Best Sites to Get Your Music Featured

What are the best sites to get your music featured? In an online sea of fascinating music and music fans, finding your future followers will require knowing your tribe (or tribes) and following your sonic bliss. This journey can bring people you would expect to dig your work, as well as audiences and fellow bands that just might surprise you. Here are some of the best sites to get your music featured.

Show-Promoting Sites such as BandsinTown and Songkick

Playing in front of a crown can be an exhilarating experience. Increasing your live audience can help spread your vibe. Sites such as Bandsintown, Songkick, and local concert sites allow people to know what exciting new band is playing in town. Let the communities you visit know ahead of time that you are coming, and maybe you can make friends with the locals.

Bandsintown and Songkick accounts allow your other sites (Facebook, Wix, etc) to automatically update new tour dates and ticket purchasing on your personal website. Your personal site updates can join community event updates for the places you will visit next. Plus, increasing crowd size at local events can increase the chances of more shows in the area, not to mention getting to know local bands.

Your Own Site on Platforms such as Bandcamp and Wix

Having your own band website to tie together all of your social media, rantings on post-punk versus post-punk revival, and upcoming events makes life easier for both you and listeners interested in your work. You have several options for hosting: Squarespace, Wordpress, and Wix are popular landings for bands.

Wix hosts band websites like a breeze. Wix allows access directly to your YouTube channel, Bandcamp account, Wordpress site, ticket sites, streaming sites, and, likely, any site you wish to link up. Buying music directly on Wix is easy and commission-free.

Wix also comes with an electronic press kit to inform labels and the press of your band's activities. Plus, Wix is customizable, providing elegant templates for a professional (or unprofessional, your pick) website look.

YouTube

YouTube is for videos... and music videos... and videos with music! Yes, having your own band channel is a good first step, but you can think bigger! Many Web surfers listen to community-tailored playlists of music on YouTube, and the site hosts massive YouTube music followings. Consider Worldhaspostrock, a channel that attempts to exhaustively collect and curate bands considered "post-rock". Many, many small bands in the terrain of atmospheric, moody, minimalistic, or strange guitar work have increased their audiences through post-rock curators. New bands become featured on other channels, such as Electronic Gems, Synthwave Emotions, Soca Music, TripHop Nation, UFK Drum and Bass, Majestic Casual, and more, all on YouTube. If you know your audience, you could be featured and re-shared on a community channel too.

Do not underestimate audio-visual culture. In addition to a mass of genre-specific communities, YouTube also hosts many popular reviewers, remixes, mashups, and fan-made music videos. Consider the explosion of Vaporwave animations, video productions merging ancient early computer imagery and dreamy, distorted audio. Genres not previously considered Vaporwave, including soul, disco, dreampop, future funk, trap, and hiphop have melted into this unexpected, oddball subculture. Put some music on YouTube, engage audiences that use music for unexpected ends, and watch what happens on one of the best sites to get your music featured.

Reddit Music

Reddit Music is a large viral meme generator. The user base is prolific with shares and commentary, and can be a good place to directly engage your fans (and nemeses). With an account, you can take your activity multiple directions: creating a fan thread, lurking other music and meme threads, engaging in heated debates over the existence of alt-country, etc. Do you want to perform an odd cover of a popular song? Do you have controversial stances on music taste? Reddit is not the worst place to develop a reputation.

Audience engagement can help you understand what your listeners listen for and think. Reddit brings out the togetherness and the fire possible in fandom, making it one of the best sites to get your music featured.

Large Music Journalism Sites

Music journalism sites such as Pitchfork, Stereogum, DatPiff, The A.V. Club, NPR Music, The Stool Pigeon, and The Quietus are massive. A feature from these sites would likely produce an audience gain, making them some of the best sites to get your music featured for the hip in-, out-, and quasi-in-out-crowds.

These large sites are set to continually find new bands, regardless of genre or audience size, so do not be intimidated if your music is featured beside big name bands. As branded tastemakers, music journalists want to be drawn into the next new sound or timely subject matter, which is why they host Tiny Desk Concert, A.V. Undercover, and more intimate features. No band concept is too small, from Moon Hooch's quirky sax duo to just the right, weird cover song.

Smaller Music Blogs

In addition to big name music journalism, there are many smaller blogs. Small blogs often have a devoted and fierce readership focused on more specific genres and sonic moods. Brainwashed, a site for eclectic music, is a must visit for ambient and drone fans. Hearts of Space continuously searches for new classical, world, Celtic, experimental, and other dreamy tracks for its continuous radio stream. Prog Sphere is a great location for progressive rock. More Fuzz is a great location for psychedelia and stoner rock. ThisSongIsSick features new rhythm and blues bands, along with other alternative genres. Partially Examined Life, a philosophy blog doubling as a music blog, is a friendly location as well. All of these blogs are some of the best sites to get your music featured.

Do not restrict yourself to the largest blogs in the genre though. Even smaller blogs, or personal blogs, are good places to move up the visibility ladder. Besides, many of the people who run the smallest blogs are dedicated and have a great taste in music. Getting to know other music fans is intrinsically worth it.

Streaming Sites/Apps such as Last.fm, Spotify, iTunes, Dozmia, and Pandora

Streaming services such as Spotify, Last.fm, and Dozmia place your music alongside similar bands, informing your audiences. These sites have various recommendation functions based upon other artists the user already likes.

Plus, these streaming services allow shared playlists. A band member can share a playlist with other musicians or fans, allowing a closer fan to musician aesthetic relationship. Maybe you will find some inspirational sources on these streaming sources. Maybe, just maybe, a big name artist will share your work with their fans. See what your fans listen to and explore!

Entering some of these streaming sites may require patience. To ease the entry process, music distribution services such as Route Note can help reduce the cost of entry and the hassle of entering Spotify, iTunes, Groove, etc. The wait is worth it for entry into the best sites to get your music featured.

Beat

In addition to these other venues, why not post your music on Beat? Yes, Beat. The site you are currently on. Beat is the ideal place to post long-form articles and reviews about your favorite music, from bands to stories to just ordinary stories. Good news? You can share your music by offering links to stream and/or buy your music, merchandise, etc.

To publish on Beat, simply register an account on vocal.media, assemble a piece, and submit it to Beat.

If you will earn money by accumulating views. The more people click on your article, the more money you will make.

Beat's community is ever growing. It is the perfect place to post your music, advertise your name, and really get yourself out there.

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