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

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

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

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

Here's a really good idea Spotify. We know you're controlled by major record companies but why don't you stop deliberately choking independent bands so they can't grow organically?   I'm saying this because, as an independent artist on Spotify I've noticed a pattern where, once I receive a certain amount of listeners per month, Spotify seems to stop playing my tracks in any algorithmical playlists so that my listener count never rises.   In 2018, my listeners numbered 350 per month (not a great deal I know). This had however risen over the previous year and in the last three months of 2018 had started to grow sharply, increasing at a rate of about 20% per month. I was getting about 80 -100 listeners per week and getting about 10 - 15  track likes per week. I confidently expected at least a small amount of incremental growth per month. Instead in the third week of January 2019, suddenly and for no explicable reason, I only had about 10 listeners for the whole week. Result - monthly listener numbers stagnated at 350.   Ever since then the pattern has repeated over and over nearly every month. I get three of four weeks where I'm getting 80 - 100 listeners per week and listeners build up, and then suddenly after a few weeks I get a week with the same inevitable crash, keeping my listener numbers in the 350 region.   I can't see how this would happen (especially as the tracks are getting so many likes) unless Spotify is deliberately manipulating its algorithmical playlists to actively keep independent artists from growing an organic fanbase.   Interestingly, I've just noticed that as of this month (February 2020) , when I create a playlist (usually indie rock based), Spotify has stopped suggesting similar tracks and artists and is now dropping in major label chart releases instead.   ... View more

Spotify should give the option to shuffle individual artists the listener follows (all the artist's music). Then the listener can have a choice to either: -Listen to/skip through all the artist's music  -or to skip to the next artist in the shuffle That will give the artists on Spotify more recognition ALL their songs, not just those popularized through social media!!  ... View more

Does somebody know any Distributor that allows you to release an album with 2 or more different languages?. I have some original songs in English and Portuguese that I would like to put together on the same album and I know some artists that have already done that (Anitta, Silence 4, Iron Maiden, ...). Thank you ... View more

Hello, For some reason whenever I upload images, even adhering to the recommended dimensions 690px x 500px, Spotify doesn't show the entire image, but seems to crop/zoom in on a rectangle/portion within the image. I haven't seen this on other profiles, so it must be something I'm doing. I have tried them at 72dpi .jpg in case. Anyway, have given up until some new ideas flow my way. Thanks, Pete   ... View more

I’ve searched high and low and can’t find the song ‘come on’ by solo  please please upload this song ASAP this will then complete by dance playlist    thanks in advance  ... View more

I just realized the *idea* when I wanted to save music from artists who have passed away into my Spotify library. Some of the information on artists was not available for starters and the most disturbing part was the tab for Upcoming concerts tab was available for an artist who has passed away. That tab being visible empty or not on an artist's Profile does not look good and the users can help maintain the tab in a way.    Each country can provide a person(Spotify Expert) or team to review Artist's information and suggest the correct one where required, the next phase will be verifying the new information and it be updated where needed. Already sources like Wikipedia and social media accounts have the information that can fix the issue of having empty tabs and blanks. I would really like to also be a part of this Team making Spotify the Best music streaming platform.   I am loving the Windows version. I literally forgot where I put my music External hard drive since all my music is right on my devices and easy to access.    If my Idea is considered I know for sure the team responsible for making updates would gladly volunteer. I would even explore other genres, that is how much music and order means to me. Screeshots are added below to show the issue this Idea will deal with.   Thanks. ... View more

Similar to Apple Music's platform, Spotify should allow a note from the author on an album. This note should include inspirations for the piece or a brief message relevant to the album, but it should come authentically and 100% from the artist. Where the record label's name is underneath songs/albums, there should be a link/expand that gives a brief mission statement from the company. Also, again like Apple Music, each song should have a synopsis on its content. I think this can be incorporated in a similar way that Genius lyric meanings are. Additionally, who worked on what song/the album should be included on the album page. An example of what items I would put where is in the image below.   This idea is for preventing corporate/artists from misleading fans. The features should be optional as to let fans interpret meanings for themselves, but should be provided as a supplement for fans that do want to know more on an album's production and intended lyrical content after initial interpretation. Overall this gives both contributors and executives a fair say in what they would like to convey with an album.  ... View more

It would be awesome if Spotify Artists could report fake/ suspicious statistics on their own accounts. While trying multiple avenues of promotions (Fiverr, Instagram ads, playlist pushing, friends managing) I feel as though we all come across what appears to be "bots". If they are fraudulent streams I would prefer to report them and have the streams/ saves/ follows removed as opposed to gaining fake statistics or getting my account or music banned. ... View more

Propongo la creación de una playlist por artista, que contenga en orden cronológico, es decir, del primer al último álbum, todos los álbumes oficiales del artista. Esto nos permitiría, en caso de quererlo, escuchar durante el tiempo que dure la discografía, una maratón de dicho artista. Esta maratón debería incluir solo discos de estudio originales, y recitales en vivo, que se encuentren dentro de la publicación oficial del artista. No debería incluir remasterizaciones, ni compilaciones, ni ningún otro tipo de colecciones. Por supuesto que, se tendrá que ver en cada caso, ya que, por ejemplo, el artista argentino Luis Alberto Spinetta, gravó con varias bandas, y estaría bueno que su discografía se encontrara toda junta, desde almendra, hasta el reciente disco "amigos", incluyendo spinetta y las bandas eternas. No sucedería lo mismo con charly garcía, cuya participación en las distintas bandas, está más delimitada. Entonces, se podría hacer una de su discografía como solista, otra de Serú Girán, y otra de Sui Generis. Propongo asimismo, que la maratón se haga con aquellos artistas que tengan 5 discos o más, ya que, buscar y escuchar los discos de un artista que tiene 3 o 4, en orden cronológico, es fácil, pero, a medida que tienen más discos, o, si el artista ya los supera de por sí, como Led Zepelin o The Beatles, es muy difícil hacerlo. El "This is" por cada artista está bien, pero muchas veces, los verdaderos fanáticos de una banda, queremos escuchar todas las canciones de su discografía......   En fin, espero se implemente. Desde ya, muchas gracias y saludos! ... View more

I beg for you, Spotify, PLS post Mc Marechal's songs on spotify ... View more

I listen to some obscure artists or artists who aren't active anymore, and new bands have come in with the same name. These often wind up under the same band name. It would be nice to be able to notify someone at Spotify to clean this up. I'm sure it messes with the recommendation engine and royalties for these artists.    It might also be nicve to be able to put some identifier to duplicate artist names, i.e. Home City, Genre, Years active, etc that might show up on the search page.    As an example, I like a band from Seattle called Hovercraft, Eddie Vedder played drums in it early on as a side project. It's instrument shoegaze kid of stuff. There's also a band called Hovercraft that is an electronic dance music band, and they're together on the same page. The dance Hovercraft did a cut with Ashtar Command which is not the Ashtar Command that came out in the mid 2000s with Chris Holmes who played with the Smashing Pumpkins and tours with Paul McCartney.    It would be nice to be able to notify and clean on a crowdsource kind of level in this way.  ... View more

Spotify has recently gained a bad reputation for not giving artists much money. This can be at least partially solved by prompting users to buy content that is in their “heavy rotation”.  You could simply add a small “Click here to buy this album on iTunes” or an ad pop up to buy the album when users go to view albums they have listened enough to get something into their heavy rotation.  At the very least, this should start to shift the onus of blame onto your users as artists realise Spotify is pushing sales for them.  ... View more