How submitting works
Submitting a track takes a few minutes. You paste a Spotify or Apple Music link, choose a playlist that fits your genre and instrumentation, add a short personal message, and send. The curator - a real person who owns and maintains that playlist - reviews your track and accepts or declines it. Every submission's status shows up in your dashboard, so you always know where your track stands and what feedback came back.
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Paste your track link
Pull your track straight from Spotify or Apple Music - the details fill in automatically.
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Pick your target playlist
Filter the directory by genre, featured instruments, mood, and follower count to find real fits.
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Send your pitch
One credit per submission, with room for a short note that tells the curator why your track belongs.
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Get a real answer
Curators review and respond. Accepted tracks land in the playlist and in front of its listeners.
Why instrument-niche focus matters
Most pitching platforms treat all music the same. InstrumentaList is built around instrumental music - piano, neoclassical, ambient, cinematic, lofi and chillhop, acoustic guitar, jazz, orchestral, and dozens of other niches. Curators here actively want instrumental tracks in their specialty, which means your felt-piano ballad is not landing in a trap playlist or an indie-rock inbox. Fit is the single biggest factor in whether a curator says yes, and a niche platform stacks the odds in your favor before you write a single word of your pitch.
Spotify and Apple Music, side by side
InstrumentaList supports submissions to playlists on both Spotify and Apple Music. Paste either link and the platform reads your track details automatically. Curators run playlists on both platforms, and every listing shows their preferred contact method - some accept pitches directly in the platform, others prefer email, a submission form, or an Instagram message. Curators who want to receive pitches apply and get reviewed at the curator program page, so the people you're pitching have asked to be pitched.
Free to start, PRO when you're ready
New artists get free submission credits to try the platform, and those credits refresh on a regular cycle - you can pitch real playlists without paying anything. When you're ready to pitch at scale, Artist PRO unlocks One-Click Pitch, which matches your track to relevant curators and writes ready-to-send pitches for you (10 per month), plus monthly unlocks in the Curator Database of verified independent curators. A-List PRO removes the caps with unlimited pitches and full database access. Full tier details are on the Pricing page.
Before you submit
A few habits make a big difference: pitch around release week, when curators are most receptive to fresh tracks; match genre and instrumentation carefully instead of carpet-bombing; keep your message short and specific to that playlist; and don't re-pitch the same curator back to back. For deeper strategy on playlist pitching, release timing, and growing streams, browse the InstrumentaList blog.