The creator, an independent artist, explains Tidal's Spotlight program, which pays artists $100 per day for featured songs. He shares his initial skepticism, provides proof of payment via a Cash App screenshot, and breaks down the step-by-step process for submission, contrasting the high payout with typical low streaming royalties. He concludes by sharing the personal story of how a song he almost scrapped is now paying his bills, encouraging other artists to take advantage of the opportunity.
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TIDAL is paying independent artists $100 a day per song right now. I almost didn’t believe it until I got paid.
Not enough indie musicians know about this new @tidal Spotlight program, so I made this to help spread the word.
Send this to your friends who make music, they’ll thank you.
here’s how it works:
• upload songs to TIDAL for free (no subscription)
• their editorial team listens and picks songs weekly
• if chosen, you get $100/day via @cashapp while your song’s playlisted
Transcript
Send this to every independent artist you know. Tidal's doing a campaign where they're paying artists a $100 a day for the rest of the year. It almost sounds too good to be true. Like, when I heard about it, I didn't really believe it. But today, I woke up to the proof. They launched a new program called Spotlight. You just make a free account on Tidal, and you upload your songs. They have their teams pick through those uploads to put songs on their official title playlist. Better day that your song is on their playlist, you get a $100. So for example, if my song stays on that playlist for the whole month, that's $2,800. That's best, that's groceries, that's real money. It's not no, like, little point $0.00 3 per stream. Like, this is real money. I feel like a lot of people don't even know this exists, so I wanted to make this for y'all. Try it out or send it to friends to try out. Anyone can do it. You don't gotta be signed. You don't gotta be nothing. You just upload and, yeah, you cross your fingers and hope they like it. And the craziest part to me is that this song is from 2020. My better, Sonya Hashua, produced it. And to be honest, I wasn't even gonna put it out because it was a little too personal, a little too deep. That's how the spotlight program was happening, so I'm like, why not? So now the song I was about to scrap is now paying my bills. Like, it's just crazy to me that it's even a thing.
