Use the Release Notes field to provide mandatory information for your DSP distribution release

IMPORTANT: Before proceeding, please review our complete guide to how your SourceAudio fields show up on DSPs (CLICK HERE), then review your metadata on your tracks before batching your releases to ensure that you’re importing all the correct data in the correct fields for your release. You can also see our complete release requirements (CLICK HERE).

Your Release Notes should never be empty—either item 1 (& 1.1), 2, or 3 (& 3.1) below will always be applicable. Please review this list before ingesting any release to be sure you’re providing all the necessary information. For any bolded conditions are relevant to your release, just use the following instructions to include the relevant information in the Release Notes field.

1. 1. Your artist already has a profile on any of the following: Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, and you have not yet provided us with the links. Please include a link to the artist’s Spotify, Apple Music, and YouTube Music pages (as applicable) in the release notes, listing multiple sets of links for relevant artists as necessary. For example, start by opening the Spotify desktop app and viewing the artist profile, click the three-dot icon next to the Follow button » Share » Copy link to artist. Here’s how these links look and how they should be listed:
   Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/7w29UYBi0qsHi5RTcv3lmA?si=b6jEqAj9SdqyuMJ3jxznlw
   Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/bj%C3%B6rk/295015
   YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@Bjork
   
   1.1. If condition 1 applies to your release batch, you’ve already batched an artist’s material with condition #3 below, their artist profile is now live on DSPs, you haven’t given us the links yet, and you are now submitting another release to be listed on their artist profile, please paste the following statement (filling in the bracketed information accordingly), pasting multiple times if it is necessary for multiple artists in the batch:
   “I submitted a Release Batch requesting the creation of a new DSP artist profile for [artist name], and their artist profile is now live. Here are the links to their profiles.
   [The artist’s Spotify link]
   [The artist’s Apple Music link]
   [The artist’s YouTube channel link]”
   
   NOTE (1) Re condition 1: If there are multiple artists in your batch, please be sure to include links for all artists
   
   NOTE (2) Re condition 1: Please ensure that your artist metadata is an EXACT match to the artist names on the profiles at the provided links.
   
   NOTE (3) Re condition 1: Remember, each track only has once artist. If you submitted a track with an artist “Bob Smith, Ted Ross” that’s what the one artist will be called. An album will have multiple artists if and only if it has at least one track from one artist and at least one track from another artist.
   
   
2. 2. You have already provided links to an artist’s DSP profiles (in accordance with conditions 1 or 1.1 above). Please paste the following statement (filling in the bracketed information accordingly) and pasting multiple times if it is necessary for multiple artists in the batch:
   “I have already provided artist profile links for [artist name].”
   
   3. The artist does NOT currently have a profile on ANY of the following platforms: Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music. If the artist does not have an artist profile on any of these DSPs yet, use the Release Notes field to make a note confirming this, and please include a link to download artwork for the artist profile. The artwork should be 1000×1000 pixels, and it will be cropped into a circle.
   
   
3. 3.1 If condition 3 applies to your release batch, you’ve already done condition #3 above for a given artist and are submitting more material before they have an artist profile up yet, please paste the following statement (filling in the bracketed information accordingly), pasting multiple times if it is necessary for multiple artists in the batch:
   “I submitted a Release Batch requesting the creation of a new DSP artist profile for [artist name], but the artist page has not gone live yet.”
   
   
4. 3. You’re taking this release over from another DSP distributor. Please follow our instructions here to take over a release from another DSP distributor.
   
   
5. 4. Your release includes Dolby Atmos Files. If so, use the Release Notes to include a note of this and a Dropbox or Wetransfer link to download the Dolby Atmos audio files.
   
   
6. 5. Your release contains samples. If so, please include a link to download documentation certifying your clearance of the samples. Please label the link to indicate its contents.
   
   
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