How to release your song on Spotify from India, for free
There's no upload button on Spotify. Spotify tried one in 2018, for a few hundred artists in America, and closed it a year later. Every song on Spotify today, from the biggest stars to a first single, comes in through a distributor.
What a distributor does
It delivers your song to Spotify and the other stores, puts your name and credits on it, and collects what the song earns. You release once, and the song goes out everywhere at the same time.
What to have ready
- The final master as an MP3 or WAV, named exactly like the song.
- The cover: square, sharp, 3000 × 3000 pixels, with the title on it.
- The credits: the singer, the lyricist and the composer, spelled the same way everywhere.
- A release date about three weeks away.
The steps on Nenco
Sign up
With your email. If you already have songs on Spotify, add your Spotify profile, so new songs land on the same one.
Make the release
One page: the title, the date, each song with its credits and audio, and the cover.
Submit
Nenco checks it, then it's reviewed before going to the stores, on working days. If something needs fixing, you get a note saying what. The six usual reasons are worth a look first.
It goes live
On your date, on Spotify and the other stores. The same day you get a songlink, one link with a button for every store.
What it costs
Nothing to release. Nenco has no upload fee and no yearly plan: it keeps a share of what your music earns, only once it earns, and the terms say exactly how much. Earnings are paid in rupees to your Indian bank account.
Spotify only takes songs from distributors. Once you have one, releasing is a form.
Next: claim your Spotify profile, and see what happens day by day after you submit.