DistroKid offers a number of ways to promote your music such as HyperFollow, Mini Videos, Meme Generators, Synced Lyrics and more!

Pitching your music to editorial playlists in services is also worth your time – your music landing on an editorial playlist is a great way to get your music in front of new people. For more information on pitching your music on Spotify, check out this article: https://support.distrokid.com/hc/en-us/articles/360052022173. For pitching your music in Amazon Music for Artists, check out their page here: https://artists.amazonmusic.com/pitch.

We love this article in Spotify’s blog for a guide to gaining an authentic following through their tools and resources. You can also see Anghami's article on 5 tips to increase your streams through their different features.

It is important to not make use of any service that offers to get you "guaranteed" streams, especially after payment. This may actually result in getting your music removed from services. Never pay for streams, followers, or playlist placement.

Please keep in mind that engagement is more important than vanity metrics like the number of streams your song/album has. Growing your following organically through your own creative promotion will always serve you best in the long run!

Paying for More Streams

Unfortunately, some marketing companies have convinced artists to pay for services that "guarantee" hundreds or even thousands of streams to inflate fans' perception of an artist's fame or success. These services are completely illegitimate, and often lead to a massive spike of streams from a relatively small number of accounts/users. 

It's very important that you never pay for any service that "guarantees" streams, followers, or playlist placements. Use of any such service may result in withheld earnings, and puts your music at risk of being removed from streaming services.

Streaming services refer to using these types of stream-farming services as well as other disingenuous marketing services (such as paid playlist placements) as "streaming fraud" or "artificial streaming." When Spotify or other streaming services identify or are alerted to potential or confirmed cases of stream manipulation, they take action that may include withholding of royalties, correction of streaming numbers (removal of artificial streams), and potentially even result in all of your music being removed from their platform.