Spotify launches a free listening app to compete with customizable, non-interactive streaming services like Pandora…
… and your music should already be there!
That is, it should be there as long as you’ve got your music on Spotify. If not, ummm, we can help. 😉
How Spotify Stations works
It’s a little bit like Pandora Radio. Your fans can create and customize “stations” based on your music, the Spotify playlists you’ve appeared on, similar artists, your genre, and more.
All this happens on a SEPARATE, ad-supported streaming app called Spotify Stations — though users do need to have the regular ol’ Spotify app in order to log into Spotify Stations.
[Note: If you’re a Spotify subscriber, you can listen to music on Spotify Stations WITHOUT advertisements.]
The app is pretty sleek and easy to navigate. If you’ve used Spotify for a while as a listener, your streaming history will inform what happens in Spotify Stations, and you’ll immediately see a few stations pre-populated, including Favorites — so you can jump right in.
As an artist, you’ll be paid for spins on Spotify Stations just like you would for streams on Spotify. If CD Baby is your distributor, we’ve got you covered!
See more info about Spotify Stations HERE.
Chris Robley is an acclaimed singer-songwriter and award-winning poet from Maine.
His Beatlesque indie-pop and milltown Americana songs have been praised by The Associated Press, No Depression, KCRW, The LA Times, Boston Globe, NPR, American Songwriter, and others.
His poems have appeared in Poetry Magazine, Prairie Schooner, The Poetry Review, and more.
Robley has received a Maine Literary Award in Poetry, Boulevard’s Emerging Writers Prize for Poetry, and in 2016 was selected by former US-poet laureate Robert Pinsky as a finalist for the Dorset Prize.