Interested in becoming a verified artist on Spotify?
ToneDen's built the fastest way for you to get there with our Support on Spotify to Download feature.
Verification on Spotify makes your artist page official and provides you with more features to communicate with your fans. Verified accounts also deliver notifications to your fans anytime you release new music.
Getting verified only takes 250 followers on your Spotify artist page. And ToneDen's built the quickest way for you to get there. Here's how:
Step 1: Make sure you have your music and an artist profile on Spotify
You can get your music on Spotify by in two ways:
If you already have a deal with a label or distributor, then:
Spotify could have a deal with your label or distributor. All you have to do is ask them to make your music available on Spotify. If you’ve recently signed, it might take a few weeks.
If you don’t have a deal with a label or distributor, then:
Don’t worry, you can still get your music on Spotify through a 3rd party service. These services handle the legal and royalty side of things for you. There is usually a small fee or percentage cut involved in using these services.
We recommend Symphonic Distribution or Label Worx, but you can find more options here.
Step 2: Create a Support to Download Page with Spotify Gating Enabled
Once you have a Spotify artist page, the next step is to create a Support to Download page with ToneDen.
Fans will follow your Spotify account and/or Spotify playlist before getting a free download.
Before making your Support to Download page, you’ll want to sync your Spotify account. You can follow these instructions to get started:
1. Log in and press the “Notifications” icon
2. Press “Connect” in the top right corner
3. Select your artist profile or log in with your personal Spotify account
After syncing up your account, setting up the support to download page is similar to how you’d set one up for SoundCloud or Twitter on ToneDen:
Step 3: Apply to Spotify to Get Your Artist Account Verified
Once you have 250 followers on your Spotify artist page, you’ll want to make sure you:
Create a personal Spotify account if you don’t have one already.
Then complete the Spotify Artist Verification Request form
Afterwards, Spotify will give you a verified account!
Today, we're excited to show you the new ToneDen website. We’ve focused on making it easier for fans to discover your music. Also starting now, you can create unlimited support to download pages for free.
Our goal is to make it dead simple for fans to support your music. In just the past month alone, we've helped almost a million fans connect with artists like you. We want to show you how hard we're working to help you get heard.
So... what’s new?
Trending: Showing you and fans the most popular free downloads
One of the most common requests we receive is how to find other artists on ToneDen. That’s why we’ve extended Trending to showcase the most popular songs on ToneDen by day, week, and month. If your track gets enough downloads, it’ll end up appearing in these charts in front of the thousands of fans that check our homepage every day!
Weekly Curation: Letting our community do the talking
We wanted to give our community a voice - which is why every week we’re going to be bringing on a chosen curator/collective to pick 7 new “Artist of the Day”’s each week. This past week’s round has been curated by Alaya and we have many more great selectors to come!
thank you TONEDEN for naming swindail the artist of the day and also congrats to Stelouse for being in the charts! pic.twitter.com/896zg8gZHx
— alaya. (@wearealaya)
August 24, 2015
Support to Download: We’ll do the work for you
We’ve streamlined making support to download pages by automatically setting up your SoundCloud metadata for you. Just pick your track, input your download link, and we’ll take care of the rest for you!
Once again, thanks for being a part of ToneDen and please don’t hesitate to let us know what you think!
A good recommendation can go a long way - which is why we’ve introduced our latest feature for up and coming artists: Tweet to Download.
Fans can now support their favorite artists by tweeting out customized messages in exchange for a free track download. We gave the feature a quick test run earlier and found the setup process for artists to be simple and straightforward, on top of being transparent and smooth for fans who want to grab free tunes. Create your first Tweet to Download page for free here!
On a bonus note, anyone who visits and tweets through the Landis LaPace tweet to download page will become eligible to win a free ticket to this year’s EDMbiz (winners will be announced on Friday, June 5th)! Enter here.
If you'd like to go to EDMbiz this year, you can also just purchase a ticket here and use the code "ToneDen" for a 20% discount!
We’ve seen a great amount of success and interest with the daily tips that we give out with our buddy Pusher. We’re now going to offer them via email, along with other special offers :)
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ToneDen Artists Get Free Music Tools from Ill.Gates and ProducerDJ.Com
We've teamed up with the legendary ill.Gates and ProducerDJ to offer you a special deal: $50 of in-store credit for over at their site - ProducerDJ.com - for free. You can get your promo code by signing up or logging into ToneDen and checking your notifications!
ToneDen and Otodayo Present: Toro Remix Competition
We’re excited to announce a new remix competition with Otodayo Records!
We’d like you to give your best shot at remixing ‘Toro’, a collab between our friends Goshfather & Jinco and Sullivan King.
The deadline for the contest is May 18th and one winner will be announced on May 25th.
The prize pool can be found below:
1) A release on Otodayo Records
2) One pair of Sol Republic headphones
3) A one hour Skype session with Goshfather & Jinco and Sullivan King
4) A Signed Sullivan King SnapBack
You can download the stems here:
We Created a Widget for Your "Follow to Download" Tracks
You can now have fans follow you and download your tracks from any website thanks to our newly created "follow to download" widget!
If you'd like to embed your "follow to download" tracks on music blogs or other sites, simply press the button with the words "SHARE" that's located underneath the player of every track in your Spotlight.
Enjoy!
Our friends over at Air Million wrote a piece on blogger outreach. The original article can be found below!
The way in which people discover music has changed over the past decade with the rise of music blogs. These blogs are ran by taste makers with the ability to turn artists from nothing to somebody’s overnight. This growth has been driven from the desire by consumers of music to find the latest, hottest artist; away from the narrow scope of the Top 40 Charts. Each genre has a few select blogs which have built a brand by giving exposure to emerging talent within that genre. These include blogs such as Hypetrak, Discobelle, This Song Is Sick and Earmilk but to name a few.
We all know the benefits of blog exposure but how exactly can you get your music featured? What steps are required by the artist/producer to get the green light from a writer at some of the most submitted-to blogs in the world. We spoke to a number of people within the industry, both in the industry of music production along with members of the publication and PR industry to create one of the most comprehensive guides for aspiring musicians.
The Press side
Dylan Rehmer is the founder of Filter PR, a PR network which strives to help both upcoming & already-established musicians gain mass exposure through various media outlets. He has helped numerous emerging and established artists receive coverage on multiple popular music blogs. As some who works at Huh What & Where Recordings, Next Wave Records & manages Elaksi; if you need to get know how to get features, he’s your connect.
~ What Dylan has to say ~
Don’t blow people up. As a blogger myself, I hate when people send me 10 Facebook messages a day to check up and see if i’ve listened to their new remix yet. That comes off as thirsty and overall inappropriate – that is one of the main ways to NOT get blog placement. Make good, innovative, original sounding music. If you create high quality tunes, people will reach out to you and want your music on their website.
Always network with other upcoming musicians, bloggers, label heads, people all over the music industry, etc. In the end, you don’t know who knows who or who exactly does what, so it doesn’t hurt to network. But as I warned earlier, do NOT just show them your music – be interested in what they do as well and if they ask, then you show them some of your music / vice versa.
As far as PR campaigns at Filter PR it is pretty simple. We ask for an unreleased track a week or two in advance before you plan to release, then we’ll listen and see if we enjoy it enough to help you push it. If we do, then we set up a premier with a blog of your choice [who we’ve established a personal connection with over the past year or two] and then start ‘planting seeds’ with your release; in other words we start shooting around the private SC link to a handful of bloggers who we think would enjoy it & help out with coverage one it’s publicly released.
The Tech Side
Ali is the co-founder of ToneDen, an online community that helps over 38,000 artists grow their audiences online via their follow to download app. Some of their customers include Buygore, Dancing Astronaut, Main Course, and other familiar faces within electronic music.
~ What Ali has to say ~
My friend Angus wrote a fairly comprehensive guide on blogger outreach, however I’ll chime in with a few things as it’s important to understand the big picture before diving into the outreach process: As an artist you’re looking to develop your own audience and promotional base that will carry your art forward. What I recommend every artist do (regardless of whether your project has been around for 1 minute or 1 year) is as follows:
1. Write out a list of everyone who’s supported you or is 100% willing to support you (friends, family, artists, blogs)
2. Write out a list of people you think would support you if you had momentum (bigger blogs, bigger artists, bigger promo channels)
You’re essentially leveraging the promotional base that you have with (1) for every release you have, and convincing people from (2), that you have momentum and are willing to be written about. It’s a simple rinse repeat exercise that is hard to execute, but is the basis of all promotion.
However, before you beginning reaching out to people keep these things in mind:
When asking friends and family for help, be sincere. Call each one of them individually and explain that you are serious about your project. Never “blast” a promotional message. If you want someone to take the time out of their day to promote you, then take time out of yours to explain that to them individually.
Your project should be prepared. Have your album (be confident about your sound // have artwork + an image/story for your project)
Build a list of the top 100 blogs you think your sound would be perfect for. The list should be large and every blog on there should be a “fit”, meaning it makes sense for your music to be on there.
One of our favorite artists and sample pack creators, MSCLS, just dropped a huge pack of 12 edits/dj tools/ etc.. You can check them out below, and download them here.
Frequency Splitting for Better Processing: ToneDen and Icon Collective Tips & Tricks Series
Here's part ten of our series with Icon Collective to help deliver their music production tips & tricks.
The series continues with Paul Laski demonstrating how to use Ableton Live's Audio Effect Racks, with the EQ3, to split a signal into multiple frequency bands for independent effects processing of each band.
Stay tuned for more tips and tricks from us and Icon Collective!
Capturing Perfect MIDI Loops in Ableton Live: ToneDen and Icon Collective Tips & Tricks Series
Here's part nine of our series with Icon Collective to help deliver their music production tips & tricks.
The series continues with Paul Laski demonstrating how to record perfect MIDI loops every time, without ever missing a beat, to help capture your creative flow in Ableton Live.
Stay posted for more tips and tricks from us and Icon Collective!
MSCLS Gives ToneDen Artists A Second Free Sample Pack
We've teamed up with our buddy MSCLS again to deliver you another sample pack:
Listen to the demo and download the entire .zip file here!
On why he's giving out another one for free:
Thank you to everyone who downloaded the last micro sample pack I did filled with drums. I heard back from quiet a few of you and it was really cool to hear the different ways in which you guys used the drums! Next is a small pack with pads, synth and chord one shots, and a set of full range piano samples that come from one of my favorite synth I like using. I hope this finds you well and it helps to create a new spark in your production. Enjoy!
Stay Connected with MSCLS:www.facebook.com/weareMSCLSwww.twitter.com/iamMSCLSwww.SoundCloud.com/MSCLSInstagram : @ iamMSCLS
Programming a TB-303 "Acid" Bass: Icon Collective and ToneDen Tip Series
Here's part six of our series with Icon Collective to help deliver their music production tips & tricks.
The series continues with Paul Laski showing you how to create the classic TB-303, acid style bass sound using a simple shareware synth in Ableton Live.
