● For artists on Reelyrics
How to turn one song into a hundred Instagram videos, and turn those into Spotify streams.
First edition — read it once, then just follow the daily part
that’s it. the rest is detail.
Side A
Your artist page has one job: look like an artist. Post there twice a week, keep it clean, keep it curated.
A fan page has a completely different job: throw stuff at the wall every single day and see what sticks.
Here's the thing people miss. When you post from your artist page, you're an artist promoting yourself. When the same video comes from @yourname.lyrics, it reads like somebody else was moved enough by your song to make something. Same video. Totally different feeling for whoever's watching.
Fan pages also let you fail in public without it costing you anything. A flop on your main page sits there forever. A flop on a fan page is gone by tomorrow.
And volume. Instagram doesn't hand you reach, it tests you. Four accounts posting daily is 120 tests a month instead of 8.
Start with two. Add more once posting feels automatic. Four is plenty. Ten is a job you'll quit in a week.
Setup
Don't overthink it. Pick a lane per account:
Avoid anything with official, real, or hq in it. Those read like a bot account.
Three lines, no more:
The link goes to your Spotify. Not a link-in-bio page with nine buttons. One tap, one destination. If someone's on a fan page bio, they already want the song. Don't make them choose.
Cover art, cropped tight. Or a grainy photo of you that doesn't look like a press shot. Not your logo.
Give each new account 2 or 3 days of just being a normal account. Scroll. Like a few things. Follow 20 or 30 accounts in your genre. Then start posting. Accounts that are born and immediately post five videos get looked at funny.
The routine
This is the whole job. Should take 20 minutes.
Weeks 1 and 2 will look dead. That's normal, that's the account being new. Real signal starts around day 15.
Step 2
In step 2 you choose which piece of the song becomes the video. This choice matters more than every style choice combined.
Step 3
Step 3 is where it actually starts looking like something. Footage first, then the words.
Backgrounds are real footage, AI-matched to your song or picked from a collection, cut to the beat. Two modes: Clip video stitches full footage on the beat, the classic lyric video look, with a fade toggle if you want cross-dissolves instead of hard cuts. Frame flash takes six matched clips and uses only the first frame of each, cycling on an interval you set. Great for anything fast.
AI Match picks a collection that fits the lyric and mood. You can also pick a collection by hand, upload your own footage, or use the video you uploaded as the background.
This is where you get real variety without changing the whole design.
Font. Three families: Normal (Bebas Neue, Anton and friends), Handwriting, and Serif. Swapping a handwriting font for Bebas on the same clips makes it a different video.
Reveal. How the words show up. Letter by letter is the classic karaoke crawl. Word by word is cleaner and snappier, best for punchy lines. Whole group lands the full line at once, good for a one-liner you want to hit like a statement.
Motion. How the block moves. This changes the feel more than anything else on the panel.
Nothing moves, the words just appear.
Lands oversized, snaps down past its resting size, then punches on every word. Locks to the vocal.
Grows in from slightly small and wide, letters drawing together as they settle. Smooth.
Drops in at an angle and straightens, leaning the opposite way each time.
No entrance. The block just breathes with each word as it's sung.
A slow swell and sway through the block, never resting and never arriving.
A slow travelling shot under the whole clip. The block drifts, turns and swells, sharpening as each word lands.
slam and pulse hit on every word. rise and tilt only animate on the way in.
Colour treatments. Three switches worth knowing. Negative inverts the text against whatever's behind it, frame by frame, and looks expensive. Backdrop dims everything except the letters, which stay lit from the footage underneath, and gives the best readability of the three. Glow halos the type in its own colour. Turn it on for anything dark.
Instagram lays the caption, your handle, the audio strip and the whole action rail over the bottom of the video. Anything down there is covered. Reelyrics keeps the lyric box clear by default, so if you drag it down, check the preview.
A near-black frame with nothing luminous and nothing moving gets skipped instantly, because it reads as a video that failed to load. Any dark look needs a glow, a grain, or something drifting. Go as dark as you like, just not still.
Method
Don't just make random videos and hope. Run it like this.
Same 10 second hook. Same lyrics. Five versions, one per look family:
Post one a day. Same caption, same time of day, same hashtags. The only variable is the look. By the end of the week one or two will clearly outperform. That's your lane, and your audience just told you what they respond to for the price of five exports.
Take the winning look. Change one small thing at a time.
One variable per day. This is how you find out whether it was the clips or the motion doing the work.
Now you know your look. Run every hook in the song through it. This is also where the fan pages start to differentiate, so give each account its own lane and they stop looking like clones.
Then every couple of weeks, deliberately post one thing that doesn't fit the lane. Sometimes the outlier is the one that goes.
Ignore likes. These four are the ones that mean something:
The funnel
The video's job is to make someone need to hear the full song. Everything after that is just removing friction.
Caption: short. The lyric line, or a reaction to it. Not a paragraph about your creative journey.
No link in the caption. It kills reach and nobody taps it anyway. Say link in bio, or say nothing.
Hashtags: 3 to 5, specific. #sadrap beats #music. Genre plus mood plus a scene tag. Rotate them.
Use your own song as the audio. Every time. That's how someone discovers the track from a stranger's video six months from now. Make sure the sound is credited to your artist profile.
Comments are free reach. Pin one on every post, something like "full song is out" or an actual question. Reply to everyone for the first hour. When you post from a fan account you can also drop a comment from your artist account, and that's how people find the real page.
Cross-post everything. The same file goes to TikTok and YouTube Shorts. Zero extra work, three platforms.
When it works
You'll know. One video does 10x the others. Move fast.
Tear-off strip
Days 1 to 3
Days 4 to 10
Days 11 to 17
Days 18 to 30
End of the month
Side B
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