Trust & Safety
Spotify Artist Profile Protection
Artist Profile Protection is available to every artist on Spotify for Artists. You get notified when music is delivered to Spotify that lists you as an artist, and you can remove yourself from eligible releases if something isn’t right.
Stay in control of your profile
Music can end up on the wrong artist page for ordinary reasons, like two artists sharing a name or a metadata mistake, and sometimes on purpose. Artist Profile Protection puts the check in your hands:
- Spotify notifies you when a release is delivered that lists you as an artist.
- If the release is not yours, you can remove yourself from it, as long as it is eligible.
- Releases you remove won’t appear on your profile, in your stats, or in recommendations to your listeners.
Spotify describes it as a first: For the first time on any streaming service, artists have a proactive layer of defense against the wrong content landing on their page
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How to turn it on
- Log in to Spotify for Artists (artists.spotify.com) on desktop or mobile web. You need to be an Admin or Editor on the artist team.
- Go to your artist settings and choose Artist Profile Protection.
- Turn it on. Review releases is the default setting, and it is the right one for most artists.
Not on Spotify for Artists yet? Claim your profile, or see how labels distributed by DSTRO7 get access.
Review releases: protection that doesn’t slow you down
With Review releases, Spotify notifies you and nothing needs your approval. Your releases go live on schedule unless you take action.
- New deliveries that list you show up for review in Spotify for Artists.
- Check that each one is a release you expect, from a provider you recognize, with your role shown correctly.
- If one is not yours, select Remove. Spotify’s help article gives you until 28 days after the release goes live.
A typo, a wrong role or the wrong artwork is not a reason to remove yourself. If DSTRO7 delivered the release and a detail is wrong, tell us and we fix the metadata at the source.
Block releases: an advanced setting for specific cases
If you have a common artist name or often get music credited to you by mistake, Block releases automatically holds new releases until you have approved them to appear on your profile.
It is the stricter setting. Spotify notes that it may delay legitimate releases if no action is taken, and when the main artist on a release uses it, the release waits on that approval for every artist listed. Spotify says approvals can take up to 24 hours to process.
DSTRO7 artists: talk to us before you switch to Block releases. We plan your release dates together, and we want your approvals lined up before a street date, not after.
How DSTRO7 helps
- You see a release you don’t recognize. Remove yourself in Spotify for Artists, then tell us. A release removed on Spotify can still appear under your name on other services. Tell us and we can raise it with those services.
- You see a DSTRO7 release with a mistake. Don’t remove yourself. Email us and we correct it.
- You are not sure who delivered a release. The provider name shown in Spotify for Artists can differ from the company name you know. Ask us and we will confirm whether it came from our team.
Write to info@dstro7.com or your DSTRO7 contact.
Learn more from Spotify
- Spotify help: Protecting your Spotify artist profile
- Spotify for Artists blog: Introducing Artist Profile Protection
- Report a content mismatch
Spotify is a trademark of Spotify AB. This page describes a Spotify for Artists feature and links to Spotify’s own instructions, which take priority if they differ from what you read here.