News & Updates

Spotify launches ‘Clips’ – short, under-30-second vertical videos that allow you to express your artistry and invite fans into your creative process, all while keeping your music front-and-centre.

Unlike other short-form video platforms, Clips on Spotify are attached to artist profiles and can be attached to tracks and albums – putting your music at the centre of the experience so viewers can easily listen after watching your videos. It gives you a way to inspire fandom and long-term success.

Reels continues to be the #1 way to reach new fans/followers on Instagram.

Instagram Reels are short, entertaining videos that can be up to 60 seconds long and are created using the reels feature within the Instagram app. Here are some low lift, high impact quick tips to get you into the Reels game.

Starting this week, Spotify made an update to the algorithm that determines track selection and track ranking for the Popular section on artist profiles on Spotify. Previously, tracks that appeared within artist Popular sections were determined based on individual track popularity. The updated algorithm will calculate Popular section tracks based upon recording popularity rather than individual track popularity. This method will result in a more accurate reflection of artists’ current top tracks and will resolve issues such as: Downranking of tracks with multiple live versions (as a result of play counts fragmenting with each additional version)

Discrepancies between what appears in artists’ Top Songs sections within Spotify for Artists vs. what appears in artists’ Popular sections on platform.  Please note that as of this week many top-performing artists’ Popular sections on Spotify will begin to refresh to reflect the algorithm update.

Official playlists support: Where a track has been added to a playlist that is curated by the stores own in-house editorial team. Many of the biggest playlists on Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, Amazon, Yandex, NetEase, SoundCloud etc, are managed by the stores themselves.

We have put together a page to provide transparency so that artists and labels can strengthen their positions and increase their chances of getting official playlist placements.

If you want to post your lyrics on sites such as Facebook, Instagram, Apple Music, Amazon Music Alexa, YouTube, Spotify and Tidal, we suggest that you use Musixmatch.

Musixmatch is the music industry’s preferred provider of lyrics with millions individuals contributing to creating the largest catalogue of lyrics in the world. Our deliveries to stores and streaming sites worldwide allow you to utilse the tools at Musixmatch.

If you use our ISRC codes when creating your releases and you would like us to submit your labels catalogue to PPL, please ensure you submit your releases using the Label Roster tab.

New store added to all standard distribution lists.

http://Feed.fm is a company that has developed a technology which allows users to add music to other applications, fitness devices, and physical spaces.

• Netease – June 2020- Up to August
• Anghami – April 2021 – May 2021
• Alibaba – Oct 2020 – Feb 2021 (remaining expected in the following months) 
• Resso – Jan 2020 – May 21 (This should be with you in either Aug or Sept)

Cygnus Music Director, Lewis Sinclair speaks to CEO of Promoly about how Cygnus Music started, Pitching to Spotify, Starting a Record Label and much more.

+ JunoDownload are inviting labels to add their logo and biography to label pages. Please see below and use the Google Form to submit the content for your label.

Both Spotify and Apple Music ask for Parity, meaning that they ask for a release to be available on their platform at the same time it’s been made available for fans to listen to publically anywhere else.

Deezer recently launched their new Deezer for Creators hub, a mobile and desktop destination for artists, managers and podcasters that provides analytical performance data based on how fans and listeners engage with music and podcasts for in-depth insight into their streams.

If you, or one of your artists/managers, identifies an Original Audio on Reels that is, in fact, one of your sound recordings, then you can manually request Attribution for this Original Audio via the form below.

Instagram will re-title the original audio to an official sound recording, and this Reel and all others created with the same audio will be aggregated on the Audio Page associated with the official song.

As of now, payment days will be every Tuesday and Thursday, meaning you’ll get your money even faster.  We will now process all new invoices on Tuesdays and Thursdays by 6pm BST.

Invoices submitted after 4pm BST Thursday will be paid on the following Tuesday, and invoices submitted after 4pm BST Tuesday will be paid on Thursday.

Note: Bacs can take a day to go through, international may take an additional day, Payal is often immediate.

Please note the following announcements regarding; a new reduced lead in time for release submissions, SoundCloud’s new 3rd party montisation request form for premiers and uploads and an update regarding Pretzels onboarding process.

We recently published an article called PRO TIPS on pitching to Spotify!

Artists and labels should be using Spotify for Artists to pitch their tracks/songs to Spotify for consideration for editorial, ie: playlist placement and playlist takeovers. (Not applicable to Various Artist releases)

We have created a new form that allows you to provide any significant press updates. We will email this information to Spotify to support any pitches you make through Spotify for Artists.

Pretzel provides licensed music for streamers. Music can be used on Twitch  without having to worry about content ID strikes. DMCA-safe music for users monetised streams and VODs.

Pretzel playlists and catalogue are constantly updated and curated by Pretzel Staff.

We will deliver all new content to Pretzel and providing you have a publisher, your content may be uploaded and used on the platform. If you do not have publishing in place we will share a consent form.

“Community Music are proud to announce that we have formalised an official partnership with Cygnus Music to make them our preferred distribution partner.”

We often get asked which PR agencies our clients work with and what options are available when looking to commission a marketing campaign for a release.

Below are a number of leading companies who our clients have recommended. All these companies are well established, have worked on hundreds of campaigns with many high-profile clients, and are Dance Music specialists.