DistroKid Lyrics Publish Loop
Add your formatted lyrics onto DistroKid per track to unlock lyric display across streaming services.
Artists with a released DistroKid album who want lyrics showing on Apple Music, YouTube, Amazon, Deezer, and Shazam.
Lyrics on DistroKid are a post-release follow-up: once your album is delivered to stores, you can attach plain lyrics per track, and they light up across Apple Music, Google, YouTube, Amazon, Deezer, and Shazam — free on the Basic tier. This loop drives that flow track by track.
It assumes your lyrics are already DistroKid-clean (from the formatting loop). Its only job is to get each track's text into DistroKid's per-track lyrics page and verify it landed right.
Skills & actions it uses
The concrete, reusable skills this loop calls to actually do the work.
distrokid-upload-albumDrives DistroKid's per-track plain-lyrics page: opens it, pastes the text, selects the free tier, submits, and verifies.
The loop
- 1
Confirm the album is released
Lyrics are post-release — the album must show as successfully processed and delivered to stores before you can add them.
- 2
Open each track's plain-lyrics page
For each track, open its '+ Plain lyrics' page (track numbers start at 1).
- 3
Paste the formatted lyrics
Drop the DistroKid-ready text for that track into the 'Put lyrics here…' box.
- 4
Choose the free Basic tier
Select Basic (free) for standard lyric display. Never submit the paid synced-lyrics tier without explicit go-ahead.
- 5
Submit and verify the first track
Submit, then reopen the first track's page to confirm no section markers, every line capitalized, and no trailing punctuation — then batch the rest.
Then run it again for the next song, chapter, or track.
You end with
- Lyrics live per track on Apple Music, YouTube, Amazon, Deezer, and Shazam
- A verified first track confirming the format displays correctly
How it connects
Requires
Run these loops first — this one builds on what they produce.
Pairs with
Commonly run just before or after this one in the pipeline.