What genre
is your music?
You know roughly what you make. But Spotify editors, playlist curators, sync supervisors, and your distributor all need the exact tag. Drop your track. Get the answer in 60 seconds.
Every place you promote your music asks for a genre tag. Here's what's at stake in each one.
This isn't metadata housekeeping. Wrong genre at any of these points costs you real placements, real credits, and real money.
Editorial pitch form
Genre is a required field. Editors filter their submission queue by genre. Your track never surfaces to the right editor if the tag is off.
DistroKid, TuneCore, Ditto...
The genre you enter at upload is baked into your release metadata permanently. It shapes algorithmic recommendations from the moment your track goes live.
Curator submissions
You filter the curator list by genre before you even start spending credits. Pick the wrong genre and you're browsing the wrong pool entirely.
Playlist pitching
Same as SubmitHub. Genre determines which curators you see. The right curators for your sound are invisible to you if your genre is wrong.
Curator matching
Playlist Push matches your track to curators by genre. A mismatch means their algorithm routes your track to curators whose listeners won't connect with it.
Platform targeting
UnHurd uses genre to surface your track to the right listeners across platforms. Wrong genre = wrong audience targeting from day one.
Music supervisors & briefs
Music supervisors search their libraries by genre when matching briefs. If your metadata doesn't match the brief's genre query, your track is invisible regardless of how well it fits the scene.
YouTube playlist pitching
Independent YouTube curators and YouTube Music's own algorithm both rely on genre tags for categorization and recommendation. Wrong genre breaks discoverability.
Editorial consideration
Apple Music editorial teams receive genre metadata from your distributor. Incorrect genre means your track goes to the wrong regional and genre-specific editorial team.
ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini...
AI pitch generators need the exact genre taxonomy to write credible, curator-specific copy. Give them "electronic" instead of "Progressive Trance" and the output reads generic.
Blogs, journalists, promo companies
Every blog, sync promo, and label submission you send defines your sound in writing. Vague or incorrect genre signals inexperience to the people deciding whether to respond.
Browse & explore discovery
Bandcamp's discovery engine routes listeners to music by genre. Independent curators who browse Bandcamp for new additions to their playlists search by genre tag first.
TikTok & Instagram targeting
Genre community hashtags and niche targeting on TikTok and Instagram connect you to the right listeners. Wrong genre means you're shouting into the wrong room.
Unsolicited submissions
A&R teams use genre tags to filter demo submissions when actively looking to sign in a specific genre. Incorrect tags mean your track doesn't surface when they're looking for exactly what you make.
Editors search their queue. They don't listen through it.
Spotify editors receive thousands of pitches a week. They don't hit play on each one. They query their submission database by genre, mood, and release window. If your genre tag is wrong, your track never appears quality irrelevant.
The same is true for every sync brief, every SubmitHub curator filter, and every algorithmic recommendation engine. Genre is the primary key. Get it wrong and everything downstream fails silently.
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Not the filename. Not what you tell it. Our model analyzes your track's sonic signature against a 100M+ song comparison database and matches it to the full 700+ genre taxonomy the same one Spotify, distributors, and sync libraries use.
Get your exact tags. Use them everywhere.
Primary genre, subgenres, and advanced classifications. Copy them directly into your Spotify pitch form, distributor upload, SubmitHub filter, EPK anywhere that asks what genre your music is.
What you actually get.
Real outputs. These are the tags you'd copy into your pitch or upload form.
Progressive Trance
Horrorcore
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Genre tags are the foundation. Here's where they go next.
Spotify Editorial Pitch
AI-written pitch using your exact genre tags, sonic analysis, and 7 pitch frameworks. Everything Spotify for Artists needs, ready to copy.
$9.99Smart Playlist Finder
Match your genre against 44k+ real curators on Groovr, SubmitHub, and UnHurd. Dead playlists and ghost curators filtered out.
$9.99Metadata Kit
Full genre taxonomy, moods, and instruments. Feed this to ChatGPT or any AI and get credible, specific pitch copy instead of generic output.
$7.99Genre Finder
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