HWING Joins Forces With SubmitHub For New Radar Category

Nope. Standard credits are completely free.

Credits are used to send your song to a blog. There are two types: standard and premium.

When you use a Premium credit, your submission filters to the top of that blog’s dashboard. The blog you send to then has to: 1) respond within 48 hours; 2) listen to at least 20 seconds; 3) approve the song, or provide a minimum of 10 words explaining why it wasn’t a good fit. If they don’t satisfy these requirements, you get your credit back to be used again.

With standard credits, there are no such requirements: a blog can choose to provide feedback if they wish, but may instead make a quick decision and move onto the next song.

Premium credits start at $1 and get cheaper as you buy more in bulk. Each credit will allow you to send a song to one blog. With ten credits, for example, you can send your song to 10 blogs in one easy submission.

Right now the tiers include: $40 for 50 credits, $25 for 30 credits, $9 for 10, and $5 for 5.

The majority of money from premium purchases goes to the blogs. The rest goes toward transaction fees, hosting fees, and salaries.

There are two possible explanations: 1) your settings for the upload on SoundCloud have “app streaming” disabled; 2) a major label or distributor has blocked SubmitHub from streaming your song. If it’s the latter, your options are to use a different source (eg, YouTube), or email SoundCloud to get them to “whitelist” the track.

Here’s some more context on that second possibility: SoundCloud recently introduced something called “SoundCloud Go!” This launch was driven in large part by major labels looking to monetize their content on their platform (which is a logical step, and totally fair).

Sometimes, in an effort to monetize this content, these labels (particularly Universal Music Group and Sony) have blocked 3rd party websites such as SubmitHub from using SoundCloud’s API. More often than not, and for the sake of making their lives easy, they opt to block the entire account, and not just specific songs. So, even though your new song may have no affiliation with a major label, if an older track on your account did, it may mean *everything* is blocked.

In order to unblock your song, you’ll need to email SoundCloud (contentsupport@soundcloud.com) and ask them to “whitelist” SubmitHub for your account. Otherwise, feel free to upload using YouTube.

Yes. There’s some fancy code in place to make sure that the same feedback isn’t provided repeatedly. Copy/pasting is thoroughly frowned upon, and if you think someone is somehow doing that, please let Jason know.

If a blogger decides to share your song, an email chain will be opened up between you and them, at which point you can discuss timing and answer any questions.

Make sure you double check the original approval email to see if the blogger shared their expected timing. If you haven’t heard back and that time has elapsed, try follow-up with them. If that still fails, email Jason and he’ll try help you out.

Try using the password reset option in the login box at the top right. If that doesn’t work, perhaps you connected with Google, SoundCloud or Facebook?

Are you sure you’re logged in with the right account? Do you see transaction history under your account?

Private SoundCloud and unlisted YouTube submissions are more than welcome. When uploading your song, you’ll have an option to indicate the release date for your song, which will be displayed to the bloggers so that they know not to share it yet.

Right now, SubmitHub doesn’t support multi-song submissions. However, we recommend that you start by submitting the strongest single off your release. If a blog likes that song, an email chain will open up between you and them. This will be the perfect opportunity to share your full release 🙂

I’m afraid not. SubmitHub’s mission is to connect blogs with people who want to get their music heard. We make the process transparent, and work to improve the chances that you’ll actually hear back after sending your music out. That said, we cannot force a blog to share your submission. That’s entirely up to them 🙂

Short answer: it’s filtering out the blogs that don’t accept your type of submission.

Using a standard credit? It’s only showing the blogs that accept that type. Using premium? Then it filters the blogs that accept premium credits. Sharing a hip-hop track? It’ll show you blogs that accept hip-hop. Uploading via SoundCloud? You get the point…

Not to worry! You can simply open up the duplicate campaign and hit the “trashcan” button to cancel the submission and get your credits back.

Open up the campaign detail or the song detail and scroll down to the bottom. You should see a header that says “About this song” with “Edit” next to it. Clicking that button should get you sorted.

The charts automatically hide all premieres and unreleased submissions. There’s also a manual override in the campaign detail view for every song. Want yours off the list? Simply visit to your campaign and toggle the “hide from charts” button.