Up to now, a Gatefolded page was about one release: one artist, one album, one link. That's perfect when you're putting your music in front of people. But a lot of you aren't just promoting yourselves. You're curating. A monthly “new artists we're into” newsletter. A label sampler. A blog's artists-to-watch roundup. A PR roster you send to supervisors. For all of those, one album page was never the right shape.
So we built a new page type: Showcases. A showcase features several artists, each with their own photo, bio and tracks, on a single shareable link, with one player that plays through every artist in order. It's the page you reach for when the link is about more than one act.
Want to see one first? Open the example showcase: three invented artists, six tracks, real audio.
What a showcase is
Think of a showcase as a stacked set of artist sections on one page. Each section is self-contained: a photo, a bio and up to six tracks for that artist. Visitors scroll from one artist to the next, and a single player carries the music through: when one artist's tracks finish, the next artist's begin. It plays like a mixtape and reads like a magazine feature.
- Up to 20 artist sections on one page, each with a photo, bio and up to six tracks
- One player that runs through every section, top to bottom
- A single link you can drop into an email, a post or a pitch
- An optional header banner, an intro and a closing note, a choice of colour themes, and an optional contact button at the bottom
Who it's for
Showcases are built for anyone whose link is about a lineup, not a single release:
- Newsletter editors running a recurring “artists we're featuring this month” section, with one link per edition.
- Labels sending a sampler of the roster, or this quarter's signings, to press and playlist curators.
- Blogs and tastemakers publishing an artists-to-watch roundup that actually plays.
- PR firms and sync agencies putting several clients in front of a supervisor on one page, with a contact button at the bottom.
Each artist gets a real section
A list of names doesn't introduce anyone. So every section has room to do the artist justice: upload a photo, write a bio and add their tracks. Each artist can also have a Spotify link, shown on the page as “Listen on Spotify”, and up to 12 more links, such as Bandcamp, a website or socials, so a curator who likes what they hear can follow them in one tap.
Sections are self-contained on purpose: you type the artist name and bio, and upload the photo and audio right into the section. That means you can feature artists who aren't on Gatefolded at all. They don't need an account; you just need the rights to share the music.
Tracks can carry the details a music supervisor or a programmer asks for. Lyrics and credits open under the track, and ISRC, ISWC, BPM, composer, publisher and PRO appear under the track title. Anything you leave empty stays off the page.
One player for the whole page
What makes a showcase feel like a curated set rather than a directory is the player. There's one for the whole page, and it plays through every section in order. A reader can press play on the first artist and let the edition run while they keep scrolling, or while they work in another tab on a computer. It's the difference between “here are some artists, go check them out” and “here's an hour of music we put together for you.”
One thing to know: if a track's audio fails to load, playback stops there rather than skipping ahead.
You see which artists got played
Each artist's section in the showcase editor shows how many plays it had and roughly how many listeners. A play is counted when someone starts a track (replaying it in the same visit usually isn't counted again), and listeners are an estimate made without cookies. Showcase figures live in the editor, not on the Analytics page.
Send a label sampler and you can see which of the five artists people pressed play on. That's the kind of feedback that tells you who to feature again next month.
Build it once, reuse it every edition
Recurring features live or die on how fast you can put the next one together. So every showcase has a Duplicate button in your Showcases list. It makes an unpublished copy with a new link: the theme, banner, intro and closing note, links, contact button, and every artist section with its tracks. Edit or replace the artists for the new lineup, confirm the rights again, and the next edition starts from your format instead of a blank page.
- Create a showcase and add an artist for each act, up to 20
- Upload each artist's photo, write the bio, add the tracks
- Pick a theme and, if you like, add a banner, an intro and a contact button
- Confirm you have the rights, click Publish showcase, and copy the link
- Next month, duplicate it and replace the artists with the new lineup
Publishing and sharing
Publishing is one button. Publish showcase puts it live, and Unpublish showcase takes the link down for everyone. Nothing is deleted, and publishing again brings back the same link. Publish stays off until you confirm you have the rights to share the music, because a showcase usually publishes other people's work.
A showcase is meant to be opened by whoever you send it to, so it has no password, invite list or expiry date; those are release settings. Showcases ask search engines like Google and Bing not to list them, but the link still builds a proper preview when it's pasted into a message or a post, using the preview image you choose, or your banner if you don't.
Downloads are off unless you turn on Let visitors download the audio files, which adds a Download button to each track that has audio. Audio plays through short-lived signed links, as on release pages, and the page carries a small “Powered by Gatefolded” line at the bottom.
If you are also collecting music from artists rather than only publishing it, artist intake handles the submissions side, collecting the audio with writer, publisher and PRO details in one place.
Available now
Showcases are in the Showcases tab of your dashboard, including during the free trial, with no add-on and no upgrade tier. They're part of the same $49/year plan as everything else. If your plan lapses, your published showcases stop opening until it's active again.
Running a featured-artist newsletter, a label sampler or a roster page? You can build your first showcase today. Curating for someone else and want a workflow we haven't thought of? Tell us. Features like this one usually start with someone asking.