Hey everyone 👋 Been thinking about something and wanted to get your thoughts. Since a lot of you are running multiple artist profiles and building keyword-based catalogs, I was wondering how many of you handle all the music creation yourselves vs working with collaborators/producers. I’ve been building my own artist brand (SONGA) and creating emotional/cinematic alt-pop tracks consistently, and I’ve gotten pretty fast at producing based on themes and structured prompts. It made me think there could be room to collaborate with people who are scaling multiple catalogs and need help creating tracks around specific moods/keywords. Do any of you currently outsource parts of your music creation process, or do you keep everything in-house? Curious to hear how you approach it.

Hey everyone 👋 Wanted to share one of my recent SONGA releases called “Small Town Renegade”. I’m currently building my artist identity around emotional cinematic alt-pop / dark storytelling and trying to improve with every release. Would love some honest feedback on a few things: 1. Does the song feel strong enough to stand out? 2. Does the vocal feel emotionally convincing and consistent? 3. Does the visual/music video match the song’s identity? Open to honest feedback — still learning and improving. Here’s the link: https://youtu.be/e8z3260SKB4?si=QizPBiwGvfPZkE7d Appreciate any feedback 🙏

Hey @Jesse Hull and everyone 👋 Really glad to be part of this community. I’ve been following your content for a while, and it has helped me understand AI music creation and distribution much better. I’m now planning to take my music journey seriously and start releasing officially through DistroKid. I’m building my artist brand called SONGA, and I already have around 20 songs ready. My focus is mainly emotional/cinematic songs around love, pain, heartbreak, life, and healing. I’m still completely new to the business side of music, so I’d love to learn from people here who have real experience. I have a few questions: 1. As a beginner artist, after uploading songs to DistroKid, how important is promotion? Can we rely on organic reach from Spotify/Apple Music in the beginning, or should we actively push every release through Shorts/Reels from day one? 2. What release schedule would you recommend for long-term healthy artist growth? For example: • How many singles per week is ideal? • If doing albums, how many tracks per album works best? • How often should albums be released compared to singles? 3. For better algorithm understanding, is it smarter to stay within one consistent genre/style under one artist profile, or is it okay to experiment with multiple genres in the early phase? 4. If we already have a catalog of songs ready, should we release the strongest songs first to build identity, or should we test different styles and see what the audience responds to? 5. For AI-assisted original music, would you recommend enabling YouTube Content ID immediately through DistroKid? Are there any risks or downsides beginners should know? 6. At the beginner stage, do we really need an artist website/domain, or is DistroKid HyperFollow + Spotify profile + social media enough? 7. How effective is HyperFollow for pre-saves? At what stage should we start using pre-save campaigns seriously? 8. How important is cover art for streaming performance?

Uploaded my first suno-generated music album (12 tracks) to distrokid today. How many uploaded tracks does everyone else have? And how much $ on average does each track generate for you?