

So… how do you get your music on Spotify? To get access to the Spotify For Artists dashboard and become a Spotify artist, you must first actually have music released on Spotify. Let’s take a closer look at this in the section below, my friend! 🙂 How To Become A Spotify Artist So how can you get access to the Spotify For Artists dashboard so that you can get access to stats and the ability to make Spotify editorial playlist submissions if you yourself are an artist? “The most important thing in Spotify for Artists is access to data that helps you gain an understanding of who and where your audience is and what songs are connecting with listeners the most.” Emily White, Spotify In addition to being able to simply view stream and play counts, in an interview with Emily White, the Artists Product Manager at Spotify, states that: In fact, there is a lot of great insights and data the can be found in the Spotify For Artists dashboard. However, if you are an artist and want to see the play counts of your own songs, there is a way! #2 View play counts as an artistĪrtists can view play counts and stream counts of any of their songs by accessing the Spotify For Artists dashboard. Also – any songs that have less than 1,000 total play counts will show up as “>1000”, even if they are listed in the “Popular” section. You are not able to see the play counts for a song that is not listed in the “Popular” section. #4 – Under the “Popular” section, you will see play counts to the right of each song.Īt the time of writing this, it is only possible to see the play counts of songs that appear in the “Popular” section of an artist’s profile. #3 – Click through to the profile of the artist. #2 – Type in the artist you are looking for in the search engine. #1 – Open up the Spotify app or web browser.

To view play counts for songs on Spotify, simply follow these steps:


If you are not the artist, you can only see the total play counts or total streams of songs that are listed in the “Popular” section.
