Brandon Eggleston

Spotify for artists

The Spotify Algorithm: How To Get On Release Radar, Discover Weekly (Updated 2025)

Have you ever listened to your Discover Weekly or Release Radar playlists on Spotify and wondered how they work? Did you know that these playlists are also extremely important for getting your music heard by a new audience? While stream growth is the most immediate and visible result of using our service, getting your track onto high-quality playlists has substantial long-term benefits due to its effect on the Spotify algorithm. The concept of “cracking” the Spotify algorithm can be quite abstr

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Music Marketing

Top Cities Can Make or Break Your Spotify Growth (2024 Update)

You’ve probably already heard about botting. You also probably know that Spotify shows your Top Cities to other users in the About section of your artist profile. But did you know that Top Cities can also suggest whether an artist account is positioned toward growth, stagnancy, or in danger of being removed? Aside from showing where you get the most listens, Top Cities can actually be a signal on the consumption habits of your music. Before you can analyze them as such, you need to be acquaint

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spotify

How Spotify Saved the Pre-Save

Pre-saves are one of the most common tools for music marketing in the DSP age. Over the past few years, marketers have found innovative ways to utilize pre-save campaigns to maximize reach and engagement for new releases. On Spotify, however, there is no in-app feature for pre-saving releases. For this reason, labels, distributors and marketing companies have stepped in to offer pre-saves in exchange for connection to your Spotify account. The Problem with Third-Party Pre-Saves This has b

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How Coachella Gives Artists a Digital Advantage

It’s no secret that the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival is one of the coolest and most hyped festival events in the world. Coachella has massive appeal and is a favorite of celebrities, influencers and everyday music lovers. In addition, the impact it has on booked performers is so influential that artists are required to agree to an aggressive radius clause that can disrupt half a year’s worth of touring - as noted in a 2018 lawsuit, their policy restricted booked talent from playi

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Music Promotion

How to Email Your Demo to Indie Labels

The Situation: You’ve finished writing, recording, mixing and mastering your latest single(s) and have sat on the recording for a number of weeks, determining that this is the final version and you are 100% satisfied with the product. You’ve decided that instead of self-release, you want to submit this as a demo for a potential release by one of your favorite indie labels. The Question: How do you, the artist, both successfully deliver your demo to the right hands and stick out from the rest

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NFTs

Why You Should Care About NFTs

Playlist Push is keeping a close eye on the role of NFTs in the music industry...here’s why you should too.

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