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Chartmetric, Soundcharts and Songstats are music analytics platforms, and Linkfire and Feature.fm are smartlink tools. MUSIC24 puts smartlinks, pre-saves, reels, post planning and streaming data in the same account.

Promotion and analytics in one account

MUSIC24 tracks 6,400,000+ playlists, 1,250,000+ of them charts, and indexes 41,000,000+ tracks from 10 music services. The data holds 1,900,000,000+ playlist entries.

Playlist data at scale

MUSIC24 reads 14,000,000+ public and private playlists from the last 13 months, including private playlists from FreeYourMusic libraries. An opt-in panel of 32,000+ listeners adds 3,900,000+ recorded plays since May 2025.

Private playlist and listener signals

The MUSIC24 Free plan keeps 1 artist, 3 published pages and 7 days of history with no time limit. Every new account gets 7 days of the Pro plan without a card, and paid plans start at $19 per month.

A Free plan and a no-card trial

MUSIC24 runs on the same data layer as MusicAPI and FreeYourMusic, which Hernas OÜ has built since 2015.

Built on ten years of music-service work

What Makes MUSIC24 Different

Key Facts

Frequently Asked Questions

Run the next release from one place.

The Label plan includes API access. The reference is at music24.com/api-docs.

Playlist data from 10 music services. Most tracked playlists are Spotify playlists.

1 seat on Free and Artist, 3 on Pro, 10 on Manager, no limit on Label.

Create an account at music24.com/app with an email address.

Sign up

Every new account gets 7 days of the Pro plan. No card is needed.

Try Pro for 7 days

After the trial the account moves to Free, or to Artist, Pro, Manager or Label.

Stay Free or pick a plan

Email support@music24.com. Business questions to office@music24.com.

How MUSIC24 Works

MUSIC24 started in 2020 as SmartLinks, a smartlink tool inside the FreeYourMusic app, and took the MUSIC24 name in June 2024.

Hernas OÜ, a software company in Tallinn, Estonia, builds and runs MUSIC24 next to its sister products FreeYourMusic and MusicAPI.

MUSIC24 tracks 6,400,000+ playlists and indexes 41,000,000+ tracks from 10 music services.

About MUSIC24

Compare MUSIC24 with

MUSIC24 is a music marketing and analytics platform for artists, managers and labels. Founded 2020 in Tallinn. Free plan, paid from $19/month.

About MUSIC24 | Music Marketing and Analytics for Artists

Smartlinks and pre-saves

Releases

Studio

Post scheduling

Live watchlist

Competitive and market tracking

What MUSIC24 Does

The Team Behind MUSIC24

Who Uses MUSIC24

Scout rising artists and grow a roster of 15 artists or more on the Label plan.

Labels and A&R teams

Run releases for up to 10 artists with 10 team seats on the Manager plan.

Artist managers

Promote one artist on the Free plan, the $19 Artist plan or the $39 Pro plan.

Independent artists

Follow catalogue performance across 10 music services.

Distributors

Read playlist reach and daily movement before a catalogue deal.

Rights investors

Know where your fans listen.

Make your next release smarter than the last.

See what your music earns. Grow what pays.

A full release cycle, with a daily email and alerts.

Compare this release with the last one. Countries and listener data.

Streams in DE are up 41% since Friday. Your TikTok reel brought most of them.

Forests is growing in Germany

“Forests · AI reel” on TikTok has 18.4K views and 1.2K likes.

Your reel passed 10K views

“Late Night Indie” (86K followers) added Forests.

Added to a new playlist

The good news comes to you.

Your earnings by store, country and song, next to your streams and every post. See what paid, then do more of it on the next release. Start free.

See what your music earns and what grows it | MUSIC24

See what your music earns, store by store.

Playlists, charts and countries for your sound.

Posts, videos, a plan, and posting for you.

Every artist’s numbers, for the whole team.

See which post moved your streams.

Followers, views and every post on five platforms

Stop jumping between five dashboards.

Ask in your own words. Your assistant picks the right MUSIC24 tool: it reads your numbers, makes your release assets, plans the rollout, schedules the posts and builds your SmartLinks and pre-save pages. Before anything goes public, uses credits or deletes something, it shows you what will happen and waits for your yes.

What you can ask

Get a token

A few things stay in MUSIC24, where only you can do them. Your assistant can tell you where to find each one.

What stays in the app

A <code>GET</code> reads. A <code>POST</code> writes: it follows or unfollows. Add the name to <code>{trpc}/</code>, for example <code>{example}</code>.

Endpoints

MUSIC24 also serves REST routes under <code>{v1}</code>, described in <code>{openapi}</code>. They answer only to partner keys. A personal token gets <code>401 UNAUTHORIZED</code> there, so use the endpoints on this page.

The /v1 REST routes

First request

Charts

Details

Insights

Your data

Run your release from <grad>Claude or ChatGPT.</grad>

Limits and errors

Run your release from Claude or ChatGPT with the MUSIC24 MCP server: make assets, plan the rollout, schedule posts. Every plan. The API comes with Label.

API and MCP server for music marketing

Sign-in and access

The consent screen needs a MUSIC24 browser session. If you get signed out during the flow, sign in again and start the connection again.

Log in before you connect

Any client that speaks MCP over Streamable HTTP with OAuth works. It reads the two well-known endpoints, registers itself (RFC 7591), and runs the authorization-code + PKCE (S256) flow. Ask for <code>music24:read music24:write</code> to let it work for you, or for <code>music24:read</code> alone to let it only read. No scope means <code>music24:read</code>.

Set up your AI client

Your assistant gets {count} MUSIC24 tools, grouped the way the app is. A Read tool only looks. A Change tool works in your workspace. Asks first means it shows you a preview and waits for your yes.

Everything your assistant can do

How changes work

A cover that sounds like the song.

The stores want the cover to show the title and the artist name, and nothing that looks like an advert: no web address, no price, no “out now”. You can add any text here, and the tool tells you when a store can refuse it.

Good to know before you download.

Your next song needs a face. Make it now.

Cover art your song deserves. Ready in minutes.

Make cover art that the stores accept: a picture, your title and your name at 3000 × 3000 px. Free, in your browser, no design skills needed.

Free Song Artwork Maker — Cover Art in Minutes | MUSIC24

Say what you see. MUSIC24 makes AI pictures from your title, your lyrics and the mood of the song. No credits.

The free download carries a small MUSIC24 mark. A plan removes it, on your cover and on your videos.

Stories, countdowns, lyric videos and the release plan follow the look of your cover.

The cover is the start. MUSIC24 does the rest of the release.

Choose from 100 pictures made for music, or upload your own photo. A plain colour works too.

Your title and your name are placed for you. Pick one of 9 fonts and drag the words where you want them.

Grain, a neon frame or a light leak. Then download the 3000 px file for your distributor.

From a title to a finished cover.

Song artwork maker

Type your song title. The cover is already there.

Guides for independent artists: plan a release, get pre-saves, pitch playlists, post on TikTok and Instagram, and read your streams.

Music marketing blog for independent artists

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Cookies on MUSIC24

Every streaming service on one page, in the look of your release.

One link

Posts that send fans to the link in the days before release.

Countdown

Fans save your song before it is out.

No new link to share. New songs reach them by themselves.

Automatic

They stop with one click. You keep only the fans who want you.

Fair

One tap, and they get every song you release.

About pre-saves and fans.

Start your next release with fans already waiting.

Turn listeners into fans who come back.

One link for every song, pre-saves before release day and fans who get every new release. Start your next song with people already waiting. Start free.

Turn listeners into fans: pre-saves and fan list | MUSIC24

Early streams tell the stores that a song is worth showing. Fans who pre-saved play it at once.

The first days decide a lot.

Someone liked your reel. Without a link to save the song, you never see them again.

A view is not a follow.

Unless the fans of your last song hear about the next one, you build the crowd again each time.

Every release starts from zero.

Release day is too late to find your fans.

Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer and more, for each release.

Where they listen

Export

Know your fans. Keep them, wherever you go.

A picture, your title and your name, ready for your distributor in minutes.

Cover art the stores accept

Your video and your cover. Try both free, right here.

The director cuts the whole song to the beat, with your lyrics on the voice.

Play with “{title}” by {artist} in your browser.

A music video for your whole song

Before you start.

Get your music heard.

For managers and labels

Start free. Pay when your music is ready to grow.

Every new account gets {days} days of the Pro plan. No card. After {days} days you are on Free, or on the plan you pick.

See it in 85 seconds.

Get heard without a label.

More from every release and your catalogue.

Grow every artist. Show them what you did.

Built for the people who put the music out.

Earnings by month, store, country and song, in your own currency.

The money

Which post, playlist or country brought the streams.

The cause

A short email every morning when something moves.

The next step

Streams in DE are up 41% since your TikTok reel. Plan the next post there.

Fans save the song before it is out. On release day it is in their library.

Pre-saves

One tap, and a fan gets each new song you put out.

Every release

Your fan list stays with you. Export it at any time.

Yours

Turn one-time listeners into fans who come back.

Your next song deserves more than 1,000 streams.

Reels, lyric videos and countdowns that stop the scroll.

Seen

Five platforms, each post at the right time, from one plan.

Everywhere

One look on every post, so fans know it is you in one second.

Recognised

Put your song in front of people who have never heard of you.

Grow the fans who stay.

The audio, the cover and the lyrics. Out already or still unreleased, both work. In the trial and on paid plans, an unreleased song gets a pre-save page at once.

Add your song

Every post and video for six weeks, in your look, on a calendar. Change anything, or let it run.

Check the plan once

Views, new listeners, pre-saves and earnings in one place. Do more of what worked on the next release.

Watch it grow

One song in. A whole release campaign out.

Get your song heard on TikTok, Instagram and YouTube, find the playlists that fit it, keep every fan and see what your music earns. Start free.

MUSIC24 — Get your music heard and grow your fans

Playlists that added songs like yours, with their followers and growth.

Who fits

Rising artists and sounds, before they peak.

Move early

Aim right

Land on the playlists that already play songs like yours.

Every day, {tracks} new songs fight for the same ears.

One post a week for six weeks, made and posted for you.

Push this song

See which old songs still earn, by store and country.

Pick by data

Wake up the songs that already earn.

No limit

Canvas loops, motion artwork and every cover size for your distributor.

Store files

A full campaign for every release, at a fraction of the cost.

Give every release a real campaign.

More from every release. More from your catalogue.

The rest go out with a post or two, and stay under 1,000 streams.

The big release gets the budget.

Songs that earned last year earn less each month, with nobody pushing them.

The catalogue sleeps.

Distributor statements, artist accounts, social apps. Nobody sees the whole roster.

The numbers live in ten places.

Every release deserves a campaign. Most do not get one.

Give every release of your label a full campaign, push catalogue songs again and see the earnings of the whole roster in one view. Start free.

Music marketing for record labels | MUSIC24

Roles

Your numbers in your own tools, or in Claude and ChatGPT.

API and MCP

Every link on your own domain. We set it up for you.

Your domain

The roster, the earnings and the proof in one place.

Give every artist the release they deserve.

Full-song videos, every channel, {days} days of numbers.

Pro for each artist

{credits} video credits a month for each artist, in one pool that you use where it matters.

Shared credits

A full campaign for each artist, not only the loudest one.

Grow every artist you manage. Show them what you did.

Posts, videos, a link, a plan. For every artist, every time.

Each release needs a campaign.

“What did you do for my last single?” needs an answer with numbers.

Your artists want proof.

But another artist should not mean another assistant.

Growth means more artists.

Five artists. Five releases. One of you.

Give each artist you manage a full release campaign, show the results artist by artist, and take on more artists with the same team. Start free.

Music marketing for artist managers | MUSIC24

Streams, fans and posts next to each release.

For each artist

One email with what moved across your roster.

Every morning

You decide if your team sees the earnings.

Who sees the money

Walk into every artist meeting with the numbers.

Every artist, every release, one calendar.

One workspace

Up to {seats} seats. Artists can join too.

Your team

Take on more artists without hiring.

Add a song. MUSIC24 makes the release kit, the videos and the posts, plans your release and shows what brought you listeners. Start free, no card.

MUSIC24: music promotion for independent artists

Sign up free and make a video of your own song.

The demo is not available right now.

Music video editor demo

This is “{title}” by {artist}. Make it yours.

Good to know before you start.

Give your next single a video on release day.

The whole song, {duration}, every cut on the beat

A music video for your whole song, cut to the beat.

Get a music video for your whole song, cut to the beat with your lyrics on the voice. Try the editor free on a real song, in your browser, with no account.

Free Music Video Maker, Cut to the Beat | MUSIC24

Add your song. MUSIC24 finds the beat, the verses and the chorus, and cuts clips to every bar. The lyrics come in on the voice. About 30 seconds.

Swap a clip, recut a chorus, move the words, pick a look. The preview plays in your browser, so editing never costs a credit.

On Pro, make the full-song video in 1920 × 1080 for YouTube. It uses {fullSong} of your {proCredits} video credits a month.

From your master to a finished video.

Every number, side by side.

Make all the images you want. Videos use credits.

Plain answers.

Try everything for {days} days.

Pick how far your music goes.

Get every song heard: release kits, videos, posting and your numbers. Free, Artist {artist} or Pro {pro} a month. Teams from {manager}. {days} days free, no card.

MUSIC24 pricing — Start free, pay when your music grows

What a month of credits makes

Need more posts or AI credits?

The MCP server works on every plan: read your numbers and run your releases from Claude or ChatGPT.

Run your releases from your AI

The same number in both: {usd} or {eur}. Taxes depend on your country.

US dollars or euros

Cancel in Settings. Your plan runs to the end of the period you paid for. Everything you made stays yours.

Stop any time

Free, Artist and Pro work the same from the App Store and Google Play, at the same price. Team plans are bought on the web.

Bought in the app?

Every new account gets {days} days of the Pro plan, with {credits} video credits. No card. You see every asset as a preview with a watermark. After {days} days you are on Free, or on the plan you pick.

Give your next song the release it deserves.

Every release, heard by more people.

Everything your release needs. Not one weekend in an editor.

Fans who are waiting when the song comes out.

A look fans remember, on every post.

Add a song. Get the posts, the videos, a release plan and posting on TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, Threads and X. Start free.

Promote your music on TikTok, Instagram & YouTube | MUSIC24

See which post brought you new listeners.

Run every release of your roster with a small team.

One post a week for six weeks, so the song keeps growing

“Out now” on every channel, with the lyric video on YouTube

The right post on the right day. Planned for you.

Each channel gets its own time slot. No alarms, no reminders.

If a platform needs a tap from you, you get the post ready to share on your phone.

Views, likes and followers come back to MUSIC24 the next day.

Show up on every platform, without opening every app.

Your lyrics, synced to your voice. Fix any line with a tap.

The best 15 or 30 seconds of your song, over footage that fits its mood.

Videos that make people press play.

The full song for YouTube, with a waveform that moves with it.

Start with the public charts. No account needed.

Know your scene. Then release into it.

Land on the playlists that play songs like yours.

Aim your release at the countries that want it.

See the playlists that add songs like yours, the artists that rise near you and the countries where your genre grows. Aim your release there. Start free.

Get on playlists that fit your sound | MUSIC24

Followers over time, so you pick the lists that grow

Pitch the playlists that already like your sound.

Follow a playlist and get an email when it adds a song

Spot what is rising before it peaks.

LaziiBee · last 28 days

Streams in DE are up 41% since Friday. Your TikTok reel brought most of them: 18.4K views.

Forests · release plan

Playlists that add songs like Forests

Release a song you made with Suno, and get it heard.

What each streaming service and distributor allows.

The Canvas rules and a free checker for your loop.

Every step of a release, dated for your release day.

Blogs, newsletters and radio for an independent release.

Pitch Spotify editors and curators, and what never to pay for.

What your streams pay, with honest ranges.

Every cover, banner and video size, with a free checker.

Delete your account

Help us answer faster

Artists, tracks, playlists and videos as JSON

Your links on your own domain. We set it up for you

Read your numbers and run releases from Claude or ChatGPT, on every plan

Bring MUSIC24 into your own tools.

Grow every artist on your roster. With the team you have.

Give every artist on your roster a full release campaign: kits, posting, numbers and reports, with a shared team and an API. From $69 a month.

Music marketing for managers and labels | MUSIC24

Pick the size of your roster.

Show each artist what you did for them.

Stories, reels, lyric videos and countdowns for every release, in each artist’s own look.

Each artist’s TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, Threads and X, posted from one place.

Streams, followers and posts for each artist, and a daily email for the whole team.

Ten releases a month. No extra designer, no extra editor.

Only the owner pays and sees earnings, unless you switch it on for members.

Your team in one place. You decide who sees what.

One login for your own roster and the ones you help. Switch in one click.

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