Updated May 27th 2022

Spotify is without a doubt the giant of the music streaming world and a very practiced friend to artists (signed and unsigned) worldwide. One of the things we love most about Spotify is their artists-only tool Spotify For Artists.

Spotify is merely one of the many major online retailers we distribute to, but it also one we collect important trend data from that is displayed in every creative person account nether 'Stats & Activity', to aid artists guess how their releases are performing from day one. All you need to exercise is a release your tracks on Spinnup and the data volition kickoff showing in your account ane 24-hour interval after release.

As a music service simply also a tech visitor Spotify is constantly evolving and so we have put together our one-stop-shop for understanding Spotify For Artists, which nosotros volition continue to update each time there is a new feature added to the service.

In this commodity nosotros volition explain:

• How to merits your Spotify For Artists Profile
• How To Get Verified on Spotify
• How to edit your Spotify artist profile & bio
• Adding social media links to your profile
• How to add team members to your Spotify For Artists account
• What information y'all can find in your business relationship
• How to pitch to Spotify Playlists
• Straight Donations

How to claim your Spotify For Artists business relationship

Claiming your Spotify for Artists contour is a really easy process. To first, head over to artists.spotify.com and and then click on "Get Admission".

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After hitting go along, search for your proper name.

Once you've found information technology, log in with your account or create 1 that you want to associate to manage that creative person profile.

Click on "Yes, claim it" and on "Aye, go on".

Follow the steps that are indicated. You will accept to link your profile to your website, to your Twitter or Instagram account in gild to verify your identity. The Spotify team will review your request and get back to you within 3 days.

Once you receive the email notification, become back to the Spotify for Artist page and click "Log in". One time authenticated, go to "Your Dashboard" for instant admission to commencement managing your contour on Spotify.

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Get Verified

No longer do you lot take to expect until you have 250 followers to even be able to apply for verification. Instead, now all you lot need to do is take admission to Spotify for Artists!

If yous don't already take admission to Spotify for artists, click here and follow the steps to access your account.

But if you're already verified don't worry, y'all don't demand to do anything to go on the pretty blue tick on your profile. The new verification system ways you lot'll use Spotify for Artists to add and remove playlists from your profile, just use your personal business relationship to create and edit them.

What does this mean for existing verified artists?

• You volition keep your verification and all playlists will remain

• You will now add and remove playlists in Spotify for Artists, only you create and edit them from your personal account, similar ever

• If you're using Fan Insights, you need to switch to using Spotify for Artists

What if I'm non verified?

• You can become verified really easily, but past accessing Spotify for Artists, no more 250 followers!

• You will need to add/remove playlists in Spotify for Artists, simply create and edit them from your personal account

• You may demand to expect a few weeks for the blue tick to appear on your profile.

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Creative person Profile & Bio

At present that you're a bonafide and verified Spotify artist you are able to freely edit your public profile! Get your artistic hats on because now yous can update your creative person image as oftentimes as you lot change your outfit – sounds similar a lot of work, simply each to their ain! You can also prove people what music y'all're jamming to past choosing your 'artist's choice' that sits at the elevation of your profile, and add playlists – either ones you've created or your favourites that you lot desire to share with your fans.

The start place to start? Your bio. Let fans know more about yous or your band, and convey your personality, inventiveness or humour. Accept fun with it, but don't go too overboard!

Electronic musician Caribou keeps his bio brusk and sweet, but is a prissy affect!

How to edit your artist bio, stride past step:

ane. Go to your Spotify For Artists profile and scroll downward to 'Artist Bio'

2. Write your amazing, vivid, creative, thoughtful bio in 1500 words or less

iii. Add links to your music, music you characteristic on, playlists – anything on Spotify! Just use the '@' symbol to expect up playlists, artists or albums

four. If you accept a Wikipedia page (if not, why not create 1? Information technology's complimentary and easy!) yous can add a link to that here.

Pimp your profile with an image gallery

As of March 2022 artists can now brand their Spotify profile expect even better than always with new custom epitome galleries. Once you login to your Spotify for Artists account, go to Profile under Tools in the left-hand menu, simply like you would to edit any of the info on your Spotify artist page. Above where y'all enter your bio you lot can now add up to 125 photos of your choice! These could be official artist images, photos on you in the studio or making music, or on the road performing alive – the possibilities are endless! It'due south a great way to bear witness fans what you're up to and let them become to know yous better. You can too edit your gallery from the Spotify for Artists mobile app.

You lot can edit the social club of images, add or delete them at any time – so become artistic!

Image requirements:
jpeg, gif or png
690px ten 500px
Avoid text, logos, and decorated backgrounds
Max 125 images

Add a Sheet video to your releases

Having a slick looping video to play aslope your release in the Spotify app used to be just for big-proper name artists, but not anymore! At present all artists tin add their own custom Sheet video to every rail within their Spotify For Artists account.

If you don't know what nosotros're talking about, a Spotify Sail video is an 8-second looping video that will display full screen (vertically) instead of your album artwork in the 'At present Playing' view.

To add a Canvas video to a track you need to exist either the first main artist listed on the track, or a main artist listed on both the track and release

How to add a Spotify Canvas Video:

1. Log in to Spotify for Artists.

ii. Go to Music.

3. Select a track.

4. Click Add together Sheet (spider web) /CREATE Canvas (mobile app).

While nosotros're on the topic of editing your profile, a mutual question we are asked is about how to link Instagram to your Spotify artist account. Well, artists can at present add social media links to their profile, making it easy for fans to find them elsewhere online. And if there's any advice we can give you, it's to make yourself as easy to find online as possible.

Like above, just head to the Profile tab in your Spotify for Artists account, click Most, and on the right-mitt side, there is a new 'More Info' panel. Hither you can add links to your Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and Wikipedia pages.

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Spotify also at present have their own 'Promo Cards' to help share your playlists, tracks and albums too as when you get featured on a Spotify playlist (or ane of its 60 other partner playlists) on Social media. These complimentary Spotify Promo cards as well include the ability to announce:

• Follower Milestones: Share your account milestone notifications with your fans when you reach 1k, 5k, 10k, 25k, 50k, 100k, 500k, 1M, 2M, 5M, 10M, 20M, 25M, 50M, and 100M followers on your Spotify profile.

• Charts Milestones: If your track enters the top l Top Global Weekly Songs nautical chart.

• New Release Badges: Promo Cards created for tracks, EP's or albums that have been released in the past seven days, there will be a special badge to alert fans of your new release.

• Deep-linking to Promo Cards: To make information technology easier for teams to coordinate around the creation of Promo Cards, Spotify accept added deep-linking to the site. When you navigate the site, the URL will update, and then you lot can send it to a collaborator to create their own card more easily without having to go through the "search" process.

Team Members

In September 2022 Spotify added an extra feature to Spotify For Artists, allowing artists to add team members to their account. Being a musician is a tough business, and having a squad around you to support and grow your career goes a long way to helping y'all get a success! Now your squad can assistance you lot even more than by accessing your information and contour.

All artists tin add team members to their Spotify For Artists account in three different access levels:

• Full Admission – users that you grant consummate admission to all your features, including creative person profile, stats, and the power to invite and edit team members
Recommended for: Ring members, managers, record labels

• Edit Access – these users can update your artist contour, view streaming stats, invite new team members for edit or view access, and view all members and their contact information
Recommended for: Booking amanuensis, promoter, publicist

• View Access – these guys can view your streaming stats merely
Recommended for: producers, collaborators

How exercise I add Team Members?

To add equally many members as you would like to your squad, simply signup or login to Spotify For Artists, and click the arrow next to your name. In the drop-down carte select 'Manage Team', which opens a page where you can input e-mail addresses for the lucky few you will give admission to, and gear up the access level for each.

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Spotify Information

Information technology's no surreptitious that hither at Spinnup we love data, and lots of information technology. Which is why we were and so excited to hear that Spotify has added fifty-fifty more data and analytics to the Spotify For Artists platform. You tin read all the info virtually it here, or read below of a breakup of what you can expect in your ain SFA business relationship.

• Stats for all songs – no longer do you have to earn yard streams to run across your information, now you volition see absolutely all of it for your top 200 songs. Don't take 200 songs notwithstanding? Well what are you waiting for? Get recording!

• Time filters – you tin at present view your data by 7 days, 28 days (so iv weeks, really), or ii years! The reason this is so useful is that information technology volition give you the hazard to see if any big pushes (recall PR bike, a particular gig, social media campaign etc) really fabricated an impact to your fans and streams.

• Follower data – your followers are your super fans, the ones who dearest your music so much they want to exist notified every time you release something new. In your SFA account you now have a Follower Timeline to exist able to track, and hopefully grow your follower count. More followers = more fans = more streams… you lot get the picture.

• Songwriter credits– You are at present able to exist publicly credited as a songwriter of tracks you have worked on alongside tracks you accept performed on.

In May 2022 Spotify publisher their first Fan Study, an in-depth look at how fanbases listen to music around the globe. It has some really useful info that all artists could learn from. Check out Spotify'south Fan Report here.

Pitching to Playlists

Equally of mid-2018, all artists are able to promote your music and pitch their music directly to Spotify in the hope of having their song placed on a Spotify-curated playlist. The best part, it takes just a few minutes and can all be done right from within your Spotify For Artists business relationship. The well-nigh important things to note are:

• Y'all can only pitch one song at a time per release, so if you have an EP or an album you tin only select one song from the projection

• Tracks can only be pitched if they are in a pre-release state. That ways you have created your release on Spinnup and set a release appointment in the time to come (we recommend two weeks at least), it has been approved by our squad and is sitting in the 'Upcoming' tab of your SFA account

This is such an important tool for artists to employ that nosotros have defended a whole separate weblog post to this.

Click hither to read our guide on how to apply Spotify'south playlist pitching tool

Straight Donations

The state of affairs for artists in times of the COVID-19 pandemic has changed: concerts and festivals are no longer bachelor, and with information technology the fees. What remains as a source of income is all your downloads and streams. Spotify has now released a peachy function that fans and followers can now support musicians even more directly – your own fundraising link!

Simply log in, click on the blueish banner in the Spotify for Artists Dashboard ("You lot can now add a fundraising link to your profile and then your fans can back up you or your crusade directly") and make full out the class:

Y'all can e.g. B. insert the link to your GoFundMe Page or Paypal link.

Then ostend, submit and you're washed! Your fans and followers can at present make a donation directly on your contour. All payments are forwarded straight and in total, Spotify does non retain any function of it. Withal, please note that the fundraising apps may charge small fees for the transaction.

There is so much on offer here for you lot to take advantage of, so access Spotify for Artists and explore the full rundown of new features on the Spotify weblog. Get your music on Spotify with Spinnup, log in to get started.