Submitting a Single: What you need to know

Putting a single out ahead of an album is a great way to promote your project! Here are some things to keep in mind:

• A single and an album are separate submissions. You can't add more tracks to a single submission and turn it into an album. You will have to create a new album submission.
• If the audio is the same for both the single and the album version of the track, they should keep the same ISRC. The metadata should remain the same as well, meaning the track title, artist name, featuring artist, etc.  The single and the full album will require unique UPC barcodes. 
• If the album is going to be signed up for CD Baby Boost, the single will be covered too since the codes will be the same for both releases. We can register your single with the MLC and SoundExchange and enter it into our Sync library at the same time as the rest of the songs on your full-length album, and can back collect royalties if they are generated in the interim. In other words, you can sign up your Single as Standard and later sign up your full album for CD Baby Boost.
• Partner sites require the text on a cover image to match the metadata for the project with which it's associated. So your single can say the name of your single on the cover, and your album can say the name of your album, but your single shouldn't say the name of your album. *This is assuming that the single and album have different names.