You are responsible for promoting your own songs as an artist. How can you advertise yourself to receive more SoundCloud plays?

By implementing these tactics, you can improve your SoundCloud plays, as well as your number of followers and likes. Let’s go!

1-  The information on SoundCloud must be accurate at all times.

  • YouTube, if you haven’t noticed, operates in the same manner.
  • Metadata is the information generated when files are exported. such as artist name, album title, creation date, song description, producer, and website.
  • In order to appear believable, this data must be correct.

2-   Your song’s artwork is MUCH more significant than you know.

Like having a high-quality, professional-looking music video that makes you look like a pro, having a fantastic song artwork helps listeners separate you from other musicians who aren’t that serious.

If you find a reliable artist, you will just have to pay $50 to $150 for a high-quality piece of artwork.

Take, for example, my song Way Up, whose accompanying music video has recently topped one million likes on YouTube.

The artwork is extremely clean, represents the song, and provokes thought in those who view it. This gives the song a polished look and sound even before the listener presses the play button.

and within the first ten seconds when someone is admiring the artwork while listening to the song’s introduction.

3-    Indicate the song’s tone and genre.

Each song has its vibe or mood. Consequently, you must include it in the tags.

The algorithm employed by SoundCloud is quite specialized and prioritizes user recommendations. If your tags are accurate, you will be significantly more discoverable.

Include the main genre of your music, as well as a few subgenres and moods that fit with it.

Also, keep in mind that it is preferable to add relevant tags rather than a plethora of irrelevant tags in the hope that they will function; doing so not only does not help but rather hinders. Therefore, quality trumps quantity.

4-    Effectively organize your playlist

Ensure that all of your projects are appropriately organized and contain the appropriate tags and artwork. One listen could lead to 15 more listens from the same person, who could then add those songs to their playlist, which would lead to at least more listens.