Why your release plan is failing (and how to fix it)
Most artists upload to Spotify and hope for the best. That's not a plan — that's a gamble. Here's the infrastructure you need before hitting 'submit'.
You finished the track. Mix sounds clean. Master hits hard. You upload to DistroKid, hit submit, wait the standard two weeks, and on release day you post a reel saying "out now."
Then nothing happens. You blame the algorithm. You blame Spotify. You tell yourself the next track will be different. It won't.
What you're actually doing right now
Let me describe your last three releases. You shared a 15-second snippet on Instagram three days before drop. You posted "out now" on release day with the cover art. By day 7 the track was already sitting at the bottom of your discography.
The artists who break out of indie status don't release more music than you. They release with infrastructure around the music.
Your next step
Look at your last three releases. What was your pre-release content strategy? What was the post-release plan? If you can't answer, you've been releasing without a plan.
The next track doesn't fix this. Building the system before the next drop does.