Yous Should Use This Link When Promoting Your Music

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What link practise yous use when you lot denote the release of your new unmarried?

Do you tweet out an iTunes link?

How most a Spotify link?

Tidal?

Nosotros suggest that you don't tweet out whatever of those actually.

You lot should use a SmartURL. [Also referred to every bit a HyperURL].

A SmartURL allows people to choose where they want to stream your music.

You've probably seen one of these earlier…

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How To Create Your smart-url

If you're looking for the quickest solution, you can use the Song.Link website.

Only search for your artist name and/or song title or album title and Song.Link volition give you a link with all of the available streaming outlets. This is how it looks:

Screenshot taken from the Song.Link website.

Screenshot taken from the Song.Link website.

If you want more control over how information technology looks and if you want to be able to track sure metrics (like how many people click on information technology for instance), you'll need to use a more advanced option like SmartURL .

When you visit the SmartURL website you'll exist given four different options which are: to create a SmartURL, a Flex, a Pivot, or an Event.

The one you desire to choose is Pivot.

The Pivot SmartURL creates a landing page where all fans tin choose their preferred streaming provider (similar the ane pictured earlier in this article.

Just click the "create" button in the meridian right corner. Once you're on that folio, select the Pivot icon at the top of the page.

Annotation: You should definitely sign up and create an account so that you can re-visit and make changes to your links in the future.

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In one case you click on the Pivot icon to choose the Pin option at the top, you'll be presented with a agglomeration of questions and data you lot'll demand to input as yous scroll down.

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Here are some instructions to assist you:

  • Select Pin Page Type - Brand sure this choice is selected. Typically it's already selected for you.

  • Apple Music/iTunes URL - Paste the apple tree music link to the song or album you're going to exist promoting. Once you lot do this y'all'll see the app working to find all of the related information associated with your iTunes link.

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We used a link to the lovely @SuzanneSheer'due south single titled "Conditioned."

As you lot can run into in the moving-picture show to a higher place, one time nosotros added the iTunes link, the Product Championship and Image fields were automatically populated. You can feel costless to edit these if need be (for instance, i'll remove the word "Single" from this product title).

At this point, if yous scroll down a scrap, you'll run across a preview of what your SmartURL will wait similar.

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Just every bit you can see in the picture above, there are links for fans to listen to the single on Apple Music, purchase the single on iTunes, stream the single on Spotify and buy the single on Amazon Music.

But what about those fans who use Tidal?

Not to worry. You can add more retailers by scrolling up and clicking on the "Add New Retailer" button (equally seen in the picture below).

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Once y'all click on "add new retailer" you lot'll see this screen pop up.

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Search or select the retailer you want to add. In this example we'll choose Tidal.

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If you lot whorl down a bit, you'll see a identify to put your Tidal link.

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The preview will automatically update. As you can see below, Tidal was automatically added to the preview once I inserted the link.

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You can go on to add together new retailers by repeating that last step. You tin add Youtube, Bandcamp, Soundcloud and more than!

one last step

Now that you lot take all of your streaming retailers added, there's but one more step!

Gyre back up to this section and add your social media links. Add as many as you lot can.

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Once you're finished, click the "Save SmartURL" push button either at the peak or at the very lesser and wait for it to be created. You lot at present accept your SmartURL link!

Put your new SmartUrl at the tiptop of your Linktree. Also, exist certain to use this link when hyperlinking your encompass art and vocal titles in your EPK.

If Yous Desire to Get Fancy on em…

SmartURL's are completely free to create; however, in that location's also a paid pick that allows you to customize things even more. The main reason why you lot may want to use the paid option is and so that you tin customize your URL. For instance, you tin can name it the title of your song or projection.

For example: http://smarturl.it/LiveandGrow

This is totally optional just definitely something to consider.