Paste your Spotify link. Your release page and press kit are ready in two minutes. Free to start. Stage turns listeners from every streaming platform into a fan list you own and shows where your fans come from. Built for independent artists, managers and agencies. Real data, no vanity metrics.
Free tier with no time limit. Pro is $9.99/month, the founder price for everyone who joins before December 1 (then $19.99), and your price never goes up while you stay subscribed. See pricing · Field Notes blog · Help · Contact
Stage is a marketing team that works only for you: the jobs a label's marketing team does (release pages, press kit, press pitches, fan email, ads and a daily plan), done for one independent artist and built on their real numbers. It helps artists, their managers, and agencies own their audience. It turns listeners from every streaming platform into a fan list you own, and combines multi-platform streaming analytics refreshed daily, HANI (an AI music growth agent), and a full suite of growth tools in one dashboard. Artists and managers use Stage to see where their fans actually come from, track performance across platforms, plan releases, pitch playlists, build press kits, capture and email fans, and run data-driven campaigns, all from one dashboard.
No. Stage does not distribute music and never takes a cut of your royalties. Keep your distributor, whether that is DistroKid, TuneCore, Too Lost, or anyone else. Stage picks up where distribution ends: it turns the listeners your releases create into a fan list you own, with smart links, fan email capture, a press kit, playlist fit analysis, and an AI growth manager working from your real streaming numbers.
HANI is Stage's built-in AI assistant trained on music industry data. It reads your real monthly listeners, followers, top cities, catalog, Sound DNA (the energy, mood, BPM and key of your top tracks) and your Smart Link activity, then gives you personalised growth recommendations, from release timing and playlist pitch targets to fan email and audience strategy. Unlike generic AI chatbots, HANI works from your actual numbers and never invents a stat it does not have.
Yes. Stage has a free tier giving independent artists unlimited smart links with free templates (animated MOTION ones among them), fan email capture, emailing your captured fans (up to 250 sends a month), Playlist Fit, the press generator with your top press matches, the multi-platform streaming dashboard, and 15 HANI questions a month. Artist Pro ($9.99/month, the founder price for everyone who joins before December 1, then $19.99) renews your HANI allowance every single day and unlocks the full MOTION template library, full Smart Link analytics, EPK PDF export, removing the Stage brandmark from your links, the Email Agent at full scale (CSV import, 5,000 sends a month, engagement analytics), the full press and outreach database, and priority support.
Spotify for Artists shows you what happened. Stage tells you what to do next. Stage layers AI recommendations on top of your Spotify data, adds cross-platform presence tracking, playlist fit scoring, press outreach, a fan email list you own, and a full release planner. Spotify for Artists also only covers Spotify; Stage connects your streams to the Smart Link clicks and fans behind them.
Stage writes your press copy (interview answers, bios, release blurbs) in your voice, then matches you with music blogs, radio stations, premiere outlets and labels that cover your genre and are still actively publishing. Each outlet card shows how often it posts, so you pitch the ones that are alive. You send every pitch yourself from your own email, so outlets hear from you, not from a bot. Free members get their top matches; Pro unlocks the full outreach database.
Not yet in one account. A multi-artist roster and team seats are in development, shaped with our first manager partners. Today each artist runs their own Stage account, and the Manager plan adds higher limits on top of Pro. If you manage a roster, email info@groovegainer.com and tell us what you need.
Stage includes: HANI AI growth agent (persistent memory, personalised strategy), Playlist Fit Analyzer to score any track against a target playlist using real Spotify audio features, Email Agent for fan list management and release announcements, Press & Editorial generator for press content, Press Outreach matched to your genre, Smart Link Builder with click-level analytics, EPK Builder with auto-updated stats, a Booking page, and a Release Calendar.
Yes. Stage works across Spotify, Apple Music, SoundCloud, Bandcamp, YouTube, Instagram, X (Twitter), and Resident Advisor for cross-platform presence tracking. HANI's growth recommendations factor in your full platform footprint, not just one service, so your strategy reflects where your fans actually are.
The Playlist Fit Analyzer scores any track against a target playlist using real Spotify audio features: BPM, energy, danceability, valence, acousticness, and genre signature. It shows how well your music fits that playlist and where it does not, and gives you a shareable report. Playlist Fit is free on every plan.
Stage reads your public Spotify artist data (monthly listeners, followers, top cities, genres, top tracks and releases) automatically, just by pasting your artist URL. No Spotify login or password is ever required. Stage never logs into, edits, or touches your Spotify account, your releases, or any financial data.
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