Imagine waking up to see one of your songs added to a Spotify playlist with thousands of followers. Your streams are climbing, new listeners are saving your music, and your monthly listener count is growing while you sleep. Sounds like a dream, right? The good news is that it is absolutely achievable, and it starts with one powerful free tool: Spotify for Artists.
If you are just getting started with releasing music, navigating the music industry can feel overwhelming. But Spotify for Artists simplifies a big piece of the puzzle by giving you direct access to pitch your music for playlist consideration, track your performance, and connect with fans in a meaningful way.
In this tutorial, we are going to walk you through everything you need to know as a beginner. You will learn how to set up and optimize your profile, how to pitch your songs to Spotify’s editorial team, and how to use your data to grow smarter. No complicated jargon, no confusing steps, just clear and practical guidance to help you get your music heard by more people.
What Spotify for Artists Actually Does (And What It Doesn’t)
Spotify for Artists is the official, completely free dashboard that Spotify provides to every artist on the platform. Think of it as your backstage pass to everything happening with your music on Spotify. Once you claim your artist profile, you unlock a suite of tools that covers four main areas: editorial playlist pitching, real-time streaming analytics, audience demographic data, and profile customization features like Canvas visuals, Clips, Countdown Pages, and even merch integration.
The pitching feature is the one that gets the most attention, and for good reason. It is the only official channel that lets you submit an unreleased track directly to Spotify’s in-house editorial team for playlist consideration before your release date. We are talking about the teams behind playlists like New Music Friday and other genre-focused editorial lists. You can learn exactly how to pitch to playlists inside the dashboard itself, which makes the process much less intimidating for first-timers.
Here is the part that most beginners miss, though, and it is genuinely important. Spotify for Artists only connects you with Spotify’s own editorial playlists. It has absolutely no reach into the thousands of independent curator playlists run by real people outside of Spotify’s team. Those independent playlists are actually where most organic discovery happens for independent artists, yet they require a completely separate outreach strategy. According to Spotify’s own pitching guidelines, pitching does not guarantee placement either, and the editorial acceptance rate for independent artists sits somewhere between 3% and 5%.
Understanding this boundary upfront is a game changer. When you treat editorial pitching as your entire playlist strategy, you are leaving the biggest slice of the opportunity untouched. Your full strategy needs to include independent curator outreach alongside your editorial pitch, not instead of it.
The good news is that access is open to everyone. Any artist with music distributed to Spotify can claim their profile and unlock all of these tools, regardless of whether you are signed to a label or releasing music completely independently.
The Two Types of Spotify Playlists Most Artists Confuse
Here’s something that trips up nearly every artist starting out on Spotify: there are actually three distinct playlist categories on the platform, and each one works completely differently. Mixing them up leads to wasted effort, missed opportunities, and a whole lot of frustration.
Editorial Playlists: The Official Route
Editorial playlists like New Music Friday, RapCaviar, and Fresh Finds are hand-picked by Spotify’s in-house team of music specialists. These are the playlists with the Spotify verification mark in the byline, and they carry serious reach. The only way to be considered is through the Spotify for Artists pitch tool, submitted at least seven days before your release date. No email outreach, no label connections, no third-party service gets you in here. The process is formally the same for independent artists as it is for major label acts, which sounds encouraging until you realize the acceptance rate for independent artists sits somewhere around 3% to 5%. Spotify’s editorial team receives thousands of pitches every single week, so competition is fierce.
Algorithmic Playlists: Earned, Not Pitched
Discover Weekly, Daily Mixes, and similar “Made For You” playlists cannot be pitched at all. They are generated entirely by Spotify’s algorithm, which watches how real listeners engage with your music: save rates, listen-through completion, skip rates, and playlist adds. You cannot submit your track for consideration here. What you can do is earn your way in by building genuine engagement signals over time. The one small exception worth knowing: pitching an unreleased track through Spotify for Artists automatically places it on your existing followers’ Release Radar, giving you a small algorithmic head start.
Independent Curator Playlists: Where Real Opportunity Lives
Independent artists often overlook the third category entirely, and that is a costly mistake. These playlists are built by bloggers, genre fans, and influencers outside of Spotify’s walls. They are reachable through direct outreach and playlist pitching platforms, making them the most actionable target for most independent artists. Here is the key insight: tracks placed on curator playlists with 1,000 or more followers see an average 34% increase in algorithmic playlist triggers within two weeks. Curator placements feed the algorithm directly by generating the real engagement data Spotify is watching. Services like Playlist Pump are built specifically to connect artists with the right independent curators, making this layer far less overwhelming to navigate than going it alone.
Skipping curator playlists while chasing editorial slots is one of the most common mistakes beginners make, and it leaves the biggest slice of discovery opportunity completely untouched.
How to Submit Your Music to Spotify’s Editorial Team
To pitch your music to Spotify’s editorial team, head to your Spotify for Artists dashboard and click the Music tab. You’ll see an “Upcoming” section where your unreleased tracks appear once your distributor has delivered them to Spotify. The key here: your distributor must submit the track at least 7 days before your release date for the pitch option to unlock. Pitching early also automatically queues your song for your followers’ Release Radar, so there’s a real bonus to not leaving it last minute.
A few eligibility rules to know upfront. You can only pitch one song at a time, so if you’re dropping an EP, choose the track that best represents your sound and story. Featured artist credits and compilations don’t qualify; you must be the primary listed artist to pitch.
Once you’re inside the pitch form, treat it seriously. Spotify’s editorial team receives thousands of pitches every single week, and the form is genuinely your one direct line to their curators. Fill in everything: genre tags, mood, instruments, the story behind the song, your hometown, and any marketing plans surrounding the release. The more context you give, the better chance an editor finds your track a home. Think of it less like a checkbox exercise and more like a creative brief you’d hand to a collaborator.
Step 1: Deliver Your Music Earlier Than You Think
Here’s something a lot of artists get wrong: they see “7 days before release” and treat it like a deadline to hit, not a floor to clear. Spotify’s official rule is that your music must be delivered at least 7 days before your release date to even be eligible for editorial pitching. Miss that window and you’re locked out completely, no matter how polished the track is or how strong your pitch would have been.
But here’s the thing: 7 days is the bare minimum, not the sweet spot. According to campaign data analyzing 2,400+ artist promotions, tracks pitched 14 or more days before release see roughly twice the editorial consideration rate compared to those submitted right at the 7-day cutoff. Spotify’s editorial team receives thousands of pitches every week, so giving them more runway to actually listen to your track makes a real difference. Aiming for 2 to 3 weeks before your release date is the smarter, more strategic move.
There’s also an automatic benefit that kicks in regardless of editorial outcome. When you pitch at least 7 days out, Spotify automatically queues your track to appear in the Release Radar playlists of all your current followers the moment it goes live. That’s guaranteed exposure to people who already care about your music, which gives you a baseline stream lift even if no editor picks up your pitch.
One hidden variable most beginners miss is distributor processing time. The 7-day Spotify window does not start when you submit to your distributor; it starts only after your distributor has successfully delivered the track to Spotify. Most distributors take 3 to 5 business days to process a release. That means you need to submit to your distributor at least 10 to 14 days before your release date just to safely clear the 7-day threshold, with 2 to 3 weeks being the more reliable target.
Build your timeline backward: start with your release date, subtract 7 days for the Spotify window, then subtract another 3 to 5 days for distributor processing. That’s the actual submission deadline you should be working from. Artists who plan this way stop losing promotion time to something as avoidable as a processing delay.
Step 2: Fill Out the Pitch Form to Actually Win Consideration
Once you’re inside the pitch form, the real work begins. This is where most artists either win or lose their shot at editorial consideration, and the difference usually has nothing to do with how good the music is. It comes down to how much useful information you give the curators to work with.
Start with genre, and go specific. The form lets you select up to three genres, and this is not the place to play it safe with broad labels. Tagging your track as simply “pop” tells a curator almost nothing, because editorial playlists are not built around broad categories. They are built around listener moods, subcultures, and moments. “Indie bedroom pop” or “dark R&B” or “lo-fi soul” maps directly onto actual playlist structures. Think about where your song would realistically sit in a playlist and choose genre tags that reflect that reality, not just the widest possible net.
The mood and culture fields are your emotional blueprint. Spotify’s editorial playlists are explicitly themed around listener experiences, so when you describe your track’s mood as “late-night drive” or “heartbreak” or “Sunday morning coffee,” you are speaking the exact language curators use when they build those playlists. Be genuine and specific here. A track that clearly belongs in a “rainy day focus” playlist is far easier to place than one described only as “emotional.”
Do not skip the story field. This is the most underused section on the entire form, and that makes it your biggest opportunity. A real human at Spotify reads every pitch submission, meaning your words are not filtered by an algorithm before they reach someone’s eyes. Explain what the song is about, why you made it, and any personal or cultural context that makes it relevant right now. A brief, honest creative story is genuinely differentiating in a queue of thousands of pitches each week.
Fill in your collaborators, your hometown, and your rollout plan. Curators consider the full creative team, so list your producers, featured artists, and songwriters. Add your city, since editors sometimes look for regional sounds. Then describe your promotional momentum: a music video, a press feature, upcoming tour dates, a social campaign. External activity signals that you are serious about the release, and according to 2026 pitching data, tracks backed by a real promotional plan consistently outperform those submitted in isolation.
Spotify’s own guidance puts it plainly: “the more you tell us, the better chance we’ll have of finding your song a home.” Every blank field you leave empty is one less reason for a curator to choose your track over the next one in line.
Step 3: The New Video Pitching Feature Rolling Out in 2026
Spotify quietly started rolling out a video pitching feature inside Spotify for Artists in 2026, and it opens up a genuinely exciting second editorial channel for artists. Through your dashboard, you can now navigate to the Video & Visuals section and submit eligible videos directly to Spotify’s editorial video playlist team. The two formats that currently qualify are official music videos and performance videos; lyric videos are not eligible at this stage. If you’re curious about how the rollout is progressing, industry creator Coco Mocoe broke it down publicly on Instagram, and the comments section alone shows just how uneven access has been, with some artists holding 30,000 monthly listeners reporting they still don’t see the option in their dashboard.
The timing rule mirrors audio pitching almost exactly. Your video must have been released or distributed within the past 7 days to be eligible, so plan your video release alongside your audio drop and pitch both promptly. One important workflow note: song and video pitches are completely separate submissions. Pitching your track does not automatically pitch your video, so make sure you submit both for maximum editorial consideration.
Not everyone has access yet, and that’s okay. Check your dashboard regularly since availability depends on your region and account setup. Even without access, releasing a music video alongside your audio is still a smart move. According to Spotify promotion best practices for 2026, Spotify’s systems reward strong listener behavior signals, and video content drives exactly the kind of saves and engagement that feed those algorithms. Getting comfortable with this workflow now puts you ahead when the feature scales fully.
The Honest Truth About Editorial Acceptance Rates
Let’s be honest about something most tutorials gloss over: the odds of landing an editorial playlist placement as an independent artist are genuinely low. Industry estimates put the acceptance rate for indie artists without major label backing at somewhere between 3% and 5% for meaningful placements. That means even a well-crafted pitch, submitted on time with all the right details, will most likely not result in a placement. That’s not a flaw in your approach. That’s just the math of the system.
The competition side of this equation is worth understanding clearly. Spotify’s editorial team receives thousands of pitches every single week, while the number of available playlist slots stays relatively fixed. Consider that roughly 100,000 new tracks are uploaded to Spotify every single day. Even if only a fraction of those artists submit a pitch, you’re still looking at an enormous volume of submissions competing for a limited number of spots. This is a structurally low-probability channel, not because of anything you’re doing wrong, but because of simple supply and demand.
None of this means you should skip editorial pitching. A single placement on a major playlist like New Music Friday can completely change an artist’s trajectory, bringing thousands of new listeners, algorithmic triggers, and real career momentum. The upside is enormous. But editorial pitching should never be your only strategy, and understanding the acceptance rate helps you treat it correctly: as one valuable tool in a larger promotional approach, not the whole plan.
It’s also worth noting that independent artists genuinely do break through. According to Spotify’s own playlisting page, more than 150,000 artists were playlisted for the first time across 2020 and 2021 alone. That’s a real number, and real proof that the door is open. However, most of those breakthroughs happened alongside other promotion activity, not from editorial pitching in isolation.
When a rejection comes (and it will), try not to read it as a verdict on your music. Spotify doesn’t provide feedback through the pitch form, so your engagement data becomes your surrogate signal. Check your save rate, stream completion rate, and playlist adds from other sources. According to analysis of 800+ successful editorial placements, factors like submitting earlier and building pre-save momentum meaningfully increase success rates. Refine what you can, keep improving your releases, and submit again with your next track.
What to Do After You Get Playlisted (Most Artists Skip This)
Getting playlisted is genuinely exciting, but here is the part most artists miss completely: the placement itself is just the starting gun. What you do in the hours and days immediately after determines whether that placement becomes a breakthrough or just a blip.
The moment you get playlisted, go into Spotify for Artists and grab your promotional assets right away. Spotify gives you a unique playlist link that puts your song in the first position when fans click through, plus access to Promo Cards at promocards.byspotify.com where you can build shareable graphics announcing the placement. Spotify even tells artists directly to “get loud when you get playlisted.” Post these assets across every social channel you have, use them in your Instagram Stories, and pin the announcement to your profiles. You worked hard for this placement, so make sure your audience actually sees it.
The first 48 to 72 hours after a placement are the highest-leverage window you have. During this period, listener behavior sends powerful signals back to Spotify’s algorithm. Saves, full song completions, profile visits, and return listens all tell the algorithm whether real people are connecting with your music. Strong signals during this window make it significantly more likely that your track gets extended reach through algorithmic playlists like Discover Weekly or Daily Mixes.
Your goal during this window is to drive your existing audience to the track as aggressively as possible. Hit your email list, post on every platform, use story links, and ask your most engaged fans directly to save the song. The benchmark worth knowing: save rates above 5% are associated with a much higher chance of algorithmic playlist placement. Tracks sitting below 2% risk being suppressed by the algorithm even after earning a placement. Your off-platform hustle is a direct input into your algorithmic growth.
Keep your Spotify for Artists analytics open throughout the placement window. Watch which cities and listener demographics are responding strongest. This real-time data is genuinely useful intelligence; it tells you which audience your music is connecting with most naturally, and that insight should directly shape the mood, genre framing, and story you tell in your next pitch.
Why Spotify for Artists Is Only Half Your Playlist Strategy
Here is something worth saying plainly: Spotify for Artists is a genuinely useful tool, but it is not a complete promotion strategy. It covers exactly one of the three playlist categories on Spotify, which is editorial. That leaves two entire channels untouched, and those two channels are where most independent artists actually build momentum.
Algorithmic playlists like Discover Weekly and Release Radar cannot be pitched to at all. They are earned through listener behaviour, specifically things like save rate, completion rate, and how often someone comes back to play your track again. Independent curator playlists, the third category, are built by real people, music fans, bloggers, and niche community builders, and they are reached through direct outreach or third-party pitching platforms. Spotify for Artists has no pathway into either of these.
Independent curator playlists are actually where the most accessible discovery opportunity lives for most artists starting out. The editorial acceptance rate for independent artists sits somewhere between 3% and 5%, meaning the vast majority of pitches go nowhere. Curator playlists, by contrast, range from a few hundred to hundreds of thousands of followers, are far more numerous, and are genuinely reachable with the right outreach approach. A well-matched placement on a niche curator playlist with an engaged audience also feeds the exact engagement signals that trigger algorithmic growth, meaning the two channels work together rather than separately.
The data on multi-channel promotion is hard to ignore. Artists who combine editorial pitching with independent curator outreach and structured release promotion see up to 8.2x faster streaming growth compared to those relying on a single channel, based on analysis of over 12,000 releases. The same approach produces 2.3x faster follower growth across more than 2,400 campaigns studied. Follower growth compounds over time, so each new release starts from a higher base and gains traction faster. If you want to explore Spotify’s own algorithmic lever, Discovery Mode is worth understanding as an additional option.
Thinking of Spotify for Artists as your whole strategy is like knocking on one door when hundreds are available. The editorial door is the most visible one, but it is rarely the one that opens.
How to Combine Editorial Pitching With Independent Curator Outreach
Think of editorial pitching and independent curator outreach as two engines powering the same vehicle. A lot of artists treat them like separate campaigns, but they actually feed each other in a way that makes both work better. Industry campaign data across more than 2,400 releases found that tracks placed on independent playlists with 1,000 or more followers see an average 34% increase in algorithmic playlist triggers within two weeks. That means more Discover Weekly appearances, more Release Radar adds, and a growing stream count that signals to editorial curators on your next release that your music has genuine traction.
The sequencing matters here. Your editorial pitch has to come first because Spotify’s tool only works with unreleased music. Submit your pitch through Spotify for Artists as early as possible, ideally two to three weeks before release. Once that pitch is submitted, pivot immediately to independent curator outreach and run both channels simultaneously leading up to your release date. Use the genre, mood, and subgenre language you filled out in your editorial pitch form as your guide for which independent playlists to target. If you described your track as “melancholic indie folk with cinematic production,” that description tells you exactly which curators to find.
When you reach out to individual curators, make it personal. Look at their playlist before sending anything. Reference two or three specific tracks already on that playlist that share a sonic or emotional connection to your song. Generic submissions that say “I think your followers would love this” get ignored constantly. A message that says “I noticed your playlist leans toward atmospheric, late-night tracks with sparse instrumentation, and my song sits in that exact space” shows you have actually done the work.
Platforms like Playlist Pump take a lot of that manual research off your plate entirely. Rather than spending hours hunting for genre-matched curators, Playlist Pump connects you with curators who are actively seeking new music in specific genres, which improves the relevance match between your submission and the curator’s actual playlist focus.
Finally, track everything. Keep a simple spreadsheet logging which playlists you pitched, when you pitched them, and what results followed. Over time, patterns will emerge: which genres convert, which timing relative to your release date drives the most saves, which moods resonate. That data makes every future campaign sharper and more efficient than the last.
The Engagement Signals That Unlock Algorithmic Playlists
Spotify’s recommendation engine in 2026 weighs six core engagement signals when deciding whether your track deserves algorithmic playlist placement: save rate, completion rate, playlist add rate, return listens, profile visits, and stream source. Understanding how these signals work together is the difference between a track that quietly disappears after release and one that keeps finding new listeners weeks later.
Save rate is the single most important number to watch. Tracks with save rates above 5% are significantly more likely to trigger algorithmic placement, while tracks sitting below 2% are actively at risk of being suppressed in the recommendation system. Think of it as a confidence vote from listeners. When someone saves your track, they are telling Spotify directly that they want to hear it again, and that signal carries serious weight. A track with 1,000 streams and 200 saves will almost always outperform a track with 10,000 streams and 10 saves in Spotify’s algorithmic economy, because depth of engagement matters far more than raw volume.
Completion rate rewards great songwriting from the very first second. Spotify tracks whether listeners actually finish your track or bail early. If your skip rate within the first 30 seconds climbs above 30%, the algorithm starts pulling back on recommendations. The practical fix is simple in theory but requires real craft in execution: put your strongest hook within the opening 30 seconds. Do not save the best part for a big chorus at the two-minute mark.
Where your streams come from matters just as much as how many you get. Streams generated by active listener behavior, such as playlist adds, organic search, or direct profile visits, carry far more algorithmic weight than passive background listening. This is exactly why legitimate curator placements are so valuable. When a real listener adds your track to their personal playlist after hearing it on a curator playlist, that single action sends a stronger signal to Spotify than dozens of passive plays.
Profile visits act as a catalog multiplier. When a placement sparks genuine curiosity and a listener clicks through to your artist profile, Spotify reads that behavior as a signal that the listener wants more of your music. That interest feeds the lookalike audience system, increasing the likelihood that your older tracks start appearing in that listener’s Discover Weekly or Daily Mix. At Playlist Pump, connecting artists with curators who serve genuinely matched audiences is a core focus precisely because matched placements generate exactly these kinds of high-quality downstream signals.
How to Vet Playlist Promotion Services and Avoid What Hurts You
Not every promotion service out there is looking out for your career. Some of them will actively damage it, and in 2026, that is not an exaggeration.
Fake streams and bot-driven promotion have crossed a line from “wasteful” to genuinely harmful. Spotify’s fraud detection has become sophisticated enough to identify streaming activity that does not match real listener behavior, specifically streams with no saves, no skips, no profile visits, and no regional consistency. When Spotify flags your track, the consequences can include song removal, royalty clawbacks, algorithmic suppression, or in serious cases, account suspension. The short-term vanity numbers are never worth that risk.
The red flags are usually obvious once you know what to look for. Be cautious of any service that guarantees a specific number of playlist placements before they have even listened to your music. Real curators make independent decisions based on whether a track fits their playlist, so guaranteed placement is not a curatorial promise; it is a sign that something artificial is happening behind the scenes. Other warning signs include no visible curator roster, prices that seem impossibly low for real human curation, and stream reports that show big play count spikes with zero accompanying saves or profile visits. That last one is especially telling, because real listeners save tracks they enjoy.
Legitimate services behave differently. They can show you their curator network, explain how genre matching works, and provide reporting that includes save rates and listener engagement alongside raw stream numbers. Verifiable artist results matter too. If a service cannot point to real outcomes with real artists, that absence says something.
Before committing to any promotion service, ask three direct questions: where exactly do the streams come from, are the curators real and identifiable people running active playlists, and what engagement metrics beyond play counts will you actually report on? A legitimate service will answer all three without hesitation.
At Playlist Pump, the entire model is built around direct curator relationships and genre-relevant targeting. Your music gets submitted to real playlists run by real curators, with transparent reporting on the engagement signals that actually move the algorithm forward.
Your Practical Release Timeline for 2026
Everything you have read so far comes together in one place here: a simple week-by-week plan you can follow for your next release.
Weeks Minus 4 to Minus 3: Distribute and Prepare
Upload your finished track to your distributor and schedule your release date at least four weeks out. This gives your distributor enough processing time and ensures Spotify receives your music well before the editorial pitch window opens. While you are waiting for the upload to process, use this time productively. Write your track story, pin down your exact genre and any subgenre, list every collaborator involved, and sketch out your marketing plan. Having all of this ready before the pitch form opens means you are not rushing or guessing when the moment counts.
Weeks Minus 3 to Minus 2: Pitch and Reach Out
The moment your track appears as an upcoming release inside your Spotify for Artists dashboard, submit your editorial pitch immediately. Do not wait. This two-week window is genuinely your highest-leverage promotional period, so treat it that way. At the same time, start reaching out to independent playlist curators. These two activities run in parallel, and that combination is exactly what drives stronger algorithmic results. Services like Playlist Pump are built for this window, connecting you with real curators who match your genre so that outreach is targeted rather than scattershot.
Week Minus 1: Build Anticipation
One week out, shift your energy toward your audience. Launch your pre-save campaign across social media, send a teaser to your email list, and push any press or blog coverage you have secured. The goal is to arrive at release day with genuine momentum already building, because organic engagement on day one signals strength to Spotify’s algorithm.
Release Week: Monitor Everything
Share your Spotify for Artists promo card and drive traffic from every channel you have. Watch your save rate and completion rate daily. The first 72 hours after release carry more algorithmic weight than any other period in your campaign, so stay active and responsive throughout.
Weeks 1 to 4 Post-Release: Analyze and Apply
Keep curator outreach going for tracks that still feel timely. Dig into your streaming data to see which cities, age groups, and listening contexts responded best. That intelligence is not just useful now; it directly shapes how you write your next pitch form and plan your next release strategy.
Building a Spotify Strategy That Actually Works
Everything covered in this guide comes down to one idea: Spotify rewards artists who treat the platform as a connected system, not a series of random uploads.
Start with the foundation. Claim your Spotify for Artists profile, complete every field, add a compelling bio, upload a strong header image, and submit your pitch at least two to three weeks before release. Fill out every section of the pitch form, including genre, mood, story, and marketing plans, because each field helps Spotify’s editorial team match your track to the right context. If the video pitching feature has rolled out to your account, use it.
Then accept the 3% to 5% editorial acceptance rate as a market reality and build around it. Independent curator outreach is where most real discovery happens, and curator placements directly feed algorithmic growth. Tracks placed on legitimate curated playlists with engaged followers see measurable increases in algorithmic triggers within two weeks.
Throughout everything, protect your engagement signals. A save rate above 5%, strong completion rates, and active playlist adds are what actually move Spotify’s recommendation engine forward. Raw play counts without genuine engagement do nothing useful.
That is exactly where Playlist Pump comes in. We connect independent artists with genre-matched curators who are actively looking for new music, bridging the gap between editorial pitching and real playlist discovery so your release strategy works as one synchronized campaign rather than disconnected guesswork.
Conclusion
Building a real audience on Spotify is not reserved for artists with big budgets or industry connections. With Spotify for Artists, you have everything you need to take control of your music career starting today. To recap the key takeaways: set up and optimize your profile to make a strong first impression, pitch your unreleased music to Spotify’s editorial team before your release date, use your streaming data to understand your audience, and stay consistent with your releases to keep momentum going.
Now it is your turn to take action. Log into Spotify for Artists, complete your profile, and start preparing your next pitch. Every major artist started exactly where you are right now. The playlist feature, the fans, and the streams are all within reach. You just have to show up and use the tools available to you.