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Where to share your music with fans

By the SODAMNTUFF team · · 5 min read

You finished a track and you want to share your music with fans: people who hear it now and come back for the next one. Those are two different problems, and most places where an independent artist can upload music solve only one. Here is what each kind of platform does, and how to start on SODAMNTUFF for free.

Three places to put your music, and what each one does

Streaming services put your track in the catalogue people already use. You reach listeners where they are, and you are a name under a track. Reaching the listener as a person is hard: there is no profile they follow for your posts, no room where you talk to them.

Social media (Instagram, TikTok, YouTube) is where fans already spend their time, so a clip can travel fast. The music itself is a 30-second snippet under a video, the full track lives somewhere else, and the feed decides who sees it.

A social music platform is built the other way around: the track is the post. On SODAMNTUFF your single or album gets its own page with the cover, credits, genre, language and a 30-second preview for anyone, and the full track for listeners with a free account. People follow you because of the music, comment on it, share it, and show up when you play it live in a listening session. It does not pay royalties and it is not a distributor, so it sits next to your streaming release, not instead of it.

What sharing with fans needs

  1. A page per track that you can link to, from your bio, your stories, your mailing list. On SODAMNTUFF every track and album has one, and search engines index it.
  2. A way for a listener to follow you. Not a playlist, you. Followers see your posts and your next release first.
  3. A direct line. Comments under the track, messages from friends, and a live room when you release something: a listening session with chat, your microphone and, if you want, your camera.
  4. Ownership. You should keep all rights and be able to take a track down at any time. On SODAMNTUFF that is written in the artist and user disclosure every account accepts.

How to start, for free

  1. Create a free account and complete your profile.
  2. Apply for artist verification from your profile settings, with links to the profiles where you already exist (Spotify, Apple Music, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, SoundCloud). The team reviews by hand; you get an email with the decision. The steps are in how to become a verified artist.
  3. Upload your first single: master audio, square cover art, genre, language, featured artists and, if you have one, the ISRC. The upload checklist shows which details make it findable.
  4. Post it to your feed with a few words. That post is what your followers see first, and shares of it count for the most-shared chart.

What happens next

Your track can enter the Top 10 once people play, like and share it, it shows up on the genre pages you tagged, and listeners who use discovery mode get it in their queue. To see what an artist page and an album page look like once the music is up, open Rishi Mayhs and his album The One.

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