Resources

Guides

What to do when a release goes offline, and how to watch your catalog so you find out first.

• Your song disappeared from Spotify: what to do in the first hour

  A release vanished from your Spotify profile. How to tell if it was removed, merged or delayed, who can restore it, and what to send your distributor now.

• Spotify removed your track for artificial streaming: how to respond

  What an artificial-streaming takedown means, why innocent artists get flagged, how the appeal runs through your distributor, and how to protect future releases.

• Someone else's music is on your Spotify artist profile (or yours is on theirs)

  How Spotify profiles get mixed up, how to move a release with the content mismatch form or your distributor's tool, and how to stop it happening again.

• Release monitoring for independent artists: what to watch and how

  What release monitoring means for a self-released catalog, which changes to watch on Spotify, how to set it up, and what to look for in a tool.