Musixmatch for Artists: how to add song lyrics to your Instagram Story
🔥 Good news for all artists!
This week, Musixmatch partnered with Instagram announcing a new feature that allows users to add lyrics to their Instagram Stories.
It’s getting easier and easier to reach your fans and promote your music on social media. Add music and lyrics to your Instagram story and reach a potential of 500M people using Instagram every day.
Instagram stories are now the best way to share your new release and reach your fans worldwide.
To get your lyrics available on Instagram you need to publish your lyrics on Musixmatch following the steps below.
Join the Verified Artists on Musixmatch
Taylor Swift, Katy Perry, Kendrick Lamar, The Black Keys, A$AP Rocky, Dua Lipa, Juice WRLD and thousands of artists are already verified on Musixmatch, join them and get your music and lyrics heard everywhere.
🚀 Let’s get started!
1. Sign up as a Verified Artist
Sign up on Musixmatch.com and then Get verified on Musixmatch.
It will take just a few minutes to register and our content managers will contact you to confirm your artist profile.
2. Add or verify your lyrics on Musixmatch
Download the Musixmatch desktop or mobile app to add your time-synced lyrics to have them available on Instagram.
3. Share your story with lyrics
Sharing lyrics with your Instagram story is easy!
Instagram provided some step by step directions below:
- Once in “Story” mode, add lyrics by selecting the ‘music’ sticker from the sticker tray after taking your photo or video.
- Choose a song and use the scrubber tool to select the part of the song that best captures the moment you’re sharing. The scrubber will also enable you to find the lyrics of the exact part of the song you want.
- Pick between different lyrics, animations, font designs and colors. Move, resize and rotate the lyrics to share your story.
- Fans that watch your story will see the lyrics pop up as the music plays. When they tap on the lyrics, they’ll see a sticker with the song title and artist name that links to the artist’s Instagram profile.
Watch a quick video on how to add song lyrics to your Instagram story.
4. Engage with your fans
There are lots of creative possibilities with Instagram Stories to engage with your fans, from asking your fans what their favorite quotes are to an endless mix of expressions adding music and lyrics to your life moments.
For further details please check out our handy 👉Guide for Verified artists.
