Guides & resources to grow your project.
Not just a stream of articles: an organised directory by objective to prepare a release, gain visibility, understand the industry, protect your creations, and choose the right tools.
Start with the essentials
A Beathoven selection to lay the right foundations before promote your music.
360° music promotion
Build a coherent campaign around a release: radio, press, playlists and digital.
Open the resource →Music release strategy
The complete calendar before and after a release, with the actions to prioritise.
Open the resource →Promote your music
The essential levers to grow visibility, audience and credibility in 2026.
Open the resource →Radio promotion
Prepare, target and send a track to French and international radio stations.
Open the resource →Spotify playlists
Editorial pitching, independent curators, best practices and mistakes to avoid.
Open the resource →Music marketing
Acquisition, content, advertising and measurement: structure a marketing plan around the project.
Open the resource →Your project, at the right time.
Choose a situation: we’ll direct you straight to the most useful resource.
I’m preparing a release
Planning, distribution, protection and promotion in the right order.
See the schedule →I want more visibility
Choose the right levers between press, radio, playlists, content and ads.
Build my strategy →I want to get on the radio
Prepare the track, the folder and the targeting for the programmers.
Explore radio →I want to secure my creations
Copyright, proof of prior creation, contracts and neighbouring rights.
Protect my project →All resources by category.
Detailed guides, service pages, comparisons, tools and institutional sources.
🎯 Music promotion
The basics: release strategy, checklist, mistakes to avoid.
360° music promotion
Overview of the levers to coordinate around a release.
Music promotion: the guide
Promote your music
How to promote your music
No one listens to my music: why?
15 music promotion tools
Music promo: reviews
Strategies to promote a song
Single promotion: 11 techniques
Album promotion: 20 strategies
Promote your music for free
9 techniques to get noticed
Releasing a single: complete guide
Releasing a single: checklist
Release a single (service page)
Music release strategy
Find a press officer
20 music blogs to share your music
Promote your music in 2026
Artist platform: all the stages of development
Budget & pricing for music promotion
Music promotion platforms: 2026 comparison
Promoting a music video: schedule & budget
📻 Radio promotion
Get on the radio, agency comparisons, FM networks and web radios.
Get on the radio
Radio promotion (service page)
Method, targeting and Beathoven radio support.
Radio press officer: comparison
Send your music to radio stations
International radio promotion
35 radio resources
Radio promotion in 5 steps
The impact of radio promotion
Médiamétrie — radio audiences
SACEM — radio neighbouring rights
How to get your music played on the radio
How to send your music to radio stations
Get onto Spotify playlists
Pitching, curators and editorial playlists.
Contact a music curator
Pitching your music to Spotify playlists
Get more Spotify streams
How to get more Spotify streams
Groover vs SubmitHub
Groover review: strengths and weaknesses
How to get into Spotify playlists
Add your music to playlists: steps
25 playlist curator contacts in France
How the Spotify algorithm works
Spotify marketing campaign: 7 strategies
Spotify music promotion: 9 strategies
Spotify promotion France: 7 tips
Music playlist promotion
Spotify playlist: techniques
Spotify for Artists (official)
Profile, statistics, editorial pitching and campaign tools.
Groover
SubmitHub
Apple Music for Artists
Profile, audience data and Apple Music promotion tools.
Amazon Music for Artists
Artist profile, data, promotion and monetisation tools.
🏷️ Music labels
Find, contact and pitch a label — independent or major.
Find a music label
Prepare your approach and target relevant labels.
Music label: the guide
Independent labels to contact in 2026
List of labels to send to
Top 30 music labels in France
Contacting a label: 10 key steps
Send a demo to a label
7 steps to send your music to a label
Top rap labels in France
11 well-known music labels
Top 10 independent French labels
Find a record label
11 record labels
Record label France: find a partner
Record labels and artist recruitment
CNM — support for labels & artists
📱 Marketing & social media
Digital Communication, community management, YouTube, TikTok, Instagram.
Music marketing
Advertising, audience, content and release strategy.
Music community manager
Music community manager: the art that propels
Digital music communication: the guide
Digital music communication (service)
Artist communications agency
7 reasons to go through a communications agency
Music communications agency: a partner
Music marketing to propel your music
Promoting your music on YouTube
Promote your music on YouTube 2026
YouTube music promotion: 7 techniques
Promote a music video on YouTube
Top 10 tips to promote your music video
Promoting your music on TikTok
Promoting your music on social media
Levers to promote your music on Instagram
TikTok for Business
YouTube Creators
Meta Ads (official)
YouTube for Artists
Official artist channel, Shorts, analytics and resources.
Apple Music promotion tools
📦 Music distribution
Distributor comparisons — DistroKid, TuneCore, iMusician.
Music distributor: comparison
Compare distribution solutions according to your project.
Online music distributor
Best distribution platforms
TuneCore vs DistroKid: comparison
TuneCore review: advantages and limitations
iMusician review: full test
DistroKid review
7 music distribution strategies
The best distribution services
DistroKid (official)
TuneCore (official)
iMusician (official)
🔐 Protection & contracts
Copyright, proof of prior creation, music contract templates.
Protect your music
Copyright, evidence and best practices before release.
Protecting your music: the guide
Protecting your music through SACEM
Protecting a piece of music: registrations and copyright
Protecting your songs: securing your creations
How to protect your music and your works
Protect your musical creation quickly
Best solution to protect your music
Protect your musical compositions
Music copyright
45 essential music contracts
Music contract template
SACEM (official)
Copyrights, declarations and information for creators.
CNM (official)
Funding, professional resources and data on the sector.
TuneLockr — proof of prior creation
Timestamping and proof of prior creation before sharing or collaborating.
SCPP — rights of phonographic producers
SPPF — independent labels & producers
Adami — rights of performing artists
Spedidam — rights of performing artists
MusiLaw — music contract templates
Contract templates for artists, producers, labels and managers.
VoiceLockr — voice protection
🎼 Music industry
Monetisation, agencies, managers, overview of the industry.
Music agency (our page)
Music industry: overview
MusicStart SACEM review
7 ways to monetise your music
Contact a music manager
Music artist agency: the partner
Music artist development: strategy
The best music promotion agencies
7 portals for music news
16 major players on the music scene
Find a booker
CNM — National Centre for Music
SNEP — French market figures
IFPI — global market data
🎚️ Creation & mastering
Studios, DAW, online mastering.
Top 7 recording studios in Paris
DAW music resources
LANDR review: online mastering
LANDR (official)
Online mastering (comparison)
🔗 Useful external resources
A selection of resources independent of Beathoven, useful for everyone artist or label.
SACEM — copyright
CNM — National Centre for Music
Médiamétrie — media audiences
Spotify for Artists
Groover
SubmitHub
DistroKid
TuneCore
iMusician
LANDR
TikTok for Business
YouTube Creators
Meta Ads
Apple Music for Artists
Profile, audience data and Apple Music promotion tools.
YouTube for Artists
Official artist channel, Shorts, analytics and resources.
Amazon Music for Artists
Artist profile, data, promotion and monetisation tools.
SNEP — recorded music market
SCPP — phonographic producers
SPPF — independent producers
Adami — performing artists
Spedidam — performing artists
MusiLaw — music contracts
VoiceLockr — vocal identity
Feedzback — feedback & curators
Official tools for artists
Access the dashboards and official resources of the main platforms directly.
Rights & ecosystem
Protection, contracts and collecting societies: resources to keep close at hand.
Do you have a specific project?
Single, EP, album or video: share your schedule and objectives. Beathoven can help you identify the levers that are truly useful — radio, press, playlists, marketing and international.
Beathoven methods for artists and labels — international markets ↗
