How to grow your plays on Spotify with SpotiMatch

Nicolò Mantini
Clockbeats
Published in
5 min readDec 27, 2018

SpotiMatch is a FREE tool for Artists, Playlists Curators and Labels, that allows its users to match songs with independent playlists on Spotify.

What is the secret to grow your plays on Spotify?

Being Spotify the new trend to promote your music and make money with your songs, the secret to the success is quickly revealed: add your songs to a strong playlist that matches your music genre!

With SpotiMatch, Spotify Artists and Curators are now able to identify the level of fit between a playlist and a song, with no time. Just in one click, SpotiMatch will show you a ranking of the most matching playlists for your song!

In this article I will show you how to use SpotiMatch:

If you are too lazy for reading, watch the video:

How to match a playlist 🔥

  1. Go to www.spotimatch.com
  2. Login to Spotify.
  3. Copy the URL of your Spotify song and paste it in the input box (example: https://open.spotify.com/track/0obeHbfyAQWVsX0rOobq3b?si=YLygAdYgRiaUIzi1Bsrw2g)
  4. Choose and select the genre of your song (example: “piano”). It is very important to choose a genre compatible with your song for insure a high accuracy of the results.
  5. Click Search and find your Match!

How to read the results 🤓

On the same page, you will see a list of playlists popping up, ranked by match rate, express in percentage. For each matched playlists, SpotiMatch provides its title, the fit with your song (e.g. 82% MATCH), its number of followers and the potential reach of your song if it was included in that playlist.

Mouse over each playlists to see some details about the fit on each feature for your song: Danceability, Acousticness, Energy, Instrumentalness, Speechiness, Mood, Tempo.

How to submit your track to playlists 🚀

Click on a specific playlist to get more info about the playlist and access the playlist’s contacts.

Click “Push to playlist” to submit your song to the playlist and to get the playlist’s owner contact info: email and social media.

If you want to contact the playlist, you can copy paste the message template that appears below the contact info. If no contact info is provided, we will help you to get in contact with the playlist curators, in exchange of a share on social media!

How to see your submitted tracks ⏳

Go your activity history (click to your avatar to access) to get the list of the tracks you submitted, the artist(s) of the tracks and the number of playlists you submitted the track to.

Activity history

Expand “show playlist” to see the entire list of playlists for one track.

Full list of playlists where you have submitted your track to.

If you are a playlist curator, navigate to the curator page and copy and paste your playlist URL. You will get a table similar to the one in the picture below. The status shows whether a track is in the playlists ( ✅) or is in waiting list ( ⌛).

Curator page: input your playlist URL and get the queue of tracks that have been submitted to your playlist. The status shows whether a track is in the playlists ( ✅) or is in waiting list ( ⌛).

How to get unlimited features 💯

The basic version of Spotimatch is free. However, if you are a professional and intend to use the tool intensively, we kindly ask to support the hard work done by people to maintain and develop the the application. The existence and success of SpotiMatch depends on you. That is why we ask for a donation to be able to keep developing SpotiMatch.

We currently offer 3 tiers:

Pick the one that fits you, subscriptions start at only €4.99/month.

  1. Artist Basic: Are you an independent Spotify artist? This plan is ideal to promote your EP. Submit up to 3 unique tracks, to 500 playlists every month.
  2. Artist Pro: Do you earn money with your music on Spotify? This plan is ideal to promote your Album. Submit up to 10 unique tracks, to unlimited playlists every month.
  3. Agency: Are you a record label, Manager or booking agent? This plan is ideal to promote several artists at once! Submit unlimited tracks to unlimited playlists every month, on spotimatch.com.

Feature your playlist 🎯

Are you a curator of an independent playlist on Spotify? Would you like to promote your playlist? Feature your playlist on Spotimtach.com, for 1 genre for 14,99 €/month. Please contact us to know more.

VIP services 🔝

If you do not want to spend time contacting playlists, we can do that for you. Pitching your song to playlist is a service that we can provide, outside the scope of SpotiMatch. Please contact us if you want us to pitch your song on your behalf to a various number of playlists, taking into account the features, followers and performance of each playlist.

Sponsor 🌍

Become a sponsor with a monthly donation of at least $200 and get your logo on spotimatch.com with a link to your site.

How to collaborate 🤝

Everybody is welcome to collaborate and contribute to the development of SpotiMatch.

About ℹ️

SpotiMatch is a tool sponsored by Clockbeats S.R.L. that uses Spotify data to calculate and display the fit between songs and playlists.

The core algorithm is based on this Article.

If you have any question, feel free to contact us.

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