There’s a series of questions to answer about your song so that they can have any idea of where to place it. The only way to get on one of these playlists is to submit the song to your distributor with a release date at least 2 weeks away, then once it’s sent to Spotify, accessing your Artist Profile online, go to your release, and there should be an obvious option to submit to Spotify Editorial playlists. Spotify Editorial playlists are Spotify-branded playlists that can have up to millions of followers, and they are curated by editors on the Spotify team. There are Spotify Editorial playlists and there are just general public playlists. So when it comes to Spotify Playlists, how do you get on them? Well, there are a few things to understand. There’s a lot of benefit to being on ANY playlist. If people like what they hear, they may save your song, they may go follow your artist page, they may listen to your recent album, and they may even add you to their OWN playlists. Getting on a playlist not only increases the amount of streams you will get, it also introduces you to new audiences. The “gatekeepers” are no longer record labels, A&Rs, or traditional media.they are social media influencers, Twitch/YouTube personalities, and playlists curators. This has opened a whole new market for independent artists, as many of these playlists of 10s or 100s of thousands of followers/listeners.

Additionally, Spotify (as a company) curates tons of playlists as well. One of Spotify’s biggest features is the ability to create playlists, which can then be shared with and followed by other users.

If you follow music industry news, then you’ve seen recently that Spotify became the first streaming platform to reach over 100 million paid users.

Spotify for artist playlist submission