Updated May 27th 2021

Spotify is without a dubiety the giant of the music streaming world and a very good friend to artists (signed and unsigned) worldwide. One of the things we love most virtually Spotify is their artists-just tool Spotify For Artists.

Spotify is just 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 artist account under 'Stats & Action', to help artists gauge how their releases are performing from twenty-four hours i. All you need to exercise is a release your tracks on Spinnup and the data volition start showing in your business relationship 1 day after release.

As a music service but too a tech company Spotify is constantly evolving so nosotros have put together our one-stop-store for agreement Spotify For Artists, which nosotros will continue to update each time there is a new feature added to the service.

In this article nosotros will explain:

• How to merits your Spotify For Artists Profile
• How To Get Verified on Spotify
• How to edit your Spotify creative person profile & bio
• Adding social media links to your profile
• How to add team members to your Spotify For Artists account
• What information you tin find in your account
• How to pitch to Spotify Playlists
• Direct Donations

How to merits your Spotify For Artists account

Claiming your Spotify for Artists contour is a really easy process. To start, caput over to artists.spotify.com and then click on "Become Access".

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After hitting keep, search for your proper noun.

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

Click on "Yep, claim information technology" and on "Yes, go along".

Follow the steps that are indicated. You will have 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 3 days.

One time you receive the electronic mail notification, go back to the Spotify for Creative person folio and click "Log in". One time authenticated, go to "Your Dashboard" for instant access to start managing your contour on Spotify.

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Get Verified

No longer do you take to wait until you have 250 followers to fifty-fifty be able to use for verification. Instead, now all y'all need to do is have access to Spotify for Artists!

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

Simply if you're already verified don't worry, you don't need to do anything to continue the pretty blue tick on your contour. The new verification organization means you'll use Spotify for Artists to add and remove playlists from your contour, but employ your personal account to create and edit them.

What does this hateful for existing verified artists?

• You will keep your verification and all playlists will remain

• You volition now add and remove playlists in Spotify for Artists, just yous create and edit them from your personal account, like always

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

What if I'm not verified?

• You lot can go verified really hands, only by accessing Spotify for Artists, no more 250 followers!

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

• You lot may demand to wait a few weeks for the blue tick to announced on your profile.

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Artist Profile & Bio

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

The offset place to start? Your bio. Permit fans know more than almost y'all or your band, and convey your personality, creativity or sense of sense of humour. Have fun with information technology, only don't go too overboard!

Electronic musician Caribou keeps his bio short and sweet, but is a prissy touch!

How to edit your artist bio, step by step:

1. Go to your Spotify For Artists contour and gyre down to 'Artist Bio'

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

iii. Add links to your music, music you feature on, playlists – annihilation on Spotify! Just use the '@' symbol to wait upward playlists, artists or albums

4. If you lot have a Wikipedia page (if non, why not create ane? It'due south free and easy!) you lot tin add a link to that here.

Pimp your profile with an prototype gallery

As of March 2018 artists can at present make their Spotify profile wait fifty-fifty amend than ever with new custom image galleries. In one case you login to your Spotify for Artists account, go to Profile under Tools in the left-manus menu, just like you would to edit whatsoever of the info on your Spotify artist page. Higher up where you enter your bio you can now add upwards to 125 photos of your option! These could be official artist images, photos on y'all in the studio or making music, or on the road performing live – the possibilities are endless! It'southward a corking way to show fans what yous're upward to and let them become to know you better. You tin can also edit your gallery from the Spotify for Artists mobile app.

You tin can edit the gild of images, add or delete them at any time – so get artistic!

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

Add together a Canvas video to your releases

Having a slick looping video to play alongside your release in the Spotify app used to exist only for big-proper noun artists, only not anymore! Now all artists can add their own custom Sail video to every track within their Spotify For Artists account.

If y'all don't know what we're talking about, a Spotify Canvas video is an 8-second looping video that volition display full screen (vertically) instead of your album artwork in the 'Now Playing' view.

To add a Sail video to a rail yous need to be either the get-go main creative person listed on the track, or a main creative person listed on both the runway and release

How to add a Spotify Sheet Video:

i. Log in to Spotify for Artists.

2. Get to Music.

three. Select a rail.

4. Click ADD Canvass (web) /CREATE Sheet (mobile app).

While nosotros're on the topic of editing your profile, a common question we are asked is about how to link Instagram to your Spotify creative person account. Well, artists can now add social media links to their contour, making information technology easy for fans to find them elsewhere online. And if there's whatever advice we can give you, it'due south to make yourself as easy to find online every bit possible.

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

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Spotify likewise now take their own 'Promo Cards' to assist share your playlists, tracks and albums likewise as when you become featured on a Spotify playlist (or one of its 60 other partner playlists) on Social media. These free Spotify Promo cards also 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 peak l Top Global Weekly Songs chart.

• New Release Badges: Promo Cards created for tracks, EP'south or albums that have been released in the past vii days, there will be a special badge to alert 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 have added deep-linking to the site. When you navigate the site, the URL will update, and so you can send it to a collaborator to create their ain card more easily without having to go through the "search" process.

Team Members

In September 2017 Spotify added an extra feature to Spotify For Artists, assuasive artists to add team members to their business relationship. Existence a musician is a tough business, and having a team around you to back up and abound your career goes a long way to helping you go a success! Now your squad can aid you fifty-fifty more by accessing your information and profile.

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

• Total Admission – users that y'all grant complete access to all your features, including artist contour, stats, and the ability to invite and edit squad members
Recommended for: Band 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 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 together every bit many members as you would like to your team, only signup or login to Spotify For Artists, and click the pointer next to your proper noun. In the drop-down menu select 'Manage Squad', which opens a folio where you tin can input email addresses for the lucky few you lot volition give access to, and ready the access level for each.

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Spotify Data

It's no hugger-mugger that hither at Spinnup nosotros honey data, and lots of it. Which is why we were so excited to hear that Spotify has added even more information and analytics to the Spotify For Artists platform. You tin can read all the info nigh it here, or read beneath of a breakdown of what you tin can expect in your own SFA account.

• Stats for all songs – no longer practice you lot have to earn 1000 streams to see your data, now you will encounter absolutely all of it for your top 200 songs. Don't have 200 songs yet? Well what are you waiting for? Get recording!

• Time filters – you can now view your data by 7 days, 28 days (so four weeks, actually), or two years! The reason this is so useful is that information technology will give yous the take a chance to come across if any big pushes (recall PR cycle, a particular gig, social media campaign etc) really made an impact to your fans and streams.

• Follower information – your followers are your super fans, the ones who love your music so much they want to be notified every fourth dimension you release something new. In your SFA business relationship you now have a Follower Timeline to be able to track, and hopefully abound your follower count. More followers = more fans = more streams… y'all get the picture.

• Songwriter credits– Y'all are now able to be publicly credited as a songwriter of tracks you accept worked on alongside tracks you have performed on.

In May 2020 Spotify publisher their beginning Fan Study, an in-depth look at how fanbases listen to music around the world. It has some really useful info that all artists could learn from. Check out Spotify'south Fan Written report here.

Pitching to Playlists

As of mid-2018, all artists are able to promote your music and pitch their music direct to Spotify in the hope of having their vocal placed on a Spotify-curated playlist. The best office, information technology takes just a few minutes and tin all exist done right from within your Spotify For Artists business relationship. The most important things to annotation are:

• You can just pitch i song at a fourth dimension per release, then if you accept an EP or an album you tin merely select one song from the project

• Tracks can only be pitched if they are in a pre-release state. That ways you have created your release on Spinnup and ready a release date in the hereafter (nosotros recommend 2 weeks at least), it 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 nosotros have dedicated a whole separate blog post to this.

Click here 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 available, and with it the fees. What remains every bit a source of income is all your downloads and streams. Spotify has now released a dandy function that fans and followers tin can now support musicians even more direct – your ain fundraising link!

Simply log in, click on the bluish banner in the Spotify for Artists Dashboard ("You lot tin can now add a fundraising link to your profile then your fans can support yous or your cause direct") and fill out the form:

You can due east.g. B. insert the link to your GoFundMe Page or Paypal link.

And so confirm, submit and yous're done! Your fans and followers tin now make a donation direct on your contour. All payments are forwarded direct and in full, Spotify does not retain any role of it. However, please note that the fundraising apps may charge small fees for the transaction.

There is then much on offer here for you to take advantage of, and so admission Spotify for Artists and explore the total rundown of new features on the Spotify blog. Get your music on Spotify with Spinnup, log in to go started.