How To Upload Lyrics For Upcoming Releases w/ Musixmatch Pro

As we all know, your release day is often times when you're getting a big burst of attention. And then the weeks after, you'll also get a ton of attention. Lots of this attention comes from your most passionate fans, the ones who want to go deeper with you, or even worse, a new fan who, if they were able to read the lyrics of your song, they'd become a bigger fan, understand you better, and want to go deeper with you, buy tickets and merch, and become a lifelong fan. But so many artists for so long haven't had lyrics available for the first days or even weeks of the release, but that no longer has to be the case. Let me explain. So, a study I go back to all the time again and again is that fans support the artist they feel closest to. And I'm sure if you think about it for a second, you could consider what makes you feel closer to an artist. It's often lyrics. Come on, we all know that feeling. We hear a bar from an artist and it makes you feel like an artist just gets the vibe you want to feel. With music being at its core a mood-altering drug that makes you feel the way you'd rather feel, they say that line that makes you feel they get you, and you're now tied to them. But here's funny thing. As someone who loves reading lyrics to songs on Spotify while I listen along or sharing the bars I love the most on Instagram in the early days or even weeks of release, lyrics are often not up online, and that can bum me out since I can think they're singing one thing and it's something else entirely. And some of the reason it's been like this for so long is until recently, you couldn't add your lyrics to your release till it was out. But now, thanks to the sponsor of this video, Music Smash Pro, you can get this done while you're doing all the other things you do to set up your release beforehand. Like adding it to your distributor, updating your publishing info, scheduling social media, so that your lyrics are up on day one and your biggest fans sharing it on release day on Instagram will have your sick bars up on the screen when a fan shares it. And the fans who are most engaged with your music will have it ready to share from right from the get-go when your song's released. I can't tell you how important having your lyrics up in case your song starts going viral on short form videos and people Google the lyrics and if it doesn't come up, they're never going to stream it. And Musixmatch Pro is the number one way people can find lyrics when they Google them. And this happens all the times. I get these emergency calls from consulting clients where they're like, "No one's finding my song even though I'm getting hundreds of thousands of views on it on short form videos." And this can help fix that so everything is ready on day one. Cuz think about it. Let's say somebody puts up a video to your song and they don't tag the sound that it's in and somebody's just Googling the lyrics of the song. If you don't have it up through Musixmatch Pro, they're probably not finding your song. And with Musixmatch Pro for a low low price, you get so many great tools to promote your music. You can make so many of the assets to promote your music. We recently covered it in a recent video and issue in my newsletter, Music Marketing Trends. Their many features are linked in the description of this video to learn more about them. And you can create amazing assets to promote your music like Spotify canvases or create lyric videos with already time synced lyrics in short formats perfect for release on reels and social media that can even get turned into full length videos for YouTube. I also put up a video on how you can make Apple Music and title album cover motion art with them, which helps increase your streams on their platforms. And as well, they can even print your lyrics on merch really easily. Not to mention that they have the possibility of creating video backgrounds with AI based on your song's meaning or your album cover. >> work to do before everything starts happening. So, since I want to do some pre-release work on this song, I'm going to make sure I go over to the artist that I want to set this up for. So, that's this one, Tana Tristan. And as you can see here, you have a button that says add release. So, as you can see, a published release or an upcoming release. Published release is obviously a song that's been published, aka out already through your distributor and on the DSPs. And an upcoming release is one that's not out, which is what we want to do today. So, in order to do this, I need to either have a Apple Music link, which you can get from your distributor when your distributor populates a platform with your song, you get a link from it, or the UPC code that your distributor gives you. So, since I have the UPC code, I'm going to paste that in. Then I'm going to click continue. As you can see here, it's going to ask me for my title, and I have the cover art downloaded, so I'm going to put that up. Going to put a release date of Friday. So, as you can see here, uh you could also, if you don't have an a UPC yet, you could add the pre-release from scratch, and they'll make your songs ISRC's when the release goes live to distribute your lyrics. Okay, so after that, we've entered the ISRC code. So, once we have the songs for the release into the system, we need to obviously add lyrics to it. So, I'm going to click on the song I want to work on, and then using your AI lyric transcribe tool, it will automatically pick out the lyrics of the song. You upload your song up to the website, but note that there's no worries about leaks since they don't store the song. It's just for the extraction, and then it's done and gone off their servers. But keep in mind, you can easily just paste your own lyrics in if you don't want to go through any of this. It's super super simple to paste into their interface and sync it up using their AI interface. As you can see, after it extracts the lyrics, there's even a button to remove end-line punctuation since that doesn't make the lyrics read well on the apps. But once that's done, we review the lyrics and then we review the sync and edit if there's errors. And after you click send, we'll see a check mark if your lyrics are all set to be delivered to the platforms. We can also make sure that we have other parts of it done. You can add songwriters and credits and stuff like that so that they show up on Spotify. They even have this interesting analysis of it. It's only inside Musixmatch where they tell you a potential meaning. I know sometimes some of you find it interesting what it the AI generates as the meaning, the themes, the mood. Yeah, it'll even flag if there's words that the platform may potentially not be happy with. But once all that's done, we can hit send. So one of the things also is once you send it, obviously it takes a little while to go live. You can see your status in the dashboard. So it's now been delivered to partners. Now one of the coolest things too is a lot of you end up having fans who speak other languages. And when you have that, you know that fans actually often use lyrics to learn other languages and love to see the lyrics translated since it's way more fun way to learn your favorite song rather than some AI owl nerd or some other app like Quadrolingo or whatever. They can enable the translation of your lyrics and some songs are in up to 120 languages that you can find on Google and other search engines that use Musixmatch as a source. The streaming apps all have different languages that are available. So depending what they support, your lyrics will also be there. I know a lot of you are like, "Okay, Jesse. There's got to be a catch. How much does this cost?" Musixmatch Pro has a free plan for single artists that just need the basics. Now it's quite slow to get verified on this plan since it can take up to 30 days because they have to check all the requests manually. And I should note that tier does not have the pre-release feature. Then it's $29 for an entire year for those who need fast track service, like those going viral, who need to get their song to start showing up in search ASAP, or who want to use the AI sync or edit lyrics with featured artists on their tracks. Their grow plan, which has the pre-release feature, is $96 a year and has that in the plan, and you can create those lyric videos I talked about before and remove their watermark. And with the plus plan for 216 a year, you get up to three artists and access to get your lyrics on YouTube and lyric videos with translations. And for those of you who run management companies or labels, they have manager plans where you can collaborate with your team and access bulk features like bulk lyrics uploads on demand. That's pretty sick, right? So if you're interested in getting all these amazing tools to promote your music and taking what you do the next level, head over to Musixmatch Pro and include code JESSIE15 to support the channel and get their current best deal for my viewers. That's code JESSIE15. So here's the thing. While you just learn this, if you really want to grow your fan base, you need to understand how to make Apple Music and Tidal album art motion with Musixmatch, which is on this video that's on the screen right now. So make sure you watch that next if you really want to level up. Thanks for watching.