Questions to classical releases

[Tetiana]

Hello everyone, I have a lot of questions to my classical release I intend to publish soon. I want to release a classical instrumental piece (Chaccone of composer Johann Pachelbel) I recorded with my instrument. Who is the best person to contact when it gets to such questions? Afterwards I would list them all.

Thank you.

Kind regards, TM

[Andi]

hi @Tetiana , let’s ask @Carlos for support, please feel free to list your questions

[Tetiana]

Ok, thank you. I also add @Kuo @tobibobi along with @Carlos, as I understand from other posts/questions that they are also experts in classical releases.

Now to my questions:

1. Which genre is better to pick here: general classic music or more specific instrumental classic (playing classical piece on my instrument)

2. Do you have any statistics on how successful imusician playlist pitching is/was compared to when artists to it by themselfs:

3. I have currently only have a spotify artist account. Will I get one for Apple as well, when I click no for Apple:

4. Shall I add the classical composer here as well:

5. Can I switch the toggle here if I play a piece from Johann Pachelbel:

6. Is that the right way to populate it, if I am the main artist with my instrument and Pachelbel is the composer:

7. How will it be ensured that my release will also be on the composers main page on Spotify or Apple music, when I only choose this but there is no way to link the Spotify and Apple pages of Johann Pachelbel:

e.g. I wanted to be here

and also be shown under his new singles section:

8. Do I have to add myself again here, although I am the main artist:

9. Why is Johann Pachelbel not shown on my release page preview, although I have entered him as composer:

Thank you in advance for answering all my questions.

Kind regards,

Tetiana

[Kuo]

Hello @Tetiana, I will be more than glad to help you with all these questions:

1. Instrumental Classical is the right genre to pick if your music is not vocal or opera. Therefore, anything instrumental that belongs to classical music.
2. There is no statistics on the different types of pitching, but there is a clear advantage if one of our team curators pitch it to the platforms
3. If you are not selecting Apple Music, your release will not be delivered to that platform, therefore no artist profile will be created
4. The classical music composer should never be added as main artist unless you were the composer
5. CID is only for non public domain music, therefore you can not activate the CID if the music was composed by Pachelbel
   6 & 8) You can be the main artist in the album and track level, and you should also be added as the performer. Pachelbel should only be added as the composer.
   7 & 9) Each platform has a team of people who select which releases will appear on composer´s main page. Nevertheless, the composer’s name will appear on your release and you can access their profile by clicking in their name at your release page.

I hope this clarifies all your questions, if not please do not hesitate to contact us again

[Tetiana]

Thanks, Kuo, for your quick reply - much appreciated. Just two follow-up questions:

1. If I select Apple Music as a shop where my release shall be distributed but I have no profil currently with them, you will set-up one for me or how will I get access to my Apple for Artists account?

2. What is the difference between these two:

If I enter the title in the upper one and lower one, it will be displayed like this:

Could you please thell me what the right way would be (i.e. what shall I type where)?

Thank you and kind regards,

Tetiana

[Tetiana]

@Kuo @Carlos Could you please get back to me on the last two questions, as I would like to submit my release today to you. Thank you and kind regards,

[Carlos]

Hey @Tetiana,

1. Apple Music will create profile for you once they upload your music on their platform. Then you can request access to the profile by following these steps: Claim your artist page - Apple Music for Artists

2. This piece doesn’t really have movements (it has 22 variations but they’re not really “individual” sections of the piece right?) so you can just write 22 variations under Titel des Tracks:

[Tetiana]

Thank you, both. I have just submitted my release to the imusician team. How long will the quality check take and - as I have picked the option that you pitch for playlists - will I be informed, once you decide to pitch for playlist and to which of them you have pitched?

Is it necessary to pitch again for the imusician playlist or will this also be automatically done by you.

Thank you and kind regards,

Tetiana

[Carlos]

Hey @Tetiana,

1. Your releases will be checked depending on the delivery you selected:

• Standard = within 2 weeks after payment
• Express = within 1 week after payment
• Priority = within 2 days after payment

2. Yes you will be informed about the pitching, whether it gets accepted or not. If our team doesn’t accept your pitching submission, you can still do it yourself if you want to (through Spotify for Artists). In any case it won’t be done automatically by us.