songwhip shut down: here's how to move your links
if your songwhip links stopped working, you’re not imagining it. sony music’s the orchard acquired songwhip and fully shut it down on july 22, 2024: servers off, links dead, pre-saves gone, and no export or migration path. here’s how to rebuild cleanly and not get stranded again.
what happened to songwhip
songwhip was a free, much-loved music smart-link tool: paste a release, get one page across every service. after the orchard acquisition it was sunset with little notice. there were no new signups, no payments, and critically no clean way to export your links or your data. anyone who built their instagram bio or release campaigns on it woke up to dead links.
rebuilding your links (free, ~an afternoon)
the good news: rebuilding is fast, because a smart link is generated from a single source URL, not hand-entered.
list your live releases
pull up your discography on spotify or apple. those are your source URLs. dead songwhip links don’t matter; you’re working from the streaming pages.paste each into a new smart link
in yala, create a link and paste the source URL. the scanner re-resolves the release across spotify, apple, deezer, youtube, tidal, amazon and the rest, and pulls the artwork.re-point your bios + socials
swap the dead songwhip URLs in your instagram, tiktok, and youtube for the new ones. on the teams tier you can even put them on your own custom domain so this is the last time you ever migrate.turn analytics back on
you immediately get visits, click-throughs, services, and locations again, plus CSV export, so the data is genuinely yours.
how to not get stranded again
the songwhip story is really about data portability. the lesson isn’t “avoid free tools.” it’s “use one that lets you leave.” yala includes CSV export and full GDPR data export + erasure on every tier, including free, so your links and your audience are always yours to take. a platform can change hands; your audience shouldn’t disappear with it.