Claim Spotify for Artists

Claim your page through Spotify for Artists to manage its profile and see its audience data. You sign in with a Spotify account, and Spotify decides whether to grant access.

There are two separate tasks: connect the page in Run to direct future releases to it, then claim it on Spotify to manage the page. Completing one does not complete the other.

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

Edit your profile on Spotify after access is granted. Run automatically refreshes the picture and monthly listener figure from the profile you connected; you do not need to upload them again. See Your artist picture and monthly listeners for refresh behavior.

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.

If a release delivered through Run appears on the wrong page:

1. Open a support request with the release and links to the correct and incorrect pages.
2. Correct the connected profile in Run for future deliveries.

Changing the connection alone does not move a release that has already been delivered.