Claim Spotify for Artists

Spotify for Artists is Spotify’s own dashboard for the artist page your listeners see. Claiming it puts that page under your control and opens the numbers behind it.

Run delivers the release that creates the page, and a connected Spotify profile on your artist keeps later releases landing on that same page. The claim itself happens on Spotify, with a Spotify account, and we cannot do it for you.

What claiming gives you

• Control of the page itself: profile image, bio and artist pick.
• Your audience and stream figures, as Spotify reports them.
• Playlist pitching for music you have not released yet.

Pitching and editorial decisions

You can pitch tracks to official Spotify editorial playlists through Run. A pitch asks the editors to consider your music; Spotify’s editors decide which tracks to include. It never guarantees placement, streams or a particular playlist.

The Spotify editorial playlists shown on Run’s home page are examples of editorial destinations, not a list of placements Run has secured for your music. Claiming your artist profile gives you access to Spotify’s own artist tools. That access and a pitch are separate from an editorial decision: neither gives you control over what a playlist includes.

Before you start

• At least one release live on Spotify. The artist page is created when Spotify ingests a release, so there is nothing to claim before that. Run hands a release to the stores in under 24 hours; how long ingestion then takes is Spotify’s own clock, not ours. Tracking delivery shows where a release has reached.
• A Spotify account to sign in with. Any account works. It does not have to be new, and it does not have to be a paid one.
• The right artist page. If more than one page carries your name, note the one your release actually landed on. That is the page to claim.

Claim it

1. Open your release on Spotify and click through to the artist page it is credited to.
2. Copy that page’s link.
3. In Run, open Artists, edit the artist and paste the link into its Spotify field if it is not connected already. This is the step that keeps your next release on the same page: see Your store pages.
4. Go to Spotify for Artists and sign in with your Spotify account.
5. Select the artist page from step 1 and follow the steps Spotify shows you. Access is granted by Spotify, on Spotify’s terms.

After it is granted

You edit the profile on Spotify from then on. Run does not hold a second copy of your picture or your bio: the picture and the monthly listener figure on your artist card in Run are read from your connected Spotify profile and refreshed on their own, so a change you make there shows up here without you doing anything. Your artist picture and monthly listeners explains that in full.

If the claim is refused, or the page is wrong

Spotify decides who gets access, so a refusal is theirs to explain and theirs to reconsider. Their support is the only route for that, and for merging two pages that are both yours.

There is one case worth bringing to us. If a release we delivered landed on the wrong artist page, or minted a second page next to the one you already had, open a request at Support with the release and links to both pages. We can tell you which page identifier the release was delivered against, which is usually what settles it. Fix the connected profile in Run at the same time, or the next release repeats the mistake.