Here's How To Score A Release On Trap Nation
Trap Nation is one of the biggest music-sharing communities online - and it's different from a label in certain respects.
Though with over 30 million Youtube subscribers and millions more across their other online outlets, getting your music on Trap Nation (or their subsidiaries) can take your music career to a whole new level.
The biggest benefit of getting on Trap Nation is the reputation you get.
It makes your job of getting on big labels and collapsing with big artists a million times easier.
Think of a Trap Nation release as a badge of honor that opens new opportunities!
Trap Nation is more than just a curation of no-name artists, as they were when it started back in 2013.
In 2017, they participated at SXSW and brought on San Holo, Illenium, Whethan, and many more to perform.
They also held an event within EDC where they had Troyboi, Boombox Cartel, and the famous Alan Walker.
There's no doubt that Trap Nation is not playing around with the recent acquisition by Create Music group of The Nations (Trap Nation's parent company).
The only way is up - being a Trap Nation artist is going to become increasingly desirable.
Having your music out on Trap Nation immediately puts you in the limelight and is a huge milestone in any producer's music career.
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3 Steps To Getting Your Music On Trap Nation
Luckily, there are only three steps to virtually guarantee you get on Trap Nation, and if you nail these three, you'll be going places.
Here's how to get on Trap Nation in 3 steps:
- Make amazing music that stands out
- Build your reputation by collaborating
- Submit your demo to Trap Nation with the link below.
Step #1: Make Amazing Music That Stands Out.
Before you even consider submitting any demo to Trap Nation, is your music good enough yet?
Let's go over what Trap Nation is looking for. If you don't match all these criteria yet, it's not worth submitting your demo just yet.
Step 1 is the longest and most arduous of all the steps - but it's important.
Trap Nation is looking for producers who can bring high-quality music to help push their sound further.
Electronic genres like Trap, Future Bass, Electro, and other EDM sub-genres are what they're looking for.
Make sure you listen to the last 30 Trap Nation uploads - your sound must fit within the ethos that Trap Nation is already putting out.
If your music style doesn't fit Trap Nation, don't worry!
There are many other genres Trap Nation covers under other channels.
If your sound doesn't fit with Trap Nation, you may still be able to submit to:
Make sure you A/B test your song to at least 5 recent Trap Nation releases.
Import the MP3 or WAV file of a recent Trap Nation release into your DAW and make sure your audio levels, mastering style, and dynamic range match the Trap Nation one.
Trap Nation is looking for polished, professional, and finished music.
If you can listen to your release and then Trap Nation releases back-to-back without any discernible loss or change in quality, dynamic range, or loudness, you're good to go to step 2!
Step #2: Build Your Reputation by collaborating
Now that your music is good, it's important to build up your reputation and streams.
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Even if you have the best music in the world, Trap Nation won't take you on unless you have some kind of following.
The best way you'll be able to grow your credibility, streams, and fans is through collaborations.
Yep! Multiple artists coming together to release a song (by using a free distribution platform like Boost Collective) is how you'll be able to leverage their growth and grow your rep.
This is because when you co-release a song with an artist, the song gets shared with both artists' fans!
This has proven to be incredibly powerful and of course... This method will never die!
Check out the video below where I break down how to crush over 1 million monthly listeners on Spotify!
We made a powerful guide on music collaboration to help you land big growth opportunities - this can help you advance quite easily.
Of course, you'll have easy and successful collaborations as well as face troubles occasionally. The same is true for music collaboration.
I have outlined the simple pros and cons of music collaboration - while the pros vastly outweigh the cons, it's important to be aware of them.
How you plan to get these collaborations can be determined by this.
The benefits are immense for your exposure.
Let's say you have 1,000 monthly listeners on Spotify and you collaborate with an artist that gets 100,000 monthly listeners.
When your collab comes out, your monthly streams will instantly grow 2x,5x, or even 10x because your artist's name will appear on the bigger artist's profile as well.
On top of this, it's a super smart business play to put artists together to level up the sound and bring audiences together.
So get collaborating! It'll help you to get some numbers.
After all, it becomes much easier to get on Trap Nation, or any label when you come with a fanbase!
Step #3: Submit your demo to Trap Nation here!
This is the moment of truth!
You're making good music that fits with Trap Nation's ethos.
Your music is being streamed a lot and you're collaborating with other credible artists.
Now it's time to send your demo to Trap Nation!
You can also try submitting to Trap Nation here if the first link isn't working.
Make sure you only submit finished, polished, and high-quality music.
If you skimped out on steps 1 and 2 above, submitting to Trap Nation will be a waste of time.
Never rush to submit music! The demo submission link is always available.
And remember, Trap Nation is investing in the music it puts out by giving it promotion and playlisting opportunities so you'll want to prove to their A&R team that you belong!
Here's what Trap Nation is looking for when they sign artists:
- Lots of high-quality releases
- A unique sound that fits with the Trap Nation ethos
- A unique sound that is consistent across your releases
- Your potential to go viral and collab with other Trap Nation artists
- Having a solid stream count and organic following already
- Someone who has high-quality imagery & press photos
If you can manage to tick all these boxes, you're going to have Trap Nation in the bag.
Make sure you also check out our guide on how to get signed to Lithuania HQ, as plenty of gems from that article are relevant here as well!
With all this being said, I hope that this helps you get closer to your goals!
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