Ever heard the saying “Don’t put all your eggs in one basket”?
If you are an artist, manager or record label owner, having knowledge of all music platforms and understanding how they work when promoting your music is key.
While it’s great to focus on what works for you, there is more to music promotion than being successful on Apple Music or submitting music for Spotify playlists. It’s important to take time to try out all of the major streaming platforms and learn how they work.
The good news is you can try out music streaming platforms for FREE.
Free Trials for Music Streaming Platforms
Most major streaming platforms offer a free trial so you can explore their product and work out how to make the most of your music there. Check out the list of free trials available for streaming services below:
Amazon Music Unlimited Free Trial
Amazon Music is a major player in the current music landscape. Amazon Prime has more than 100 million members and is growing all the time, as Amazon continue to expand their music offering more and more of these prime members will become active users of their music platform.
Click here to get a 30-day free trial of Amazon Music Unlimited
Deezer Free trial
Deezer is a fast-growing music platform that now counts over 14m active users across 180 markets. You can submit music to Deezer playlists via Soundplate.
Click here to get a 30-day free trial of Deezer Premium
Spotify Free Trial
If you are a user of Soundplate you are probably already familiar with the streaming giant, Spotify. If you are an artist we highly suggest having a premium account, we also strongly encourage you to check out the resources and tools available to artists free at artists.spotify.com.
Click here to get a 30-day free trial of Spotify Premium
Check out some crazy Spotify statistics here!
Apple Music
As an artist you really can’t afford to ignore Spotifys biggest competitor and one of the biggest streaming platforms in the world. Explore all Apple Music features and start thinking about how you can use their features to your advantage!
YouTube Music Free Trial
YouTube’s new music service is a little different from the others in this list as it is based around the platforms incredibly popular video platform. As you would expect the emphasis is strongly on video content but they do also offer a huge catalogue of music without video.
Try Youtube Music free for 3 months by clicking here.
Over To You
Now it’s over to you. Go forth and become a master of all platforms – good luck promoting your music!
Here’s a big tip for you: Not all of your fans will listen to music on the same service so whenever you share your music, always use a music smart link. This will allow your fans to choose which service they use.
You can create music smart links for free on Soundplate Clicks.