Setting up your DSP portals

Written By Carlo Fox

SPOTIFY

Claim Spotify For Artists HERE

Through Spotify For Artists, you can:

  • Add profile photo (750px x 750px) and header photo (4000px x 6000px). No photos should exceed 20MB

  • Change your artist bio (no more than 1500 characters) and link socials

  • Create artist playlists

  • Add latest press photos to Image Gallery

  • Add a Canvas, videos that loop behind your music

  • Highlight merch. All artists and merch companies that partner with Merchbar will automatically have their merchandise listed on their Spotify profile. Be sure that all merch is up to date on merchbar.com

  • Add touring info

  • View Spotify analytics

APPLE

Claim Apple Music For Artists HERE

Through Apple Music For Artists, you can:

  • Change your artist bio

  • Add a profile photo. Check out Apple’s Artist Image Guidelines HERE

  • View Apple Music and Shazam analytics

AMAZON

Claim (AM4A) Amazon Music For Artists HERE

Through AM4A, you can:

  • Address any issues with your profile

  • View Amazon Music and Alexa analytics

  • You can change your Amazon Music artist photo by emailing amazon-artist-central@amazon.com. The image must: Be landscape, at least 3840px x 2880 px. Have your face in the upper 40% of the image, roughly centered horizontally. Not be larger than 15MB.

DEEZER

Claim Deezer Backstage HERE

Through Backstage, you can:

  • Highlight specific content

  • Change your artist bio. Keep it around 100-200 words!

  • Add photos and social links. Your Profile Photo must be at least 500px x 500px, and less than 3MB

  • Add touring info

  • Create playlists

  • View real-time Deezer analytics

TIDAL

TIDAL has no platform for artists

  • TIDAL retrieves artist information (profile photo, bio) from online music databases including AllMusic’s TiVo database. You can update your information on that database HERE

SOUNDCLOUD

Use Creators for Soundcloud through their app or online

Through Creators for Soundcloud, you can:

  • Change your profile information

  • Connect with your community

  • View SoundCloud analytics

BOOMPLAY

Claim Boomplay profile (biggest platform in Africa) HERE

Through Boomplay, you can:

  • View up-to-date Boomplay analytics

  • Change your artist bio

  • Update your artist photo

  • Engage with your fanbase on Buzz, Boomplay’s social media element

JIOSAAVN

Claim Jiosaavn profile (biggest platform in India) HERE

Through Jiosaavn Artist Insights, you can:

  • Create and feature an Artist Playlist

  • Add Shorties, videos that play in a loop behind your music

  • Change your artist bio

  • Update your artist photo

  • View in-depth and filterable Jiosaavn analytics

  • Use this form to report any issues with your profile

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