Artist & community guidelines

Make sure you own or control all the rights to your release. Use accurate titles, artist names and credits. Prepare a clear cover image that you have the right to use, and a clean audio file in a supported format (MP3, WAV or FLAC). Choose the correct genre and release date.

Each release is checked for rights and permissions, accuracy of information, audio quality and file integrity, suitable artwork, and compliance with our rules. Reviews are done by people and can take some time; you will be notified of the result.

Approved: your release is published. Changes requested or rejected: we tell you why, and you can fix the problem and resubmit from your dashboard without starting again. Removed: the release was taken down, for example after a rights complaint.

Music or artwork you do not have the right to share; samples or beats used without permission; impersonation or misleading artist information; hateful, threatening, harassing or sexually exploitative content; content that promotes violence or illegal acts; misleading or offensive artwork; malware or hidden files; and any attempt to manipulate plays, downloads or rankings.

Mark a track as explicit if it contains strong language or adult themes. Explicit content is permitted if it follows the rules above and is labelled correctly.

You choose whether listeners may only stream your music or may also download it. You can only offer downloads for music you fully control. Your licence choice is part of your submission and is reviewed with it.

Treat artists, listeners and our team with respect. Do not harass, threaten or defame anyone. Accounts that break these guidelines may be warned, suspended or closed.

If an account is suspended, the artist cannot submit or edit releases. Existing published music is not deleted automatically; we may separately hide specific content if there is a concern. We tell the artist the reason, and artists can contact us to discuss it.

If you see something that breaks these guidelines, use the Report page or the Contact page.