The Equestrian Selection Project

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Promoting pony music with passion

Welcome to The Equestrian Selection project!The idea behind this project is to give an easy and quick way for the pony fandom musicians to get their music discovered, and for listeners to find new music.The Equestrian Selection by itself started as a playlist project.
Currently this project hosts two playlists, one on YouTube, and the other on Spotify.Submitting your music to said playlists is fast, free and easy, and every pony musician is welcomed!There is no judging process nor quality plank. As far as your music has to do with MLP, its going to get accepted.
The playlists get updated every week.We also feature a release spotlight, showing the newly fandom music releases!Besides The Equestrian Selection, there is also The Equestrian Showcase project, this is a yearly concert happening in Pony Town, featuring DJ sets and the best selected music (by the musicians themselves) from the past year before the concert!Submit your music for the playlists or find more information about the projects below!

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Release Spotlight

The Release Spotlight features short articles about the latest releases in the world of pony music, all in one place so you don't miss anything!
You can submit your own releases too!

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The Equestrian Selection

Curated playlists on YouTube and Spotify for artist discovery.
Find new fandom musicians you didn't knew about, or promote yourself in the playlist as musician.

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The Equestrian Showcase

Yearly online event on PonyTown, showcasing the work of many fandom musicians.

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Canterlot Archives

The Canterlot Archives contain the playlists tracking documents, past Showcase VODs, useful guides for musicians, and other goodies.

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The Equestrian Selection

Welcome to the submission form for The Equestrian Selection playlist!
This form is for both brony musicians and fans.The idea behind this project is to create a brand-new Spotify/YouTube playlist where musicians from the fandom can get discovered!This is an independent way of promotion, open for everyone.A playlist is a simple, free, and mutually beneficial form of promotion, as I discovered while getting myself placed on different curator-based playlists.If a song is listened to through a playlist, the musician that song belongs to will see the playlist on their Spotify profile or YouTube analytics pages, which will allow for further discovery and traction. This could also lead to the playlist getting more algorithmic exposure, attracting more organic listeners as a result.Making it work is really quite simple; you just need to listen to it. Specially your own songs if you are on it, so the playlist appears on your profile. That way several artists can get linked together, small and big equally. Even compilation albums.
Adding the playlist to your favorites will help the algorithm as well.
Think of it as an engine, which will work by its own after its given enough power to operate.For listeners, it will help with music discovery and having a ready-to-go up to date playlist for any activity like drawing, streaming, and so on. For musicians, it will help getting discovered and maybe even finding possible collaborators for the future.There will be a maximum of 50 songs in the Spotify playlist and 80 on YouTube. Once they reach these numbers, older songs will get replaced by new submissions. You can submit the same song multiple times, but it will be better if you submit different songs to keep it always fresh. If your song gets deleted, feel free to submit a new one!
The update will happen once in a week, and every submitted song will get in, unless a musican from it is already in the playlists twice.The submission rules are simple:Only 2 songs per artist. Any length. Any genre. Including collaborations. Doesn't need to have a pony visualizer, but must be MLP related/inspired. I'm accepting only brony musicians.If you are a fan, you can submit some music from your favorite brony musician, if that artist is not twice on the playlist yet.As for musicians, just send me what you consider your best tracks!The songs will be added in submission order. For listeners is recommended to play on shuffle for a more interesting experience.

• YouTube Playlist
• Spotify Playlist

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The Equestrian Showcase

Welcome to The Equestrian Showcase information document!The Equestrian Showcase is a yearly event, hosted on Pony Town Events, and the main goal of this event, as the name suggests, is for musicians to showcase their best work to the public, promoting and giving discovery equally for small, underrated musicians and fandom veterans.As it was just stated, the main goal is the same as in the Equestrian Selection playlists, promotion and discovery, but this event is aimed at a bigger stage and only once a year, unlike the playlists which are active the whole year and constantly refreshing.The event will always be aimed to take place in mid-late January or early February of each new year and showcase the music from the past year.
For example, the 2023 showcase hosted in February featured the best selected music from 2022.Besides the main showcase, we have featured DJ sets for your maximum entertainment!

Just like for the playlist project, musicians can submit their music for it to get showcased, however this project is a little bit different in rules and submission form.Any musicians, big or small with any level of experience will get accepted. To not overextend the event duration, only one song per musician will get accepted for the showcase, along with one optional collaboration song. Pretty much like for pony music collective albums, but more limited in quantity, as this will be open for everyone and therefore the event might get extended for too long with many submissions.
FUF fact: The showcase from 2023 lasted over 8 hours and had 8602 unique visitors!So, we suggest selecting your best work for this showcase, something which represents you the best!
All submitted songs must be only from the last year, as this showcase is aimed to be a yearly event and showcase the best of the year.
For example, the 2023 showcase features music from 2022.
2024 will feature music from 2023, and so on.There is no limitation in length, however we advise to stay below 8 minutes, and as for the explicit themes, since the event will take place on Pony Town Events, we suggest keeping the themes to their standards and rules, so please keep that in mind when choosing your song.The submission form is slightly different for this project as well.
Instead of YouTube and Spotify links we'll be accepting only MP3 files, and along with the song, we ask to provide a note document with short and easily readable links to your socials, and a cute picture of your oc/sona without background. Can be from Pony Town too.This concert uses the live streaming features from Pony Town Events, which means we have a visualizer which features your name, song name, socials, and your oc.

The submission form is available in classic form via the Google submissions, and directly by email.
It will open every year around December, so you'll have almost 3 months to submit your tunes. Stay tuned for the announcements!
We hope to see you all there!Submission form
Email: [email protected]Deadline: January 31Currently closed until the next showcase, stay tuned!

Short recap for the submission rules1. MP3 Files only.
2. Short and easy to read links, as they will be placed in a video player.
3. A PNG with no background of your OC to place along with the visualizer. If you don't have any pictures, you can send your Pony Town assets instead. There is an option in the character creator to export a PNG without background.As suggestion, you can place all the materials in one rar/zip archive, including the MP3, a note document with your links, and the picture.
Cloud drive folders are also welcome.Email template:Artist name:
Song name:
Featuring (optional):
Collaboration song (optional):
With:
Socials:

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Canterlot Archives

Below you can find The Equestrian Selection tracking documents, The Equestrian Showcase past VODs, useful documents for musicians, and other goodies like sample packs.

Tracking documents

• Tracking document (YouTube)

• Tracking document (Spotify)

TES past VODs

• The Equestrian Showcase 2023 (full stream by TheRealDashy)

• The Equestrian Showcase 2023 (main event playlist)

Skyshard's Manuscripts

• How to get on streaming services

• Stem export preparation for FL Studio (2021)

• Stem export preparation for FL Studio (2021) [short version]

Other goodies

• Hearth's Warming Bells (Sample Pack)

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Release Spotlight

Welcome to the EQS release spotlight!On this page we will feature the latest releases on the musical side of the pony fandom!Each time when enough new releases are collected, this page will get updated and newly releases will replace older ones, but don't worry, you still can find the articles about the older releases on the cloud archive!Besides, each release featured here goes into the YouTube playlist of EQS.Each release comes with a small article written by the amazing Emma aka TheMadhatterbrony
Enjoy!

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The Equestrian Spotlight presents:

Updated by Skyshard
Last update: Oct 31, 2023 Equestrian Time.

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We try our best to track new releases, however its easy to miss some, and for this case you can submit your new release yourself!
Simply follow the submission form below.
Alternatively you can submit your release by just throwing a DM on our Twitter or via email (found below on the page), and also you can DM me on Discord directly Skyshard#7494.

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Archived Articles

• April 4, 2023
• April 17, 2023
• May 3, 2023