{"id":1911,"date":"2025-08-10T10:48:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T10:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spanishpassionmusic.com\/?p=1911"},"modified":"2026-03-24T15:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T15:14:08","slug":"5-mistakes-many-artists-make-on-their-first-release-and-how-to-avoid-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spanishpassionmusic.com\/en\/5-mistakes-many-artists-make-on-their-first-release-and-how-to-avoid-them\/","title":{"rendered":"5 MISTAKES MANY ARTISTS MAKE ON THEIR FIRST RELEASE (AND HOW TO AVOID THEM)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first launch is a mixture of excitement, nerves and a lot of decisions made on the fly. It is normal to make mistakes. But it is also true that some mistakes can cost you visibility, opportunities or simply frustration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are 5 common mistakes artists make on their first release and how to avoid them with a simple and professional strategy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">1. Launching in haste (without prior planning)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Many artists finish the song and the next day they want it to be on Spotify. The problem is that there is no time to prepare a cover, pitch, content or strategy, <strong>the song gets lost among thousands of daily releases<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How to avoid it:<\/strong><br>Set a realistic date and work at least 3 weeks in advance. Your future you will thank you for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2. Not having a professional cover<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>A good song with a lame cover is like a good movie with a lame poster. The cover not only attracts, it also communicates your visual universe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How to avoid it:<\/strong><br>Invest in a good image, look for references, align it with the style of the theme, and <strong>respects the technical requirements<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">3. Tell no one<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Releasing a song without announcing it, without context, without history, is like leaving a record in the middle of the desert. No one is going to come looking for it if you don't communicate it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How to avoid it:<\/strong><br>Talk about it before, during and after. Build anticipation, share processes, tell why you wrote it. <strong>Emotional connection is key.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">4. Not taking advantage of the launch day<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The premiere comes and... they just upload a story saying \"now available\". No supporting content, no plan, no follow up. The hype is gone in 24 hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How to avoid it:<\/strong><br>Prepare specific content for the day of the premiere: a reel, a sentence, a fragment, a reaction. Mark the day in your community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">5. Measuring success by numbers alone<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>It's normal to look at the plays compulsively, but a song with few listens <strong>is not a failure<\/strong> whether it built community, positioned your aesthetic or opened doors for you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How to avoid it:<\/strong><br>Define your own goals before you launch. Sometimes the most valuable thing is not measured in plays, but in concrete steps towards your career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Conclusion<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>All artists make mistakes in their first steps. The difference is in who learns from them and who repeats them. If you launch with intention, time and strategy, <strong>your first release can be the start of something serious.<\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>El primer lanzamiento es una mezcla de emoci\u00f3n, nervios y muchas decisiones tomadas sobre la marcha. Es normal cometer errores. Pero tambi\u00e9n es cierto que algunos fallos pueden costarte visibilidad, oportunidades o simplemente frustraci\u00f3n. Aqu\u00ed te dejamos 5 errores comunes que cometen artistas en su primer release y c\u00f3mo evitarlos con una estrategia sencilla y [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1788,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spanishpassionmusic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spanishpassionmusic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spanishpassionmusic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spanishpassionmusic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spanishpassionmusic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spanishpassionmusic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10741,"href":"https:\/\/spanishpassionmusic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1911\/revisions\/10741"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spanishpassionmusic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spanishpassionmusic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spanishpassionmusic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spanishpassionmusic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}