release-day-countdown
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.
npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill release-day-countdown --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Release Day Countdown Skill Most independent releases happen twice: the day the song goes live to 40 streams, and the month later when the artist learns what they should have done eight weeks early. The machinery has real deadlines — distributors need lead time, editorial playlist pitching closes *before* release day, content is impossible to batch once the week arrives — and none of it is complicated; it's just sequenced. This skill runs the sequence backwards from the date (or forwards to pick a date honestly), with every platform-specific number flagged as check-current, because lead times and pitch windows change and a plan built on stale specifics is a plan built on sand. ## What This Skill Produces - The **8-week countdown**, week by week: distribution upload, metadata and credits, pitch windows, content batching, outreach waves — each with its why and its check-current flag where platforms set the rule - An **asset checklist**: audio master, artwork at spec, canvas/visualizer, lyric assets, press photo, the bio paragraph — with the "before upload" vs "before release" split - The **pitching plan**: editorial (via the distributor/platform tools, submitted early), independent
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What does the release-day-countdown skill do?
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.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill release-day-countdown --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills, a repository with 1,255 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.