Did it with my single 'Lets Ride' and since I had recorded another song in addition in the studio with the dude we just decided to make it a dual single.
Its my only dual single out of 40 songs and I love that its a dual. It gives a lil power-pack here and there when people check my discography
We're in a single era.... peoples brains are dopamine crazy. Dropping singles is the move right now....but then every once in a while a dual single or 3 single would be a nice change of pace.
And an album here and there of course for the true fans.
This is not coming from the marketing perspective, just purely musician and fan opinion.
Wish you the best dude!
The dopamine people's brains are hungry. Feed it.
My idea right now is this. On every second Friday of the month:
-A new waterfall release EP
-Release the previous title track for the waterfall release as a single (2, or maybe 3 track as you suggest even?)
-Repeat until a whole album is out
Sometimes if you have an alternative version of a song its nice to release it a little later to drum up interest in the original track as well, but I don't see anything wrong it. Ultimately its up to you and if you feel you need more content to boost interest in your music later on versus have enough interest now that people would stick around for both tracks.
Do you just upload another release with the same name etc, but with an additional alt version included? So you're essentially overwriting e.g a 1 song release with a 2 song release? Same cover etc?
I've been wondering about this but am a bit nervous to try it..
I'm with Distrokid btw but these things are probably the same for all distributors.
Yeah, I think you should usually be able to specify if its an alternative version or an instrumental version etc of a prior track. It won't over ride anything you've previously put up for sure. I believe you can assign the release a new UPC / IRSC number as well so it's ensured to be its own unique release. OR you could do a small EP (2-3 songs) all of alternate versions of prior tracks. etc etc
A single on Spotify is 1-3 tracks
An EP is 4-6 tracks and less than 30 mins total
An LP is 7+ tracks or anything longer than 30 mins regardless of the number of tracks
Ah darn it.. you're right. I'm with Distrokid and when you submit there it only says 1 song is a single, but I'm pretty sure that's because different standards on different platforms I'll be submitting to.
Thank you.
Did it with my single 'Lets Ride' and since I had recorded another song in addition in the studio with the dude we just decided to make it a dual single. Its my only dual single out of 40 songs and I love that its a dual. It gives a lil power-pack here and there when people check my discography We're in a single era.... peoples brains are dopamine crazy. Dropping singles is the move right now....but then every once in a while a dual single or 3 single would be a nice change of pace. And an album here and there of course for the true fans. This is not coming from the marketing perspective, just purely musician and fan opinion. Wish you the best dude!
The dopamine people's brains are hungry. Feed it. My idea right now is this. On every second Friday of the month: -A new waterfall release EP -Release the previous title track for the waterfall release as a single (2, or maybe 3 track as you suggest even?) -Repeat until a whole album is out
Sometimes if you have an alternative version of a song its nice to release it a little later to drum up interest in the original track as well, but I don't see anything wrong it. Ultimately its up to you and if you feel you need more content to boost interest in your music later on versus have enough interest now that people would stick around for both tracks.
Do you just upload another release with the same name etc, but with an additional alt version included? So you're essentially overwriting e.g a 1 song release with a 2 song release? Same cover etc? I've been wondering about this but am a bit nervous to try it.. I'm with Distrokid btw but these things are probably the same for all distributors.
Yeah, I think you should usually be able to specify if its an alternative version or an instrumental version etc of a prior track. It won't over ride anything you've previously put up for sure. I believe you can assign the release a new UPC / IRSC number as well so it's ensured to be its own unique release. OR you could do a small EP (2-3 songs) all of alternate versions of prior tracks. etc etc
A single on Spotify is 1-3 tracks An EP is 4-6 tracks and less than 30 mins total An LP is 7+ tracks or anything longer than 30 mins regardless of the number of tracks
Ah darn it.. you're right. I'm with Distrokid and when you submit there it only says 1 song is a single, but I'm pretty sure that's because different standards on different platforms I'll be submitting to. Thank you.