Artists will need to choose several relevant genre and thematic tags, as well as offer insight into the story behind their music. From there, artists select one song they believe in and fill out a submission form. The company suggests adding pre-release music as early as possible, preferably weeks before its set to go public, but not later than seven days before its street date. To access the playlist submission feature, artists and their teams must first join Spotify For Artists, which offers musicians the ability to track their plays, view analytics, see fan base demographics, and most recently, the ability to upload music directly. With the official release upon us, not to mention a fresh wave of promotion for the feature, it’s likely those odds will change as the number of daily/weekly submissions begin to rise. Taking those numbers into consideration, it appears that artists who submitted content during the beta testing period had (roughly) a 1 in 7 chance of being added to a playlist.

They also say that their official playlists have added more than 10,000 artists for the first time thanks to the move. In an announcement made through the company’s official blog, Spotify claims more than 67,000 artists and labels submitted music since the feature started being tested in July. The new tool allows artists, labels, and teams to share new music directly with the company’s editorial team for playlist consideration. Just a few short months after announcing a beta launch, Spotify has officially released its playlist submission feature.

Another week, another major announcement from Spotify.

Spotify playlist submission