Have you ever had music show up on your Spotify profile that isn’t yours? Whether it’s a metadata mix-up, a same-name artist, or outright impersonation, these errors can disrupt your catalog and skew the data that helps fans discover your music.
What is the Spotify Artist Profile protection tool?
Spotify is testing a new “Artist Profile Protection” feature that lets you approve or reject releases before they go live on your profile. It’s the latest step in addressing the rise of AI music slop – mass uploads of low-effort music by bad actors trying to game Spotify’s shared royalty pool system.
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Who is the Spotify Artist Profile Protection tool for?
The new feature will give artists more control over the music that appears on their profiles, but may not be for every artist. If you opt into the tool, you’ll be required to review every release before it goes live – forgetting to review might cause delays or legitimately block your release. Spotify recommends this tool only for artists who actively manage their catalog.
How does it work?
If you’re part of the beta, you’ll find Artist Profile Protection in your Spotify for Artists settings on desktop or mobile web. Artist Team Admins and Editors can manage these settings. Once enabled, you’ll receive an email anytime music is delivered to Spotify using your artist name. From there, you can review eligible releases and choose to approve or decline them.
If you approve a release, it will go live under your profile on its release date and count toward your stats and fan recommendations as usual. If you decline it — or take no action — it won’t appear on your Spotify Artist profile.
To streamline legitimate releases, Spotify will give you an artist key – a unique code you can share with trusted partners. Any release delivered with your artist key is automatically approved and will go live as normal.
Next steps
As the feature is in early beta, the tool is not finalized. Spotify will collect feedback from artists and continue to refine it before rolling it out widely.
If you’re not included yet, or choose not to opt in, releasing music still works the way it always has. And if a release is misattributed to you, you can still report it to Spotify.
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