I really love what the Playlist has brought to IDHAS. It has added a much wider audience. However we need your help with potential submissions. More and more time is spent gathering song information. Every submission seems to include a Spotify link and we include selections on the Spotify version of the Playlist.
However as door openers and being a long time established without Spotify, most of our success for artists comes from other links. The main playlist features an embed on either Bandcamp, Soundcloud or You Tube. These are places that don't require listeners to join and we feel that easy access is vital to the artist.
We always require an additional link one of those three places is vital, but too often, we have to either root this out ourselves or go chasing for it. We remind submitters to include that additional link as we cannot include a song that is only on Spotify.
Secondly, a big part of getting an artist heard is via social media tagging. The majority of our time on the Playlist is spent hunting out social media links for the individual performers. Prep for this Monday's Playlist has been the worst for time spent for a long while.
It would be really helpful if submissions included any Social Media links, the tagging is done specifically for the artist's benefit. From next week, any submission accepted will also ask for Social Media links. If they are not provided, we will promote without tagging the artist.
There is no frustration or angst in these two requests. We simply want to leave as much spare time as possible to review albums and promote artists. With I Do Hear A Single starting around August time, social media link providing will be vital and sp good habits now will allow that place to be as successful and beneficial for artists as we wish it to be.
Thanks as always.
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