Preparation 25 Weeks Before

• [ ] Musician/Producer Unions (Canada) https://cfmusicians.afm.org (USA) https://www.afm.org
• [ ] Claim and optimize all artist accounts (Amazon, Spotify, Apple, & Pandora)
• [ ] Write a business plan and marketing communication plan
• [ ] Artist Funding in Canada
• [ ] Make Music…
• [ ] Finalize mixes with versions that have titles structured like this; “ 102BPM-Artist Name- Song Name-Key Note-Version ‘Acapella, Instrumental, etc.’ on everything listed below. And last, you put the Key Note (Emaj) This is for all submissions to DJs and backend purposes. Do the same when you get the Masters Back and have the mastering engineer put that as your metadata.
• [ ] Register with; ISIN, DOI, ISAN, ISBN, ISRC, ISSN, UPC, and ISWC (normally, the ISWC comes with the PRO registration, though.) FOR EACH VERSION!
• [ ] Live Mixes
• [ ] Instrumentals
• [ ] Acapella’s
• [ ] Radio Edit
• [ ] Lyric’s Sheets
• [ ] Design cover art (3000x3000 resolution, JPEG or PNG)
• [ ] Songwriter credits / Split sheets
• [ ] FINALIZE METADATA. HERE
• [ ] Add lyrics to Genius.
• [ ] Add lyrics to MusixMatch.