How To Release A Single In 2024 (The 20 Day Plan)

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Can we pitch our music to Playlist before the release date?

You’re the marketing 🐐! Thank you 🙏🏾 💯

Great video, packed with valuable insights! I wanted to add some thoughts that might be helpful to the community. First, regarding release days, consider Wednesdays or Thursdays instead of the popular Friday. With so many artists, including big names, dropping new music on Fridays, smaller bands with limited budgets can get lost in the noise. A quieter day allows for better exposure and potentially higher conversion rates. I've also observed steeper engagement declines on Saturdays, Sundays, and Mondays after Friday releases, whereas mid-week releases tend to see a more gradual drop-off. Second, targeting audiences in upcoming tour locations can be highly effective for boosting concert attendance and merchandise sales. Third, while I'm a fan of content batching, consider doing it well before the promotional period. Creating behind-the-scenes content like songwriting, recording, production, and photoshoots can be very engaging and scheduled for release ahead of time. This frees up the artist to focus on fan engagement during promotion. Finally, I like to optimize the "link in bio" using it to re-direct to the "Artist's pick" playlist with the new release as the first song and the rest with all the songs in the artist's catalog. This keeps listeners within your catalog when the promoted song finishes, potentially increasing plays for other tracks. This idea comes from observing people behavior using streaming, Most people are not active on the platform because they're doing other activities while listening to the music and the automatic "go to the next song" can work in the artist's favour. But these are just my thoughts, and I may be wrong, but I hope they spark additional ideas for upcoming artists.

Another year another 20 day plan thank you brother 🙏

Thank you very much, Damian. This is extremely helpful. Keep up the great work!

I was waiting for this!!!

Rootnote explained very clearly and precisely in an article why pre-saves are rubbish. And music should be still considered as art and not content.
Lastly, when will it stop to kiss Spotify's ass, now that they officially announced to steal money from independent artists?

I wait for the plan every year now

i love this guy

YESSSS. I look forward to these every year!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

Great Video!!! Nice tips!!! But we been trying to get to our "target audience" in Tik Tok and not getting anywhere near

I'm sure if you don't have budget you basically loose.

What if I DO have a million USD to put into my music as an independent artist, what’s the strategy then? Ads? PR? Would be great with a video about this please.

Great work again, thank you.

Thank you for this! Watched the whole video taking notes. I'll be releasing my first single called "No Money" on March 1st so lets put this to the test!

BRAVO! Damian, I've watched you for years and I advise my artists most of what you've covered here, but this is THE BEST video you've done. Comprehensive. An absolute masterclass. Thank you!

I appreciate your consistency with these videos every year🙏🏾

Great update to the 2023 edition :)

Bob on as usual mate. Might actually bother my arse to crack on with it for once. Legend ❤ Joey x

thank you! please do a video on how to debut as a DIY artist, how to grow a fanbase ready for your first single and even have it go viral

international release day is Friday because of Beyonce. I'm serious, look it up:) . She made it with the "Yonce" album

Thank you Damian! “I only wanna be with you” is guitar driven song out in March. I’ll think of something in between my pro live shows

I'm kinda against playlisting. Anybody can make a playlist, bot it, put your music on said playlist, without your knowledge or consent...causing you to get your stuff removed or even banned entirely. Beware.

Hey, is there a chance of me blowing up in social media if i live in a small country where metal is not really likable? Does living there make everything harder for social media? Or it doesn't matter

Yeeeesssss thank you!!! Been waiting for this video!!!!

I don't think Spotify is the move for 2024. Band camp is a way to go. No offense to you but I don't want to Chase likes. I rather have physical sales. rather have physical 1 to 1 sales

Thaks for sharing this content! I see you from Colombia.

I’ve got my debut single out on 16th Feb and have already planned it out using the 2023 23 day plan! Will see how it goes 😬 then will use this plan for my following single release in March

Waiting for an EP/ Album release strategy for 2024

Amazing! it's always a big event when Damo drops this yearly plan 🔥

This is awesome Damian big huge fan from Boston such a tight budget so I’ve decided to spend it to improve and make my home studio pretty and approachable

Hi Damian, in your opinion when the artist is just starting to release for the first time and he have a predomiant hard trap beat style but 25% of the songs are not too hard and more bright with guitars and talk about love or anything like that. Would be better to start releasing the hard songs or the other 25% ?

I have 19days to my first album

The best day of the year has finally come! 🔥🔥🔥

Awesome, thank you👏👏👏

Too late, my hair is already pink LOL

I've been following you for two years now. This year I'm finally going to put out my first single, and I can't thank you enough for your kindness and way of sharing your knowledge. Cheers Damo!

Gratitude Damain, I downloaded the 20plan via the link, I’ve been trying to open it using various apps even the Dropbox but it’s not just working

Really enjoy your videos, but did you really just imply that you came up with SMART? I’m pretty sure that framework has been around since the 80s

bro you're 5 hours late I just dropped a track this morning haha

Wait so paying for ads on insta really does tank reach? Ive been trying to look up info on that for forever and its always rumors about it. Does an account become useless once you pay for ads? Thanks to ads i actually grew at one point. Trying to get the actual truth on this topic. If you could enlighten me!

DistroKid is very easy to use and cheap but damn, they are soooooo slow to pay out!
You contradicted yourself. At the beginning you said “don’t waste your time with advertising, that’s so 2016”. Then you went on to talk all about advertising. I’m confused 🤪

20 days to release a single song! That’s waaaaaayyyy too long!

YESSSSS! Going thru Spotify 2.0 Course now but this is exciting!!! I can watch this when I get to the release plan part. 😁 thank you for your value Damian!

But.... its suposed to be 24 days to release a single in 2024!

you're doing a fantastic job helping all of the musician's community. You rock Damian