The task opens your track on Spotify and holds the entrant there for a listening time you set, up to ten minutes. Point it at the single you are pushing and entering the giveaway means hearing it.

Timing is the lever. Attach it to a giveaway that launches alongside your release, and the plays arrive in the first days, when a new track most needs them.

You choose the minimum listening time in seconds, from a quick taste up to a full ten minutes.

Spotify counts a play as a stream once it reaches 30 seconds. Keep the listening time at 30 or above and every completed task runs long enough to register as one.

A save puts your track into the entrant's Liked Songs, where it keeps playing back long after the giveaway closes. Of everything a listener can do for a song in one tap, the save is what keeps paying. The giveaway ends, the library entry stays.

Pair it with the listen task on the same track URL. Entrants hear the song first and save it warm.

The task takes the pre-save link your distributor or smartlink service generates, from DistroKid HyperFollow, Feature.fm, Linkfire, ToneDen, and similar providers, and sends every entrant to it. A pre-save is a save that lands the moment the track goes live, so the giveaway you run the week before the drop turns entrants into day-one listeners.

Most pre-save services include an artist follow in the same authorization, so one click can bank the save and the follower together.

Point the task at your artist profile and every follower it earns is a listener Spotify reaches for you again. New releases from followed artists surface in their Release Radar. Point it at the label or artist sponsoring the prize instead, and the same giveaway grows their audience.

Run this task between releases too. Followers accumulate giveaway by giveaway, and all of them hear about your next drop at once.

The one task in the catalog built for playlist curators. A playlist with followers is an asset. Every track you add reaches all of them, and that is what makes a placement on it worth something to other artists. Community-run playlists work too, so a server can grow the playlist its members build together.

Any public playlist URL works, yours or a partner's.

SoundCloud plays tracks without a login, which makes this the rare music task every single entrant can complete. Make it the required task and the giveaway stays open to people with no music accounts at all, while the account-bound tasks pay bonus entries.

Minimum listening time is yours to set, one second to ten minutes.

Point it at your newest upload rather than your biggest one. The play counter on a fresh track moves visibly while the giveaway runs.

The like count sits right on the track page, and it is the first signal a new listener reads before pressing play. A giveaway's worth of likes gives the next visitor a reason to stay.

A repost pushes your track into the feeds of the entrant's own followers, which is how music has always traveled on SoundCloud. One giveaway puts your track in a wave of feeds, each one carrying it to listeners you could not reach yourself.

Reposts multiply with the entrant's audience. Share the giveaway in producer communities, where entrants have followers of their own, and it reaches furthest.

Followers see every track you publish in their feed the moment it goes up. SoundCloud is where demos, remixes, and early versions live, so the follower this task earns is the listener who hears your work first, before it lands anywhere else.