Spotify is a commercial music streaming service providing digital rights management-restricted content. Music can be browsed or searched by artist, album, genre, playlist, or record label. Free subscriptions can listen to music, interrupted by targeted advertisements. Paid “Premium” subscriptions remove advertisements and allow users to download music to listen to offline.
Sell your music with Spotify
Spotify was launched in October 2008 by Swedish startup Spotify AB. As of November 2020, the service has approximately 320 million monthly active users with 144 million paid subscribers. The service has also introduced social functions such as the “Follow” feature which allows following friends or artists and verified artist profiles.
Service type
Spotify offers music via on-demand streaming only.
Streams are offered in DRM-enforced Vorbis q5 or q9 format.
Territories
Click here to check the list of all the territories where Spotify is available.
Pay rate
You get paid a proportionate share of subscription revenue per month calculated on terms set out in our agreement with the store (this usually excludes streams during a subscriber’s free trial). Payments will fluctuate each month, depending on the amount of subscription revenue generated and how many times your music was streamed.
Go Live Time
It takes about 2-5 business days for content to go live on Spotify.
Spotify for Artists
Spotify for Artists puts you in control of your profile on Spotify. You can promote your music and the music you’re into, add your bio, update your images, dig into listener stats, and much more.