Spotify for Artists - Music stats & insights

Discover Spotify for Artists

Spotify for Artists is designed to assist artists in expanding their fanbase, growing their business, and shaping the world around their music. Spotify for Artists offers a range of free tools tailored for artists and their teams. This app enables you to comprehend your audience, manage your artist profile, sell merchandise, and commemorate new releases and achievements. Stay updated and view your performance stats from anywhere with ease - whether you are in the recording studio, on tour, or preparing for your next release.

Key Features of Spotify for Artists:

- Gain insights into who's listening to your music and where your songs are being heard through audience metrics, playlist data, and song insights.

- Track real-time listenership globally to see how many people are streaming your music at any given time.

- Acknowledge your accomplishments with instant statistics for latest releases, notifications when added to playlists, and follower milestones.

- Customize your presence on Spotify by managing your profile, playlists, and Artist Pick.

- Elevate your tracks by incorporating brief looping visuals using Canvas.

- Handle your merchandise store within Spotify using our Shopify integration to promote your products on your artist profile, release pages, Now Playing view, and more.

- Effortlessly switch between artists to monitor new releases, analytics, and profiles for your entire portfolio.

- Access the latest articles, updates, and videos to stay informed about industry trends and best practices.

- Engage with us for assistance and share your feedback and questions; we are here to provide support.

Get your music on Spotify

Reach millions of listeners and find your fans around the world.

① Choose a distributor

Music gets uploaded to Spotify via a distributor. For a fee or commission, distributors will handle the licensing and distribution to Spotify and other streaming services, and pay you royalties when listeners stream.

Check out our directory for our preferred and recommended providers here.

②Upload your music

Make sure your music is release-ready before uploading via your distributor.

√ Export the highest quality lossless files of your music and follow your chosen distributor’s guidelines for uploading.

√ Provide your metadata: album title, credits, release date, etc.

√ Upload cover art for your release.

③ Access your dashboard

Give a face and name to your music by setting up your profile.

√ Once your music is on Spotify you can access your artist profile and your Spotify for Artists dashboard, where you can track performance and manage your content.

√ After verifying your identity, you’ll get full access to the profile and a verification check next to your artist name.

√ Customize your profile by adding photos, a bio, links to your social media, merch, and playlists.

Click here to access your profile.

④ Prepare for release

Ahead of release day, make sure to:

√ Optimize your artist profile.

√ Pitch our playlist editors.

√ Upload a Canvas to your tracks.

Click here to review the release guide.

Connect with Us:

Feel free to let us hear from you via artistsupport@spotify.com.