Labels and artists

Spotify users have access to one of the fastest growing catalogues of licensed music in the world. Music fans get to enjoy their favourite artists, showcased in a high-quality application that’s a delight to use. The net result is an unparalleled user experience and a compelling legal alternative to piracy. By having your music on Spotify you earn a royalty when your music is played. Also, since all the music played is tracked – all participating labels and artists access powerful and in-depth reporting from Spotify.

We are constantly adding albums and tracks to Spotify and want to offer our users all of the music in the world. If you are interested in offering your music on Spotify, follow the instructions below to submit your music.

How to get your music to Spotify

Spotify’s current launch countries are France, Finland, Norway, Spain, Sweden and the UK but we accept music from all countries.

If you represent a label:

The quickest way for a new label to get its music onto Spotify is to contact a record label or aggregator that already has an agreement and delivery process in place with Spotify. We have a complete list of aggregators we work with.

If you represent an aggregator:

Please contact us at content@spotify.com.

Please note that we are integrated with delivery platforms such as FUGA and Consolidated Independent. Deliveries via these platforms will speed up the time it takes to get content on Spotify.

If you are an “unsigned artist”:

Artists don’t need to be signed or have a record deal to get their music on Spotify. Upload your music to one of the artist aggregators we work with. They help you license your music to online music services such as Spotify.

If your music already is on an aggregator that Spotify has a deal with:

Usually this means that your music will automatically be available on Spotify. To be on the safe side, check with your label or aggregator. Please note that it usually takes about 4-6 weeks to get your music on Spotify.

If your music is on Spotify, but you believe you don’t have an agreement with Spotify:

All the music on Spotify has been licensed from and delivered by labels or other rightsholders. Usually when an artist asks us how their music ended up on Spotify, it turns out that the artist’s music has been licensed and delivered by a label or aggregator without the artist knowing about this. If you are positive that nobody else could have licensed your music to Spotify, then please contact us.

Financial compensation to record labels and artists:

We have deals with necessary rightsholders in all of our launch countries. Together with them we have agreed upon a royalty based on how frequently your music is played. For detailed information, please contact your record label or your collecting society.

If the name of an album, track or other metadata relating to your album is incorrect.

All the metadata (name of album, track, artist etc) has been delivered by the relevant record label or aggregator. Spotify does not change the metadata ourselves. If you find that the metadata is incorrect, please contact your label or aggregator to have this corrected. We will update our database with the correct information as soon as the label or aggregator has sent us an update with the correct data.

Biographies on artist-pages:

All biographies on Spotify come from All Music Guide and Wikipedia. If you want to add or update your biography, do it on Wikipedia and AMG. We’ll update them the next time we load new biographies.

Promoting an artist on Spotify:

We are discussing developing new features in Spotify that will allow labels and aggregators to promote artists on Spotify. When we come up with something creative that we think will work in practice, we’ll notify you. In the meantime, we suggest that you promote your music on blogs etc. using Spotify URIs, which you can access by right clicking on your album or songs.

If you have any further questions, please check our help section or contact us: content@spotify.com