How To Add Your Lyrics To Spotify

1. Introduction: Hello, my name is Stuart, and as you see for most of my other videos, I mostly do e-mail marketing and digital marketing bits. But I'm also in a band called cyto and music is my absolute passion. And when I notice there were no other videos on how to sync your lyrics to Spotify. I thought I better jump on, because it's something I've learned recently. And it's something I had to Google because it hadn't seen much about it. So in this course, we're going to look at creating a music match count, which is a platform where we can upload our lyrics too. And that will sync with Spotify. We are then going to look at finding your track or music match and verifying yourself as an artist. We are then going to look at uploading your lyrics and making sure they're in the correct format. And then finally, we'll look at sinking your lyrics alongside your music, which is the most fun part of it. So that's all we're gonna look through today. It's a nice simple course, but hopefully is quite important and it'll be great to get your lyrics alongside the tracks. 2. Creating/Setting up your Musuxmatch Account: So strangely, we can't do this through our Spotify Artists account or through a distributor, which seems as if the anatomy. You think Spotify, I would like to have everything in one place, but they don't. So it's no problem, that's still way we can do this for completely free, which is fantastic. And I was amazed how easy it was. So all we need to do is if we go to music Match.com, I'll put this link in the project link as well, just in the course so we can find it too. But if you Google Music mache artists, for example, let's do that. I'm sure a comma. The first option on Google, which is brilliant. So get your lyrics everywhere, which is what we want. So we're going to click on Join. Join. Now. We're going to click on Get Started. And this is back to the page where we were a minute ago. We're going to, we can create an account with an email, with an apple ID or Facebook, Google, et cetera. So on this occasion, I'm going to choose Google. And she's on my Google accounts. And then it's now trying to get you to go to music match Pro. We're going to say whether we're music creator or music representative. So whether a songwriter, musician, producer, sound engineering, et cetera, or someone from a label or manager, etc. So I am a music creator, so I'm going to click on that. Choose either a songwriter musician or contributes to. Click on songwriter. Continue. Now I need to choose and click on the artists that you manage or who you belong to. So to do that, you click on Add and it asks you for these kind of questions. So we need these answers. Very finances profile, so a Spotify link. So to do that, we go to our Spotify account. And on any artists, for example, click on the artist's name. We can click on three dots. Share, and copy link to artist. So we'd go back to our music match with Paste that in. On Apple Music, we will do the same thing. We'll go to the artist and share. On the three dots and the right hand side. Then Copy link would go back into our music match and we paste. Then you click on where does the artist wants it the most. So we could choose where you want. For example, I might say Spotify, and then choose how many monthly streams you have. Unfortunately minds less than the k. But hopefully that will change one day. Then you click Save. So I'm not going to click Save because I've already got this account was somewhere else. But if you're setting up a new account, it will then save it and it will send the process to verify it. So it's nice and easy. If there's any questions with it, Just give me a shout in the comments and I'll happily help. So once you have verified that, you'll be taken to a page just like this. But you always have to be blank. It won't have your songs underneath here. But we see it does have at the bottom, add missing release in red. So we're going to click on that because at the moment, none of our songs are up here. If your songs, if you've already done this, if your tracks, they will be in this location here and you can search them if you've got millions. I don't say that doesn't become relevant for me. But for the moment we're going to add missing release. And similar to when we're verifying an artist account, we need to share the Spotify admin link. Again, if you wanted to do that, we click on the three dots next to the album name, and we would click Share and then copy album link. And again, in Apple didn't actually have the amylin is a lot of the time. So even if you only have one track, just click on Share next to one of those tracks, the contract that you are using instead, click Copy link, then you can go back into your account. So we'll paste that there as well. And that's all you need to verify your music. You click Send. Then their team normally comes back to you within 24 hours, 48 hours. It is any problems, they will let you know. But I'm sure you wouldn't try and change their access someone else's track anyway. So I'm sure it work well. And then once your track is now showing and when it is showing here in this bottom part, that's fantastic because now that means we are able to get to work, which I'll look at in the next video. 3. Uploading and Formatting Lyrics: So once we've clicked on our track in music match, you will see a screen just like this one. So it's asking us to write a song, lyrics straight into the dashboard. So I mean, if you're a songwriter, you probably got this written down somewhere already. So don't worry, I have to type them all again. You can copy and paste them. But what I would say is you've got, be quite careful how they are formatted. For example, if you're like me, when I write songs and lyrics, I normally write them. When I put off the retina song, I put them together in this format. For example, with I write verse, bridge chorus, verse two. And then just like a space for bridge chorus without writing it again. But what you've got to make sure with uploading it to music match. Think about how it's going to be shown on the screen. So the way it's going to be shown on Spotify is on a line-by-line basis. So we don't really want anything such as verse one coming up. We don't really want any titles coming up. We just want lyrics. And that also means we're going to have to write the chorus. Actually have it in writing. Every time of course is on. Otherwise, when the chorus has played the second time, it's going to sink up and just have chorus for the 30 seconds, which is gonna look not so great. Same with how I've got Bridge, et cetera. So we would need to change all of this. Not hugely, is very simple. All you need to be careful of not having things like times two. So sometimes if our repeated align or sometimes say in brackets, like this, for example, we don't want any of that. We don't want any punctuation at the end of any lines. We want to make it as clean and straight to the point as possible. So for this track, for example, if I was going to put this onto my music match, I would, I'd get rid of verse and title says bridge, chorus. And now what I do, I'm going to copy the chorus just so I can put this in again. So I'm gonna go and scope of space after the second verse and paste that again. And now I'm going to delete all these other bits. Now I just want to make sure that I don't have exclamation marks at the end of these because sometimes I write loads of them and music matched, don't like that. So just double-check. You don't have any of those. Oh, so if you're someone who likes to write really long lines in their tracks, you might want to break those up. Because when a song is playing, we only want to be highlighting a few words that are shown at that time. So if you've got a long line of words that could be 15 words shown at once, which doesn't give as good experience as someone who's looking for the track and trying to learn the lyrics. We really want the lyrics be changing every few seconds. So those there, it's like a karaoke or B, for example, to make it easy for your fans as sing along. With some of these you might want to space out. Might even want to, for example, put that into a few different lines. Keeping the lines short and sweet is the best way to do it. So I might do it again with this line. And each time just put a capital letter at the start of each line. And commas are fine if they're in the middle of a paragraph, of a middle of a line, but we don't want them in the end of every sentence. And if you have any backing vocals, things like oohs and ahs and things like that. In intros, which I like to have. You write those in as well, but you just write it in brackets. So again, don't write it in as capitals like that. And that'd be great. So what we would do, we would then copy this from your document and we go back into music match. And we would paste. And that's as easy as that, the lyrics, I mean, then we'll click. Once you're happy that I just read through everything, I want to show happy, which I am. I'm going to click on sync, which is the next part. 4. Syncing Your Lyrics: So now for the fun bit, our enjoyed it and this is the sinking, the lyrics with the music. It kinda feels like you're in a PlayStation game and you got to be quick on the trigger and click when that lyric comes up. And now we've got our lyrics in there. And once you check for null, confident with them, we then click on sync. And now you'll see a screen like this. So you will see your lyrics just as you had before. But now you will see that formatted in a slightly different way. You will see there's a music bar at the bottom and there's little down arrow and up arrow here. And what we do, It took me a few guys to get used to this. So once you psyched up and you're ready, we're going to press play on the music and the music will start to play. And then as soon as the first line is about to come in, you get ready to click. So then when that line that comes in, you click. When the next line comes in, you click again. So we keep matching up our lyrics with the actual music, which is great fun. When you press play. The intro will go along. And then you're waiting for the first one. So like this. Now I'm just waiting for the backing vocal that you see. I've gotten the brackets and now I've just clicked. And again. So just slide that. You see how I'm clicking on that button every time. Just so it matches up perfectly with the lyrics. That lyric comes on and just click on it just a fraction before. So it just look right at the end. And if you get stuck, you can just pause anytime. If you're like me, you probably going to get a million mistakes with it. And if you do make any, you can just go and click on the up arrow. And it just removes the last one. Or you can go on the left-hand side of each lyric and click on across. You get started. You can just remove all of them, which I have done a million times. If you sometimes when you're going along, you might imagine it all up perfectly. And then you think, I spelled something wrong, which I do a lot as well. You don't have to go back in the lyrics part. You can just edit the lyrics in this section too. So you can type, click on any part of the lyric and type there too. Which is fantastic. I'm sure you don't want me, want to watch me sing the whole song. So don't worry about that. The best thing to do is just play around. It's just say it's great fun. Then once you are ready, angle pretty finished. Or you need to do, click on Send at the top. And then it just asks, it would let you know if there's any mistakes or recommendations they have. And then you click unhappy, sink. And then normally within 48 hours, your song will have its lyrics on Spotify, which is always an exciting occasion. I'll find it anyway. I really hope you find this useful. Please let me know how you get on in the project. I'm probably going to set, I'm going to have it. So making people format their lyrics in the correct way through music match. So please feel free to send me over your lyrics in music match format, I'm always interested in see lyrics. Feel free to send me any of your music and staff. I love to listen. So thanks a lot.