For artists
Publish the story,
not just the track.
Create pages for the stories behind your songs, albums, and collections. Give fans a link they can read, share, and return to when they want to understand the work more deeply.
Why artists use it
Backstory turns context into a direct path between the work and the people who care.
Give fans more to feel.
Turn influences, memories, references, and decisions into a story fans can enter before or after they listen.
Make each release easier to share.
Give every song, album, and collection a focused page that travels with the work wherever you post it.
Speak in your own voice.
Invite fans into the work directly, without squeezing everything into captions, bios, or platform descriptions.
How it works
Create the page, get the link, invite fans to read more.
01
Create a page
Start with your artist profile, then add pages for a song, album, or collection.
02
Add the backstory
Write the moments, references, choices, and details that help the work open up.
03
Share the link
Paste the Backstory URL into your release notes, video description, social bio, newsletter, or fan message.
What you’ll write
A palette of story sections.
Each section is a short structured invitation, not a form. Pick whichever fit at whichever level — your artist profile, a collection, a single, an album. Use the same section twice with different titles when one framing isn’t enough. Add a Custom section for anything outside the list.
- Identity
- Who you are, your creative philosophy, what you're trying to do.
- Influences and lineage
- The formative works and how they changed your thinking.
- Timeline
- Key turning points, structured chronologically.
- Intent
- Why this release. The question it asks of the listener.
- Inspiration
- What fed this — films, books, places, experiences.
- Origin
- When, where, and how it came to exist. The story of its making.
- Production
- Arrangement, recording approach, sonic vision. Technical choices.
- Lyrical intent
- Line-by-line meaning, references, language choices.
- Aesthetic
- Mood, colour, visual references, sleeve direction.
- Collaborators
- Who played what, and what they contributed beyond their instrument.
- Custom
- Anything outside the sections above. You name it; you decide what fits.
The programme before the curtain rises.
Every single, collection, and album on Backstory arrives with the artist’s own account — the context the listener walks in with.
Share the story behind your work.
Your first profile and release are free during the founding tier.