I made our whole catalog, 56 albums and 671 tracks, with Suno on the Pro plan, then picked, named and released every track myself through DistroKid. The short version of the workflow: one style prompt per album, generate until twelve tracks belong together, name them, release them as an album. Most of it happened in June and July 2025. This post is the long version, with the parts nobody warns you about.
1. The plan: albums, not singles
I decided early to release full albums of twelve tracks, each built around one mood: rainy jazz guitar, space ambient, sitar and raga lofi, Celtic lofi. The idea was that each album could become a playlist of its own and give listeners a reason to stay.
That's also why the prompts are long. Each one describes a whole album's sound, not a single song.
2. Writing the style prompt
Every album started with one style prompt: tempo, key or mode, lead instrument, drums, texture and ambience, sometimes a full section-by-section plan. Here's the one behind Rainlit Jazz Reverie:
Create a peaceful lo-fi beats track featuring a warm, mellow electric guitar as the main instrument, playing relaxed, jazzy chords and gentle melodies. Integrate soft, steady rain sounds throughout the background to enhance the calming atmosphere. Use a smooth, laid-back drum groove with soft snares, light hi-hats, and deep, rounded kick drums at a BPM between 70-80 for a chill vibe. Add subtle vinyl crackle and gentle reverb on the guitar for warmth and depth.
The full set of prompts, with how each album did on Spotify, is in Suno lofi prompts: the real ones behind our albums.
3. Generating and picking
Almost everything was made on Suno's v4.5 model. Our library export has 1,318 clips from December 2024 to September 2025, and over 1,100 of them are from June and July 2025, when I made most of the albums.
The rhythm for each album was the same: run the prompt, listen to every result from start to finish, and keep the ones that sounded like they belonged on the same record. Sixty-three of the prompts in the export produced exactly twelve clips, one album's worth.
What I listened for:
- Endings. AI tracks often end abruptly or fade strangely. A bad ending ruins a track in a playlist.
- Artifacts. A metallic shimmer on cymbals, a smeared chord, a sudden jump in volume.
- Sameness. Twelve tracks from one prompt can be too alike. I kept variety in tempo and lead line where I could.
- Length. The median clip was about three minutes, which suits streaming.
4. Naming everything
Each clip was renamed before release. Album names came from the prompt's idea, often including the mode or key ("Dusky Mirage in F# Dorian", "Lydian Echoes"). Track names came from what the track sounded like: "Misty Window Sessions", "Polaroid Raindrops", "Warmth on Wet Streets".
Looking back, the names that worked were the ones that sound like a place or a feeling, not like music theory. Nobody searches for "F# Dorian".
5. Covers, Canvas and releasing
Every album got a square cover. Later I wrote a script that turns each cover into seven-second Spotify Canvas loops; it made 1,176 of them, and most tracks now have one. Releases went out through DistroKid to Spotify, Apple Music and the other stores. The first album went out in May 2025 and the last in March 2026.
Two things went wrong that are worth knowing about:
- Apple Music credited some of our releases to the wrong artist name, an older name I also release under. Fixing it means writing to the distributor with the list of affected releases.
- The same song ended up on two releases. That splits its streams and its links between two versions, so we took one release down. Check for duplicates before you upload.
6. What the numbers say
After a year, the catalog has earned $191.35 in total. One track, Mellow Mosaic, made 66% of that, and it's the only track that has ever earned on Spotify. The median album has had 12 Spotify streams. The full breakdown is here.
Mellow Mosaic, lofi by Neural Rhythms
What I'd do differently
- Fewer albums, more attention per album. 56 albums split the listening across 671 tracks. A smaller catalog with each release pushed properly would have done better.
- Make music for moods people already search for. Rain, study, sleep and cozy jazz found listeners. Celtic lofi in B major did not.
- Check Suno's plan before you start. Commercial rights come with the paid plans, and only for songs you make and download through Suno while you're subscribed (since September 2026, downloads are capped, too). I never split our tracks into stems, so I can't remix them from their parts; check which stem tools your plan has before you make hundreds of songs.
- Keep a spreadsheet from day one linking every Suno clip to its released title. Reconstructing it later is painful.
- Spend as much time on distribution as on generation. The music was the easy part.
Where the music lives now
Everything is free for creators to use with a credit line on the free music page, and the six rooms on this site play the catalog any time you press play. If you're starting your own AI lofi project, I hope the mistakes above save you a few months.
Written by Suman Kumar with AI help and checked before publishing. Numbers come from our Suno library export, our DistroKid royalty export and our Spotify for Artists export (13 September 2026).