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As your trusted partner, we wanted to take a moment to warn you about some deceptive advertisements we’ve recently seen for illegitimate music promotion services.

Third parties that promise playlist placements or a specific number of streams in exchange for compensation are likely using illegitimate practices without your knowledge. These services can threaten your hard work, resulting in the potential withholding of streams or royalties, or even complete removal of your catalog from streaming services.

Our streaming partners work diligently to ensure streams are legitimate, meaning they reflect genuine user listening intent. If a service finds that you (or a third party hired by you or on your behalf) have boosted play counts through any automated, deceptive, fraudulent or other invalid means (digital bots, “click farms”, payment for placement on playlists, etc.), the service may permanently remove your entire catalog.

If you’re in the market for a music promotion service, make sure to do your research before you hire them.

Read more:

Spotify: Third party services that guarantee streams

Spotify: What Is Artifical Streaming?

You cannot find this in the Labeel Platform, please contact our support team with your inquiry.

If you have a label account, go to analytics.spotify.com and follow the steps for signing upp. Read more about how to gain access to Spotify Analytics here.

You can also find statistics from Spotify and other DSPs in ALOADED's Label Platform.

Read this FAQ from Spotify , it answers a lot of questions – https://analytics.spotify.com/faq

For more info on how to work with Spotify as a label, check The Spotify Hub

Check out Spotify's Hub for labels with lots of info on how to use Spotify as a label. Click here to access the Spotify Hub for Labels.

How do I make the most out of the Spotify tools that are available?

Yes you can! But you will need our support team to send you an URL to your un-published profile first.

Spotify for Artists is designed to maximise the benefits of Spotify for artists, labels, and distributors by offering insights into audiences, enabling profile personalization, and providing tools to grow fanbases. Labels with music on Spotify can access a suite of features, including:

• Album-level data across the catalog

• Custom date ranges for analytics

• Playlist pitching

• Canvas upload

Labels can also add multiple team members and view an activity log with a new Activity Page. Both artist and label teams can update artist profiles, from bios to Artist Picks.For newcomers, a label onboarding guide is available, alongside case studies demonstrating the tools' effectiveness.To access these features, you need a Spotify account and your work email. If you're the first from your organisation to sign up, you'll need the URIs of at least 3 tracks previously delivered to Spotify. Subsequent requests will be directed to your S4A Label Team's Admin.

Essential Spotify for Artists resources:

1. Claim process

2. Onboarding guide

3. Case studies

1. If you are an artist, login to your Spotify account (or create a new one for this artist - free or premium doesn't matter).

2. Follow this link: https://artists.spotify.com/c/access/artist

3. Search for your profile/release.

4. Verify that you have the right to claim the profile by connecting your social media channels like Instagram or Facebook.

5. Done! This could take just a minute, or a few days...

Check out the Best Practice Guides as well.

Accurately crediting songwriters is not only a matter of recognition and fairness but also crucial for managing rights and royalties. This practice ensures that artists and providers receive detailed reporting necessary for operating their businesses efficiently. By maintaining accurate songwriter information, we support the equitable distribution of revenue and insights that contribute to the growth of creators' careers.

If your music’s on a different artist profile, or if another artist’s music is on your profile, there are a few ways to get it fixed. This can easily happen when releasing your debut release (or first new release with a new distributor). It's easily fixed, and often can be corrected within hours. Here's how:

Report the problem in Spotify for Artists. If you have access to Spotify for Artists, fill in this quick form and Spotify will fix your problem: https://artists.spotify.com/c/content-mismatch

Don’t have access to Spotify for Artists? Contact the Spotify for Artists support team and let us know there’s music on the wrong artist profile. Once your music’s in the right place, we can help you get access to Spotify for Artists.

Tip: In Spotify for Artists, you can catch errors before they’re visible to listeners. Check out your upcoming releases in the Music section. If you notice an incorrect release, or don’t see a release you’re expecting, get in touch with Spotify via Spotify for Artist.

Spotify's Service Level Guideline mandates a delivery lead time of five business days for new products. This is the minimum period required to ensure your music transitions from delivery to live status without any hitches. However, this is just the baseline.For priority releases, it's advisable to start the delivery process at least 8 weeks in advance. This extra time is crucial for planning marketing strategies and pitching support effectively. Given the competitive nature of the music industry, planning ahead is essential. Being early not only helps avoid confusion but also minimizes concerns during the pre-release phase. Remember, the five-day lead time is the minimum to ensure smooth operations, but the real key to success lies in early preparation to address any potential issues well in advance, allowing for a seamless release and maximising the impact of your work.

Accurate Original Release Dates are crucial for showcasing the true scope of an artist's work, enabling listeners to discover various versions of a song or album. As a distributor, we're committed to accurately delivering these dates and maintaining the right data structure to preserve the authenticity of an artist's discography. We ask labels and artists to clearly distinguish and accurately provide Copyright (C) and Publishing (P) dates to ensure high-quality music metadata. When there's a discrepancy of more than one year between the original release date and the C/P lines, we conduct validations to confirm accuracy to ensure they are justifiable and maintain metadata integrity.

Understanding the implications of artificial streaming is crucial for our labels and artists. Spotify has clear policies in place to address artificial streaming activities, and as your digital distributor, we are committed to ensuring transparency and fairness in how these policies affect you. Here's what you need to know:

What is artificial streaming?
Artificial streaming refers to streams generated in a manner that does not reflect genuine listening behaviour. This can include the use of bots or incentivized streaming.

How does Spotify handle artificial streaming?
Spotify imposes penalties for artificial streaming activities to maintain the integrity of its platform. These penalties are directed at distributors, like us, rather than individual artists or labels.

How are penalties applied?
When Spotify identifies artificial streaming, they may levy penalties that impact the financial distribution from streamed content. It's important to note that these penalties are applied to us, your distributor, not directly to our labels or artists.

Our commitment to you

Protection of non-violating artists

We ensure that any penalties charged by Spotify for artificial streaming activities do not negatively impact artists who did not engage in or release the violating tracks. We stand by the integrity of our artists and are committed to safeguarding your interests.

Transparency in communication

We pledge to communicate transparently with you, our valued clients, about the nature of any penalties related to artificial streaming. While Spotify charges us, the distributor, for instances of flagrant artificial streaming, we assure you that we will only pass these charges along to the correct violating artists.

Public commitment

Beyond our assurances to Spotify, we are making a public commitment to ensure that penalties for artificial streaming activities do not unfairly affect non-violating artists. We believe in the power of music and the rights of artists to earn fairly from their creations.

In summary, as your partner in music distribution, we are dedicated to upholding the highest standards of integrity and transparency. Our goal is to navigate the complexities of digital music distribution while protecting and promoting the interests of our artists and labels. If you have any questions or need further clarification, we are here to help.

Yes, we know. It can be quite a mess... If you need personal help with setting it all up (claiming profiles, create content for your profile, connect social media accounts etc etc) we are happy to help you. We take care of everything, and you can focus on your music. Our prices starts at 40 € per hour. Get in touch!