I'm trying to create new afrobeat songs and they all start with the same generic ambient beat and then they build layers on top of it. How can I get it to start without it? I've tried with [] instructions, with style instructions, nothin I used worked. Any idea what am I missing?

Hi, anyone else having positive experience from posting shorts on YouTube? I have had one channel for two months now. I have released 2 albums so far. Unless I post shorts I'm not getting any account traction. Should I continue to work on shorts or focus on more releases instead? I have a few hours of real life content from traveling (hotel shows), using the grill, natures life and I was wondering if I can post it while adding my own tunes to it. The question is do I do that on the music channel or post on another one and reference the music one? Should I post it at all? Off topic: Anyone had positive experience from v6 so far?

Hi everyone. I need your advice what to do next with unpublished album. (TLDR 25 days have passed since publishing and there is no YouTube distribution yet, opened and replied to a Distrokid ticket without progress): Backstory: I posted my debut album with 10 songs on August 3rd, it was distributed on all platforms fast except for YouTube. 10 days in I opened a ticket, and on the 20th I replied to the email asking if I need to do something and/or advice as the instructions were: "(16:18:31) DistroBot: If your release is still missing after a few days, just reply to that email and we'll take another look. We'll also reach out there if we need anything else." I haven't gotten a reply from them yet and it's been almost a month since submission. Meanwhile since I bought the plan with up to 5 artists I posted a single with another artist - it was posted on YouTube music without delay, last week I posted another one. What I did differently: - When marking the content I selected the music is AI and it is a persona but I didn't mark the lyrics are AI (I did with the first album). - I posted with schedule - i didn't submit right away, i chose 1-2 days in the future for the release date. - I posted a singles. - My YouTube was only created and added profile image while for the first artist I have already posted videos and some shorts with a few of the songs in the album (3 to be exact) - was that a mistake since I marked "songs haven't been released yet. I will continue to post singles on the second artist for now while working on third one but I need your advice on what do to with the first artist: Should I continue to post albums on weekly / biweekly basis regardless if the first album pops on YouTube on my first artist? Should I delete and resubmit? Should I give up on the debut album for YouTube music and just post them through YouTube studio? Any other suggestions? Thanks in advance!

SOOO... day 14: im not following the mass album strategy at this first channel that i made. that will work for niches i guess but this being my main (my soul project) channel i decided i just wanna post pure content i really loved producing and i actually vibe to. i do post nearly daily singles. so almost daily or every 2 days a new song comes out. i try bulking them a bit to distro upfrunt so streaming is available first so any traffic generated is actually presented in streams. so far the stats aint lying: 14 days from first video 4444 subs xD 40k views , 250 hours of watchtime official artist channel claimed official artist tiktok claimed focussing on shorts ive noticed is very important so far. thats my next mission. getting the tiktok crowd engaged. so we start filling the actual streams on spotify etc. to be continued =)

Anyone else having issues with claiming youtube, spotify artist profiles? The artists have been up for a good 2-3 weeks now and yet still nothing