I know there's not like a simple answer to this but I'd love to hear thoughts on this. When I first started making trap instrumentals, I was just in such a rush to upload them to Soundcloud and call it a day. Now I have a ton of instrumentals with barely any listens which is fine given that I've done very little promotion for them. I've since moved to making EDM trap remixes of female singers (electropop, etc.) and just going through YouTube as my main platform since I've found the most success and audience there and it helps that I can have a visual component with a nice little equalizer effect going. However, I still feel like I'm doing it wrong by just self-releasing and not submitting to blogs, labels, etc. One of the reasons I do like self-releasing is because it allows me to use my branding and not some generic Trap Nation pyramid or circle thing.
I also use Distrokid to get all my non-sample based music on different platforms but that has drawn very little interest audience wise - most of the people that my music seems to resonate with just want to hear EDM remixes. Since all I do is bootlegs and I can't submit those to distrokid/spotify/etc, I'm having a tough time thinking of a strategy of how to release songs and build an audience. I've heard great things about submithub but do blogs cover bootlegs? Does it have to be an official remix? How do you find blogs willing to feature your music? Do you try to cater to the blog and make music that fits the style they would like? I'm just trying my best to get more exposure since I feel like I'm not drawing as many folks to my music as I could be given the quality of it. I'd love to hear stories of how you've gotten your first track promoted or released on a label or blog and what that has resulted in. Thanks!
Submitted June 28, 2017 at 05:49PM by GeneralButtNekid https://www.reddit.com/r/edmproduction/comments/6k3i94/how_did_you_get_your_first_track_promotedreleased/?utm_source=ifttt