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Release Day Countdown
🔵 Stable🕐 updated 2026-07-26
🔷 SkillSpec L3
pm-musician
Plan an independent music release backwards from release day — the 8-week countdown with distributor upload deadlines flagged, playlist pitch windows, the pre-save decision made honestly, content batched before the chaos, and a release week that doesn't depend on luck. Use when a musician says 'I'm releasing a single/EP', 'when should I submit to playlists', 'plan my release', or uploaded to a distributor with no plan. Produces the week-by-week countdown, the asset checklist, and release-week runbook.
What to give it
▸The release — single/EP/album, genre, done-ness of the master and artwork, the date (or "help me pick one")
▸The artist's current reach, honestly — platforms, follower counts, the mailing list if any, past release numbers
▸Team of one, or help? Budget — zero, small, or real?
▸The goal, honestly ranked — streams? local gigs? label attention? the mailing list? (The plan weights differently)
✅ The bar it holds itself to
Every skill in this library self-verifies — these are this skill's own quality checks, straight from its definition.
✓Every platform-specific number (lead times, pitch windows, artwork
✓specs) carries a check-current flag — zero asserted as timeless fact
✓The countdown fits the real date; if the date makes editorial
✓pitching impossible, the plan says so and offers the honest choice
✓(move the date or skip that channel)
✓Content is batched before week 2 in the plan — nothing creative is
✓scheduled for release week itself
✓The pay-for-playlist warning appears in the pitching plan
⚠️ What it refuses to do
Do not build the plan around going viral — the plan works at 40
streams and scales if lightning hits, not the reverse
Do not recommend paid playlist placement or stream-farming — flagged
as harmful (platforms penalize it), not just tacky
Do not schedule daily begging posts — the ask-budget is finite;
Install
npx pm-claude-skills add --agent claude # or codex · cursor · gemini · hermes
# or one-line MCP (every skill, any client):
claude mcp add pm-skills -- npx -y pm-claude-skills-mcpRelated skills
🔌 Embed this skill
Drop this on your blog, docs, or site — it renders a "Run this skill" card:
<div data-pm-skill="release-day-countdown"></div>
<script src="https://mohitagw15856.github.io/pm-claude-skills/embed.js" async></script>💬 Discussion
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