Claim Apple Music for Artists
What Apple Music for Artists gives you, what you need before claiming your artist page, the steps, and what to do if the page is wrong.
Claim your page through Apple Music for Artists to manage its profile and see your catalog’s performance. Sign in with an Apple Account and follow Apple’s access process.
Connecting a page in Run directs future releases to that page. Claiming it with Apple gives you access to Apple’s artist tools. These are separate tasks.
What claiming gives you
- Control of the artist page: your image and your milestones.
- Plays, listeners and Shazams, with where they are coming from.
Before you start
- At least one release live on Apple Music. The artist page comes into existence when Apple ingests a release, so there is nothing to claim before then. Tracking delivery shows how far a release has got.
- An Apple Account to sign in with.
- The right artist page. Open your release on Apple Music and follow the credit through to the page it points at. If two pages carry your name, that is the one to claim.
Claim it
- Open your release on Apple Music and click through to the artist page it is credited to.
- Copy that page’s link.
- In Run, open Artists, edit the artist and paste the link into its Apple Music field if it is not connected yet. Run accepts the page link, an older link with the numeric identifier in it, or the identifier on its own. See Your store pages.
- Go to Apple Music for Artists and sign in with your Apple Account.
- Claim the artist page from step 1 and follow the steps Apple shows you. Access is granted by Apple, on Apple’s terms.
After it is granted
Everything on the Apple Music page is edited there from then on.
Connecting the Apple Music page in Run does not change what your Apple dashboard shows. It changes where your next delivery goes, which is the part we control.
If the claim is refused, or the page is wrong
Apple decides who gets access, and Apple’s support is the route for a refusal or for two pages that should be one. We have no standing in that conversation.
For a release delivered to the wrong page, open a support request with the release and links to the correct and incorrect pages. Also correct the Apple Music connection in Run for future deliveries. The connection change does not move an already-delivered release by itself.