let's go over the Spotify for artists profile everything you need to know from
getting set up all the way to launching your music online. So we want to get a
verified Spotify for artists profile how are we gonna go about doing that first
we need to get our music set up with a music distributor different ones are
like tune core distro kid, CD Baby. I mean all of them have their pros and cons it
doesn't matter which one you use they all get your music in more or less the
exact same places this is when you can start your application for a Spotify for
artists profile is when they recognize that you've submitted a song to them so
let's say you're using DistroKid for example and you've uploaded your song to
DistroKid and you've submitted it to Spotify let's start the process at this
point. So let's go to Google and let's type in Spotify for artists
we're gonna want to go to the first one here artists.spotify.com and so
this is where we will claim our profile and you will click this orange button
that says claim your profile claim an artist profile if you already have music
on Spotify you can get access to stats pitch tracks our editors and more great
so here's where you would actually claim your profile the only way to clean your
profile is if you have your music on Spotify if you have a profile yet and so
we have to search our name whatever your name is for example we can search mine
that's me Charles Cleyn I'm not going to claim my profile because I have already
claimed it but when you've distributed your music to Spotify your name will
show up there don't worry if it doesn't show up the day after you've uploaded
sometimes it does take a few days to actually get there so you may have to
wait a couple days don't worry about it too much once your name shows up there
claim your profile and then you'll get a profile that looks like this so this is
what an artist's profile looks like this is me Charles clean zero people
listening to my music right now this is the home page that gives you top blog
articles here and resources for singer songwriters sometimes they're really
good but sometimes they can be a waste of time on the right here
we have basically top stats in the last seven days and then obviously our top
songs in streams here is the main navigation we have home music audience
and profile music is where we can get all the information regarding our music
the number of streams listeners saves when you first actually uploaded your
song to Spotify will have a sub navigation here with releases playlists
and upcoming music all of it all of this sub navigation is very useful
specifically the upcoming section this is where you'll be able to see a new
music that you will eventually release so if next month he will go again and
upload another song to distro kid if you wait two or three days the song will
show up here before it is actually on Spotify and here is where you can
actually pitch to Spotify curators official Spotify curators with the hopes
of getting on a big Spotify editorial playlist playlist section really just
says where your songs are being played algorithmic editorial obviously I don't
have any editorial place right now and then listener playlists a big one
because these are user generated playlists the releases section holds a
music that is currently out there so I have three singles that I released this
last year and then add an EP that I released the year before that here we
can easily see some data around that if you want to go deeper on the data you
would go to the main navigation and click audience here is where you can
actually get streams per day or listeners per day also followers per day
here so listeners streams and followers you also have the option to download
this data as a CSV file and if you want to crunch the numbers on your own and
the excel sheet or some type of data visualization software you can
absolutely do so I don't spend the time doing that understanding the source of
streams is really helpful the biggest thing to look out for which I like is to
understand if people are listening on their own playlist and library this is a
metric that tells you if people actually have really taken the song and put it
into their own live and they're listening to it on a daily
level I find this metric way more powerful than this biggest metric which
is other listeners playlists which just means user-generated playlists and if
someone is listening to music on a place and really really likes your song they
should convert and put that into their listeners own playlists so you want to
make sure your listeners own playlists and libraries metric and that percentage
number does increase over time you have more stats on the listeners gender and
the listeners age this is helpful just to give you a bit more insight you can't
really do much with that unless you have a huge amount of data if you don't have
many monthly listeners you can't read into this data too much just because
your sample size is not big enough it's the same thing for countries if your
sample size isn't big enough don't read too much into this data the last thing
on the main navigation here is we have profile and this is our actual profile
on Spotify this is our official verified Spotify for artists profile here is
where you have the control to edit everything well most things except the
songs we have the chance to edit your main cover photo here we have the option
to edit our About section and we can add our image gallery photos by clicking
this pencil if we want to add more photos or edit the current photos we can
press this pencil here to edit our bio and the same thing goes for this pencil
to edit our links concerts you can't actually add your concerts specifically
here you have to use the ticketing partner which is Songkick so you have to
go to Songkick sign up for a profile and Songkick upload your concert data on
Songkick and then it will be automatically pulled on Spotify there's
this artist pic section here and I do recommend actually doing something there
it only lasts for 14 days so mine just expired the other day so I have to go
and either promote an upcoming concert maybe a promo to playlist me or promote
a picture the benefit of having something there is to just show that
you're active and engaged so I'll show you what that looks like actually on a
Spotify page so if we go to my page on Spotify this is what actual listeners
are seeing and this data is being pulled exactly from where
we were on our artist page here and so if you decide to do an artist's pic
which I do recommend it will show up here so overall this is everything you
need to know to get a Spotify for artist profiling to really manage it look at
the data and look at your streams and edit the profile I'm a singer-songwriter
myself you saw my profile there if you're interested or curious to hear
what I sound like go check out some of my music and feel free to stick around I
make a lot of videos and if you want more content on entrepreneurship music
marketing or or my own music feel free to stick around I hope to see you in the
next video.