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Release radar not working for my last release ?

Spotscify — Sat, 23 May 2020 19:44:49 GMT

Plan

Premium

Country

France

Device

Operating System

Windows 10

My Question or Issue

I am an artist on Spotify and I released the live versions of two of my songs. One 10 days ago, and one yesterday.

I am very suprised because yesterday I was expecting a release radar for my song released 10 days ago, but nothing happened (except a few streams last week), so none of my followers will have this song in their release radar ?

I thought if I submitted at least 7 days before (I submitted to Distrokid 10 days prior relase and submited through S4A one day after..), then all my followers will have this song in their release radar, am I understanding it wrong ?

Or is there something wrong happening because it's a live version ? Or because I have another song released just ten days after ? Both ?

Thank you for reading this and hope you can give me hints,

Best

Lucien

Re: Release radar not working for my last release ?

Ivan — Sun, 24 May 2020 06:42:16 GMT

Hey there @Spotscify,

Thanks for reaching out - we’re here to help!

The Release Radar playlist updates every Friday, meaning the track you released should've already reached your audience.

We'd suggest you get in touch with our team at Spotify for Artists. These folks specialize in queries submitted to Spotify by artists and content creators. They’ll be able to help you more specifically with the issue you’re addressing.

You can reach out to them here.

Hope this helps. Let us know if you have any more questions.

Re: Release radar not working for my last release ?

Spotscify — Sun, 24 May 2020 08:46:23 GMT

Hello @Ivan,

Thank you for answering, just messaged them 🙂

Best,

Re: Release radar not working for my last release ?

Danpatra — Tue, 28 Jul 2020 16:21:24 GMT

Hi,

I'm also an artists with the some problem and I was wandering:

Did they resolve your problem?

Or if not, what was they answer?

Thanks,

Dan

Re: Release radar not working for my last release ?

Spotscify — Tue, 28 Jul 2020 18:28:53 GMT

Hi @danpatra,

Their answer was to send me their promotion guidelines. I did indeed lack of promotion for those songs.

My latest release has been heavily promoted and I had a few thousand release radar streams. But definitely not kicking into my 10K+ Spotify followers.

The reason seems to be that not every follower is listening to its release radar and that lot of them follow more artists than can fit in their release radar.

Hope this helps,

Re: Release radar not working for my last release ?

henrois39 — Fri, 25 Sep 2020 16:21:07 GMT

So I think Spotify isn't telling the whole truth. I had a song that was up for a week (4k followers) and only hit 100 followers. Once it got some good promotion, then it released to more than 2000 listeners on their release radar.

Re: Release radar not working for my last release ?

Katerina — Sat, 26 Sep 2020 09:42:22 GMT

Hey there @henrois39,

Thanks for posting about this here in the Community!

If you have any follow-up questions regarding promoting your tracks, don't hesitate to reach out to Spotify for Artists via the link @Ivan shared previously - they'll be happy to help 🙂

You can also find more info about promoting your tracks or building your followers in this FAQ for Spotify for Artists.

Hope this helps but don't hesitate to give us a shout if there's anything else we can help with!

Cheers 🙂

Re: Release radar not working for my last release ?

Danpatra — Sat, 26 Sep 2020 09:56:38 GMT

This message is not related to the topic, and probably you write this only to get some badges.

But if you don’t have something wise to say about the topic... silence is golden 😉