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How To Put Your Song Lyrics On Instagram Stories

Creating an engaging Instagram story with your music and lyrics can be a fantastic way to connect with your audience. Here's a step-by-step guide to help you add lyrics to your music in the Instagram music library:


Step 1: Verify Your Artist Profile on Musixmatch

Before you can add lyrics to Instagram, you need to ensure that your lyrics are available on Musixmatch. To do this:

- Sign up for Musixmatch and verify your artist profile. This can be fast-tracked if you're a CD Baby user⁴.


Step 2: Sync Your Lyrics with Your Music

Once verified, add your song lyrics to Musixmatch and sync them with your music. This is crucial as Instagram pulls lyric data from Musixmatch.


Step 3: Distribute Your Music with Social Video Monetization

- Opt-in for CD Baby’s Social Video Monetization service, which includes distribution to Instagram's Music Library⁴.

- Once opted in, your songs will be delivered to Instagram and added to the Music Sticker within Instagram Stories.


Step 4: Adding Lyrics to Your Instagram Story

Now that your lyrics are synced and your music is on Instagram, you can create a story with lyrics:

- Open Instagram and swipe right or tap your profile picture to start a new story.

- Capture or upload the content for your story.

- Tap the sticker icon and then select the Music sticker.

- Search for your song in the music library.

- Once you select your song, Instagram will automatically generate the lyrics on screen.

- You can customize the font, animation, and section of the song that plays with your story.


Step 5: Share Your Story

After customizing the lyrics display, tap 'Done' and then 'Your Story' to share it with your followers.


Remember, the key to having your lyrics displayed on Instagram Stories is to ensure they are properly synced with Musixmatch. Once that's set up, sharing your music with lyrics on Instagram is a breeze!


For a visual guide, you can watch tutorial videos that demonstrate these steps¹²³. These resources provide additional tips on making the lyrics more visible and syncing them perfectly with the music in your stories.


And there you have it, a simple guide to adding lyrics to your music in the Instagram music library. Happy sharing!


(1) How To Put Your Song Lyrics On Instagram Stories | DIY Musician. https://diymusician.cdbaby.com/music-promotion/get-lyrics-on-instagram-stories/.

(2) How to Add Music With Lyrics to Instagram Stories. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgMybpwjkCc.

(3) How to add Music & Song Lyrics to Instagram Stories. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gw5OMENjPds.

(4) How to Add Music and Lyrics to Instagram Stories. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W527B3BX22c.

(5) Here's How To Add Lyrics To Your Instagram Story | Genius. https://genius.com/a/here-s-how-to-add-lyrics-to-your-instagram-story.

(6) How to Get Your Songs on Instagram (Reels and Stories). https://twostorymelody.com/how-to-get-songs-on-instagram/.

(7) undefined. https://www.techjunkie.com/.

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