WayV's songs are included in the playlist This Is NCT, and i suggested to remove them. I'm looking forward to it. They recently released their 1st Full Album called 'Awaken The World'. They already have 1 single digital called 'The Vision', 2 Mini Album called Take Off and Take Over The Moon, and released an english version of Love Talk which is a song from Take Over The Moon album. In total, there are already 26 songs. And WayV is the first chinese group to exceed 1 Million Listeners on spotify. I'm suggesting spotify to give them their seperate playlist, so we can listen to WayV's songs on repeat and besides, WayV deserves it. I'm hoping and looking forward to this. Thank you so much. ... View more

Recently, Spotify has engaged in a streaming fraud purge that has gotten numerous songs removed, estimates range from 760k to 1m. Numerous artists have gotten their songs taken down for being included on fraudulent playlists that use streaming farms. Here's the thing, many of these artists did not ask to be included on these playlists, or had their songs put on their due to the actions of a PR agency, or other party. Artists will then have their song taken down, and their distributor will say that they cannot reupload with their service. Please 1) Provide artists more advance warning so they can rectify fraud situations, as not all cases are deliberate   2) Develop alternative corrective actions (ie, discount fraudulent streams from royalty payments) 3) crack down harder on the actual perpetrators here, the shady playlisters. On Twitter, i have seen several cases in which an artist will have their music taken down from a shady playlist, but the playlist is still up! Please consider 1) Manual authentication once playlists hit certain follower/listener thresholds 2) capcha's on listener accounts to stop bot farms. 3) focusing on detecting fraud accounts more so than artists using them ... View more

They still do not have a “This is Nu’est” playlist, and this will make it more accessible and convenient for new listeners who are interested to listen to NU’EST and NU’EST W’s discography. They recently released their newest EP, The Nocturne, on May 11, and this can help to reach their music to the masses~ Their title tracks have a few million streams cumulated and through this playlist, it will allow more Spotify users to discover the artist NU’EST! I sincerely hope that this playlist can be implemented to to further broaden the variety and outreach to all listeners on Spotify!   for those voting: please make sure you add a username to your spotify community profile for your vote to count after you login using your spotify account!!! you need a community username for your vote to be counted! to check if you have voted, click on the number of votes and see if your community username is there, if it is there, you have successfully voted! thank you so much LOVES  ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ... View more

Cover art is an important part of every release and some of the time sells someone on checking out the release, it would be great to have an option to add credit to the artist on a release.   Same thing can be said for other people who have had their hand in a release, with physical releases you can usually find a whole list of credits for a track, the option to add this into the digital releases would be amazing. ... View more

The idea is straightforward and could help artists and composers to earn their bread during the Covid-19 Pandemic (and thereafter):   - Introduce a "buy me a coffee"  ☕ button in Spotify to allow users and fans to support their favorite artists directly .   What do you think? Fabio Monnet ... View more

I'd like to propose that Spotify removes the track play counts on artists' public profiles for three reasons. 1) They encourage bad behaviour 2) They are contributing to mental health issues in the independent music community 3) The serve little real value.    1) They encourage bad behaviour No one wants a profile that shows <1000 plays for their tracks or only a few thousand but this is a reality for most independent artists regardless of how good they are. The volume of music out there is so great that a large percentage will always be in this camp. So a whole industry has developed to 'sell' streams to musicians. Many are scams and of course do not deliver real listeners - and are against Spotify's T's & C's. A second industry of stream-for-stream has developed where people with little interest in your music will play it (not listen to it) so that you will play theirs - all in service of boosting those play numbers on your profile.  Just look at the number of Facebook groups there are.   2) They are contributing to mental health issues in the music community To some readers, this statement will sound melodramatic, but it is a real concern. The internet and social media provides a whole host of great opportunities for indie musicians but the presure of keeping up with all the channels is immense. The play counts significantly adds to this pressure and as a result, a number of musicians have gone under and others teeter on the edge.   3) They serve little real value At the top end, who really cares that Ed Sheeran has 12m plays vs 24m? Spotify already shows which are the most popular tracks to guide listeners. At the other end it is, as written above, causing unnecessary stress and bad behaviour.   Implementing this idea is a win-win for Spotify. It's a good Corporate Responsibility action; recognising the damage it is causing and it will save money i.e. not paying out on many silent streams.    Thanks for reading this far and I hope you will support this suggestion. ... View more

Instead of donate buttons or other direct to artist tips/payments, how about a more natural system of donating to the artists one listens to via an optional monthly donation system. Doing it this way could have some major benefits for both Spotify and the artists.    The idea is simple: keep the streaming services the way they are, with their low prices and low payouts, but add a voluntary "tip the artists you listen to" system where 100% of the tips go to the artists. Keeping the payments low lets low income users enjoy their music, while the optional payments will help the people who can afford it feel good about using Spotify to listen to the music they love. Win-win!   Users are simply given the option to pay a little more on their monthly bill with the promise that 100% of that extra money goes to the artists that they listen to. Eventually the system could even send the customer a list of the artists they contributed to, but it would not take long for the news to get out that artists were starting to make more money from Spotify, which would make people want to give more. People who love music really do want the artists they love to do well.   The advantage to Spotify would be the bragging rights that they pay artists more. The advantage to the customer is that they can feel good about streaming   music ... especially local small-time artists!   Artists would be much more likely to encourage the use of the streaming service and customers would be encourage to listen to more local artists on Spotify. Artists would also be incentivized to put more of their   music   on the streaming service and since they would be making more money from it, they would be encouraged to make more of it. Everyone wins!   Here is an extreme example. Let's say I choose to add a $10 tip to my monthly Spotify fee, but I am an infrequent user and I only listen to my friends band that month. Then the friends band would get the entire $10, since I only listened to them. The band would then be highly incentivized to promote streaming their songs on Spotify and a band with a few thousand followers could make significant money from their   music . This would in turn give Spotify major bragging rights and praise from the artists.   If Spotify started doing this, Pandora, Apple and eventually Google would be encouraged to follow suit or they would risk loosing the artists. If Spotify does this right, eventually artists could go direct to Spotify and skip the record labels and skip ASCAP, BMI, and SESAC.   I really think it is time for   musicians   to start making money again and I would love to see Spotify help them with that. ... View more

There should be a section in the Spotify Community for artists to get help. Right now there is not a dedicated section and artists have to post in a section that is not related. This makes it hard for artists to get answers because their post will get overlooked if posted in the wrong section. It also makes it hard to search for artist threads that have already been answered.   The focus of Spotify has always been towards the user, but now with the new Spotify Artists site and all of the amazing tools for artists, the artists shouldn't be left out on the community either. There should be a section under help specifically for artists to ask their questions and to get help. The section could be titled "Spotify for Artists" and have a description that explains what to post there.   There has been an increasing amount of threads from artists and they have been getting great and helpful answers from other artists in the community. Most of these questions are just general questions that other artists can answer. Artists that require more assistance will of course still have to contact the artist team via the form. Adding this new section would make it easier for them to find answers because instead of searching around, they can just go through the threads in this new section.   An alternative would be to launch a new community forum dedicated to artists on the https://artists.spotify.com website.   If there were to be a new community just for artists it won't stop artists from posting in the community. Then there's the confusion that there's 2 communities and they are posting in the wrong one. If everything is under one it would be better. There's already a mod team, great development, spam protection, etc.  Users would have to make new community accounts. Overall just a lot of work to start a new community. ... View more

I always as a new artist try every trick to see those 400 playlists I’m added to but will never see just cause it has no followers. I can only see 5 and only made by Spotify curators not fans. That’s soooo many playlists I’ll nvr see. It’s extremely motivating to know are fans add us new artists to there playlists and gives us that feeling to dream big. It’s very important if we could engage in who , genre, which song, how many songs 1 fans playlist u made it on. Remove the 25 Unique listeners to see the playlists we deserve to see we made it on. 400 is way too much playlists  from fans to never see! I wanna see every playlist I made it on . Why else work this hard and not know who ur fans are and keep our big dreams a reality. I know if I saw those hidden fan playlists I’d cry in happiness to know I’m loved and supported in our dreams. I hope you do this at least for the artists .  ... View more

I'm a paying customer, but I don't listen to most of the the TOP 500 artists of Spotify. I listen to a few indie artists. Now even if all my listening is related to those artists, still 99,9% of my payment goes to the top artists and it might even be that those small artists receive less than my monthly payment from Spotify. At the same time top artists are already making millions and now also taking money from smaller artists.   This is totally unnecessary and makes lives of small independent artists very difficult. Instead of collecting all the payments in to a pool and dividing by total listening times, I suggest that each subscription payment should be divided among the artists the user has been listening to. This way correct artists would get paid for their work.   I would really like to support the small bands I listen to, please make it possible. ... View more

So I am an arist that has found his way into a 4 way collaboration situation on a track, which by the way will be huge and hit millions of streams. I am the last artist on the title, and because Spotify does not allow more then 3 main artists, I am the one who gets cheated from any credit. I have seen other instances of similar situations, and the track will not show on the 4th and last artists page, therefore also cheating them out of the streams and stats that would occur with their profile.    This is simply unfair and I am sure many other artists have experienced this same fate. How difficult is it really to have a 4th artist in the title? Spotify is the largest streaming platofrm there is and is critical in growth for up and coming artists, like myself, who are really getting hurt from situations like this.    In this instance the record label has titled me as the featured artist, or feat. to which it will not show on my Spotify releases either, which again is extremely unfair to me and other artists in this type of situation. If there is really nothing Spotify can do to allow a 4th or more main artist in a release title (which seems extremely odd to me) then it would be great if you could at least include the release on the featured artists release page.    It just really doesn't seem fair at all to all the artists included, especially the one last in the title, that they don't get part of the streaming stats. Please please look in to this. For all the up and coming artists like myself, we need all the streams and stats we can get.  ... View more

It could be great if we can propose some artist/music in the "similar artist" of our artist profile ... View more

  1) Independent artist cannot submit their songs directly to Spotify.  I understand the chaos that would happen if anyone can randomly uploud anything. However, this way:  2) We're forever stuck with distribution services. They dictate the terms since there is no other way we can acces to Spotify or other services. Some charges up to 30 dollar for an album, and if we don't make yearly re-payments, they take down our music.    3)So I suggest that after a certain duration and base-auidence or any other criteria, we should be able to publish our music freely. Also, the criteria must not be being 'Thom Yorke' big. It must include small artist too. My suggestion benefits both parties:   A)Since musicians make money on plays, it's a constant income and even if we die or unable to make payments, Spotify could keep our music up and take the royalties.  B)Most distribution services work with hundreds of services and they have to optimize the recordings accordingly. Also, they don't do that equalIy. I, myself, see a bias towards Apple services, for example. So, if I can uploud our own music, it will be more personalized for Spotify. It will also make it easier to add and use new features in future.  C)Loyalty. Now Spotify is a leading actor in the industry but in case of a strong competitors in future, I'd rather use a service that I can directly acces to.  So, Independent artists must not be forced to sign with 'non-record labels' that just submit their stuff to Spotify and makes money off it. With some objective criterias set, we must be able to contribute directly.  Sincerely,        ... View more

Hello, Being able to Hide or Show monthly listeners to the public (from our Spotify Artist Account) could be a nice feature. Of course, even hidden, we would still be able to see monthly listeners analytics, as artists. What do you think? Thanks, NIVAL NGZ ... View more

Spotify is great. Make no mistake it's incredible for the music industry and for the artists themselves. But let's face it, there's so much more we know it can do, and will be able to do as it evolves. So let's make a new Elite Membership for those musicians, artists, music fans & DJs for those who want more than the basic and premium features. For those who want more out of their favourite music app Spotify because they know it can give it to them. Elite membership can include: -Direct WAV or 320kbps downloads -Membership costs now cover the costs of the DJ buying music and it's done in one simple place -Automix of selected playlist then save or download -Online storage space for downloads or automixes -More detailed track info like release date, key, BPM etc -Export track to- Google Drive, Dropbox, iCloud, Ableton, Rekordbox, USB, Android Beam etc etc option -Ability to Modify Genres and add sub-genres in homescreen -Ability to add to playlist when using Android auto Google assistant and Apple Car Play and have more functionality including search options that are typeable and voice command input box -AutoDJ set- type in set time and random amount of tracks chosen by algorithm of your liked tracks will be chosen to fill that time space, then you can export either automixes or as single tracks to be mixed by you later   And many more features............. As an artist myself I know id pay the extra money for an elite membership that could give me cool features like that!! Wouldn't you?? @DJ-MastaJ  ... View more

The best way to gain new listeners is by advertising. Could Spotify for Artists start showing where our followers are from, not just our overall listeners? I want the same exact info as our listeners data but also from followers.   I want to know which countries and cities my targe actually follow my artist pages from so I can narrow my targets. This will help indie artists out in so many ways, including saving costs on unnecessary targeting. ... View more

Spotify should post or promote concerts that is nearby us or upcoming concerts based on the music we listen to. I would actually look it up because on some weekends I want to do something and having this would be so beneficial if I could see what was going on instead of looking up each artist online ... View more

I am an artist creating music for yoga and relaxation, and applied for being part of the Canvas beta. Meanswhile I waiting for access, I want to suggest, why not make it possible for interactive HTML5 canvases? You upload an HTML5 bundle (Similar to like how Spotify Apps API worked in the past, I was a big fan of that) with javascript, which allows you to create interactive content for every listener they can interact with, such simple games or so, to make even more interaction with the artist. Off course, not unlike Spotify Apps API, it will be limited and sandboxed API, and developers/artists shouldn't be able to do some malicious, but making a safe experience might be so hard so it won't be possible, like how Spotify Apps died out in the past. ... View more