to your gigs.
Interesting to hear your experience @oldsynthguy; and another vote for Bandcamp which I’ll definitely be checking out, thanks.
Thanks @jwmmakerofmusic. Yeah, I’m going to have to perhaps be realistic and break my no social media (other than this forum) lifestyle! What’s the main one you tend to use for such purposes? (Would rather avoid facebook and no way I’m using x!).
@egobeats, yeah, I’m pretty sure I want to get some feedback before investing my millions!
I use Facebook mainly (I avoid the main feed as much as possible), but other options are IG (although you may need to put your music snippets into a video format), and maybe Bluesky (which doesn't require a pic/video per post, unlike IG).
Cool, thanks @jwmmakerofmusic.
I think Tim the hoarder may be On to something. Reverse marketing. Quietly upload your music to something that distributes to all major online streaming platforms, THEN drive around slowly with your windows down playing your music at full volume with the hopes that someone from the funeral service you just drove by will Shazam your tune.
Of course mate.
@Gavinski I already had plenty of respect for you, Gav, but quoting Mark Fisher? 👌 bang on
SoundCloud seems to be a place that musicians/music producers listen to other people’s music so they might return the favor and listen to yours. It’s really hard to find a public audience on SoundCloud. Social Media is the best bet to get non-musicians to listen to your music, but that is far easier said than done. I don’t remember the author of a larger article on the subject, nor person who posted it, but I’m pretty sure it was on this forum maybe half a dozen years ago, and probably only half-remembered, but it was basically: releasing music is like adding a drop of water into a vast sea of anonymity. Odds might be better to load your music onto thumb drives, cork them inside bottles, and cast them out into the ocean. Get video of that process, post it to TikTok and you’ll get tons of views (include a link to your music in the TikTok). Your bottles will become stuck in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, but you’ll be TikTok famous for about 15 seconds.
It used to be selling cassette tapes on rave parties 😀
Even better is now being able to quote it without NeuM turning the thread into a 10-page defense of neoliberalism 😂
Same problem here a few years ago ;-) So don‘t wait!
Upload your music sooner before later,
and post cool and or fancy pictures or videos in social media underlyed with your published music.
I hate this, but it works.
Cheers.
True, maybe giving people no choice but to listen to it is the only way!
Yeah, I share that general pessimism myself and it had occurred to me that maybe SoundCloud was maybe not used by the general public much!
That said, I’ve been allowing that pessimism to stop me sharing my music for years and years and that feels equally pointless. I’m not expecting anything to come from releasing it out into the wild but I would like it to at least have the opportunity to be heard by someone else!
I know, how times have changed!