Playlisting 101

Sep
5:00pm
Playlisting 101

By IndieFlow Live
Playlisting is one of the most important topics in the music industry today, but it remains elusive to many emerging artists. Learn how to get your music added to playlists and make it part of your marketing strategy in this workshop hosted by IndieFlow. We’ll be chatting with Dorian Perron, co-founder of Groover, a web platform that helps artists get their music heard by connecting them with the best media outlets, radios, record labels, curators and industry professionals seeking emerging talents. Artists can send their music directly to a selection of blogs, radios, playlist curators, record labels and pros of their choice, get feedback guaranteed, and coverage!
What We’ll Talk About:
How to create a playlisting strategy
How to use third party playlists to grow your streams
How to look out for scams
An overview of the different types of playlists
The significance of playlisting in today’s musical landscape
This conversation is hosted by Erica Deskins, known professionally as Edy Blu, an Artist Relations and Community Manager at IndieFlow. She is an accomplished singer, songwriter, performer, and educator.  As a recording artist, she has music featured in HBO, Netflix, and various commercial works in Europe.  Her captivating stage presence, soul-pop production, and catchy lyrics have garnered fans all over the world, not to mention amongst our IndieFlow community.
Our guest speaker is Dorian Perron, co-founder of Groover. On Groover, more than 1.5 million replies have been given by the 2,000+ active music music curators & pros on www.groover.co to the 100,000+ artists signed up, which led to 300,000+ shares and 600+ signatures with record labels, publishers, managers and bookers.
Before that, Dorian Perron created the indie music blog Indeflagration in 2013, the Studio Flagrant in 2015 – which hosted more than 40 live sessions with Patrick Watson, Plants & Animals, Johnny Borrell, Asgeir, Pete Yorn etc. – and organized dozens of shows in Paris.
Aged 27, Dorian Perron was laureate of the "Innovation prize" by La Nouvelle Onde, which spotlights true music innovators under 30 years old. He has been a speaker at MaMA Festival, M For Montreal, Reeperbahn, MIL, Liverpool Sound City, c/o pop etc.
Learn more here:
IndieFlow: https://indieflow.me
Groover: https://groover.co/en/
Head to Groover's website and use this discount code for 20% off a campaign: INDIEFLOWSPECIALVIP
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