Streaming
How to Get Your Music on Spotify
The world's largest on-demand music streaming service.
Visit Spotify →Spotify is the world's largest on-demand music streaming service, with hundreds of millions of paid subscribers and free-tier listeners across more than 180 markets. Recording artists earn streaming royalties per play; songwriters earn performance and mechanical royalties through the publishing side.
Notes delivers your sound recordings to Spotify directly as a Spotify-preferred partner, ensures your credits and ISRCs are registered correctly, and reconciles royalties from both the recording side (paid to the artist) and the publishing side (paid to the songwriter through PROs and The MLC).
How Notes works with this platform
What we do on Spotify
- Deliver. Notes ships your sound recordings to Spotify as part of every release, with credits and ISRCs included.
- Register. Your songwriter credits are registered with PROs and The MLC so the publishing side of every play is paid as well.
- Collect. Recording royalties from Spotify, plus the publishing royalties behind every play — performance and mechanical — are reconciled in one place, with no percentage taken.
What you earn here
Royalties Spotify generates
- Recording
- Songwriting
Your Spotify recording royalties reach you through Notes, and we register you with The MLC and your PRO so the rest is collected too — all paid to you in full, never a percentage taken.
- Recording RoyaltiesRecording royalties are what the master earns — the recording revenue your distributor collects, plus digital-performance royalties.
- Mechanical RoyaltiesMechanical royalties are paid to songwriters and publishers each time a composition is reproduced — including every interactive stream and download.
- Performance RoyaltiesPerformance royalties are paid to songwriters and publishers when a composition is performed publicly — on radio, TV, in venues, or via streaming.
Questions musicians ask
Common questions about Spotify
- How do I get my music on Spotify?
- Create a free Notes account, add your release, and Notes delivers it to Spotify with your credits and ISRCs attached. You keep your masters and your rights — Notes never takes a percentage of your royalties.
- How long does it take for my music to appear on Spotify?
- Most releases reach Spotify within a few days. Setting your release date a couple of weeks out gives you time to line up pre-saves and pitch playlists before it goes live.
- Does Notes take a cut of my Spotify royalties?
- No. Notes is a flat monthly subscription with a free tier to start, so your Spotify royalties are paid to you in full — nothing skimmed off the top.
- Does Notes collect my songwriting royalties too, or just the recording?
- Both. Alongside your Spotify delivery, Notes registers your songwriter credits with PROs and The MLC, so the publishing royalties behind every play get collected as well.
More streaming platforms
Notes delivers to all of these
- Apple Music
- Amazon Music
- YouTube Music
- Tidal
- Deezer
- Pandora
- SoundCloud
- Audiomack
- iHeartRadio
- Napster
- Anghami
- Boomplay
