This blog post originally appeared on Symphonic’s Blog on Oct. 18, 2024, and was written by Randi Zimmerman.
Navigating this complex industry is hard enough as it is for independent artists, but Rise+ was designed to support you through every step of your career. With a focus on flexibility and artist empowerment, this platform helps musicians grow their presence, manage their releases, explore new opportunities for revenue and more. Now, that’s something we can get behind! If this all sounds good to you, here’s everything you need to know.
How Rise+ Can Help You Elevate Your Music Career. … Let’s dive in…
Rise+ is an artist community and education hub from the folks over at Rise designed to help independent artists grow their careers by providing access to a variety of tools and resources. Artists can benefit from services that go beyond simple music distribution, such as educational resources, community support, and personalized workshops. The best part? Most of the resources are FREE!
With a big emphasis on education, Rise+ offers various workshops that provide practical advice on marketing, audience building, and career development. With both live and pre-recorded sessions to choose from, artists can continue learning and improving their skills. Plus, Rise+ offers tools to help promote music, manage royalties, and reach broader audiences through sync licensing and fan engagement features. Overall, it empowers artists to take control of their careers by giving them the support and knowledge needed to succeed.
They offer various membership tiers where users can get access to tons of features like:
- Rise Community Membership // Users get access to their private Skool community featuring artists, team members, and industry professionals where you can join discussions, post questions, and more.
- Prioritized Playlist Submission // Your songs receive additional weekly consideration for their in-house brand of “Tout” playlists with more than 720k+ combined followers, and growing daily. Their curators will be able to see that you are a 1K memberreviewing your submission and will be reminded weekly to review the placement of the song.
- Artist Marketing Trainings // Instant access to their growing list of detailed guides for artists. I.e., “What we learned spending over $2M marketing music”.
- Pre-Recorded Video Workshops // Access to in-house videos with industry professionals and execs that focus on topics ranging from digital profile optimization to merch strategies.
There are three tiers to choose from: Free, Pro, and 1k. Anyone is welcome to join the free tier, while customers of Rise’s marketing platform (rise.la) get access to the Pro and 1K tiers depending on their monthly advertising spend. // To see which features are included with each tier, check out the website right here.