How To (Effortlessly) Find Music For Reels 🎶

With this trick, you can make Spotify do all the heavy lifting for you while you do the creative work of editing

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Nate Teahan
January 09, 2025

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  • Spend 0 minutes per week finding all your music for social media (seriously) 🎶

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How To Effortlessly Find Music For Instagram

Hey Runaways,

We have been there a million times.

Every single time we set out to create a piece of content, the looming question in the back of our mind is:

What song are we going to use?

Trends come and go, and you can only use trending audio so many times before you realize it doesn’t do anything for your views or creativity.

So let us tell you a better way.

Recently, Instagram released a feature to automatically add songs to your Spotify account.

Using this trick, we no longer spend any time searching for music for reels

And this is a game changer because the Spotify algorithm for recommending songs is in a league of its own.

Here is what you gotta do:

  1. Open Instagram

  2. Head to the reels tab and scroll until you find a song that you really like

  3. Click on the bottom right hand corner to see the details of the song

  4. Click on the “Add” button. This will add the linked song to your “Liked Songs” playlist on Spotify

  5. Transfer that song to a new playlist specifically designed for Instagram audio

  6. Play that playlist in the background during your work day.

If you do this, by the end of the day, I guarantee you can walk away with at least 5-10 new songs for Instagram next time you post.

This is the exact strategy that we have been following for our posts lately,

and it saves you such a headache.

Not to mention it lets you do what you do best…

Create.

Hope this helps! Happy Editing

Talk soon,

Nate

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