You found your voice, now find your audience.
Get access to Next Pro’s algorithm that puts your music in the headphones of the listeners most likely to love it when your tracks drop.
The “0 plays” problem, solved.
While other platforms’ algorithms require existing plays to recommend a track, your music can start reaching its audience as soon as you hit “upload.”
The best playlists to showcase your tracks.
When you upload your next track, opt-in to our algorithm as a Next Pro subscriber to have your track analyzed, recommended, and potentially featured on Buzzing.
The full SoundCloud experience.
• Unlimited uploads to back up your entire discography
• Advanced insights to know your fans, and connect with them directly
• Premium features that help get your music heard
Better yet, Next Pro artists get on average 400% more listens.
The problem with most music algorithms.
Our algorithm is included in your Next Pro subscription, along with monetization on SoundCloud, advanced insights, unlimited uploads, and some of the best creator tools available.
How to get heard.
1. Upload a public track (< 10 mins)
2. Click "Enable" to opt in
3. We analyze the track
4. We match it with likely listeners
5. We recommend it to ~100 of them
This increases your chances of reaching new fans and provides invaluable feedback about your work.
Join millions of artists who use SoundCloud to get heard
"All that stuff... you don't get that on other platforms." - Shaboozey
"SoundCloud has played the biggest role in my career." - Odetari
"SoundCloud was a place where I could just upload my music." - Hit Boy
FAQ
Our updated algorithm is currently only available for music tracks which are under 10 minutes, set to “public”, and uploaded by Next Pro subscribers. Only 30 tracks per subscriber will be eligible per day.
This update was designed to give your music the best chance possible. We start by recommending your tracks to around 100 people with listener profiles that align with your sound. Note that while we can recommend your track to people, we can’t force them to listen all the way through. So this does not mean every track is guaranteed 100 listens.
We’re not showing tracks to random accounts - we’re matching them up to listeners who are likely to love them based on their use of autoplay, user activity, and listening history. This naturally weeds out bots, which typically don’t have this type of data available. Creators are limited to a total of 30 uploads for recommendation per day.
Our autoplay algorithm helps connect fans with similar taste based on indicators from their user activity and listening history. So, for example, if a user is a huge fan of digicore, your digicore tracks could show up in their autoplay.
If you don’t want your track to be discoverable, you can always upload a private link and share directly with fans and collaborators. Publicly uploaded tracks have always been and will continue to be eligible for inclusion in SoundCloud’s autoplay and recommendation algorithms.
Publicly available tracks on SoundCloud are available to everyone, and can be seen by anyone. This change just means that your track will be suggested to more listeners (and more potential fans!) through autoplay.
Making sure that autoplay remains a fun and valuable way to discover new music will always be a top priority. As we test this initiative we will be making adjustments based on listener behavior to make sure we’re recommending the right tracks to listeners they will resonate with.
Our recommendations are tailored to your listening behavior and can help surface tracks you might be interested in. If you don’t want to listen to autoplay recommendations, you can always hit the skip button, queue up songs, create a playlist, or actively choose what tracks to listen to.
