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Follow your inspiration & create the music you want to share with the world via Spotify’s platform.
Spotify is the most popular music streaming platform in the world. With listeners in every country around the globe, there are millions of potential fans waiting to hear your music.
Get startedFollow your inspiration & create the music you want to share with the world via Spotify’s platform.
Apply to Identity Music, a Spotify Platinum Preferred Provider, to upload your music to Spotify.
Successful applicants get access to a distribution dashboard to upload music to Spotify.
Track your trends & monitor your Spotify revenue earnings in your dashboard & receive monthly royalty payouts.
If your music is eligible, we’ll opt your tracks into Spotify’s Discovery Mode to boost your reach. With our in-house Discovery Mode experts, you can rest safe in the knowledge that we’re actively monitoring your music’s performance and using performance data to add or remove tracks - so your Spotify earnings are maximised.
Land your music in one of Spotify’s globally-trusted and hugely-followed editorial playlists as part of our promotional support - at no extra cost. We use our well-honed pitching knowledge to achieve Spotify editorial playlist placements for our artists every week, achieving more streams, more followers and more revenue for your music.
While Spotify’s the most recognisable name in music streaming, it’s not the only place your music can earn royalties. With Identity Music, you can distribute your music to Spotify AND over 80 other music platforms in a single click - so you can reach your fans however they prefer to listen to music.
We’re proud to have one of the most responsive & effective support teams in the music industry. Our Client Management team are available to help our clients with any distribution, promotion or rights management questions via email, social DMs, live chat or telephone call, with an average live chat response time of under 2-minutes.
Access powerful, in-depth Spotify analytics to help you understand your audience better. Our advanced Spotify metrics go a step further than Spotify For Artists provides and include skip rates, finish rates, saves to library and under 30 second listening rates - all of which can be used to inform your music strategy and music marketing efforts.
We work with independent artists & record labels to bring the best music to the biggest global platforms. We’re a driving force in making the music industry a better place, from fighting fraud to tackling artificial streaming and everything in between. As an Identity Music client, you’re choosing a better future for independent music.
We’re a different kind of music distributor. No upfront fees, no hidden costs & no exclusive contracts. Identity Music offers a better way to get your music on Spotify.
Reach millions of listeners in just a few clicks — no hassle, no hidden fees.
Uploading music to Spotify with Identity Music comes with no upfront fees or unexpected costs.
As a full-service boutique music distributor, we work with independent artists & record labels on a royalty share basis, where you always keep the lion’s share of your royalties.
When you apply to work with us, we’ll consider your goals and our expertise and offer you a royalty share to reflect your needs as an artist or label.
Distributing, promoting and protecting your music with us includes no upfront fees, no additional costs for extra features, and no long-term contracts locking you into unfavourable deals.
Releasing music on Spotify through our intuitive distribution dashboard is simple. Once you’ve hit ‘Distribute’, your music is sent over to our distribution queue, where it’s thoroughly checked and reviewed by our team to make sure there are no errors, issues or licensing concerns.
We review every release within 3 working days (usually much sooner!), then, if you’ve chosen ASAP distribution, we’ll send your music straight to Spotify. Spotify can take 1-2 days to fully ingest after we’ve distributed your release, then it will be live for your fans to enjoy!
Through close partnerships with music platforms across the world, we offer distribution to over 80 global platforms from your Identity Music dashboard.
Alongside releasing music on Spotify, you can also upload your music to platforms like Apple Music, Amazon Music, TikTok, Deezer and many more.
We’re constantly working on new partnerships and adding to our distribution platforms, so keep an eye on the full list here for any updates.
Spotify royalties are paid out to your distributor each month. As an Identity Music artist or record label, your Spotify revenue (along with revenue from other streaming platforms you distributed your music to) will be paid out to you monthly, a maximum of 45 days after the end of the month your royalties were earned in.
The more Spotify streams your music gets, the more Spotify revenue you earn - so it’s natural to want to do everything in your power to increase your streaming stats.
Through Editorial Playlist Pitching, Spotify Discovery Mode and social media promotion, we help you to increase your reach on Spotify to achieve more streams of your music. Alongside this, we’d recommend keeping an active social media presence, to build a deeper level of engagement with your fans, and maintaining a consistent release schedule to give fans new music to listen to.
One thing we would not recommend is paying for Spotify streams.
While there are companies who claim to offer ‘legitimate, organic’ streams of your music in exchange for a few dollars, paying for these services is against Spotify’s terms of service and the organic streams they’re offering are almost-always artificial bot streams, which can result in you receiving fines, takedowns and even prosecution.
You can find out more about the dangers of artificial streaming here.
No! Regardless of how many of our partnered music platforms you choose to distribute your music to, there are no extra charges or additional costs.
Our royalty share basis means that there are no upfront costs to distributing your music and you always keep the lion’s share of your earnings, no matter how many platforms your music is released on.
Client support is one of the things we’re best at. Our Client Management team can be contacted via email, social media, live chat or telephone. Our support team are real humans with a real desire to help you resolve any issues - with no chatbots or automated responses in sight.
During our working hours (10am-6pm UK, Monday to Friday), our live chat response time is under 2-minutes, making us one of the most responsive distributors you could choose to work with.
To get your music featured in editorial playlists on Spotify, we pitch your music to Spotify’s editors. Using our experience and expertise to write playlist pitches that capture the attention of Spotify’s curators, we have a good success rate with achieving placements in the biggest, most popular Spotify playlists.
Verifying your Spotify artist page can be done by claiming your profile on Spotify for Artists.
Create an account using your email address and provide a social media account link - we can even provide you with links to pre-release content on Spotify, and help you find your artist profile before it becomes publicly available.
To get your music featured in editorial playlists on Spotify, we pitch your music to Spotify’s editors. Using our experience and expertise to write playlist pitches that capture the attention of Spotify’s curators, we have a good success rate with achieving placements in the biggest, most popular Spotify playlists.
You can find out more about the different types of Spotify playlists here.
Our music distribution dashboard gives artists and record labels insight into Spotify performance. From streaming trends to revenue reports, you can dive deep into data to inform your music growth.
As an artist, you can also access Spotify streaming trends, including details of playlists you’ve been featured in, via your Spotify For Artists account.
We’re not a DIY, hands-off, self-service distributor. At Identity Music, we go further than other distributors to support your music career, through promotional support, digital rights management, publishing administration - and more.
We invest time and resources into every one of our independent artists and record labels, so we want to make sure that we’re the right fit for your needs. By taking the time to vet each and every artist and label we work with, we’re able to make sure we’re able to give every client a level of attention that you won’t get from other music distributors.
You can, via your Spotify For Artists account.
However, the competition for achieving Spotify editorial playlist placements is fierce. By managing your Spotify playlist pitching for you, we’re able to utilise our close relationship with Spotify alongside our experience of which pitches are successful to give you a higher chance of placement.
While we can’t ever guarantee editorial playlist placement (and anyone who tells you they can isn’t being truthful!), we do have a higher rate of success than self-pitching.