Your distro will ask whether the music is an original, remix, or cover. Bear in mind that different companies have different criteria for what constitutes a single, EP, or album but this in no way impacts the upload process. A few more tracks though and you’ll have an EP or album on your hands - you’ll need to fill in the fields for each individual track as well as name the album itself. If you’re putting a single track of music on Spotify then this will just be the name of your song or instrumental piece. Luckily, they’re all pretty much self-explanatory and easy to fill in. If you are making artwork for your digital music yourself and have no idea where to start, Canva is free and has some great music artwork templates to get you going.Īt this point, your distro suddenly has a huge number of questions for you about your upcoming music release. At the very least then this will include ensuring your artwork is high resolution in a 1:1 aspect ratio, or in other words, a perfect square (just like a record cover or CD case) but you'll also want to carefully read over your distro's rules on what is and what isn't allowed.

In order to avoid any delay to the release of your music, you'll need to make sure your artwork fulfills all the requirements of your chosen distro.

A few distros have a chosen subset of file formats inside of what Spotify themselves allow (for instance a distro might outright refuse jpegs). Other distros refuse all text on the artwork besides the names of the work or the artist themselves. Some distros, for example, will turn down artwork that contains brands, logos, offensive imagery, or language.

However, be aware that some distros - for various reasons - require far higher pixel counts, and may have some other additional criteria beyond what Spotify themselves ask for. In order to get your music up on the platform, you need to make sure the accompanying artwork is in a TIFF, PNG, or JPG format and at least 640 pixels wide and 640 pixels tall. Spotify has specific requirements for cover art.

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