Below you'll find a massive and always growing list of Spotify playlist curators you can submit music to right now. If you're still a bit unsure what the best method is, or still have other questions, read our 'How To Get Your Music On More Spotify Playlists' first. This popular blog post contains valuable tips to grow as an artist on Spotify. Use the directory below to submit to Spotify.
Welcome to Spotify for Artists! We’ve created this guide to walk you through setting up your artist profile, customizing your presence, and growing your fanbase on Spotify.
- RouteNote is the only DSP on this list that will post any original music onto Spotify for free. This DSP will also post your music to 19 other platforms. Here ’s the complete list of all of the platforms this DSP will post your track to.
- According to the official notification, in general, Spotify will add 40,000 new songs to its platform every day. Users can listen to music from Spotify via the desktop client app, mobile app, or Spotify Web Player. Is Spotify Free? It offers two options for users to enjoy music, including Spotify Free and Premium.
- I'm a chiptune artist and I have gotten a lot of requests to put my music on Spotify. I've been looking for ways to do so but it seems I can only do it through aggregators. I cannot afford to use an aggregator and I would rather have control over where I put my music while not having to spend $10-$50 to submit my music to platforms.
- September 26, 2018. Spotify is growing at a rapid pace and it’s currently the biggest music streaming service in the world. Artists are able to upload their music onto Spotify for FREE via RouteNote. Artists keep full control over their music, there are no upfront fees and artists keep 85% of the royalties.
Delivery
Getting your music on Spotify.
Music is delivered either by a record label or a distributor. If you’re signed to a label, they’ll take care of getting your music to Spotify. If you’re independent, you’ll have to arrange distribution yourself.
If you don’t currently work with a distributor, Spotify works with companies who can handle the licensing and distribution of your music and pay you the royalties you earn when listeners stream your music on Spotify. There’s usually a fee or a commission involved, but each service is unique, so be sure to do a little homework before picking one that’s right for your needs.
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Note: If you want to pitch music to our playlist editors, it must be unreleased. We recommend picking a distributor that allows you to select a release date at least a week in the future. That way, you can ensure your music is delivered to us early enough to pitch it.
Visit our provider directory for a list of preferred and recommended distributors that meet our standards for providing quality metadata and protecting against infringement.
Prohibited Content
Guidelines for music on Spotify.
Spotify is an open platform for artistic expression. We believe in everyone’s right to share their voice. So generally, all creators and content are welcome on Spotify. However, in some scenarios where content is infringing, illegal, explicit, or hateful, it may be removed or filtered from Spotify. There’s more about what content is prohibited here.
Online music streaming services are the wave of the future, and despite some really great contenders — Pandora and Apple Music retain their own devoted fan bases — Spotify seems to have captured the hearts and ears of just about everyone who's tried it.
The experience for music consumers differs, in important ways, from the experience for music creators.
Spotify for Artists
Spotify maintains a separate website focused on artists. This site offers dashboards to assess individual track performance as well as aggregate streams and related metadata. With this tool, artists can track their music and see what's resonating (or not!) with the listening public.
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Application Fees
Artists cannot submit their material directly to Spotify. Instead, they must work with a label or a distributor. Even independent artists must work with a distribution partner. Each label or distributor features different costs, revenue sharing, and licensing arrangements. In other words, there's no one way, and no one price point, to get your work on Spotify.
However, podcasters — although they're encouraged to use an aggregator — are welcome to independently submit their shows.
Expected Revenues
Spotify pays artists through a stream-share model. Each month the service sets aside a pile of money allocated to pay license fees to the content providers. Spotify calculates your share of the pie — how many streams were yours, out of all the streams offered that month — then pays either your label, your distributor, or you personally, depending on your contract.
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Spotify returns 70 percent of its revenue to royalty and licensing payouts. Contemporary data about per-stream compensation isn't published widely anymore, but in 2014 rates varied between $0.006 and $0.008 per stream.