Spotify’s ‘Preferred Distributor’ tier just got a shake-up. Last October, Digital Music News broke the news that Spotify had selected 5 preferred distributors: CD Baby, Distrokid, EmuBands. Release your music for free worldwide on Spotify, Apple Music, Instagram, and more. Keep 100% of your rights and revenue. Withdraw earnings to PayPal. Upgrade to Level Premium for even more.
UPDATE: Spotify has refreshed it's official list of preferred distributors and renamed its 'Other Preferred' designation. In October, Hypebot broke the news that Spotify was publically ranking distributors based primarily on the quality of the metadata that they delivered with tracks.
In the new listing (pictured above), Spotify has renamed the'Other Preferred' category as 'Recommended' and upgraded CD Baby to a 'Preferred Artist Distributor.' DistroKid, which Spotify invested in last year, retained its 'Preferred Artist Distributor' status, and EmuBands remains in the renamed 'Recommended' tier.
The Orchard is now alone as a Spotify 'Preferred Label Distributor' with FUGA listed as a 'Recommended Label Distributor,' alongside a newly elevated Believe.
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A Spotify spokesperson clarified that the changes are just a retitling; and if anything, should be seen as raising the status of The Orchard, CD Baby and Believe rather than as a demotion of others.
The list of established music distributors who do not have Spotify Preferred or Recommended Distributor status is long. Tunecore, ADA, Caroline, INgrooves, Ditto, OnePRM, Symphonic and RouteNote are all noticeably absent. Each continue to deliver new music to Spotify daily.
Apple Music has added a similar distributor ranking, as well.
On the 'song' page, the play queue used to be accessable (to view the queue and/or delete songs from the queue) in the upper right corner, a button that looks like 3 lines on top of each other. This button is now gone. Now there's just text at the top of the screen that says 'PLAYING FROM PLAY QUEUE'. To view your Spotify queue, tap the queue icon in your 'Now Playing' bar. You can edit and add songs to your queue at any time. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories. The button to list what's in the play queue seems to have disappeared from the top right corner of the playing screen in both the android and ios app. Has it been hidden in any other screen or menu, or has it been removed altogether? If it's been removed then PLEASE put it back! It's something I have used quite often and found extremely useful. Spotify android app view queue.
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Just in case anyone might think that Spotify favored DistroKid because of their investment, the streamer added this:
'Our investment in any provider does not affect who is featured on this page, nor does it affect any decisions about how content is treated on Spotify's service.
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