diff --git a/hearpreprocess/__init__.py b/hearpreprocess/__init__.py
index e69de29b..38c39274 100644
--- a/hearpreprocess/__init__.py
+++ b/hearpreprocess/__init__.py
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+__version__ = "2021.0.1"
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 64cd62a3..085b765e 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -2,16 +2,15 @@
 
 import os
 
-# Always prefer setuptools over distutils
 import sys
 
+# Always prefer setuptools over distutils
 from setuptools import find_packages, setup
 
 long_description = open("README.md", "r", encoding="utf-8").read()
 
 setup(
     name="hearpreprocess",
-    version="2021.0.1",
     description="Holistic Evaluation of Audio Representations (HEAR) 2021 -- Preprocessing Pipeline",
     author="",
     author_email="",