How to edit your spotify profile

How you are represented is massively important in building your artist image, and Spotify are adding even more customisation for artist pages.

On Spotify, the world’s most popular streaming service, every artist with music gets their own unique profile with images, streaming data and a biography explaining the band/artist’s music, origins, style and more. Spotify have updated Spotify for Artists so that every artist can now edit their bio themselves.

Now all artists, managers and teams can create, edit and publish their own bios to their Spotify profile with 1500 words to tell the world your story. If you have a Wikipedia page too you can link it up with your Spotify profile so that fans can easily click over to find out more.

How to edit your Spotify artist bio:

1. Open Spotify for Artists, go to Profile, and scroll down to the text field under “Artist Bio.”
2. Write whatever you want! We recommend a creative bio that helps fans get to know you better, but seriously go nuts.
3. Link to anything on Spotify. You can paste Spotify links directly into the text field, o
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   Hey ONErpm family! We wanted to provide you with a short breakdown covering how to edit your Spotify artist bio. Your bio is a great place to give your fans an up-close and personal view of your inspirations and achievements. This space can also contain excerpts of critics’ reviews and interviews, announcements, and more. 

   Don’t forget to include a call-to-action inviting your fans to listen to your most recent releases and your personal playlists. 

   How To Edit Your Artist Bio

   • Open Spotify for Artists, go to Profile, and scroll down to the text field under “Artist Bio.”
   • Write or paste your bio (1,500 characters maximum)
   • Input links to anything on Spotify. Paste Spotify links directly into the text field or just use the @ symbol to link to whatever you want to — artists or albums that inspire you, playlists you are featured on or other artists you have collaborated with.
   • Hit “Save”

   Basic Rules For Editing

   Spotify has some basic rules that should be followed when writing your artist bio. 

   • “Don’t violate anyone’s copyrights. That means no cop
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     How to Add a Bio on Your Spotify Artist Profile

     Previously, you needed to submit your information to Rovi, the database managing music metadata for Spotify, iTunes, etc. if you wanted to manage your artist information. Now, you can edit and add your bio yourself within your Spotify for Artists account. As you already know, an artist bio can be an opportunity for you to promote your music and tell your story. In your Spotify bio, you can be creative and write up to 1500 characters – so you have a lot of space to tell your story. Let’s get down to the nitty gritty now – how to add or change your Spotify bio:

     1. Open Spotify for Artists, go to Profile and scroll down to the text field under Artist Bio.
     2. Write whatever you want, but make sure you follow Spotify’s guidelines.
     3. Add Spotify links into the text field or use @ to link whatever you want.

     You can change your profile’s header image within your Spotify for Artists account but artist photos will be provided from the external database. Take a look at our cool Spotify promotion tools here.