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SMARTMUSICBUSINESS - Chris Greenwood

Music marketing educator teaching independent artists how to build careers and market their music.

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Sound

Microphones1

Editing and post

Editing software1

  • CapCut
    “Okay, if I wanted to use that, or I could take that, and I could edit it in CapCut, slow mo, I'd do whatever I want, but it could work pretty cool for Teardown the Dark.”
    View source at 4:35from August 2026

AI software1

  • ChatGPT

    cited in 4 videoshas reservations

    “You know, one time I was trying to even create something with chat GPT and it says, "No, this is a little out of our box. We can't do this. You're infringing."”
    View source at 2:36from October 2026+ 3 more sources

Creator tools8

  • SubmitHub

    cited in 6 videospositive about it

    “Right? Like, what I share with a a lot of artists when we use SubmitHub to pitch to to playlist curators, right? Cuz I want to get on as many indie playlists as possible, especially when that song first drops, because I want to tell the algorithm people are listening to this song.”
    View source at 4:59from September 2026+ 5 more sources
  • Spotify for Artists

    cited in 3 videospositive about it

    “The only thing I did was is I used Spotify's free pitching tool, okay, which is in your Spotify for artists dashboard, and I pitched it to editorial playlist.”
    View source at 2:18from October 2026+ 2 more sources
  • Spotify Discovery Mode

    cited in 2 videospositive about it

    “So, if you're not using Spotify discovery mode, you definitely need to do that. So, if I click down here, I've got these two songs that I need to opt in because they're doing well.”
    View source at 9:55from October 2026+ 1 more source
  • Spotify Marquee

    first cited October 2026mixed views on it

    “I like to do marquees though for EPs and albums.”
    View source at 8:53from October 2026

Platforms

Hosting platforms10

  • Spotify

    cited in 11 videosmixed views on it

    “And if you're not familiar with release radar, it's one of Spotify's most important discovery playlist for newly released music. It's where I get the majority of my streams when a new song drops.”
    View source at 13:06from October 2026+ 10 more sources
  • YouTube

    cited in 6 videosspeaks highly of it

    “And what I love about YouTube is that the income just keeps going, right? And then you can sell other things and you can build a whole other identity around what you're doing.”
    View source at 8:20from August 2026+ 5 more sources
  • DistroKid

    cited in 5 videosspeaks highly of it

    “So, I'm in my DistroKid account here, and as you can see here, it says, "DistroKid publishing. Good news, we found 205 of your songs that could be earning additional royalties.”
    View source at 2:05from October 2026+ 4 more sources
  • CD Baby

    cited in 2 videos

    “I started with CD Baby. I went to TuneCore, and then I went to DistroKid because they had the splits, right?”
    View source at 6:40from October 2026+ 1 more source

Ecommerce platforms1

  • Shopify

    cited in 3 videos

    “At least if I'm running an ad, it's going to go to my playlist where I get a whole bunch of streams or it's going to go to my Shopify store where I'm making a sale, right?”
    View source at 5:14from October 2026+ 2 more sources

Membership platforms1

  • Patreon
    “And we do we we did it on Patreon, but then I just took it off so that we could have it on our own thing, our own membership site and all that stuff.”
    View source at 13:16from August 2026

Everything else

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