How to Use the SubmitFinder Marketplace to Promote Your Music
The SubmitFinder Marketplace lets artists share their music for free, get discovered by curators and fans, and build real streams. Here is how to submit your song, get approved, and turn the marketplace into a promotion engine.
SubmitFinder is best known as a directory of verified music contacts, but it is also a free marketplace where your song can sit in front of the same curators, bloggers and fans who browse the platform every day. The Share Your Music marketplace turns a single Spotify link into a public song page with cover art, genre tags, a playable Spotify embed, like and play counters, and a direct link back to your artist profile. It is free to submit, free to appear, and free to stay. This guide explains how to use it as a real part of your release promotion.
What the marketplace actually is
The marketplace is a public gallery of artist-submitted songs inside SubmitFinder. Any artist can paste a Spotify link, confirm the metadata, choose a genre, and submit the track for review. Once approved, the song appears on the Discover Music page, on the homepage, and on its own individual URL that Google can index. Visitors can play the song, like it, and click straight through to Spotify. It is passive promotion: your track keeps working while you focus on other outreach.
How to submit your song
Click Share Your Music in the top bar, paste the Spotify URL for the track you want to promote, and SubmitFinder reads the official title, artist name, album and cover art straight from Spotify. Confirm the details, pick the genre that best matches the song, and add a short artist description and a short song description. Keep both honest and specific. Submit, and the track goes into a quick manual review. Most submissions are approved within a day.
Why every submission gets its own page
Approved songs do not just live in a list. Each one gets a dedicated, SEO-friendly page with a unique URL, proper meta tags, and MusicRecording structured data so search engines understand that the page is about a song. That page links back to your artist profile on SubmitFinder, which lists every track you have submitted. Over time this builds a small, searchable footprint for your music that can surface when people search your artist name, song title or genre.
How likes and plays help you rank
Every song shows a like count and a play count. Likes come from signed-in visitors, one per person per song, and plays are estimated from real engagement patterns. The Popular and Hot This Week sections sort by these signals, so songs that genuinely connect with visitors climb higher and get seen by more people. The growth is gradual and natural, not a sudden spike, which means the ranking rewards songs that keep earning attention rather than songs that game the system.
Combine the marketplace with a campaign
The marketplace brings listeners to you; a Launch Campaign puts your song directly in front of curators. Use both. Submit your song to the marketplace first so curious curators who click your campaign email can land on a polished SubmitFinder page with your artwork and a play button. Then start a campaign with the same Spotify link and SubmitFinder matches your release to relevant blogs, radio stations, podcasts, magazines and Spotify playlist contacts, drafts the pitch, and opens it in your Gmail to send.
Tips for getting approved quickly
Use a live Spotify link for a track that is already released. Make sure the cover art loads correctly, because that is what visitors see first. Pick the genre a listener would use to find your song, not a broader one just because it sounds more impressive. Keep your descriptions short: one or two sentences about who you are, and one or two sentences about what the track sounds like. Submissions are rejected mostly for broken links, tracks not yet on Spotify, or genres that do not match the song.
How this grows real streams
Every play on your marketplace card is a real listener on Spotify, and every click through to Spotify is a potential save, follow or algorithmic signal. The listeners who find you on SubmitFinder are already looking for new music, which makes them far more valuable than random traffic. A steady stream of genuine plays from people who chose to listen helps Spotify's algorithm understand that your track engages listeners, which feeds Discover Weekly, Release Radar and autoplay placements.
Share your song page everywhere
Once your song is live, treat its SubmitFinder URL like any other promo link. Post it on your socials, drop it in your bio, include it in your newsletter, and mention it when you pitch curators. The page is designed to load fast, look good on mobile, and convert a curious listener into a Spotify play. The more places your page is linked, the more signals it sends to search engines and the more chances it has to be discovered.
Start now
The SubmitFinder Marketplace is free, takes two minutes to use, and gives every submitted song a permanent public home on the platform. Click Share Your Music, paste your Spotify link, and submit. Once approved your track joins the marketplace, earns its own page, and starts working for you while you get on with the next release.