Songs

Overview

Songs are under Music → Songs. Most are made from a release's Track List, but you can add one there too. Each song is a page on your site. On wider screens, its details sit on the left: "Song" and its length, the title, your artist name, the releases it's on, listen buttons, the player and the credits. Its lyrics and the story you write sit on the right, and the details stay in view as visitors scroll through long lyrics. A video goes under both. On smaller screens, everything stacks in one column. To swap the two sides, or keep every song page in one column, change Song page layout under Music → Settings.

A song can be on several releases, like a single that's later on the album. It's one song with one page, listed under each of them, so its lyrics and links only need adding once.

Lyrics

A new song starts with a Lyrics block and a paragraph for the story. Click the lyrics on the page (or Add lyrics, or Edit lyrics) to edit them in a large writing box. Leave a blank line between verses: each verse becomes a paragraph, and line breaks show as you type them. Select Done to see them as visitors will. They save when you update the song.

• Show lyrics: on by default. Turn it off for songs you can't publish the words of, like covers. The lyrics then don't show anywhere: not on the song page, the release's track list, the Lyrics block or to search engines. Only publish lyrics to songs you wrote or have the rights to.
• Lyrics credit: a line under the lyrics, like "© 2024 Your Name".

You can also write lyrics from the release: in its Track List, open a song's row. Lyrics typed there save to the song straight away.

On a release page, a song with lyrics opens in the track list to show them, unless that's turned off under Settings. The song's own page always shows them.

The Lyrics column in the Songs list shows which songs still need lyrics.

Songs without the Lyrics block

Songs made before this, or imported, have no Lyrics block. Their page shows the lyrics in the same place, and the sidebar has a Lyrics panel showing the first few lines. Select Add lyrics (or Edit lyrics) to open a large writing box, then Done, and save the song. Show lyrics and Lyrics credit are in the panel too.

Edit lyrics on the page adds the Lyrics block at the top of the song, so you can edit them there instead. Nothing changes on the site until you update the song.

Song details

In the sidebar's Song details panel:

• Length: minutes and seconds, like 3:42. It shows in track lists and adds up to the release's running time. You can also change it in the release's Track List.
• ISRC: the recording's 12-character code from your distributor, like USRC17607839. Visitors don't see it; it helps search engines match the song to the same recording on streaming services. A code in the wrong shape isn't saved.
• Credits: one per line, like Written by: Jane Doe or Guitar: Sam Lee. They show in a "Credits" list on the song page. Lines that start with "Written by", "Lyrics by" or "Music by" also tell search engines who wrote the song.

Listen links

The sidebar's Listen links panel: links to this song on each service (the song itself, not the album). Select Add a link and paste the address; the service's name appears above it. Leave them empty and the song page uses its newest release's listen links.

Player & video

The sidebar's Player & video panel has the same Player and Video settings as a release. With no player of its own, the song page plays its newest release's. The video is the song's own, like its music video.

Appears on

The sidebar's Appears on panel lists the releases this song is on, with its track number on each and whether that release is still a draft. To add a song to a release, open the release and add it in its Track List. On the song's page, the published ones show under "From".

Drafts and publishing

Songs added from a release stay drafts until the release is published, then publish with it. A draft song doesn't show on a published release.

Thin songs stay out of search

A song with no lyrics showing, no credits and no story has nothing of its own yet, so search engines are asked to skip its page and it's left out of your sitemap. Its title in track lists isn't a link. Once it has lyrics, credits or a few words in the page, it's linked and listed again on its own. See Search engines.