How to Submit your song for playlist consideration by Spotify Editors

  1. If you already have a Spotify for Artists account, you may receive an email like this once your unreleased music is eligible for submission. The subject line will be: “Your music is scheduled for release.”
  2. Log in to Spotify for Artists on desktop.
  3. Make sure your artist pictures and bio are up-to-date. Spotify may use these things when they share your music.
  4. Click “Music” in the top navigation bar
  5. Click “Upcoming.”
  6. Choose a song from the list and click “Pitch a Song.”
  7. Fill out as much info about the song as possible. Select your genres and culture, moods, styles, language, region, and instrumentation…
  8. Lastly, make a short pitch (a few sentences). Try to describe what’s interesting about the music, any important featured artists, or even details about your music marketing plan. Spotify wants to see that you’re working for the track’s success as well.

That was pretty easy, right? If your song gets placed in an editorial playlist, Spotify will send you an email notification.

Submitting a song to Spotify’s editorial team.

  1. You still need distribution; this is not a process for delivering music to Spotify directly, only for drawing Spotify’s attention to a track that has already been delivered to their ecosystem. Distrokid is a great option for music distribution.
  2. You can only submit one unreleased song at a time for editorial playlist consideration; once the song drops, you can then submit another unreleased track to their team.
  3. Submitting an unreleased song for consideration also guarantees that your Spotify followers will have the track added to their Release Radar playlists on Friday.
  4. Spotify wants DATA to help them match the best songs to the right editorial playlists. They say: It’s important to give us as much information about the track as possible — genre, mood, and other data points all help us make decisions about where it may fit. You can note the instruments on it, whether it’s a cover, and the cultures you or the song belong to. The data you share will be complemented by what we already know about you — what else your fans listen to, what other playlists you’ve appeared on, etc.
  5. You can only submit music on desktop devices; the submission process does not work in the mobile version of Spotify for Artists.
  6. You must submit at LEAST seven days in advance of the song’s release; but the more lead-time you give Spotify, the better. We recommend at least 15-30 days in advance. It can also take them an additional day or two on the front end to process the music once your distributor hands it to them. Plan ahead!
  7. It is not possible to submit music that has already been released.
  8. This process is FREE, and there is no mechanism by which to pay to increase your chances of placement. Don't fall for any misleading advertisements.
  9. An album only gives you ONE chance to get your new music out there (and onto a Discover Weekly playlist). Instead, think about more frequent releases (singles and EPs) that will put your music onto fans’ radars far more often. If you release a series of singles that are eventually included on an album, those songs can retain the same ISRCs (unique identifier codes for individual songs) as long as the sound recording is identical. That means that the play counts for the previously released songs on that new album will automatically carry over.