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Spotify for Artists
Spotify's official, free artist platform: editorial playlist pitching, release tools, profile management and first-party streaming analytics. Core platform is free. Marquee and Showcase campaigns require $100–$10,000 budgets; Discovery Mode takes 30% of recording royalties from qualifying campaign streams.
- Best for
- Editorial pitching and the data every other decision runs on. Every artist with music on Spotify who wants official profile control, release analytics, editorial pitching, and Spotify-native promotion.
- Skip if
- Never; claim it before your first release.
- First move
- Claim your profile and pitch your next single 4+ weeks early. Claim the profile, audit its images and bio, invite the team, then deliver upcoming music early enough to pitch at least seven days before release.
- Watch out
- One editorial pitch per release; don't waste it on filler. Catalog metadata must be corrected through the distributor, while lyrics are managed through Musixmatch. Paid campaigns and features such as Discovery Mode, Clips, and video uploads have audience, market, distributor, or rollout restrictions.
- Reach
- Mainstream scale
- When
- Useful from day one.
- Based in
- Sweden