How to Get Music on Instagram and Facebook

The reach of these platforms is phenomenal. In February 2021, Facebook had 2.80 billion monthly active users. If that number isn’t enough, 1.84 billion users visit one of its platforms — Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, or Messenger — every day. Also in February 2021, Instagram estimated to have over 1 billion users worldwide — adding 73.5 million users to its 2020 total.

Instagram and Facebook allow users to easily share photos, videos, live streams, and music with its global community. Both networks continue to dominate the social landscape, and neither look like they’re going anywhere soon.

One feature that is a must for musicians is Stories. This feature can be found on both Facebook and Instagram. Stories allows you to record short video clips that can be edited, filtered, and curated directly from your phone. They act as a short and intimate glimpse into the person behind the account. For musicians, if used correctly, this feature can massively increase your audience. It gives fans a different perspective about the person behind the music. Stories also allows you to link directly to your music on Spotify. Grow your follower numbers, and your Spotify audience is sure to follow! Keep reading to find out how to add a Spotify link to your Stories.

Adding music to your Instagram Story is a smooth and simple process, even if you’re not a digital native. You can even add music from apps like Spotify, Shazam, and SoundCloud — great news for DIY musicians and artists!

Let us walk you through the process in a few simple steps:

1. Open Instagram on your iOS or Android device.
2. You can either swipe left from your feed's home screen to open the Stories feature, or just press the plus "+" sign in the top-left corner to create a new Story.
3. Take or select a photo or video you want to post to your Story.
4. Along the top of your screen, you’ll see a menu bar. Tap the rounded square smiley face icon — it looks a bit like a Post-It with a folded corner.
5. In the pop-up, you’ll see a ‘Music’ option. Type a song in the search box or scroll through the listed options.
6. Tap on the song you want to include.
7. If you drag the small bar at the bottom of the screen, you can choose the specific segment of the song you want on your Story.
8. Now, just hit ‘Done’. You can then move the song icon or pinch to make it larger or smaller to fit your story. Then you’re ready to post your Story.

If you want to share music from Spotify, Shazam, or SoundCloud, the process is very similar. You just need to look under the ‘Share’ options on your preferred platform.

In case you’re wondering how to add music to your Facebook story, it’s very similar to the Instagram process. If you can master adding music on Instagram, you’re sure to be able to do it on Facebook too.

If you submit your tracks to Facebook Music, your music can be used by billions of users across Facebook and Instagram in their organic content. Fans can find your music via the Audio Library and use it in any content they create and share across Facebook’s wide-reaching platforms. You can also verify and submit your song’s lyrics to Instagram, allowing you and your fans to promote your music by adding visual lyrics to Instagram Stories.

If you add a Spotify link, you won’t earn money directly from Instagram, but if someone clicks the link and streams your music, you will get the money as part of your Spotify royalties.