

– Henryk Górecki – Three Pieces In the Old Style: II. (Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / M.A.T.)
– George Friedrich Haas – Liar (Arditti String Quartet / WDR Köln)
– Matthew Whiteside – Quartet No. 6 (Aurea Quartet)
– Julia Wolfe – A Wild Furze (Crash Ensemble)
– Ryan Lott – Stutter Apertures
– Jim Perkins – Swimmer Amount the Stars (Bigo and Twigetti)
– Richard Skelton – Threads Across the River (Corbel Stone Press)
– Dobrinka Tabakova – Insight (Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra / ECM Records)
– Valgeir Sigurðsson – Dissonance (Reykjavík Sinfonia & Liam Byrne / Bedroom Community)
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– Linda Buckley – Chrysalism (Crash Ensemble)
– George Crumb – Vox Balaenae: Vocalize (Jan Krzeszowiec, Marcin Misiak & Małgorzata Zarębińska / Dux)
– Matthew Whiteside – Spinning (Aurea Quartet)
– Shelley Washington – Middleground (PubliQuartet / Bright Shiny Things)
– Ben Frost – Du Bist Ein So guter Mensch
– Claude Vivier – Zipangu (Solistenesemble Kaleidoskope / Ars Produktion)
– Andrea Keller – Love In Solitude (Ensemble Offspring)
– Donnacha Dennehy – Surface Tension (Third Coast Percussion / New Amsterdam Records)
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It has been about a month since my last blog on Registrations and Distribution in this series on releasing Entangled and I promised to talk about pre-saving. So here goes. But first, as ever…
Make sure to follow me on Facebook, Twitter and my mailing list to get notified about the album and make sure you are following me on your streamer of choice Apple Music, Spotify and Deezer.
And now onto presaving and what it is. Presaving is a way to get your listeners to save your music to their library before it is released so that it is available from the day of release. It’s the equivalent of preording a CD in the days of physical releases (speaking of which you can pre-order a physical copy of Entangled from my Bandcamp). Not only is it a useful way to make sure your music gets to the ears of your fans but it provides a metric bump on the first day of release. Whether someone preadded the track 3 months or 3 days before release, it only gets counted from the day of release. If you are someone like Taylor Swift (what?! It is good to keep abreast of all areas of the music industry not just your own!), that could help you to get a headline like ‘most presaved album on Apple Music‘ and so getting more of a bump in presaves and a better chance at charting but even if you don’t have a massive marketing machine behind you it will show interest in your music and increase your chances for editorial and algorithmic playlists. It will also increase your save rates.
Apple Music has started to offer a native service where if you add an instant gratification track to your release and have it available for pre-order from iTunes then you get an ‘Add’ button in Apple Music. Unfortunately because of the duration of the tracks on Entangled I wasn’t able to do this (though and chasing up on it now) and neither Spotify nor Deezer offer a native way to pre-add. (I’m using pre-add and pre-save interchangeably because they do the same thing but different services use a different term).
So if two of the big services don’t offer presaving then how do you do it? Enter feature.fm a service that allows you to setup presaving campaign pages on Apple Music, Deezer and Spotify. There are two different versions, the free one and a paid one (you can subscribe for a year or pay $50 for a one off campaign). The free one allows you to just offer pre-saves but the paid one offers a bit more such as better analytics, collecting email address (with consent) and getting people who pre-save to follow your artist profile and playlists. I’m using the free ones for the singles Spinning and Quartet No. 6 but a paid for one for the preadd for Entangled.
This is what their embedded widget looks like where you can preview audio and then click through to presave.
Whether you go for free or paid, both versions convert on release to a landing page directing people where to stream or buy. So you don’t have to worry about updating links you’ve already sent out once things are released.
All you need to do to setup the presave is add your UPC, artwork add a little bit of text, add a source for preview audio (iTunes, soundcloud etc) the you are sorted! Feature.fm then scans all the services on the release day and adds the music to your listeners’ library. It is really easy and straightforward. Once you’ve got your URL you can start shouting about it to get people to preadd your release.
If you are self releasing music, no matter what agragator you use be it CD Baby, Tunecore, RouteNote or any other one, you really should be on BandCamp as well. BandCamp offers preorders of both physical and digital products. You can also add instant gratification tracks as the release goes on. So as you release singles from the upcoming release you can make them instant gratification tracks. BandCamp takes a smaller cut than the other services and offers fans a chance to pay more, if they want to. All of my music is on my BandCamp page as well as all the streamers. With Entangled if you preorder the physics CD you get the digital files as well.
If you are self releasing music, no matter what agragator you use be it CD Baby, Tunecore, RouteNote or any other one, you really should be on BandCamp as well. BandCamp offers preorders of both physical and digital products. You can also add instant gratification tracks as the release goes on. So as you release singles from the upcoming release you can make them instant gratification tracks. BandCamp takes a smaller cut than the other services and offers fans a chance to pay more, if they want to. All of my music is on my BandCamp page as well as all the streamers. With Entangled if you preorder the physics CD you get the digital files as well.
All of my music is now available on Idagio. They are a new(ish) classical music streaming service. Check out my artist page here.
– Ólafur Arnalds – …og lengra (Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra / Mercury Classics)
– Terry Riley – Sun Rings (Kronos Quartet / Nonsuch)
– Matthew Whiteside – Quartet No. 4: Spinning (Aurea Quartet)
– Kelly Moran – Night Music (Warp Records)
– Marino Arcaro – noite seresteira (archForm)
– Adam Porebski – ReVerse 2 (Duo van Vliet / Delphian Records)
– Scanner – Immaculate, Air (BineMusic)
– Julia Wolfe – Fire in my mouth: Factory (New York Philharmonic / Decca Gold)
– Tool – Invincible (RCA Records)
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– Caroline Shaw – Entr’acte (Attacca Quartet / New Amsterdam Records)
– Matthew Whiteside – Spinning (Aurea Quartet )
– Jóhann Jóhannsson – Stuk (Echo Collective / Junk IBU)
– Donnacha Dennehy – Pushpulling (Jasper String Quartet / Sono Luminous)
– Cameron Lam – Scattered Like a Broken Crusader (Geist String Quartet)
– Maya Beiser – Slow Seasons (Islandia Music)
– Pauline Kim Harris – Ambient chaconne (Spencer Topel / Sono Luminus)
– George Crumb – Black Angels: II (Kronos Quartet / Nonesuch Records)
– Linda Buckley – Jump (Kate Ellis / Diatribe Records)
– Arvo Pärt – Tabula Rasa II ( Gidon Kremer & Kremerata Baltica / Nonesuch Records)
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– Ulfur Hansson – Þýð (Nordic Affect / Sono Luminus)
– Nils Frahm – Our Own Roof (Erased Tapes Records)
– Matthew Whiteside – Three Pieces for Bass Clarinet and Electronics (Joanna Nicholson)
– Vincenzo Lamagna – Antes
– Michael Gordon – Decasia: II (Kasper de Roo & Basel Sinfonietta / Cantaloupe Music
– Olof Cornéer – Waves, Breaths & Dead Cities, Pt. 1 (Valhallakvintetten / Bigo and Twigetti)
– Missy Mazzoli – Vesper for a New Dark Age (Victoire, Glenn Kotche & Lorna Dune / New Amsterdam Records)
– Jessica Meyer – Get Into the Now (Publiquartet / Bright Shiny Things)
– Marino Arcaro – Sanctum Meum (Vitor Noah / archForm)
– Benjamin Tassie – Queen (Benjamin Tassie, Ligeti Quartet & Jonathan Mayer)
– Georg Friedrich Haas – String Quartet No. 2 (Kairos Quartett / Edition Zeitklang)
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– Valgeir Sigurðsson – Nabraska: I. Flat Water (Siggi String Quartet / Sono Luminus)
– Daniel Elms – Soft Machines (New Amsterdam Records)
– Mark-Anthony Turnage – Two Memorials (The Nash Ensemble / Black Box Music)
– Matthew Whiteside – Piece for Violin and Bass Clarinet (Emma Lloyd and Joanna Nicholson)
– Nico Muhly – Hudson Cycle (Vanessa Wagner / InFiné)
– Arlene Sierra – Urban Birds (Xenia Pestova / NMC Recordings)
– Iannis Xenakis – Jonchaies (Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg / Timpani)
– Julia Wolfe – Lad (Sean Shibe / Delphian Records)
– David Fennessy – Piano Trio (Psappha Ensemble / NMC Recordings)
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– Dobrinka Tabakova – Insight (Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra)
– Valgeir Sigurðsson – The Crumbling (Bedroom Community)
– Diana Salazar – Papyrus (Cmmas)
– Matthew Whiteside – Unda Malacia
– Michael Gordon – Light is Calling (Nonesuch Records)
– Ben Frost – Ich kann die Vergangenheit Ändern (Lakeshore Records)
– Pēteris Vasks – The Lonely Angel (Fenella Humphreys, Covent Garden Sinfonia, Ben Palmer) / Rubicon Classics)
– Radiohead – Daydreaming (XL Recordings)
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– Donnacha Dennehy – Pushpulling (Jasper String Quartet / Sono Luminus)
– Daniel Elms – Islandia (Christian Barraclough, Jonathan French, Tomáš Klement, Tereza Privatska, Julia Loucks, Tom Hankey & Adam Szabo / New Amsterdam Records)
– Matthew Whiteside – Piece for Violin and Bass Clarinet (Emma Lloyd / Joanna Nicholson)
– Hans Zimmer – Dark
– Cameron Lam – Synchronous Time (Geist String Quartet )
– Caroline Shaw – Valencia (Attacca Quartet / New Amsterdam Records)
– Brandt Brauer Frick – Decades
– David Fennessy – Hirta Rounds (Munich Chamber Orchestra / NMC Records)
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- Bryn Harrison - In nominee After William Byrd (ensemble recherche / Kairos)
- Anna Thorvaldsdottir - In the Light of Air (International Contemporary Ensemble / Sono Luminus )
- Matthew Whiteside - Piece for Violin and Bass Clarinet (Emma Lloyd and Joanna Nicholson)
- Olga Neuwirth - Settori (Arditti String Quartet / Kairos)
- Garth Knox - Variations on Marin Marais (Mode Records)
- Alfred Schnittke - Concerto Grosso No. 1 (Chamber Orchestra of Europe & Heinrich Schiff / Deutsche Grammophon)
- Georg Friedrich Haas - Limited approximations III (Pi-hsien Chen, Thomas Kiebler, Christoph Grund, Florian Hoelscher, Julia Vogelsanger, Akiko Okabe, Sylvain Cambreling & South West German Radio Symphony Orchestra, Baden-Baden and Freiburg / NEOS Music)
- George Crumb - Vox Balaenae: Sea-Nocturne (Shawnigan-Trio / Bella Musica)
- Pierre Boulez - Incises (Marc Ponthus / Bridge Records Inc)
- Witold Lutoslawski - Partita (Foyle-Štšura Duo / Delphian )
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