 So today's video is all about a question I actually get a lot like if I went through my DMs and all my messages it would probably be top two and I'm pretty sure it wouldn't be number two. And that question is how do you find Spotify players? It's the matwork. Now I'm pretty sure that the people that are asking me this question are probably just getting into marketing somehow they ended up on the road of Spotify playlist thing maybe you got finesse by a playlist curator that told you he could get you on rat caveat for $50. Maybe you paid a guy $1,000 just to get you on two playlists that had like 10,000 followers but because you guys were so nice about it and because y'all were so persistent in asking me this question I'm going to give you my playlist and strategy that I use to find playlists for my clients our own network and even sometimes I use it to help my artist friends when they're trying to do the same thing. Now with that being said before we get into today's video come and follow me on tiktok and instagram links will be in the description below come give me some video ideas tap in and say what's up I'm trying to make these videos a little bit more tailored to you and your problems so what help if you can hit me with some video ideas from time to time if not it's cool I figured out you know what I'm saying like I said enough you guys ask me questions. Now the first strategy that I like to use is something that I like to call the about section strategy. Now for this strategy you'll either need to already know about a playlist that takes submissions know an artist that is currently getting themselves playlisted or have the bandwidth to go through Spotify and do a bunch of keyword searching. So let's assume that you're on the former end right let's assume that you don't know any playlist you don't know anybody that's on playlist you're doing this at ground zero so what you'll want to do is go to Spotify from your desktop search a keyword that is related to the genre of playlist you're looking for so if you're a rapper search rap or hip hop or something like that. Once you search this keyword you want to make sure that you filtered out your searches by playlist so not songs not albums only playlist on Spotify and once you've done this you want to scroll through all the playlist that they have listed until you find a playlist that is ran by independent curator and the way that you'll know that it's ran by independent curator is because where has the name at it won't say Spotify it won't say filter it won't say tossify and it won't say Dijkster it say something else stay away from those for brands those four companies you won't get on those playlists. Now once you find a playlist that is independently curated you see that that that being ran by some type of brand or curator or independent curator or something like that scroll through the playlist until you find an artist that you personally never heard of preferably you want this artist to have around 50 000 monthly listeners or less sometimes you can go over that but I've just learned from personal experience that it's a lot easier to do this method if you can keep the artist that you're using at around 50 000 monthly listeners or less once you found this artist that you personally never heard of this has 50 000 or less monthly listeners you're going to click on their artists go to their profile and then click on about on their Spotify profile. Now if you look at this about section for them you will see that it lists the top five playlists that their artist is currently on and the reason that you're doing this is because this artist is either someone that has figured out the sauce on getting on playlists or they've hired someone that has a sauce on getting them on the playlists either way you've cheat coded yourself to the top of the pile by just going to the playlists that they have and they're already on and you know these playlists are taking artist submissions because this artist is on it so once you find the information once you find these playlists you'll just need to click through the playlist see if they have some type of contact information reach out to their playlists get their prices get their their rules for for pitching and all that stuff and then rinse and repeat the process you now have a new list of playlists that you know take artist submissions go through those playlists find more artists that you've never heard of go to their about section find more playlists rinse repeat rinse repeat rinse repeat the second way that I like to find playlists is by using a tool called chart metric. You know chart metric is this really dope data analytics tool that's used by ANRs and marketing agencies within the music industry really cool stuff. Now once you get the chart metric you'll need to search artists that are within your niche so if you're a rapper that makes I don't know trap rap search artists like 21 Savage Money Bag Yell something like that if you're an R&B artist search artists like Mariba and Baby Rose or just search artists that are within your niche and within your demographic. Now once you search these artists and go into their profile if you scroll to the bottom of their chart metric profile you will see they have a section where you can see all of the playlists that our artist is currently on or has been on in the past. Now if you have the pay version you can see as far back as I believe an entire year I think with the free version you can only see the last 30 days or so but that's cool because it's enough of a window for you to be able to find some playlists to get yourself pitched on. Now this method is really useful for finding playlists that are placing artists that are very similar to you and if you know anything about the Spotify algorithm and how it works getting on playlists that make sense for your niche rather than getting on ones that just bring you a lot of streams will significantly benefit your account long term and just placing yourself on some random playlists that'll get you 20,000 streams or so. So because you can find these playlists that these artists are currently on or have been on you are actively being able to place yourself around artists and within the niche that makes sense for you in the Spotify algorithm which once again will just significantly increase your chances of hitting the algorithm and all these positive things happening which should be the goal of getting yourself placed on playlists in the first place. From there it's very similar to the about section strategy where if you have ever seen a playlist profile on Chartmetric they usually will have the contact information listed on there. If not you can always click into their Spotify playlist link and go to their description section on Spotify and see if they have like a Twitter handle or Instagram handle or email or something. Now another cool thing about Chartmetric's playlist feature is that you can filter it out based on editorial playlists and then non editorial playlists or pretty much user generated playlists which makes the search process for this so much easier especially when you're trying to make sure you're getting on playlists that are demographically relevant to you which once again I suggest that you all are trying to get on playlists that are demographically relevant to you. The third tool that I like to use to find Spotify playlists is a fairly new tool called Playlist Supply. It is a data scraping tool for Spotify and you can type in any keyword right rap, hip hop, R&B, Selena Gomez, whatever type of playlists you're trying to find. As you get ready to queue up your search for Playlist Supply it will also give you the option to fill through our playlists based on ones that have a Twitter handle in their description and email in their description and Instagram handle in their description or nothing whatsoever if you just want everything to show up. Meaning that if you're trying to find rap playlists that are easy to communicate with and get in contact with you can just search rap playlists that have an email, hit search and then Playlist Supply will scrape through all the Spotify and find all of the playlists that match your search criteria. So in this example it'll go through and find all the playlists that have rap in their username or the description name and have an email address in their bio. Now this tool saves you so much time. I think it's one of the most useful things I'll come across in the last two, three months or so. It's only like 20 bucks a month so it's pretty cheap and it saves you a shit ton of time. Using the about session strategy and the chart metric strategy it will honestly take me anywhere from an hour to two or three hours to find playlists depending on just how things were moving for me that night. With Playlist Supply I can just type in these criteria hit search and it takes about 15 to 20 minutes to find these playlists and I can go do other stuff while scraping these playlists for me. So once again it's a huge game changer in the time space and it does so much work for you that you are going to manually have to do anyway. Now if you want to do the manual labor you want to just sharpen your skills through doing that then once again the about section strategy and the chart metric strategy are going to be your best ways to find playlists. But if you have 20 bucks extra a month and you want to save some time by building out a massive playlist list pretty quick then check out Playlist Supply I'll put their link in the description below as well so you can check them out. And there we have it those are pretty much my three go-to methods for finding Spotify Playlist. So you have your about section strategy, you have chart metric and then you have Playlist Supply and once again if you use these methods and you're willing to put the time in to find your own playlist you will never need to use another Playlist Curator or Playlist Pitching Service ever again because I promise you that the higher up you get into Playlist Pitching the more you do it you will really start to find all the playlists that these guys are using anyway. The Playlisting world is only so big you know and you'll even be able to stay on top of newer playlists even faster than some of those guys are because most Playlist Pitchers just stick to that same network of playlists that they trust so you'll be able to find these new playlists and these other playlists maybe even before they get to it and you know once again save yourself time money energy and the risk of being finessed by a pitcher who's telling you that can get you on a route cab you're off for $50. True story by the way I've seen that other than that if you feel like you learn anything today please like and share this video hit those post notifications as well as it really helps to channel out other than that once again my name is Kory and I'll see y'all next time peace