Pandora AMP: how to claim your artist page and get on Pandora

What to do, in order

1. 1

   Deliver through a supported distributor

   Pandora lists supported distributors including CD Baby, DistroKid, TuneCore, AWAL, Believe, Ditto and Symphonic. Select Pandora in your distributor's store list and grant US streaming rights.

2. 2

   Claim your AMP account

   Once your music is playing on Pandora, go to amp.pandora.com/claim-artist. A new account asks for your email, a password, birth year and gender, and Pandora may ask for more documents.

3. 3

   Wait for review

   Pandora says this generally takes no longer than a couple of days, depending on its queue, and longer if extra documents are needed.

4. 4

   Add your team

   Open the top-right menu, choose Team Management, then Invite. Owners can use the marketing tools and Insights, and can invite or revoke people. Publishers can see Insights and publish marketing content. Members are read-only.

5. 5

   Update your profile

   You can submit profile and header photos and a bio in AMP, and they go through review.

What the dashboard shows

Pandora sends email updates about editorial additions, metrics and milestones, called At the Moment, Week in Review and Milestones. A removal or change to a release isn't among the alerts it describes.

• Insights: streams, thumbs, listeners, station adds, top five tracks, collaborations, programming placements and an audience map. You can download it as a CSV.
• Catalog: streams, radio spins, interactive plays, station adds and thumbs up for each track, with where they came from.

Being on Pandora isn't the same as being on the radio

Radio play isn't automatic. After you claim, Pandora's Music Genome Project analyzes your music. Being delivered doesn't guarantee stations will play it.

When something is wrong

If your music was delivered and you still can't find it after a few weeks, email amp-support@pandora.com. We didn't find a published process for music on the wrong page or duplicate pages, so use the same address and include links. Song credits come from your label or distributor, so ask them to fix those. Lyrics come through LyricFind.

How Traxure helps

Traxure checks your releases on Pandora once a day, alongside Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, YouTube Music, Deezer, TIDAL and SoundCloud. When a release stops showing, it emails you the before, the after and a note to your distributor ready to send. It works with any distributor, and monitoring starts with a seven-day free trial.

Questions artists ask