How to Claim Your Artist Profile on Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube and More
- 05 Nov 2026
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Your music can be live on every store while your profiles still show no photo, no bio and no way for you to see who is listening. Claiming your artist profiles fixes that, and it only takes an afternoon. Do it as soon as your first release is delivered.
Before you start
- Use exactly the same artist name everywhere, including capitalisation and spacing.
- Have a square profile photo, a wide header image and a short bio ready.
- Have links to your website or social accounts; several platforms use them to verify you.
Spotify for Artists
Sign up at Spotify for Artists, search for your profile and request access. You can request access once your first release has been delivered to Spotify, even before release day. Once verified you can edit your bio and images, pitch unreleased songs to editors, add Canvas videos and see listener statistics. Our Spotify for Artists guide covers the tools in detail.
Apple Music for Artists
Sign in with an Apple Account, search for your artist page and request access. Apple verifies you through your distributor or your linked accounts. You get listener data for Apple Music and Shazam, and you can update your artist image.
Amazon Music for Artists
Download the Amazon Music for Artists app or use the website, claim your profile and verify. You get streaming statistics and can update your profile image.
YouTube: Topic channel and Official Artist Channel
When your music is delivered to YouTube Music, YouTube creates an automatic "Topic" channel for your releases. If you also run your own YouTube channel, the two can be merged into an Official Artist Channel. That gives you one channel with a music note badge, your releases and your videos in one place, and subscribers from both.
To qualify, your channel must represent only you and have no policy strikes, and your Topic channel needs at least three official releases. YouTube only accepts these requests from a distributor or label. SpaceMedia users can request the connection as a paid, one-time service from the YouTube Artist Channel page in the dashboard, by entering their channel URL and their Topic channel URL. The two channel names must match exactly.
Deezer, TIDAL and others
- Deezer for Creators: claim your profile to update images and see audience statistics.
- TIDAL Artist Home: claim your profile to manage your page and see data.
- SoundCloud and Audiomack: if you also upload there directly, connect those accounts to the same artist name.
Fixing a profile that shows the wrong music
Artists with common names sometimes find someone else's song on their page, or their song on someone else's page. Do not try to fix this by uploading again. Contact your distributor with the release, the store and the correct profile link, and the release can be moved to the right page.
After you are verified
- Add the same bio and photo everywhere, so listeners recognise you.
- Check the statistics once a week: where listeners come from and which playlists add you.
- Keep your profile updated before every release, not after.
No releases yet? Create your free SpaceMedia account, deliver your first song and claim your profiles the same week.
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Choose the plan that suits you best
Select from a variety of membership options to find the one that aligns perfectly with your music distribution needs.
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Submit your music for distribution
Create a new release and upload your tracks to have them distributed across various platforms.
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SpaceMedia delivers music to a broad and changing network of streaming, download, social, and music-identification platforms. This can include major services such as Spotify, Apple Music, iTunes, YouTube Music, Amazon Music, Deezer, TikTok, Facebook and Instagram, SoundCloud, Tidal, Pandora, Boomplay, Anghami, iHeart, JioSaavn, KKBOX, NetEase Cloud Music, Tencent, Qobuz, and other supported partners.
The exact network can change as platforms update territories, rules, and delivery requirements. SpaceMedia gives you access to supported distribution channels, but no distributor can guarantee that every platform will accept every release in every country.
Most major streaming services do not let every artist upload music directly. A distributor like SpaceMedia delivers your audio, artwork, metadata, and rights information to supported platforms so your release can appear on services such as Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, Amazon Music, Deezer, TikTok, and others.
Create an account, choose the plan that fits your needs, upload the final release files, review the details, and submit. SpaceMedia reviews Free submissions within 5 business days, Premium submissions within 2 business days, and Label submissions within 1 to 2 business days. Store publishing happens afterwards.
You can monetize eligible music on supported video platforms through Content ID when your plan includes it. Content ID is currently included with Premium and Label, and it is not included with the Free plan.
Only submit music you fully control for Content ID. Tracks with uncleared samples, non-exclusive beats, royalty-free loops used by many creators, public-domain recordings, or disputed rights may be rejected or may cause claims that need to be resolved.
Submit your release through SpaceMedia and choose distribution to social music platforms where available. Eligible releases can be delivered to platforms such as TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, and other supported social or short-form music services.
Once delivered, each platform decides how the music appears, how long processing takes, and which features are available in each territory. Use accurate metadata and clean audio to reduce avoidable delivery issues.
Independent music distribution lets artists release music to streaming, download, and social platforms without signing to a traditional record label. You stay in control of your music while using a distributor to deliver it to supported services.
With SpaceMedia, you can manage releases, artist details, earnings, and payout information from your account. All standard plans let users keep 100% of standard DSP royalties.
The Free plan lets artists release music without an upfront distribution fee and keep 100% of standard DSP royalties.
This gives new artists a way to start releasing music before paying for a yearly plan. Premium and Label add more primary-artist capacity and tools. All standard plans include 100% of standard DSP royalties.
Yes. In many cases you can transfer existing releases to SpaceMedia while keeping them live, as long as you submit the same metadata, audio, artwork, UPC, and ISRCs where available.
Keep the old release live until the SpaceMedia delivery is live and matched correctly. Removing the old version too early can interrupt availability or make stores treat the transfer as a new release instead of matching it to the existing one.
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