For curators
Want to be rewarded for your passion?
We’ve been there ourselves and know exactly how hard it can be to run a successful blog, station, playlist or influencer channel. So we built a music curation platform that seriously streamlines your workflow and radically reduces your admin time, while rewarding you fairly for all your hard work promoting grassroots music.
Become a Musosoup curator
Access the best new music
Musosoup is free to use for curators. Signing up is quick and easy, giving you instant access to the very latest pre-approved high-quality music and ready to rapidly make offers to artists who match your vibe.
Build genuine relationships
Artists' campaigns run for three weeks, giving you plenty of time to save, decline or make an offer on a release. Saving a release lets you make direct contact with the artist, even after their campaign has ended.
Earn money from your work
We've worked hard to create a platform that allows curators to be paid fairly – without compromising integrity or supporting payola – for the many hours of hard work spent promoting grassroots music.
Overloaded with emails and submission deadlines? Struggling to keep track of who you’ve contacted and what jobs need completing? Need more oversight on your acceptance rates and earnings? Sounds like Musosoup is the music curation platform for you…
Musosoup lets you free up your inbox by moving all your submissions on to our music-first platform, thus streamlining your workflow and saving you hours of admin. Our platform has been designed to let you review new music and make offers quickly and efficiently, giving you more time to do what you love – and be rewarded for doing it.
Say goodbye to your inbox
Overloaded with emails and submission deadlines? Struggling to keep track of who you’ve contacted and what jobs need completing? Need more oversight on your acceptance rates and earnings? Sounds like Musosoup’s the music curation platform for you…
Musosoup lets you free up your inbox by moving all your submissions onto our music-first platform, streamlining your workflow, and saving you countless hours of admin. Our platform has been designed to let you review new music and make offers quickly and efficiently, giving you more time to do what you love – and be rewarded for doing it.
Say goodbye to your inbox
A sustainable approach to music journalism
With Musosoup, curators can often request contributions towards their time spent creating promotional content for a release – and for the cost of marketing, which also has a direct benefit to the artist. Our model helps make grassroots music journalism sustainable, which helps to make the creation of new music sustainable too.
However, where a contribution is requested, curators must also offer a free alternative (a playlist slot or a mention on social media, for example, as opposed to a lengthy written article) because we firmly believe that if a curator loves a track, they'll genuinely want to share it on its own merit.
We work directly with independent Spotify curators, supportive music-blog owners, and individuals who welcome music submissions from artists. If that sounds like you, let’s work together – because it’s important that we expand our network of like-minded creatives who also want to support independent songwriters, musicians and artists.
Introducing the Musosoup Marketplace
To complement our unique Offers system, artists can now apply for promotions from curators in the Marketplace. It’s quick and easy to add a listing, review applications and manage workflow, so join us now, create your first Marketplace promotion, and start connecting with artists with a shared style, vibe and vision.
Curators’ FAQs
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Yes, it’s free for curators to set up a Musosoup profile and use our platform.
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Yes. There are two ways you can make money via Musosoup. The first is from artist contributions towards the cost of creating content and promoting it. The second is through our referral scheme, which pays you for each artist who signs up to Musosoup using your unique referral link.
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Curators may request marketing contributions from artists, which help to cover the cost of promoting the content created using social media ads.
Curators are only allowed to retain a maximum of 20% of this to cover their ad management time and asset creation.
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Absolutely. It’s completely up to you whether you add an additional cost offer to artists. There are plenty of curators who provide free coverage on our platform.
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We understand how busy it can get as a curator, so all tracks submitted via Musosoup will stay on the platform for three weeks from their date of release. However, you do have the option of saving tracks, which keeps them available after an artist’s three-week campaign has ended.
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It’s important to note that there are strict rules about what can be offered in exchange for a contribution and what must always be offered for free.
Radio plays, playlist spots and copy-and-pasted written coverage DO NOT QUALIFY and must always be offered for free.
Only high-quality, original, bespoke coverage is allowed via Musosoup. Beyond coverage promoting an artist’s submission, this could also include graphic design, video editing, translations, social sharing bundles/stories, and influencer sharing.
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Yes. Every offer made on our platform is reviewed and approved by Musosoup to maintain quality, value and fairness.
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Yes. We review all final content to make sure curators have held up their end of the deal and provided genuine value to the artist.
Any funds due to the curator are not released until the content submitted has been approved by Musosoup.
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The Marketplace flips our core Offers system, which lets you view artists’ submissions before choosing who to work with. The Marketplace lets you post specific promotions that artists can request directly. You can accept or decline requests and easily manage your workflow on our platform. Listing a promotion on the Marketplace is a great way for new curators to get started on Musosoup.
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In recent years, a number of music submission platforms have been established, on which the artists pays for a “guaranteed listen” and “feedback”. These platforms have made big steps in making curation more sustainable, but still have a long way to go in also being fair for the artist. The system has been abused by curators churning out stock feedback in order to receive their fee.
There’s also no vetting process when artists submit to these platforms, so a lot of artists are submitting music that isn’t ready, and most likely submitting to the wrong curators too.
With Musosoup, all artists’ submissions are quality-checked, and curators approach artists they like and want to promote, providing a considerably better service all round.
