A music release planner is a step-by-step guide that helps you organize and schedule your promotional efforts leading up to a single, EP, or album release.

It ensures you don’t miss important milestones like finalizing artwork, uploading your track to a distributor, pitching to playlists, or posting on social media. This tool is especially useful for independent artists who want to boost their release visibility, reach new listeners, and avoid last-minute stress.

Ideally, you should start planning at least 4–6 weeks before your release date. This gives enough time to prepare your visuals, pitch to music curators and editors, build hype on social media, and activate your fanbase with pre-save links and teaser content.

Our planner automatically calculates the perfect timeline for your campaign based on your release date.

This music release planner includes reminders to submit your song to editorial playlists on Spotify and Apple Music, and suggests when to upload your track to distributors for optimal pre-save time.

It also includes tips on using Spotify Canvas and adding lyrics via Musixmatch to maximize your track’s reach across streaming platforms.

Yes! Whether you’re releasing a single, EP, or full album, the Music Release Planner adapts to your release date and helps you build a structured campaign. The checklist can be used for any kind of release to stay organized and consistent in your promotional strategy.

Absolutely. The planner includes a key milestone for pitching your track via Groover to more than 3,000 music curators, blogs, and playlist editors.

We also offer services to help you write a compelling pitch or press release, increasing your chances of getting featured and reviewed.

Yes, once your release checklist is generated, you can export the timeline and add all key dates to your Google Calendar or other scheduling tools.

This ensures you stay on track and never miss an important promo task before your release day.

While it’s not a full substitute for a professional team, this free planner gives independent musicians a solid roadmap.

It helps structure your music marketing plan and offers affordable ways to promote your music without needing a full-time manager or hiring a costly PR agency.

Unlike basic checklists, this planner is tailored specifically for music promotion. It factors in distribution timelines, playlist submission windows, fan engagement strategies, and release-day activation.

Plus, it’s built by Groover — a platform that connects artists directly with music professionals — so we know what it takes to launch a successful release.

Yes, it’s 100% free. You can generate your custom campaign timeline instantly. For additional help, you can explore our add-on services like playlist pitching, ad campaigns, or press bio writing — all optional and available based on your budget.

Groover helps artists and their representatives (label managers, PR agents, publishers etc.) get their music heard.

Through an innovative web platform, Groover connects artists who want to promote their music with the best playlists curators, radios and labels seeking emerging talents. On Groover, artists can send their music directly to a selection of blogs, radios, playlist curators, record labels and pros of their choice, get feedback guaranteed, and coverage!

Thanks to Groover, more than 3,000 active music curators and pros have given more than 4 million pieces of feedback, 1 million+ shares (reviews, playlist adds etc.) and 1,000+ signatures on record labels.