Release your track
Streaming services don't take uploads from artists directly — every song reaches them through a distributor. Rapper gives you the finished file; the distributor puts it in the stores. Here's the whole path.
1. Export the track
Open the track in your library, tap Export, and save the file. You get an MP3 named after you and the track, with the title, artist name, year and cover art already written into it — that's what a distributor's uploader reads.
Set your artist name first in Settings → Artist name. It's the name the file is credited to, and the name you'd release under.
2. Know what you're sending
Straight talk about the audio: Rapper's tracks come out of the generator as MP3 at about 160 kbps, 48 kHz stereo. Distributors accept MP3 between 128 and 320 kbps, so it will go through — but streaming services prefer an uncompressed master (WAV or FLAC), and 160 kbps is at the low end of what's allowed. It's fine for getting your name up and sharing a link. If you're chasing a serious release, treat the export as a demo and re-record or master the track properly first.
3. Pick a distributor
Any of them will do the job. What differs is the price and how they pay you.
- DistroKid — flat yearly fee, unlimited songs, you keep the royalties. The usual first choice.
- Too Lost or Amuse — free or cheap tiers, worth a look if you're releasing once.
- CD Baby — pay per release rather than per year.
They all deliver to Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal, Deezer, Amazon Music, YouTube Music and TikTok in one submission.
4. Declare that it's AI
Say so in the upload form. Distributors now carry an AI disclosure field (Spotify reads it as AI credits), and you tick which parts were AI-made — for a Rapper track that's the lyrics, the vocals and the instrumental. Declaring is not a penalty: Spotify allows AI music and pays it like any other track. Hiding it is what gets releases pulled.
5. Rules worth knowing before you submit
- Don't imitate real artists. A voice or a name that's recognisably someone else's gets the release removed, and can cost you the account.
- Release deliberately, not in bulk. Streaming services filter mass uploads of raw generator output as spam. A few tracks you actually stand behind beat fifty you don't.
- Money is slow. Spotify only pays a track once it passes 1,000 streams in a year, so treat the first releases as putting your name up rather than as income.
- Pick an artist name nobody's using — check it in Spotify search first, or your songs land on a stranger's profile.
6. What happens after you submit
Distributors take a few days to deliver; stores take another day or two to show the track. Ask for a release date at least a week ahead — that's what gives you a shot at playlist consideration and lets you share a pre-save link.