Updated May 27th 2022

Spotify is without a doubt the giant of the music streaming world and a very good friend to artists (signed and unsigned) worldwide. I of the things we love nigh virtually Spotify is their artists-only tool Spotify For Artists.

Spotify is merely one of the many major online retailers we distribute to, only it also i we collect important trend data from that is displayed in every artist account under 'Stats & Activity', to aid artists gauge how their releases are performing from day ane. All yous demand to do is a release your tracks on Spinnup and the data will start showing in your account 1 24-hour interval subsequently release.

As a music service just besides a tech company Spotify is constantly evolving so nosotros have put together our 1-cease-shop for understanding Spotify For Artists, which we will continue to update each time at that place is a new feature added to the service.

In this article nosotros will explain:

• How to claim your Spotify For Artists Profile
• How To Go Verified on Spotify
• How to edit your Spotify creative person profile & bio
• Adding social media links to your profile
• How to add squad members to your Spotify For Artists account
• What data you tin can find in your account
• How to pitch to Spotify Playlists
• Direct Donations

How to merits your Spotify For Artists account

Challenge your Spotify for Artists profile is a actually piece of cake process. To start, head over to artists.spotify.com and so click on "Become Access".

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After hitting continue, search for your name.

One time y'all've establish information technology, log in with your account or create one that yous desire to associate to manage that artist contour.

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

Follow the steps that are indicated. You volition take to link your contour to your website, to your Twitter or Instagram account in order to verify your identity. The Spotify team will review your request and get back to you within three days.

Once you receive the email notification, go back to the Spotify for Artist page and click "Log in". Once authenticated, go to "Your Dashboard" for instant access to offset managing your profile on Spotify.

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Get Verified

No longer practise y'all have to wait until yous have 250 followers to even be able to apply for verification. Instead, now all you need to practice is have access to Spotify for Artists!

If you don't already have access to Spotify for artists, click hither and follow the steps to admission your account.

Merely if you're already verified don't worry, you don't need to do annihilation to go along the pretty blue tick on your contour. The new verification system means you'll employ Spotify for Artists to add and remove playlists from your profile, but use your personal business relationship to create and edit them.

What does this hateful for existing verified artists?

• You volition keep your verification and all playlists will remain

• Yous will now add and remove playlists in Spotify for Artists, but you create and edit them from your personal account, like ever

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

What if I'grand not verified?

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

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

• You may need to look a few weeks for the blueish tick to announced on your profile.

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Artist Contour & Bio

Now that you lot're a bonafide and verified Spotify artist yous are able to freely edit your public profile! Get your creative hats on because now you tin update your artist image as often as you alter your outfit – sounds like a lot of work, just each to their own! You tin also show people what music yous're jamming to past choosing your 'artist's pick' that sits at the top of your profile, and add playlists – either ones you've created or your favourites that y'all want to share with your fans.

The first identify to commencement? Your bio. Allow fans know more virtually you lot or your band, and convey your personality, creativity or sense of humour. Accept fun with information technology, but don't go too overboard!

Electronic musician Caribou keeps his bio brusk and sweetness, but is a overnice touch!

How to edit your artist bio, step by stride:

one. Go to your Spotify For Artists profile and curl down to 'Artist Bio'

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

three. Add links to your music, music yous feature on, playlists – annihilation on Spotify! Just apply the '@' symbol to look up playlists, artists or albums

4. If you have a Wikipedia page (if not, why not create one? It's complimentary and easy!) you can add a link to that hither.

Pimp your profile with an image gallery

Equally of March 2022 artists can at present make their Spotify profile look fifty-fifty ameliorate than ever with new custom paradigm galleries. One time yous login to your Spotify for Artists account, go to Contour under Tools in the left-mitt menu, simply like yous would to edit any of the info on your Spotify creative person folio. To a higher place where you enter your bio y'all tin now add up to 125 photos of your option! These could be official artist images, photos on you in the studio or making music, or on the road performing live – the possibilities are countless! It'due south a nifty way to show fans what you're up to and let them get to know you better. You tin can also edit your gallery from the Spotify for Artists mobile app.

You lot can edit the order of images, add or delete them at any fourth dimension – so get artistic!

Prototype requirements:
jpeg, gif or png
690px x 500px
Avert text, logos, and busy backgrounds
Max 125 images

Add a Canvas video to your releases

Having a slick looping video to play alongside your release in the Spotify app used to be merely for large-proper name artists, but not anymore! Now all artists can add their own custom Canvas video to every runway within their Spotify For Artists account.

If you don't know what nosotros're talking about, a Spotify Canvas video is an 8-2nd looping video that will display full screen (vertically) instead of your album artwork in the 'Now Playing' view.

To add a Canvas video to a track yous need to be either the first main creative person listed on the track, or a main artist listed on both the runway and release

How to add a Spotify Canvas Video:

i. Log in to Spotify for Artists.

2. Get to Music.

3. Select a track.

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

While we're on the topic of editing your profile, a common question we are asked is well-nigh how to link Instagram to your Spotify artist account. Well, artists can at present add together social media links to their profile, making information technology easy for fans to find them elsewhere online. And if in that location's any advice nosotros tin give yous, it's to make yourself as easy to find online as possible.

Like above, simply head to the Profile tab in your Spotify for Artists account, click Nigh, and on the right-hand side, there is a new 'More Info' panel. Here 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 aid share your playlists, tracks and albums as well as when yous go featured on a Spotify playlist (or one of its 60 other partner playlists) on Social media. These gratis Spotify Promo cards also include the power to announce:

• Follower Milestones: Share your account milestone notifications with your fans when y'all 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 pinnacle l Top Global Weekly Songs nautical chart.

• New Release Badges: Promo Cards created for tracks, EP'southward or albums that take been released in the past 7 days, at that place will be a special bluecoat to warning fans of your new release.

• Deep-linking to Promo Cards: To make it 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 so yous tin can send information technology to a collaborator to create their ain 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. Existence a musician is a tough business, and having a squad effectually you to support and grow your career goes a long fashion to helping you go a success! Now your squad can help y'all fifty-fifty more by accessing your data and profile.

All artists can add team members to their Spotify For Artists business relationship in three different access levels:

• Total Admission – users that you grant complete access to all your features, including creative person profile, stats, and the ability to invite and edit team members
Recommended for: Band members, managers, record labels

• Edit Admission – these users can update your creative person profile, view streaming stats, invite new team members for edit or view access, and view all members and their contact data
Recommended for: Booking agent, promoter, publicist

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

How do I add Team Members?

To add equally many members as you would like to your team, simply signup or login to Spotify For Artists, and click the pointer next to your name. In the driblet-downward menu select 'Manage Team', which opens a page where you can input email addresses for the lucky few you will give access to, and set the access level for each.

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Spotify Data

It'south no hole-and-corner that here at Spinnup we love data, and lots of it. Which is why we were so excited to hear that Spotify has added even more data and analytics to the Spotify For Artists platform. You lot tin can read all the info almost it here, or read below of a breakdown of what you tin can expect in your ain SFA account.

• Stats for all songs – no longer do you have to earn 1000 streams to see your data, at present you will see admittedly all of information technology for your pinnacle 200 songs. Don't take 200 songs yet? Well what are you waiting for? Go recording!

• Time filters – you can now view your information by seven days, 28 days (and so 4 weeks, really), or two years! The reason this is so useful is that it volition give yous the adventure to see if any big pushes (remember PR cycle, a particular gig, social media campaign etc) really made an impact to your fans and streams.

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

• Songwriter credits– You lot are now able to be publicly credited as a songwriter of tracks you have worked on alongside tracks you take performed on.

In May 2022 Spotify publisher their kickoff Fan Study, an in-depth look at how fanbases heed to music around the world. It has some really useful info that all artists could learn from. Check out Spotify'southward Fan Study hither.

Pitching to Playlists

Every bit of mid-2018, all artists are able to promote your music and pitch their music straight to Spotify in the promise of having their song placed on a Spotify-curated playlist. The best office, it takes but a few minutes and can all be washed correct from within your Spotify For Artists business relationship. The nigh important things to note are:

• You can but pitch one song at a time per release, and so if you have an EP or an anthology you can just select one vocal from the project

• Tracks tin can only be pitched if they are in a pre-release state. That means y'all take created your release on Spinnup and set a release date in the future (nosotros recommend 2 weeks at least), information technology has been approved by our team and is sitting in the 'Upcoming' tab of your SFA account

This is such an of import tool for artists to use that we have defended a whole separate blog post to this.

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

Straight Donations

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

Just log in, click on the blueish banner in the Spotify for Artists Dashboard ("Y'all can now add a fundraising link to your profile so your fans can back up yous or your cause directly") and fill out the course:

You tin can e.g. B. insert the link to your GoFundMe Page or Paypal link.

Then ostend, submit and y'all're done! Your fans and followers can now make a donation directly on your profile. All payments are forwarded straight and in full, Spotify does non retain any part of it. Notwithstanding, please notation that the fundraising apps may charge small fees for the transaction.

There is then much on offer hither for you 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 become started.