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10 Tips to own and control your Spotify for Artists profile

By Padmanabhan NS

Have you ever felt overwhelmed by the question how your new music should be discovered by new audience? How to leverage so many tools available on your Spotify profile to put the best version of yourself out there, both visually and verbally!


In today’s time and age, your listeners just don’t want to listen to your music, also want to know who they are talking to behind the music. So the way you come across on Spotify has to be unique, creative and distinct.


We have NS Padmanabhan, Head of Artist and Label Partnerships, an artist turned music executive himself, share the top ten tips to control your Artist profile. This is going to be an interactive workshop. Feel free to bring in your relevant questions, your experiences and doubts. Once you register for the session, there’s an Ask a question section where you can drop in your questions, that’ll certainly be addressed in the session.


Artist Showcase: We also take this opportunity to present a showcase of Spotify artists to the livdemy audience worldwide. Please send us the video of an original song of yours, preferably released (upto a minute, in landscape format, minimum 720P resolution), with the artist and the song details. Please send a link to the downloadable file to contact@livdemy.com and the top 10 entries (picked by our artist panel) will be included in the showcase.


This session is FREE to attend from anywhere in the world, and also will be live webcast on Livdemy's YouTube and Facebook channels. However, attending on LivDemy gives you chance to interact with the presenter and participants.

Medium

English, Hindi

Difficulty

intermediate

Duration

90 Minutes

Recording

Available

Submitted questions

Questions can be submitted by the attendees of the session till 1 hour before the session starts. The host goes through them and discusses the relevant one in depth during the session.

About the Artist

Padmanabhan NS

Padmanabhan (Paddy) heads Spotify’s Artist and Label Marketing for India. Prior to Spotify, Paddy was the National Music Head for India’s leading FM Radio Channel - Radio City. Paddy started his career as a software engineer, and after a decade, his love for music made him cross over to the music business. He has over 25 years of experience as the A&R and Digital Head with various music labels, including Times Music, EMI Music, and Universal Music, where he was responsible for discovering some of India’s biggest independent artists such as Swarathma, Advaita, and Grammy Winner Ricky Kej, among others. Paddy is also a guitarist and has played with some leading Indian acts like Shankar Ehsaan Loy, Rahul Vaidya and Abhijeet Sawant, and on weekends, you may find him jamming with his Classic Rock covers band One Night Stand, or his Hindi setup called Trishna Unplugged.

Classes by the Artist

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