Making music is a reward in itself. But like many musicians, you’ve probably wondered how to promote your music and get people to listen to your music so they can recognize your talent.

We’ll go over five ways to promote your music online.

5 Ways to Promote Your Music Online

It’s all happening on the Internet when it comes to music promotion. You don’t need to invest in expensive ads to get heard, either. Here are five completely free ways to promote yourself online.

Music blogs

Music bloggers are always looking for new content to write. And while they get a lot of traffic from covering famous musicians, they all want to discover the next big thing (that’s you!).

Tip: Check out our list of music blogs that accept submissions right now.

Online radio stations

You’d think that radio had been completely replaced by Spotify at this point. But that’s not true. There are many budding online radio stations that accept music submissions from artists.

Music forums

Most aspiring artists start out in very small circles of (let’s face it) nerds who care deeply about their art. You should make friends with them and ask if they want to listen to your tunes.

YouTube channels

You could publish your music video on YouTube, but unless you have a decent following then it won’t get a lot of views. Instead, you can submit your tunes to dedicated promotion channels.

Tip: Here are 15 YouTube music promotion channels you can submit videos to.

Social media groups

If you’re not down to sign up for another guitarist forums, then fret not (pun intended!). There are plenty of Facebook Groups dedicated to music where you can ask people to listen to yours.