This is always the first question most artists ask when it comes in making decision about which sites to submit their songs or album to, in this article i will give in details between  Free music promotion sites and Music distribution sites.

this article will contain:

examples of free site.
reasons why you need free site.
example of Music streaming sites.
reasons why you need to go for Music streaming sites.
which site can you benefit more.

Firstly we need to understand what free music promotion sites, these are site owned and manage by group of persons or organization whose purpose is to promote artist music on their platforms either blogs, on Instagram, twitter or any social media for their fans to download free of charge without paying for the downloads or stream, free music promotion sites are mostly common and widely used in Africa for music promotion.

Examples of free music site are

Naijaloaded
Notjustok
Palmwine
Naijablast
Tooxclusive etc

These names mentioned above are none the only free music promotion site you can google to find out more sites by yourself

Reason why you need free music promotion sites:

Every artist be it signed or independent artist has one thing in common "to get their track across wide range of fans" the main benefit of this free music site is to help the artist get new audience, using a well known free music site is an added benefit to our music career only when you have certain amount of fans/audience.

What is music streaming site?

You may ask; these are platforms that help artist to make money from streams generated from their track

examples of streaming sites

Boomplay- The African leading streaming android app
spotify- widely used world wide
Apple Music- Apple Music is a music and video streaming service developed by Apple Inc.
Tidal Music- Tidal is a subscription-based music, podcast and video streaming service that combines lossless audio and high-definition music videos with exclusive content and special features on music.
Deezer is a French online music streaming service. It allows users to listen to music content from record labels, including Universal Music Group, Sony Music and Warner Music Group on various devices online or offline

There are over 150 streaming sites and more are being added on a daily basis, the once above are mostly used services by top record labels and music groups.

Reason why you need music streaming service as means of music promotion

Gone are those days where only big dogs in music industry use these services, even an unsigned independent artist has equal rights to use this services, below are reasons why you need this services

The CD industry is dead, and digital album sales are dying.
Streaming allows artists to boost engagement with their fans.
People love sharing music online.
Being on a popular playlist can make an artist's music go viral.
Making money from streams and downloads

In conclusion all this sites are good and they all serve a purpose but one must have an added advantage to another, that's why i recommend you use streaming services sites because all your streams and downloads are being recorded and are converted into revenue!!!

contact us today to know how you can start submitting your music to streaming site


Source https://cogmusic.com.ng/free-music-promotion-sites-vs-music-streaming-sites/