2-1-1. Making a Song with AI That Matches Your Taste, and Sharing It (Translating)

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Hi, this is pomiai. 🎵

Today I want to answer a question I get a lot. “How do you officially release an AI-made song and put it up on YouTube?” I was pretty lost when I started too. I made the song, but I had no idea where to even begin to turn it into a real, released track.

So I’m sharing the exact flow I worked through myself: Suno → DistroKid → YouTube Official Artist Channel (OAC). Copyright questions, paid plan sign-up, channel approval — this is the actual order I went through.

Step 1. Making a Track with Suno — But Check the Copyright First

I use Suno, an AI songwriting platform, to build the backbone of a track. It’s a tool that handles melody, vocals, and arrangement with AI, and the very first thing I had to sort out was copyright.

Songs made on the free plan often can’t be used commercially, and if you want to register with a music distributor, you need to be clear that “I hold the rights to this song.” So I started working only after upgrading to a paid plan (a plan where rights belong to you personally).

• ✅ Free-plan songs = usable for non-commercial purposes only in most cases (often can’t be distributed)
• ✅ Paid-plan songs = commercial rights to the song are granted to you (a prerequisite for distribution)
• ✅ Per-plan policies keep changing, so always check the latest terms yourself before signing up

Skip this step and you’ll get stuck at the next one: music distribution. I didn’t know this at first and wasted quite a bit of time.

Step 2. Distributing Through DistroKid — Getting Your Track onto Spotify and Apple Music

Once the track is finished, you need to get it in front of listeners on Spotify or Apple Music. I use a distribution platform called DistroKid, subscribed to on a paid plan.

Here’s the actual process I went through:

1. Create an artist profile — Register your artist name (pomiai) and profile information
2. Upload the track — Upload the audio file, cover art, and metadata like title/genre
3. Enter copyright information — Disclose that it’s AI-generated and state clearly that you hold the rights
4. Choose distribution platforms — Check off Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, and whichever else you want
5. Set a release date and submit for review — Usually takes effect across platforms within a few weeks

One important point here. Not hiding the fact that it’s AI-generated music was an important principle for me. Every distribution platform’s AI content policy keeps getting updated, so I’d recommend checking the latest policy right at the moment you sign up.

Step 3. YouTube Official Artist Channel (OAC) — The Long Wait Until Approval

Once your track goes up on streaming platforms, YouTube automatically becomes a candidate to create an “Official Artist Channel (OAC)” for you. But this doesn’t apply automatically right away.

Here’s the OAC conversion process I experienced:

• Wait after distribution — Once your track is registered on YouTube Music via DistroKid, YouTube’s system automatically generates an artist page candidate
• Artist page verification request — Once a YouTube Art Track channel is created, you go through a channel ownership verification process
• Regular channel → OAC conversion — If content and subscriber conditions line up, the Official Artist Channel badge is granted
• Content uploads — Once you have OAC, you can more systematically manage music videos, lyric videos, and album art tracks

This part was hard for me to say exactly, “do this and you’re 100% approved.” YouTube’s internal criteria aren’t public, and the timing seems to vary case by case. The one thing I can say for sure is that the track needs to have gone through a proper distribution route for candidacy to happen at all.

To Sum It Up, This Is the Flow

🎼 Write the song on Suno’s paid plan (secure the copyright)
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💿 Distribute via DistroKid’s paid plan (Spotify, Apple Music, etc.)
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📺 YouTube auto-generates an artist page → verification process
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✅ Convert to Official Artist Channel (OAC) → upload content

Making a song with AI is really just the beginning — the real work is in the “official distribution” process that follows. I learn something new every time I put out a new track, so I plan to keep sharing what I discover along the way.

In the next post, I’ll go deeper into how I approach songwriting by genre. If you have questions, feel free to leave a comment anytime! 🎶