Andrew Southworth
101 resources

All Posts

Practical guides and analysis from Andrew Southworth on all posts, organized to help you find the most useful next step.

101 Guides
7OQUmLvrkBs-HD

How To Make It In Music feat. Ben Patterson

In this episode Ben Patterson, president of Downtown Artist & Label Services, and I talk about music marketing, the industry, Spotify's changes and more! Listen on your favorite Podcast platform Important Points: Andrew and Ben talk about Spotify's Discovery Mode which provides additional visibility for artists, but can reduce royalties. That’s why Downtown Music aggressively...

Read article
Spotify Algorithms Swirling Green
All PostsGuides

The Best Spotify Promotion Services

There are a seemingly infinite number of Spotify promotion services available online. To save you some time, here are the best Spotify promotion services that i've personally tried on my own music. Each of the companies on this list provide streams from real people, not bots. Results may vary but each of these companies are...

Read article
DistroKid Cover Songs

How To Release Cover Songs with DistroKid

DistroKid makes it very easy for you to release cover songs on music distribution platforms like Spotify, Apple Music and the rest. In the past, this could be difficult because you'd have to go and secure the cover license yourself and ensure you kept up to date with your licensing. In this post i'll go...

Read article
Spotify Playlist TN 2 2022

How to Grow Spotify Playlists with Facebook Ads

I have over 30,000 followers on my network of Spotify playlists, and I grew most of them using Facebook ads. Similar to how you would promote your music on Spotify using Facebook conversion campaigns, you can do the same thing to promote your playlists. Here's the process in a nutshell: Run a Facebook conversion campaign...

Read article
Find the right resource
Showing 101 resources
Best guides

Start with these resources

7OQUmLvrkBs-HD

How To Make It In Music feat. Ben Patterson

In this episode Ben Patterson, president of Downtown Artist & Label Services, and I talk about music marketing, the industry, Spotify's changes and more! Listen on your favorite Podcast platform Important Points: Andrew and Ben talk about Spotify's Discovery Mode which provides additional visibility for artists, but can reduce royalties. That’s why Downtown Music aggressively...

Read article
Spotify Algorithms Swirling Green
All PostsGuides

The Best Spotify Promotion Services

There are a seemingly infinite number of Spotify promotion services available online. To save you some time, here are the best Spotify promotion services that i've personally tried on my own music. Each of the companies on this list provide streams from real people, not bots. Results may vary but each of these companies are...

Read article

Latest posts

All all posts resources

Showing 1-24 of 101

Spotify artificial streaming

Spotify Removed Music For Artificial Streaming?

Over the past couple years Spotify has been trying, and failing, to crack down on bot streams on their platform. More artists that have done nothing wrong get their music pulled than artists actually committing artificial streaming. In this post i'll talk about what artificial streaming is, how most artists get caught up in it,...

Read article
7OQUmLvrkBs-HD

How To Make It In Music feat. Ben Patterson

In this episode Ben Patterson, president of Downtown Artist & Label Services, and I talk about music marketing, the industry, Spotify's changes and more! Listen on your favorite Podcast platform Important Points: Andrew and Ben talk about Spotify's Discovery Mode which provides additional visibility for artists, but can reduce royalties. That’s why Downtown Music aggressively...

Read article
RpV8cqU1jog-HD

Organic Music Marketing feat. Anthony Pacheco

In this episode Anthony Pacheco from Simpl and I talk about using organic social media content and ads to market your music. Listen on your favorite Podcast platform Important Points: Andrew and Anthony talk about focusing on organic social media marketing first when starting out as an artist, especially if you have a limited budget. Engage authentically...

Read article
Spotify Algorithms Swirling Green
All PostsGuides

The Best Spotify Promotion Services

There are a seemingly infinite number of Spotify promotion services available online. To save you some time, here are the best Spotify promotion services that i've personally tried on my own music. Each of the companies on this list provide streams from real people, not bots. Results may vary but each of these companies are...

Read article
7Y1OmZUfugk-HD

Six Figure Music Income & Sync Licensing feat. Eric Copeland (Make Music Income)

In this post I discuss making a six figure income with music, sync licensing, micro licensing and royalty collection with Eric Copeland of Make Music Income and Hello Composers. Listen on your favorite Podcast platform Important Points: Eric and Andrew both agree that it’s important to have a multiple income streams. Focusing on one initiative like Spotify will...

Read article
Playlist-Promotion.com Review
All PostsReview

Playlist-Promotion.com Spotify Review: Real Results

Recently I had the chance to review Playlist-Promotion.com's Spotify playlist service. If you're reading this, chances are that you searched for ‘playlist-promotion review' (or something similar), and you're wondering if they're legit. Yes, from the data in this campaign I can say that Playlist Promotion's Spotify playlisting service is safe to use and completely legit....

Read article
Music Marketing Ideas
All PostsFeatured

23 Music Marketing Ideas For 2023

If you're a music artist, band, manager or label owner you need music marketing. The idea that great music will somehow just sell itself is a myth. Great music with no marketing will perform worse than mediocre music with great marketing. I've spent the last 5 years obsessing over music marketing, and i've either tried...

Read article
DistroKid x Bandzoogle Acquisition

DistroKid Acquired Bandzoogle

Distrokid, the awesome music distribution company, has official acquired Bandzoogle, my least favorite website tool. Don't get me wrong, Bandzoogle has great prices, great customer support and lots of templates. I just hate their awful website builder and lack of email automation features. Despite that brutal website builder, Bandzoogle has helped artists make $100M in...

Read article
Deezer Artist Centric Royalties

Deezer's New ‘Artist Centric' Model

Deezer is shaking things up with how it pays artists by adapting what they're calling an ‘artist centric' model. This model has some controversy because it comes from the CEO of Universal Music Group Sir Lucian Grainge. Here's what they mean by ‘artist centric‘: The theory is that this will benefit ‘real' artists the most,...

Read article
YouGrow-Promo-Review-2023-TN3
All PostsReview

YouGrow Promo Spotify Review: Real Results

YouGrow Promo is a digital music marketing agency providing Spotify playlist services, YouTube ad services and TikTok / Instagram influencer services. In this post i'll be reviewing their Spotify playlisting service specifically and showing you my results. Spotify playlisting is one of the riskiest forms of music marketing because you have no idea how the...

Read article
DistroKid vs CDBaby

Should Music Artists Use CD Baby or DistroKid?

At some point every artist will have to choose which music distribution company they use to distribute their music on streaming services. There are dozens of options out there but most artists ask if they should use CDBaby or DistroKid. In this comparison you'll learn: What CD Baby and DistroKid Have In Common Both CD...

Read article
CleanShot-2023-08-16-at-1552512x

Apple Music Has Followers Now

Apple Music has finally added the ability for fans to follow their favorite artists on the platform. They're calling it ‘Favorites' instead of followers, but its the same thing. Favorites When listeners add your artist page to their favorites in Apple Music, the following happens: I think this is an awesome new feature, especially the...

Read article
Spotify Algorithms Swirling Green
All PostsSpotify

How The Spotify Algorithm Works

The Spotify algorithm is made up of three main parts: Collaborative Filtering Collaborative filtering sounds fancy but its actually quite simple. Imagine if 100 people like Ed Sheeran and Justin Bieber, but 10 of those people love Shawn Mendes while the other 90 have never listened to him. It is reasonable to think those 90...

Read article